Note that screenshare-interviews are only one of the methods that the team is using. This is just a sign-up sheet, to collect a listing of people who are happy to be contacted in the future, for any and all small-scale research initiatives.
They are reaching out to readers and very casual or new editors, via editathons and social-media platforms and similar, too. You can also pass along this shorter (redirect) URL, https://wikimedia.org/research anywhere, from twitter to in-person. :) On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Matthew Dann <[email protected]> wrote: > The issue with feedback boxes such as this is, as AFTv5 showed, they > attract far more bad than good, and someone will have to shift through the > responses. Doing it like this allows them to focus on those actually > editing, as opposed to those who don't. There is nothing stopping us from > circulating this off-list - feel free to do this if you want. > > > Mdann52 > ------------------------------ > From: svetlana <[email protected]> > Sent: 06/01/2015 09:05 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] User Research - sign-up to help out > > We should get a proper sample from *readers*, not only active contributors > who happen to be reading this list. We should not use such a non-wiki > medium as Google Hangouts which is a participation barrier. We should not > force people to do surveys. > > I suggest we put a small feedback textbox in the sidebar of all Wikimedia > projects, below everything above the langs list, and analyse output from > that. > > -- > svetlana > > "Nick Wilson (Quiddity)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > The Wikimedia Foundation's Design Research team,[1] Abbey Ripstra and > Daisy > > Chen, are looking for people to participate in research about editing. > > They want to talk with both experienced editors and new editors to better > > understand what you do, how you do it, what is difficult and what works > > well with editing tools. > > Currently, they're doing some hour-long research interviews over Google > > Hangouts. > > In the future, there will be other types of research programs, probably > > including a card sorting task to determine how editing tools and tasks > > could be organized to suit you best. > > > > If you would like to hear about opportunities to participate in > user-based > > research, please sign up here: > > https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6R04ammTX8uoJFP > > This is a small survey to fill out so the research team knows a little > bit > > about your experience level and how to contact you to invite you to > > research. You can always opt out again, and signing up does not obligate > > you to participate. > > > > Please pass this along. Thank you! > > > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Research > > > > -- > > Nick Wilson (Quiddity) > > Community Liaison > > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation
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