On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Jan Paul Posma <jp.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So a few minutes ago we've had a conversation about this. Panos will set up > a public collaboration space within GRNET. A few developers will be > (part-time) working on this from February for a (so far) unspecified amount > of time. The consensus was that it would be good to start off with some > basic usability testing, to see how well the different tools work for novice > users. It'll be very basic testing, with about 10 subjects from within GRNET > (so with a bit of technical bias) but only those who haven't edited before. > > Both Magnus' and my tools will be implemented on a clone of the Greek > Wikipedia and we will set up a fabricated article that works well with both > of our editors. It's only about the usability, not about technical aspects > for now. Both editing tools will have to be adapted and localised, perhaps > this can even be done by GRNET developers. We'll use my usability script > that I used before with the Sentence-Level Editing usability research. > > Once this usability testing has been done, we'll decide how to distribute > the efforts, and what will be done. We'll work closely with the GRNET > developers to assist them in working on these projects. Once we'll have more > information it will be posted to this list. > I know I tend to be down on markup-based editors lately but I'm **super-excited** that there's a bunch of folks actively working on trying these things out! Participatory open source at its finest. :) Definitely interested to see the usability testing... -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
