On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:13 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes that is why we have a demo running at
>> http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de ;-)
>>
> I think you missunderstood what i wrote.
>
> presenting != testing

Yes I know. As I said this will be one of the things the QA person
will look into. Until then this is what we have. It is much better
than nothing ;-)

>>> You should test it with strangers instead of only wikipedians because
>>> someone who is involved in the wikipedia-community is used to the
>>> design,
>>> knows the bugs in mediawiki and where to click without thinking for a
>>> second.
>>>
>>> It's more helpful to test with strangers. Show the page and ask what
>>> they
>>> think they can do, where they would click first. Then you could give
>>> them
>>> a task to complete, e.g. "add a link to elbonian wikipedia for the item
>>> of
>>> your choice" or "find the population of your hometown in 1973" and watch
>>> how they'll try to complete the task. You'll be supprised what they will
>>> think about the design and how much 'erros' and not intendet actions a
>>> inexperienced user will make to complete your tasks.
>>
>> Yes we are aware of that. That is one of the areas the QA person will
>> help with. You also have to understand however that there are about
>> 1000 things that we can do and that time is limited. Any testing and
>> feedback is very welcome - even more so when we come to phase 2 where
>> this will be so much more important.
>>
>
> So you think that phase 1 is not important enough to properly test the
> usability?

No that is not what I said. I just said that it will be much more
important in the second phase because the interactions there are much
more complex.


Cheers
Lydia

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