Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation's Design Research team,[1] Abbey Ripstra and Daisy Chen, are looking for people to participate in research about editing. They want to talk with both experienced editors and new editors to better understand what you do, how you do it, what is difficult and what works well with editing tools. Currently, they're doing some hour-long research interviews over Google Hangouts. In the future, there will be other types of research programs, probably including a card sorting task to determine how editing tools and tasks could be organized to suit you best.
If you would like to hear about opportunities to participate in user-based research, please sign up here: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6R04ammTX8uoJFP This is a small survey to fill out so the research team knows a little bit about your experience level and how to contact you to invite you to research. You can always opt out again, and signing up does not obligate you to participate.
Please pass this along. Thank you!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research
We should get a proper sample from *readers*, not only active contributors who happen to be reading this list. We should not use such a non-wiki medium as Google Hangouts which is a participation barrier. We should not force people to do surveys.
I suggest we put a small feedback textbox in the sidebar of all Wikimedia projects, below everything above the langs list, and analyse output from that.
What?
* The purpose of this email is to presumably get us to tell our communities, as that is the purpose of this list. * Google Hangouts is no bigger barrier than so many other tools, including a wiki for those who are new editors. It is available, and we use it, if you can think of a new form because you see the hurdle as being too large, then please make a suggestion. * No one is forced to do anything around here, it is an option available to all.
Some people need to stop their seemingly negative attitudes to everything. Criticism is only useful when it offers beneficial and useful alternatives. When it is apparently all negative and continually so it becomes a whine, and some of us tune right out.
Thanks Quiddity, nice initiative, and I will see if I can rouse some enWSians to give it a go and present a sisters perspective.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:05:09 +1100, svetlana svetlana@fastmail.com.au wrote:
We should get a proper sample from *readers*, not only active
contributors
who happen to be reading this list. We should not use such a non-wiki medium as Google Hangouts which is a participation barrier. We should
not
force people to do surveys.
I suggest we put a small feedback textbox in the sidebar of all
Wikimedia
projects, below everything above the langs list, and analyse output from that.
-- svetlana
"Nick Wilson (Quiddity)" nwilson@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation's Design Research team,[1] Abbey Ripstra and Daisy Chen, are looking for people to participate in research about editing. They want to talk with both experienced editors and new editors to
better
understand what you do, how you do it, what is difficult and what works well with editing tools. Currently, they're doing some hour-long research interviews over Google Hangouts. In the future, there will be other types of research programs, probably including a card sorting task to determine how editing tools and tasks could be organized to suit you best.
If you would like to hear about opportunities to participate in user-based research, please sign up here: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6R04ammTX8uoJFP This is a small survey to fill out so the research team knows a little bit about your experience level and how to contact you to invite you to research. You can always opt out again, and signing up does not
obligate
you to participate.
Please pass this along. Thank you!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research
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billinghurst wrote:
- The purpose of this email is to presumably get us to tell our
communities, as that is the purpose of this list.
Readers don't come here.
billinghurst wrote:
- Google Hangouts is no bigger barrier than so many other tools, including
a wiki for those who are new editors. It is available, and we use it, if you can think of a new form because you see the hurdle as being too large, then please make a suggestion.
I am on dial-up. It is a barrier to me.
billinghurst wrote:
- No one is forced to do anything around here, it is an option available
to all.
I am not forcing. I am making a suggestion.
billinghurst wrote:
Criticism is only useful when it offers beneficial and useful alternatives.
That is what I did. To repeat:
I suggest we put a small feedback textbox in the sidebar of all Wikimedia projects, below everything above the langs list, and analyse output from that.
-- svetlana
The issue with feedback boxes such as this is, as AFTv5 showed, they attract far more bad than good, and someone will have to shift through the responses. Doing it like this allows them to focus on those actually editing, as opposed to those who don't. There is nothing stopping us from circulating this off-list - feel free to do this if you want.
Mdann52
-----Original Message----- From: "svetlana" svetlana@fastmail.com.au Sent: 06/01/2015 09:05 To: "wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org" wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] User Research - sign-up to help out
We should get a proper sample from *readers*, not only active contributors who happen to be reading this list. We should not use such a non-wiki medium as Google Hangouts which is a participation barrier. We should not force people to do surveys.
