Usability, Experience, and Evaluation Study/Notes/Sara
Parul's Notes
- student, 5 days a week.
- skeptical because you can edit it yourself - but it seems pretty accurate
- be like a word document? fix it? has to be approved somewhere so people aren't doing this all day long. i feel like there should be [an approval process]
- looks like a word document kind of thing
- click click click
- fast to publish
- copy and pasting - sees in examples from the external links
- hits show preview to see if it worked.
- editing from within preview mode?
- accomplishes it with the
- [NASH] rephrase the reference question.
- [NASH] mac for tomorrow
- confusion about "insert reference text here"
- everything but the last minute touches is easy 29:35
- 41:11 what's going on here: ALOT
- sees history and viewing history, not editing history
- has the correct assumptions about searching for a new page!?
- no reason for me to take the time to learn. more advertisement that you can change this. or it's not that hard.
Group Notes
On speech team, so constantly looking things up Uses ~5 days/week a little skeptical since you can edit yourself, but seems pretty accurate why not edit? hasn't seen anything which needs editing
"that was very easy to do. . .i'm not sure. . ."
Expects word doc stuff realized the 'show preview' preview is a preview 11:36 -"I don't know how to edit it"
References => People continuously try to add links in the 'references' section at the bottom, to an external web page - found help, trying to figure out syntax - says she'd be pretty likely to reference "if i could figure it out"
Would you be more likely to edit in the future? "yeah, probably"
"they're discussing" Who? "<username>" Do they work for wikipeida or are they just people out in the world? "They're just people out in the world"
Task: add section this was easy for her. she looked at the wikitext and copied the "==" syntax
Task: add table Brought up dialogue for table, changed rows/columns, started editing inserted wikitext "oh that's beautiful" when she finished the table
Task: decrease population of castro valley by one Clicks on expand template first Moderator had to probe to get her to click form link thinks form icon will take her somewhere else
view history page;
what's going on here? "A lot. I'm not sure"
Figures out it's "people who are changing things" after she sees the diff
Viewing history is something she probably won't do
why not edit?
Doesn't occur to her/doesn't want to take time to learn