Jami
- Daily usage of ActivityFeed
- Likes
- Find it useful for looking at contributions of users
- Can see what people have done in the last few days
- Can look at multiple classes at once
- Dislikes
- Big complaint: don't know if showing edit history is the best summary of what they did
- Lots of new users don't provide edit summary, so the space isn't useful
- Thinks it's better to not have the edit summary (but knows others would disagree - can be useful for specifying the section edited)
- Terrible design - huge volume of classes, takes long load time
- Top of feed is same class every time, so bottom of page classes aren't as commonly seen
- Ordering is based on order the course pages were created
- Suggestions
- Wants a better way of showing what articles students are drastically impacting - maybe see how much content they added
- Currently has to click on article and then go to history of article to see contributions - still leads into 4 or 5 other steps
- Could show diff? But want to be useful for professors too
- Maybe don't show bytes, but see chunk of added amount, or estimate of words added
- Try to document and keep track of what articles students are impacting - see what the version of the article was before they edited it?
- Have a "View history" link from activity feed? Program management use
- Interested in larger edits and contributions students made
- Wants to quantity angle of edits
- Now that usernames are global (on other wikimedia sites) - show any edit or file they've uploaded to commons - not just text contributions
- More consolidated? See class, less in a list, not with all edits (collapsed with title + summary (x editors edited x articles))
- Develop a system of phases (sometimes all these people are editing into their sandbox)
- e.g. this class is editing sandboxes
- More useful for classes than editor campaigns
- Within a class, all taking training this week, some professors have their students post on talk page of an article they want to edit (e.g. add 5 sources), then next 3 weeks editing in sandbox, then editing in namespace
- Long convoluted page to show that students have completed training
- If student enrolled in that class and made edit to student training page, know they've finished training --> show as an edit as they completed training
- Sandbox space, draft space - all separate phases (7 students are editing articles)
- Edit-a-thon: see tons of copy edits
- Instead: show summary - where they're editing, magnitude of edit, format (picture?) - see actual type of edit
- Phase: see trends over course of semester, or for an individual person (small edits to large edits)
- Time frame for activityfeed: currently not customizable, 5 days, probably too short
- Sometimes have 3 week timeline between assignments - can miss edits, 5 days too short for editors
- Huge scrolling is a pain
- Feed should feature links to Wikimetrics: way to upload a cohort of editors (e.g. upload a class)
- Shows quantity - how many edits were made, what size their edits were
- Feed could let you create charts showing trends over a semester
- Reveal some trends - data and numbers
- Program manager could set parameters for the data visualizer
- Generally could have more quantitative summaries about what users are doing (maybe through Wikimetrics, maybe not)
- Make data (long term) collapsable
- Could offer option to look over longer period - how many edits total have my students made since beginning of semester? how many edits did they touch?
- What's useful to see: title of article, link to article, size of edit, article they're editing, type of edit - create/edit/delete
- Be more explicit about creating new article - in collapsed view, see what articles students created
- Structure - instead of ordering by time, can structure by type of edit
- new article, created user page (separating it from real edit), edit article, talk page, separate live space from the sandbox, image)
- Have a peer review survey? Or some grading process - poll numbers
- Need article quality criteria - quantitative measures
- Peer reviews are difficult to standardize and class specific
- Currently when student username is linked, it links to the user page - more useful to link to contribution page, especially with shorter time frame for ActivityFeed (more directly relevant)
- Many students don't even create user page
- Idea: summary boxes: have it per class, if you're following multiple classes, have summary of everything
- Could have widget space where you rearrange ActivityFeed the way you want it to be
- Have default settings - certain person who can create default customization (e.g. most relevant to classes, most relevant to edit-a-thons)
- ActivityFeed becomes separate tab in preferences? Different features you can put in - more info, customize
- Could have "Did you know?" in top right of ActivityFeed
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
Shani
- Usage: marks and follows pages that users work on
- Currently uses Excel files 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
- Dislikes
- ActivityFeed is 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)
- Wants to be able to sort information - by name of article or by usernames
- Wants to be able to export the information - 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
- Thinks the track changes feature is important
- An academic course that requires a grade has different needs from a workshop - campaigns involve extra features
- 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
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