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

Wed Oct 30 05:31:29 UTC 2013

Hello Jake,

This is fantastic for an Alpha sage! Have gone through the entire mission.
There was some problem in loading the next levels at certain stages and I
had to refresh the page couple of times. Would be nice if this could be
tested with a completely new set of users across geographies and age-groups
in Beta stage. I could help finding people from India.

Would like this to be finalized soon and try to customize it to the Indian
languages.

Great work!

Cheers,
Vishnu

On 29 October 2013 21:40, Strainu <strainu10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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