Flow/Moderated Testing, November, 2014: talk pages and Flow

Goals for Moderated Sessions
To better understand from new/casual contributors and readers how they experience existing talk pages and Flow discussion pages, we are spending an hour with 5 participants of each demographic over a few weeks. Here are some of the things we are looking to learn:
 * 1) How do new/casual contributors and readers experience existing talk pages and Flow discussion pages?
 * 2) What is easy for this two groups to do in existing talk pages and Flow discussion pages?
 * 3) What could be made easier for these two groups in existing talk pages and Flow discussion pages?

Discovery Process

 * 1) Define the users to invite to participate:
 * 2) "New/casual contributors" = less than 100 edits total
 * 3) "Readers" =  never edited
 * 4) Design research protocol and structured data collection for the research sessions
 * 5) Find the right participants who are willing to volunteer an hour to collaborate with us
 * 6) Implement 10 hour long research sessions and collect data
 * 7) Analysis of data: review collected data and look for patterns, insights, and findings
 * 8) Synthesis: what does the data mean for the design of existing talk pages and Flow discussion pages?
 * 9) Report findings: results can be found on this page