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Users and Personas
editFlow/MVP#Personas identifies key users for the first release.
The team identified additional users and detailed users
High-level
edit- New editors
- 0-100 edits, high impact from receiving messages, clueless with respect to Wikipedia
- Readers (+ special access needs)
- may not have account; may have feedback, wants to help; may have special access requirements
- -1 edit (i.e. no intention to edit), or may have edited
- Content Contributors
- range of experience & specialization; may have special requireemnts; may/may not use Flow
- User experiencing harassment
- frustrated; needs support (feel that system is on their side) ; needs to find appropriate venue
- Content Curators (not vandal fighter)
- experienced; high talk page usage; specialised workflows (may be improved); Gnomish; moderate tool usage; participates in clubs/WikiProjects
- Vandal Fighter
- leaves semi-auto messages in high volume; often terse due to incentives; often uses tools; often younger & inexperienced (doing it to "level up")
- Administrators
- elevated privileges; experienced; high responsibility (legal issues); high participation in conversations; change averse
- Tool users
- technical, experienced; needs stable API
- Metapedians
- lots of conversations in lots of venues; experienced; change averse
Detailed users
editArticle interactions
- Article Editor
- Article assessor
- Stub deletor
- Stub creator
- Featured Article writer
Discussion participants
- article subject of a BLP (Biography of Living Person)
- new article reviewer
- pedant
- project member
- argumentative person/peanut gallery
- lurker
- Wikipediocracy troll
- discussion moderator
Other kinds of users
- auto-confirmed user
- Patrollers
- Image uploader
- Template editor
- Specialist project member
- Template dropper
- Article watcher
Special rights
- Blocked user
- Steward
- Oversighter
- Arbcom clerk
New users
- newly signed-up user
- welcomer
Q&A workflow
- new user needing help
- new user helper
Proposal workflow
- Proposal writer
Deletion workflow
- New uses whose page gets deleted
- Experiencecd creator of soon-to-be-deleted article/image
- Article deleter
Misc dispute workflows
- moderate own talk page
- Troller
- Angry stalker
- Arbcom case defendant
- Blocking admin
Other considerations
- Mobile device user
- Impaired users
- Automatic Tool user
- Abusefilter
- 3rd party apps
- Bots
- 3rd party engineers
- Researchers (needs dumps)