User:Isarra/OPW report

This was stuff done in the scope of Isarra's OPW project. Blame Brandon Harris. I know I do.

Anyway, I totally did stuff. Stuffy stuff, even. See?

Avatar research

 * avatar research/panicking

Talkpage user tests

 * user tests (those two and all them variants)

Watchlist micro design proposals

 * watchlist stuff (before that... unfortunate thing.)

Flow mockups
Flow is effectively, for lack of a more polite explanation, a project intended to make it easier for Wikipedians and other MediaWiki users to yell at each other. A primary aspect will be a structured discussion-board with threads and comments that is intended to eventually replace talkpages, the existing MediaWiki discussion functionality.

Because Flow is an ongoing project, I began with an initial mockup to get a feel for the thing based on existing documentation and proposals at the time. (There may have been more, but due to the iterative process these never saw the light of day.)

Talkpage wireframes
Because talkpages are so mindboggling scary, I focussed on those. Outside of the existing Flow documentation, I looked into what a structured talkpage/discussion board specifically would entail, broke it down into three main objects, and made wireframes of possible variants of these pieces.

The general thought process can be found on this crankily constructed page.

Borders are included mainly to show the use of space; actual styles may or may not include borders.

Comments may or may not have avatars, may or may not have user information, may or may not use space various ways. Given MediaWiki standards, date format would be determined by the user's preferences, and presence of avatars may also be a preference (or wiki configuration setting).
 * Comments

Final mockups (within the scope of OPW)
These were the last mockups I made - they may or may not lead to further iterations as development progresses with Flow, but that is outside the scope of OPW.

Though these initially largely followed some of the better-seeming wireframes, showing these to some Wikipedians resulted in valuable feedback from which further changes were made, hence the visible differences.

Forward progress
The future is open to all manner of insane potentiality. Isarra promises to not break too much. Or to try, anyway. She has a team of angry developers, you know; sometimes these things happen.