I agree, Dan, that the text needs some help. In the second prototype there is an area that explains more about what the game is doing, in an attempt to address the ambiguity there. It's pretty unclear.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > It's looking good! I have two questions right now. > > Firstly, technically, you're helping Wikidata directly, and only helping > Wikipedia indirectly. What is the thought process behind saying "Help > Wikipedia!" and not something more accurate? > > I find it a little frustrating to not know *how* it is that I've helped > Wikipedia. I thought "Sure, I'll help Wikipedia! No, he didn't go the Pratt > Institute. Oh, well, what did I do?". It actually slightly disinclined me > from wanting to do it again, because I wasn't really sure what I'm doing. > On the other hand, you don't want to be overly verbose and show people too > much information. Have you thought about adding a prompt to get more > information for those that are curious? > > These questions are kind of idealistic and not so practical, but I enjoy > being able to take off my very practical product owner hat from time to > time. :-) > > Dan > > > On 18 August 2014 17:37, Maryana Pinchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> During Wikimania, me + Kaldari + Sherah did some in-person testing of a >> prototype mobile Wikidata game that Sherah built during the hackathon.[1] >> I've finally transcribed the notes from the testing sessions & thought it >> might be useful/interesting for folks to read through the summary and raw >> notes: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research/Guerilla_testing_Wikigrok >> . >> >> The tl;dr is that we've definitely got some iterating to do on the UX and >> copy to make this a better, more understandable, less intimidating >> experience for less experienced/non-Wikipedian users – but it was great to >> get that feedback early on so we can act on it before writing any of the >> live code :) >> >> Lemme know if you have any questions – and Kaldari + Sherah, feel free to >> add anything you remember from the testing :) >> >> 1. Check it out for yourself on a phone or iOS emulator: http://wikigrok >> -proto.meteor.com/ >> >> -- >> Maryana Pinchuk >> Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation >> wikimediafoundation.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> > > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation >
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