Hi,
I'm not at all concerned about the rate at which
you iterate -- it isn't about how fast you put out the shiny and new, but whether the
assumptions that motivate this big undertaking are testable and falsifiable. Before we can
say anything with confidence about what newcomers truly need, we need to do some usability
testing and research. Because newcomers are generally voiceless, there is an unconscious
tendency to project onto them a set of subjective preferences and intuitions, and the only
way around that is data.
I don't know if this is useful in this context but because of the term "usability
testing" I thought this extension might be interesting for you:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UIFeedback
This project is still under development and we haven't gotten through code and design
review yet…
--Claudia
--
Ori Livneh
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