Flow/Old Use Cases

Personas
"A user persona is a representation of the goals and behavior of a hypothesized group of users. In most cases, personas are synthesized from data collected from interviews with users. They are captured in 1–2 page descriptions that include behavior patterns, goals, skills, attitudes, and environment, with a few fictional personal details to make the persona a realistic character. For each product, more than one persona is usually created, but one persona should always be the primary focus for the design. (From Persona (user experience) on English Wikipedia)"

User talk namespace activity breakdown
User talk page activity on English Wikipedia tends to fall into two basic buckets:


 * 1) New users generally receive template warnings, to which they very rarely reply.
 * 2) Experienced users generally receive free-form messages about content creation/editing, to which they reply again and again, creating long discussion threads.



The following is a high-level list of all the possible kinds of edits that can happen on user talk pages on English Wikipedia. Please feel free to add use cases that were missed!

The [new users], [experienced users] tags represent messages that users are likely to receive.

Usually template

 * Welcome [new users]
 * Warning [new users]
 * Notice
 * Deletion notice [new users]
 * Dispute resolution (ANI, ArbCom) notice [new users], [experienced users]
 * RfC notice [experienced users]
 * DAB notice [new users], [experienced users]
 * Wikiproject drives [new users], [experienced users]
 * Meetup/edit-a-thon notice [experienced users]
 * Page Curation [new users]
 * Newsletter
 * Teahouse [new users]
 * WikiProject [new users], [experienced users]
 * Signpost [experienced users]
 * Suggested articles to edit [experienced users]
 * WikiLove
 * From the WikiLove extension [new users]
 * Custom (e.g., holiday greeting cards, successful FA/RfA greetings, trouts, barnstars) [experienced users]
 * Block
 * Talkback [new users], [experienced users]
 * Help request [new users]
 * Unblock request [new users], [experienced users]

Usually free-form

 * Requests for...
 * Peer review [experienced users]
 * DYK help/review [experienced users]
 * GA help/review [experienced users]
 * FA help/review [experienced users]
 * Other help with article/editing (formatting, references, content questions) [new users], [experienced users]
 * !vote participation (on AfD, RfC, etc.) [experienced users]
 * Admin help (page protection, deletion, blocks/bans) [experienced users]
 * Behavior/policy discussion [experienced users]
 * Thanks/praise [new users], [experienced users]
 * Socializing [experienced users]
 * Userright grants [experienced users]