Editor campaigns/Activity feed

Vojtech
 * Who: Founded program in Czech Republic / program manager / instructor
 * Has been using the extension for about a year
 * Current satisfaction on a scale of 1-10: 7
 * Views feed 5-10 times a day
 * Main goal of using the feature: monitor the changes that he sees - check users that edit the pages
 * Often clicks corresponding links to article or discussion page
 * Likes
 * It provides useful functionality
 * Before extension: took related changes and put them together into one page - more manual
 * Dislikes
 * Shows only a limited time frame
 * Wants a button or possibility to choose how long the log is (1 week, 1 month, etc) - could go in the My Courses page (under heading of My Courses page - rollout/options)
 * Each edit takes too much time to review
 * Suggestions
 * Split the types of contributions into edits, new pages, discussion posts, messages, etc
 * Wants users to see all edits prior to enrolling in course, not just after enrolling
 * Link from Special:My courses to Special:Student activity (meter showing edits)
 * Could transcoot the pages - put name of page in - page appears like it’s inserted into page
 * Summary of My courses
 * Shows all students
 * Edit summary is sort of useful - could put into project page of each course - course page
 * At end of page, have check box for having reviewed it
 * Separate problem: When you currently list an article in your course page, the link isn't active - it should link to article or display a red link

Shani
Wants to be able to export the information - users and articles they’re working on
 * Usage: marks and follows pages that users work on
 * Currently uses Excel files separate from extension to write notes
 * Wants instructor to see actual names of users - took hours to find names of all students in Excel, had to have students sign up
 * Has to write down notes for herself
 * Dislikes
 * ActivityFeed is not simple to follow
 * Confusing with many courses and multiple users
 * Suggestions
 * Differentiate between 2 activities: user, and what’s relevant to the course (specific articles)
 * Current problem: When a user is listed for 2 courses, the feed currently shows activity in both courses
 * Wants extension to only show activities relevant to the actual edits relevant to course
 * Wants to track user to see what else he/she's working on
 * But also have a view to only show relevant article edits in course
 * Have a feature to send all users in a course a message at the same time
 * Could be in another tab - post a message that all students can see
 * Model design after the watchlist (Special:Recent Changes)
 * Wants to do it the Wiki way (keep community happy, easier to digest)
 * Better design could be like a watchlist for a course - every article added to watchlist is added to the list - lets users closely monitor articles that interest them
 * Can also add users and user talk pages - follow both pages and users
 * When using a watchlist for a course, automatically add everything (users and articles) related to course to the list
 * Have checkmark box for each article - to keep track of whether you’ve checked each article, notify users on check (see checked status, notes) - as another tab
 * Have another column to write notes (bookkeeping for herself)
 * Wants visual references to the status of the edit and a place for notes (with different visibility settings so users can't see)
 * Wants to be able to sort information - by name of article or by usernames
 * Wants easy way to interact with students - currently need to user page, which is hard for users to use (leave message on user talk page or article talk page)
 * Wants to be able to see how comments and student activity interact
 * Wants to track changes users are doing and how they're interacting with instructor
 * e.g. sort by course --> see comments instructor made and then changes students made in response
 * General comments
 * Thinks the track changes feature is important
 * An academic course that requires a grade has different needs from a workshop - campaigns involve extra features
 * Upset that the Education extension doesn’t relate to Wikipedia?
 * Wants extension to behave like regular Wiki page
 * Linking to the extension behaves like external page
 * Categories don’t work? Have to go into category to see that message was added
 * Not being able to add categories is catastrophic
 * Wants more notifications for all users
 * Right now is quite depressed about everything happening on Hebrew Wikipedia - criticizing extension without even trying it, doesn’t know what to do about their complaints
 * Need to consult community - make them part of the process, community is a strong part of Wikipedia
 * Israel is a small community - have different needs than English (much larger) - need to be flexible and agile enough for the small community to make necessary changes
 * Permissions are a mess - different roles and assignments
 * Trolls are making a mess of the course - no real way for community to track it or to prevent/protect pages
 * Don’t need something outside of Wiki and doesn’t behave like Wiki - has problems in permissions
 * “Until they fix it, we don’t want it here” - community doesn’t want the extension because it doesn’t do much outreach, so they can’t appreciate it

