Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Please record a screencast of yourself doing New Page Patrol/reply (10)

Hey, Kudpung. Thanks for taking the time to try recording a screencast for us. It'll be really helpful!

It just happens that I, also, run OSX 10.6.8. The usertesting.org screencast software works okay for me. It's rather beta, but I did manage to record a test with it. If it works for you, that's probably the most expedient way.

If you prefer to use a piece of desktop software, Telestream ScreenFlow is probably the best option. The demo is fully functional, but will leave a watermark on your exported video. That's fine, though. I'm sure we can ignore it. :)

If you use ScreenFlow: It's not obvious now to stop recording if you haven't set a key combo in the preferences. If you switch back to the ScreenFlow application and hit 'File->New Recording', it'll ask if you want to stop the current one instead. When exporting, I recommend using the "Web - Low (multi-pass)", and scaling to the smallest size that maintains readability. 75% worked for me, but it'll depend on the size of your fonts. That produced ~500kbit video, which is small enough that 15 minutes of it could still be emailed.

As you might have surmised, we don't need the screencasts to understand the nature of the issue. The data you and others have collected are quite clear in that regard. Rather, we'd like to use them in designing a solution. I'm imagining a toolset that makes newbie page patrolling easier and more accurate, and provides a way for experienced patrollers to quality-check and mentor the newbies in a way that encourages them to learn, but also to disable patrolling for the ones who just can't get it. A whole host of very useful features depend on getting (mostly) everyone together in one place, which means we have to try to meet everyone's needs.

We're not terribly concerned with the workflow of newbie NPPers—we need to understand how they work to some degree, but it seems education is a more important goal here than efficiency. Also, I can become a newbie NPPer in short order, so that research is easy to do locally. Serious experience, on the other hand, is hard to get. It seems like each experienced NPPer has built their own UI to some degree, or at least uses Mediawiki very differently. To capture some of that functionality in the code we write, we need to see how you all work.