Editor campaigns/Activity feed

Shani

 * Marks and follows pages that users work on
 * Thinks track changes is important
 * Dislikes:
 * 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)
 * Currently uses Excel file 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
 * Wants to be able to sort information - by name of article or by usernames
 * Wants to be able to export it - users and articles they’re working on
 * 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
 * An academic course that requires a grade has different needs from a workshop - campaigns involve extra feature
 * 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

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