User talk:Cmcmahon(WMF)

Objective

Test the New Pages Feed and the Curation Toolbar

Validate function of Special:NewPagesFeed

Validate function of Curation Toolbar

Validate documentation for Curation process

Besides testing function, we are particularly interested in both UX and the documentation experience. Curation is available to both expert and new editors, and one critical aspect of this tool is to allow fairly inexperienced users to contribute at high level, so UX and documentation are highly important.

Test Approaches

There is a significant amount of functionality controlled by the Curation Toolbar. A purely functional evaluation of the system would be worthwhile.

At the same time, this is a significant change to New Page Patrol workflow, with the potential for confusion and conflict. Testing based on personas may be in order: what would happen if some experienced patrollers and some inexperienced patrollers are working the New Pages Feed at the same time?

Finally, the documentation for this system is all new as well. A close reading of the available documentation in comparison with the system itself would be useful.

Platforms and Browsers of Interest

We should focus our testing on these top browser versions:
 * IE 8+
 * Chrome 14+
 * Firefox 6+ (with and without the "HTTPS-Everywhere" extension)
 * Safari 4+ (only for desktop, not for IOS mobile platforms)

These should be tested on these desktop platforms:
 * Windows
 * Mac
 * Linux

We want to test all those browsers, both with and without "privacy/incognito" mode set.

Other platforms are not supported at this time for this project, including mobile browsers.

Pages:

Test environments:

http://ee-prototype.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed

http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed (possibly)

Production: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed

Software Elements Available in Special:NewPagesFeed
 * Filters
 * Sort
 * Refresh


 * Links
 * Stats

Software Elements Available in Curation Toolbar
 * Info
 * Problems
 * History
 * Wikilove
 * Editors
 * Review/Unreview
 * Tags
 * Note: there are many many 'tags' available. applying a 'tag' will select a particular 'template' and apply that template as an edit to the page being curated.   MORE INFO ABOUT TEMPLATES HERE
 * Mark for deletion
 * LOGGING?
 * Next in queue
 * conflict/race here?
 * on/off via x and Toolbox

NOINDEX?

Background and Technical Resources


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_Engagement
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Curation
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Page_Patrol