Parul Vora wrote: > Thanks for all of the feedback, comments, and support. I just wanted to > let you know that our full report (including highlight videos!!) is now > up our the Usability Initiative's project wiki: > > http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/UX_and_Usability_Study
It may be too late for this now, but when I read that "The cheat sheet was the only item in the help section that led to a subjects successful edit.", I wanted to know how well would people edit if they had the printed cheat sheet. Maybe if you have more tests in future you could do this - it will tell us exactly what is the value of the printed promotional material. I am wary of this: "Users often missed the ‘edit’ buttons next to each section, clicking on ‘edit this page’ all the way at the top." In my experience, users do exactly the opposite, and I have seen new users who know how to edit sections asking how to edit top section; some Wikipedias (f.e. ruwiki) have even added [edit] link to top of the article that mimics section edit links. What could be the cause of this discrepancy? Would it be possible to get some conclusions and recommendations from this study so that Wikipedia's interface could be improved even before a full WYSIVYG interface is developed? (Because, from past experience, that will take years.) For example, one obvious thing is that editing help should be moved to top right of the edit box. (Maybe it could also pop next to the editing box instead of in a new window?) Another obvious thing, "Create a new article" link should be added somewhere. Yet another, toolbar images should be replaced with text. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
