[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Do you want to write pages that thousands of people see every day?

[Sage Ross]

Since it's a WMF holiday and I can do whatever I want with my time, I
made one too.  ;)

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project/Testing_content/Landing_page/Video_walkthrough

Like FT2, I welcome  any edits to make it look better.  And feedback
about the content is of course welcome too.  I can always do more
takes with revised scripts.

-Sage

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson
<wikihannibal at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is good. I'll make sure we'll test this as well.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Lennart
>
>
>
>
> 2011/2/21 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>
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>> I'm not usually one for graphic design, so this could probably do with
>> improving and relevant links adding.
>>
>> I've added a version that could be helpful at
>>
>> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Account_Creation_Improvement_Project/Testing_content/Landing_page/mod2
>>
>> What I'm hoping to address are:
>>
>>   1. Layouts "original version" and "redesign" are too close to "wall of
>>   text" for many newcomers. Even though they are simple short bullet lists
>>   with icons, I'm concerned they'll skip it. A better layout and a few
>> brief
>>   bullets may do better and also be more informative.
>>
>>   2. The audience is people who want to get involved, so an overview they
>>   can come back to might be helpful. I have assumed this page is linked
>> from
>>   the toolkit so they can always find it.
>>
>>   3. It might be better to have a link for "editing", and save the mention
>>   of policies there. At the start a user needs to know the basics, that
>> some
>>   stuff will be ok and some won't, and "click here to find out which". Then
>>   they are reading it *by choice* and it'll probably be more "sticky" as a
>>   result.
>>
>>   Words like "policies" may tend to overwhelm or frighten many of those we
>>   want to engage.
>>
>>   4. The section for "readers" also includes* "Reading, or want to make
>>   improvements and corrections?" *The *unstated thought *is that a reader
>>   will also be someone who might want to make a small correction. Gut feel
>>   says that a major route is readers who are then tempted to make their
>> first
>>   correction, or who need to know they *can *think of it. I'd like to see
>>   the effect of including "making a small improvement or correction" *as
>>   part of info for end-users*, not just keeping it separate.
>>
>>   Not technically accurate but may be effective this way, as "editing"
>>   could be felt as overwhelming (initially) where "make a small correction"
>>   may be perceived as empowering.  Many people may think "someone should
>> fix
>>   that" and despite all our pages, not fully realize the "someone" is
>> allowed
>>   to be *them*.
>>
>>   5. *I have not put links in yet.* I would not make individual words,
>>   lines, or sentences a link. Link proliferation is a distraction, we found
>>   that out in the record 2010 fundraiser. Make each section (except the
>> last)
>>   to be *one* link clickable anywhere. Unfortunately (bug
>> 18640<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18460>)
>>   the <a href...> html tag can't be used yet in markup, otherwise I'd make
>> the
>>   entirety of each cell a single link to some (short) relevant subpage.
>>
>>   I'd actually like it done via a popup, that appears when you click a cell
>>   for information. That's more classy and suited to the richer interface of
>>   other modern websites, but outside my skills. Anyone else know where I
>> can
>>   find a basic "click this and get a dismissible popup" DIV class? :)
>>
>>   6. Should contain something interesting and engaging too :)
>>
>>
>> Feedback and any design-related questions welcomed!
>> Not sure where to link this from/to though.
>>
>> FT2
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