Wikipedia Usability Initiative/Project Scope

This one-year pilot program is comprised of usability tests and improvements validated by user tests.

Planning phase (Jan-Mar 09)

• Find office space
• Hiring
• Environmental Survey (previous version) including reviews of MediaWiki extentions and skins as well as other wiki software
• Usability_and_Experience_Study
• Requirement definition

Phase 1 - Focus on basic editing tasks (Apr-Aug 09)

• Development
• Testing (functional, usability, i18n, L10n)
• Staging on Prototype
• Community feedback
• User testing

Phase 2 - Focus on simplified editing interface (Sep 09 - Mar 10)

• User testing
• Requirement definition
• Development
• Testing (functional, usability, i18n, L10n)
• Staging
• Community feedback
• User testing