I suggest we put a small feedback textbox in the sidebar of all Wikimedia projects, below everything above the langs list, and analyse output from that.
I logged this task in phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77829 I do think a left sidebar link for research participation would be good, but I don't think that below the language list is the right place for it, since it could move around so much.
*Jared Zimmerman * \ Director of User Experience \ Wikimedia Foundation
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Matthew Dann mdann52@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The issue with feedback boxes such as this is, as AFTv5 showed, they attract far more bad than good, and someone will have to shift through the responses. Doing it like this allows them to focus on those actually editing, as opposed to those who don't. There is nothing stopping us from circulating this off-list - feel free to do this if you want.
Mdann52
From: svetlana svetlana@fastmail.com.au Sent: 06/01/2015 09:05 To: wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] User Research - sign-up to help out
We should get a proper sample from *readers*, not only active contributors who happen to be reading this list. We should not use such a non-wiki medium as Google Hangouts which is a participation barrier. We should not force people to do surveys.
I suggest we put a small feedback textbox in the sidebar of all Wikimedia projects, below everything above the langs list, and analyse output from that.
-- svetlana
"Nick Wilson (Quiddity)" nwilson@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation's Design Research team,[1] Abbey Ripstra and
Daisy
Chen, are looking for people to participate in research about editing. They want to talk with both experienced editors and new editors to better understand what you do, how you do it, what is difficult and what works well with editing tools. Currently, they're doing some hour-long research interviews over Google Hangouts. In the future, there will be other types of research programs, probably including a card sorting task to determine how editing tools and tasks could be organized to suit you best.
If you would like to hear about opportunities to participate in
user-based
research, please sign up here: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6R04ammTX8uoJFP This is a small survey to fill out so the research team knows a little
bit
about your experience level and how to contact you to invite you to research. You can always opt out again, and signing up does not obligate you to participate.
Please pass this along. Thank you!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research
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Jared Zimmerman wrote:
I do think a left sidebar link for research participation would be good, but I don't think that below the language list is the right place for it, since it could move around so much.
Thank you. An alternative is using a "Feedback" item in menu at the right top, next to the logout button. (Added this to the FAB task too.)
Note that screenshare-interviews are only one of the methods that the team is using. This is just a sign-up sheet, to collect a listing of people who are happy to be contacted in the future, for any and all small-scale research initiatives.
They are reaching out to readers and very casual or new editors, via editathons and social-media platforms and similar, too. You can also pass along this shorter (redirect) URL, https://wikimedia.org/research anywhere, from twitter to in-person. :)
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Matthew Dann mdann52@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The issue with feedback boxes such as this is, as AFTv5 showed, they attract far more bad than good, and someone will have to shift through the responses. Doing it like this allows them to focus on those actually editing, as opposed to those who don't. There is nothing stopping us from circulating this off-list - feel free to do this if you want.
Mdann52
From: svetlana svetlana@fastmail.com.au Sent: 06/01/2015 09:05 To: wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] User Research - sign-up to help out
We should get a proper sample from *readers*, not only active contributors who happen to be reading this list. We should not use such a non-wiki medium as Google Hangouts which is a participation barrier. We should not force people to do surveys.
I suggest we put a small feedback textbox in the sidebar of all Wikimedia projects, below everything above the langs list, and analyse output from that.
-- svetlana
"Nick Wilson (Quiddity)" nwilson@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all, The Wikimedia Foundation's Design Research team,[1] Abbey Ripstra and
Daisy
Chen, are looking for people to participate in research about editing. They want to talk with both experienced editors and new editors to better understand what you do, how you do it, what is difficult and what works well with editing tools. Currently, they're doing some hour-long research interviews over Google Hangouts. In the future, there will be other types of research programs, probably including a card sorting task to determine how editing tools and tasks could be organized to suit you best.
If you would like to hear about opportunities to participate in
user-based
research, please sign up here: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6R04ammTX8uoJFP This is a small survey to fill out so the research team knows a little
bit
about your experience level and how to contact you to invite you to research. You can always opt out again, and signing up does not obligate you to participate.
Please pass this along. Thank you!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research
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