This task involves the work of conducting an initial round of usability tests of the first edit check we are developing: a check that prompts people to explicitly decide whether the new content they are attempting to add warrants a reference or not (design work is happening in T325711).
Decisions to be made
- What – if any – aspects of the proposed mobile reference check user experience (T325711) will we revise prior to investing in implementing these designs in code and subsequently, inviting volunteers to experiment with using in a production or production-like environment?
Learning Objectives/Research Questions
- What ambiguities/points of confusion/holes/etc. do people encounter when attempting to navigate the reference check experience.
- Where "attempting to navigate" in this context refers to doing things like:
- Knowing what they are being asked to decide
- Knowing what content they are being asked make a decision about
- Choosing not to add a citation to the content they are being asked about
- Choosing to add a citation to the content they are being asked about
- Generating a citation
- Inserting said citation
- Proceeding to publish the edit they will have just "finished" making
- Moving "forward" and "backward" within the edit flow
- E.g. "Say you notice a typo while deciding whether the content you're adding warrants a reference or not. How would you intuitively think to go back to edit this text?"
- Where "attempting to navigate" in this context refers to doing things like:
Test protocol
Edit Check – Unmoderated Research Protocol, Android Web
Recruitment filters
Test #1
- People who:
- Read Wikipedia with some regularity (e.g. monthly/weekly)
- Speak English as a second language
- Living in/from a non-Western context (e.g. outside of Norther America, Canada, UK, Australia)
- Have some experienced editing Wikipedia
Test #2
- People who:
- Read Wikipedia with some regularity (e.g. monthly/weekly)
- Speak English as a second language
- Living in/from a non-Western context (e.g. outside of Norther America, Canada, UK, Australia)
- Do NOT have experience editing Wikipedia
Findings
This section will eventually contain a synthesis of what we learned through conducting these usability tests.
| Finding | Description | Resulting action (if any) |
|---|---|---|
Done
- Usability tests are run
- Findings are documented on this ticket
- Findings are published on mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check