Jami
 * Daily usage of ActivityFeed
 * Likes
 * Find it useful for looking at contributions of users
 * Can see what people have done in the last few days
 * Can look at multiple classes at once
 * Dislikes
 * Big complaint: don't know if showing edit history is the best summary of what they did
 * Lots of new users don't provide edit summary, so the space isn't useful
 * Thinks it's better to not have the edit summary (but knows others would disagree - can be useful for specifying the section edited)
 * Terrible design - huge volume of classes, takes long load time
 * Top of feed is same class every time, so bottom of page classes aren't as commonly seen
 * Ordering is based on order the course pages were created
 * Suggestions
 * Wants a better way of showing what articles students are drastically impacting - maybe see how much content they added
 * Currently has to click on article and then go to history of article to see contributions - still leads into 4 or 5 other steps
 * Could show diff? But want to be useful for professors too
 * Maybe don't show bytes, but see chunk of added amount, or estimate of words added
 * Try to document and keep track of what articles students are impacting - see what the version of the article was before they edited it?
 * Have a "View history" link from activity feed? Program management use
 * Interested in larger edits and contributions students made
 * Wants to quantity angle of edits
 * Now that usernames are global (on other wikimedia sites) - show any edit or file they've uploaded to commons - not just text contributions
 * More consolidated? See class, less in a list, not with all edits (collapsed with title + summary (x editors edited x articles))
 * Develop a system of phases (sometimes all these people are editing into their sandbox)
 * e.g. this class is editing sandboxes
 * More useful for classes than editor campaigns
 * Within a class, all taking training this week, some professors have their students post on talk page of an article they want to edit (e.g. add 5 sources), then next 3 weeks editing in sandbox, then editing in namespace
 * Long convoluted page to show that students have completed training
 * If student enrolled in that class and made edit to student training page, know they've finished training --> show as an edit as they completed training
 * Sandbox space, draft space - all separate phases (7 students are editing articles)
 * Edit-a-thon: see tons of copy edits
 * Instead: show summary - where they're editing, magnitude of edit, format (picture?) - see actual type of edit
 * Phase: see trends over course of semester, or for an individual person (small edits to large edits)
 * Time frame for activityfeed: currently not customizable, 5 days, probably too short
 * Sometimes have 3 week timeline between assignments - can miss edits, 5 days too short for editors
 * Huge scrolling is a pain
 * Feed should feature links to Wikimetrics: way to upload a cohort of editors (e.g. upload a class)
 * Shows quantity - how many edits were made, what size their edits were
 * Feed could let you create charts showing trends over a semester
 * Reveal some trends - data and numbers
 * Program manager could set parameters for the data visualizer
 * Generally could have more quantitative summaries about what users are doing (maybe through Wikimetrics, maybe not)
 * Make data (long term) collapsable
 * Could offer option to look over longer period - how many edits total have my students made since beginning of semester? how many edits did they touch?
 * What's useful to see: title of article, link to article, size of edit, article they're editing, type of edit - create/edit/delete
 * Be more explicit about creating new article - in collapsed view, see what articles students created
 * Structure - instead of ordering by time, can structure by type of edit
 * new article, created user page (separating it from real edit), edit article, talk page, separate live space from the sandbox, image)
 * Have a peer review survey? Or some grading process - poll numbers
 * Need article quality criteria - quantitative measures
 * Peer reviews are difficult to standardize and class specific
 * Currently when student username is linked, it links to the user page - more useful to link to contribution page, especially with shorter time frame for ActivityFeed (more directly relevant)
 * Many students don't even create user page
 * Idea: summary boxes: have it per class, if you're following multiple classes, have summary of everything
 * Could have widget space where you rearrange ActivityFeed the way you want it to be
 * Have default settings - certain person who can create default customization (e.g. most relevant to classes, most relevant to edit-a-thons)
 * ActivityFeed becomes separate tab in preferences? Different features you can put in - more info, customize
 * Could have "Did you know?" in top right of ActivityFeed