Quim, Thanks for this summary of your discussion on language features testing. Look forward to having community testing for Wikipedia-in-your-own-language Visual Editor and Milkshake :-)
Calling out to Indic and RTL community members - please test and report bugs. This really helps us on the Language Engineering team to have a fast turnaround on improving language features. -Alolita On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 01/16/2013 02:25 PM, Quim Gil wrote: >> >> Imagine this wheel: >> >> Week 1: features testing (Chris) >> >> Week 2: fresh bugs (Andre) >> >> Week 3: browser testing (Željko) >> >> Week 4: rotten bugs (Valerie) > > > > I just had a chat with Siebrand from the Language Engineering Team. They > like the idea and they have specific proposals for all the weeks: > > http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/test-bug-i18n > > They are ready to start. Next week. > > So... why not? I will only look at the first week now (features testing). > Their proposals are based on wiki pages that are pretty much ready for > testers, even newcomers without much prior experience: > > Week 1: manual testing (Chris) > * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Milkshake/Manual_testing -- can be tested > for each language. Reports to bugzilla. > * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Typing/General -- can be > tested for every language. Reports to bugzilla. > * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Typing/Right-to-left -- can be > tested for Hebrew. Needs one tester. Reports to bugzilla. > * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Typing/Indic -- can be tested > for all Indic languages with some adaptations. Only Hindi at the moment. > > VisualEditor looks like the primary goal, having Milkshake as secondary > option for whoever feels more interested. > > The testing is aimed primarily to people with an interest in Hindi and > Hebrew. Other Indic and RTL languages welcome. And in general non-Latin > scripts. We have a nice pool of potential testers in the Wikipedias of those > languages. Through ambassadors and community portals (and central notice? > too soon/fast?) we could reach whoever we decide to reach. > > Of course we can do further outreach, but the Wikipedias alone should > already provide the critical mass of contributors, right? > > Then we need to define the right environment for testing. Is it a fresh > install in Labs? Something else? > > The wiki pages above already provide DIY testing cases. Together with > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug we have the basics for > the people willing to start contributing before the sprint. > > The sprint could be on Thursday, starting in Asian friendly times since this > is where most of the potential testers will be based. We need to define if > there is going to be a specific activity during the sprint, or if it's only > a certain time-frame where full support will be provided to testers by the > Language Engineering team. For instance, we could open the sprint with a > hangout-screencast where someone goes briefly through the tests described. > All the better if the demoers are a native Hindi speaker, a native Hebrew > speaker, etc. There is potential for screencasts and chat rooms in those > languages as well... > > I guess the goal would be to reach confidence in specific languages / > scripts. If not confidence that it works well at least confidence that the > issues are now reported as bugs. > > The incentive could be priority for Wikipedia in-your-language to be part of > the next VisualEditor deployment: > > "Hi, we plan to deploy the next version of VisualEditor in your Wikipedia in > two weeks, or as soon as we have the related documentation translated > (link). The testing sprint some of the contributors of this Wikipedia made > just gave us the confidence to include you in our Alpha deployment. Thank > you everybody!" > > I think we can do it (with some adrenaline - good). > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
