Hi,
Thank you all for the comments in gerrit. I worked on all of them and I think the extension is much better by now. It would be great if you could have a second look on the extension to get it deployable sometime.
I realized, that the time was too short for a whole review and changed the plans for my thesis, I removed the real-world testings from the study design.
I really want to see a convenient feedback mechanism for future mediawiki developments. I hope that my extension could be a good start. There are some unanswered questions, such as the anonymous upload of the rendered screen shots, and room for improvement especially at the customizability of the feedback forms and the special page with all given feedback.
kind regards Lukas Benedix
Am Mi 13.03.2013 01:28, schrieb Sumana Harihareswara:
On 03/12/2013 07:37 PM, Lukas Benedix wrote:
Hi there!
I am Lukas Benedix, a student of computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. In cooperation with the Wikidata developer team, I’m currently working on my bachelor thesis about usability testing in open source software projects and I’d like to provide the Wikidata community my developed feedback mechanisms (only as a test). Wikidata is a very active, emerging project which is why I think it’s a great platform for my project.
And now here's the problem: The deadline of my bachelor thesis is approaching soon. The test is designed to run for two weeks and I unfortunately underestimated how much time it needs to get a review for my extension before deployment.
Is it possible to accelerate that review process somehow? The extension is in gerrit (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50004)
Do you have any advice what I can do?
For further information about my project: Here's a little description I wrote for the Wikidata community: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lbenedix/UIFeedback
Best regards, Lukas Benedix
Lukas, can you give more specifics regarding your deadline? A variety of people would have to help you get through all the steps of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment and so it might not be feasible to get all these things done in time. :( In that case you should possibly consider setting up a Wikidata variant in Wikimedia Labs -- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ .