[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Adventure, alpha testers needed

[Strainu]

Hi,

Went through mission 1 and the main feedback is that it's just too
long. You should break the missions in smaller, quicker steps.

The interface is visually pleasant and as far as I can see, it gets
you through all the basic editing skills, which is nice. However, the
messages are not always in the same place and sometimes are not
visible in the visible part of the page, making it a little confusing
for people without much computer skills. It would also help to be able
to move the box.

I especially like the little badges you get, but I'm not quite sure
how they are aligned (perhaps because I only got 1): the first one was
put in the middle of the page (horizontally)

Are there any technical details on the game and the difficulty of
implementing it on other wikis?

Thanks,
  Strainu

2013/10/28 Katherine Casey <fluffernutter.wiki at gmail.com>:
> Some thoughts upon running through this (roughly in the order I am
> experiencing them):
>
>    - This is actually pretty cool. Cooler than I expected it to be!
>    - Instructions sometimes tell me to click "edit source" and sometimes to
>    click "edit", even though it always means that I should click "edit
>    source". Since the VE button says "edit", this is potentially pretty
>    confusing.
>    - At the end of missions, the button says "Congrats me!". That's pretty
>    jarring English - more natural would be either, "Congrats, me!" or
>    "Congrats to me!"
>    - The "select how you would reply to this person" challenges
>    are...patronizing? That's not quite the right word, but I don't think
>    they're modelling anything useful by basically pointing out "hey, you
>    shouldn't be a rude jackass" as if it's someone's going to read those
>    options and go "yes! this is clearly how I should act!". More useful would
>    be modelling interaction strategies and tricks, like how to engage with
>    some who's left you a rude message or even just what information is useful
>    to provide to other users.
>    - Galactic challenges keep launching new tabs for me when they don't
>    seem like they ought to (i.e. there's no reason I need to have the results
>    of that challenge preserved in one firefox tab while I move on in another)
>    - The "watchlist" module has instructions that are a little bit
>    confusing - it instructs you on *how *to watchlist (blue star, etc), but
>    then tells you to *click *on watchlist on the "top right". Since both
>    the star and the actual watchlist link are on the top right, it's likely
>    going to be unclear to newbies whether you want them to click on the star
>    you just explained, or the link you didn't.
>    - In general when you're telling people to "click X above", it might be
>    useful to use quotes so they know you're telling to click on something that
>    literally says that - tell them to *click "contributions" above *rather
>    than to *click contributions above*
>    - When doing spelling corrections, the hover box listing what I needed
>    to correct obscured part of the text that needed correcting. I couldn't
>    correct that until I closed the box. Once I did that, I was bumped out of
>    the lesson entirely. Couldn't figure out how to the mission to pick back up
>    there, so I had to stop. Why can't we either minimize the instructions box,
>    or have it resurrect when we complete a step (that is, if I did what it
>    wanted me to do, it should pick back up smoothly when I save the page with
>    its next instruction, rather than just disappearing forever because I had
>    to click the X)
>
> In short: really very cool, but in the parts I managed to get through
> (Missions 1-2 and part of 3) there are some small interface issues that
> need work, and one *glaring *one that short-circuited my attempt to get
> through a mission and, I guess, the entire adventure.
>
> -Fluffernutter
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks! I've been working for the past 7 months on an interactive guided
>> tour for new editors called '''The Wikipedia Adventure''', as part of a WMF
>> Individual Engagement Grant.  The game is an experiment in teaching our
>> aspiring future editors in an educational but playful way.
>>
>> *This week I need some '''alpha-testers''' to kick the tires and basically
>> try to break it.  I'm interested in general impressions and suggestions of
>> course, but I'm really looking for gnarly, unexpected browser issues,
>> layout problems, workflow bugs, and other sundry errors that would prevent
>> people from playing through and having a positive experience.
>>
>> *If you're able to spend 1-3 hours doing some quality assurance work this
>> week, you would have: a) my sincere gratitude b), a sparkly TWA barnstar,
>> c) special thanks in the game credits, and d) a chance to leave your mark
>> on Wikipedia's outreach puzzle and new editor engagement efforts.
>>
>> *Please note that the game automatically sends edits to your own userspace
>> and it lets you know when that will happen.  If you want, you can register
>> a new testing account just for the game, but it won't work properly unless
>> you're logged-in by step 8 of mission 1 (when it lets you register on the
>> fly).
>>
>> You can try it out at http://enwp.org/WP:TWA and leave feedback at
>> http://enwp.org/WP:TWA/Feedback]].
>>
>> Thanks much and cheers!
>>
>> --Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
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