Sounds like a great way to get insight from our new editors :) If video reactions are desired, I think at one point we (WMF) videoed people that had never edited before, try and edit with the source code editor, and they described their experience after. Might also be helpful in addition to this. I recall viewing it during Sue's Wikimania keynote in Hong Kong.
Steve Sent from my iPhone > On 29 May 2014, at 6:24 pm, Lila Tretikov <l...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > I wanted to share my first editing experience and ask for your help. Here > it is: > > Today I have made the first edit on English Wikipedia. As I said in my > first meeting -- I believe in traveling the path of our editors, so I can > better understand them and so taht we can make their experience more > natural. > > I have edited in private wikis before and I have edited the talk pages. I > used the Visual Editor, even though I am well-versed in the syntax. I had > the advantage of a very very experienced user by my side and it went pretty > smooth -- so this report is not entirely fair. Even though, I did stumble > in a few places, however, and this is a learning experience for me and for > our team. > > Overall I wish I had this on video. It is a bit like an experience of a kid > making their first goal. Exhilarating. > > So now I have a challenge back to you: > > > - Please pick a friend who has never edited before. > - Ask them to make an edit. Any edit in any language. > - Please have them write one paragraph about their experience. > - Have them send it to lila at wikimedia with the subject: #1 > > > Thank you!!! > Lila > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
