On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Jan Paul Posma <jp.posma(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So a few minutes ago we've had a conversation
about this. Panos will set up
a public collaboration space within GRNET. A few developers will be
(part-time) working on this from February for a (so far) unspecified amount
of time. The consensus was that it would be good to start off with some
basic usability testing, to see how well the different tools work for novice
users. It'll be very basic testing, with about 10 subjects from within GRNET
(so with a bit of technical bias) but only those who haven't edited before.
Both Magnus' and my tools will be implemented on a clone of the Greek
Wikipedia and we will set up a fabricated article that works well with both
of our editors. It's only about the usability, not about technical aspects
for now. Both editing tools will have to be adapted and localised, perhaps
this can even be done by GRNET developers. We'll use my usability script
that I used before with the Sentence-Level Editing usability research.
Once this usability testing has been done, we'll decide how to distribute
the efforts, and what will be done. We'll work closely with the GRNET
developers to assist them in working on these projects. Once we'll have more
information it will be posted to this list.
I know I tend to be down on markup-based editors lately but I'm
**super-excited** that there's a bunch of folks actively working on trying
these things out! Participatory open source at its finest. :) Definitely
interested to see the usability testing...
-- brion