Flow/Research/User tests

Something about user testing of current talkpage stuffs, both generic and also including some of the more exotic practices employed on enwp because they seem to be about as crazy as they come short of a group of Illogicopedians campaigning for the next election. Well, maybe they aren't, but if there's worse I really don't want to know about it right now, 'kay?

What do we care about?
 * Stumbling points
 * Missing things
 * Rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle
 * Perhaps something about talkback, "reply on my talkpage", Echo, finding/noticing replies, notices at the tops of talkpages saying where people will respond, alternate accounts, bots, indenting, outdenting, outdenting, wtf, jargon, WN:TEA, wikihounding, cross-project communication, your friendly neighbourhood arbcom clerks, A kitten for you!, LQT mixed with normal stuff, LQT by its bloody self, LQT mixed with normal stuff and DPLforum, wikisyntax, random cat pictures, vandalism, trout, other people engaging in heated arguments about a frivolous topic on an unrelated user's talkpage, village pumps, village dumps, email notifications, transclusion, substitution, signing, "you have been blocked and may appeal...", username issues, other people's signatures, welcome and here's a big heap of text and links!, that grey circle in the corner, what's a 'talkpage'?
 * Although half of the previous bullet was probably a joke. Hopefully.

THE DOING

 * Secure test wiki
 * Create a bunch of accounts and throw messages at them
 * Have testers log in and try to deal with the messages - notice they have messages, find them, reply, etc
 * Test with and without Echo
 * Get yelled at for putting headers in all caps.
 * Get yelled at for putting headers in all caps.

THE TESTS
You know, the... instruction whatmajiggits. There's probably a fancy name for this, but in the meantime what... er... what are you doing? No, I will not bloody get off this page, thankyouverymuch, and if I want to all-caps my headers I will. Really the nerve of some people.

As I was saying we'll probably be wanting three basic ones, so it's six tests in total for the genera&mdash;

OY! What do you think you're doing? No, you cannot just evict me from the page like some sort of...

Why you little, how dare you toub5eyvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv