[Foundation-l] Usability study in progress

[Mark (Markie)]

according to the Usability home page "initial focus on English Wikipedia,
eventually this research and development will be implemented across all
languages and possibly to other WikiMedia
projects<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects#Wikimedia_projects>"
so i would guess initially not.

regards

mark

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ten is a low number indeed, however, if those people are indeed
> 'typical users' instead of Wikipedians and you given them a few
> specific tasks (say, searching for an article on a topic they are
> interested in and editing it to add some information) you will
> probably encounter lots of problems soon enough.
>
> On a different note: i'm not sure if this has been discussed before
> but will the usability study also take uploading media on Commons in
> account? Editing text is one thing, but adding media (and hence, using
> Commons) is almost as common and could also use *lots* of work on
> increasing usability.
>
> -- Hay
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:55 AM, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:
> > Wikipedians should not be used to asses usabillity problems with
> > Wikipedia, this is rule number one if you want to get information about
> > why a newbie has problems with a system. A typical wikipedian is simply
> > not a valid newbie. Ten participants are not nearly enough, they can
> > only give you some clue about the real problem.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Naoko Komura skrev:
> >> Howdy.
> >> (adding wikien-l folks to this thread.  my apology for not including
> >> wikien-l with my initial email.)
> >>
> >> The usability study has started today as scheduled.  The usability team
> >> is monitoring the interviews and how ten test participants interact with
> >> Wikipedia when they are asked to edit an article at the lab facility in
> >> San Francisco today and tomorrow.  The remote usability study on
> >> Thursday (March 26 PDT) will be done remotely, which means we recruit
> >> participants from Wikipedia through the site notice, and connect with
> >> them through web conferencing.  Therefore the site notice for
> >> recruitment will appear again on Thursday.  We expect to compile the
> >> results in a few weeks and the findings with you.
> >>
> >> Naoko Komura
> >> Program Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
> >>
> >>
> >> Naoko Komura wrote:
> >>> One of the important components of the usability initiative is to
> >>> conduct multiple rounds of usability tests.  The plan is to conduct at
> >>> least three rounds of tests for qualitative usability evaluation over
> >>> the span of twelve months, i) the initial evaluation, ii) the progress
> >>> evaluation, and iii) the final evaluation.  The initial usability test
> >>> is scheduled on March 24, 25th and 26th.  In-person lab tests are
> >>> conducted in San Francisco at the first two days, and remote tests will
> >>> be conducted on the third day.
> >>>
> >>> As a preparation for the initial usability test, we incorporated the
> >>> recruiting tool into English Wikipedia's site notice. You might have
> >>> encountered site notice inviting for the participation. The target
> >>> audience of testers are Wikipedia readers who have little or no
> >>> experience in editing the Wikipedia articles.  The banner is displayed
> >>> within the range of 1:400 to 1:100 page views, and it will continue
> till
> >>> early next week.
> >>>
> >>> We look forward to learning from the usability tests and sharing the
> >>> result with you.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Naoko ... on behalf of the usability team.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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