Talk:Wikimedia Fellowships/Project Ideas/Help pages redesign leader
Add topicIs this scalable?
[edit]- yes. not easy, but needed. Could maybe do it in pieces? Scalable to other languages? -- phoebe | talk 17:25, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
- This seems like a major multi-language project. It would be great if help was uniform, but I worry because the help pages are still quite in the process of being written even on established Wikimedia projects and there is a lot of variation between projects and across languages. I would hate to commit to developing any project only to find that the community sees fit to implement major policy changes and which might necessitate re-doing some work. Could you narrow the project field even more? Otherwise, can you justify why this needs to be an English-language only project? Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:49, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
Politics
[edit]I think that "help" quickly shades into policy, and paying a "help page leader" would be taken as setting up a czar over how policy is to be interpreted. Despite all being "help pages", this is still a very diffuse project and I don't see that much someone could bring to the project other than centralized power. Wnt (talk) 17:40, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Suggested timeline
[edit]Per Siko's request, this is what I think a rough timeline for this project could look like. It adds up to about 6 months in total which is probably going to be the minimum time required, although hopefully the work will build a solid base for volunteers to carry it forward in the longer term. Feedback on this is welcome. the wub "?!" 01:08, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- Analysing existing research (~2 weeks)
- Pages I found of particular interest:
- Examining current pages, routes, welcome messages etc. (~2 weeks)
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- Build on work done by User:Ironholds
- Page view statistics
- Maybe look at examples of help pages from other wikis/sites
- "The Missing Manual" and similar projects
- Planning overall structure, what pages to focus on (~2 weeks)
- Testing methodology (~2 weeks)
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- Using the Article Feedback tool to solicit ratings & comments
- User statistics tracking
- Click tracking?
- Readability scores
- Drafting and refining new pages (~4 weeks)
- Putting pages live and gathering results (4-8 weeks, time to get good results will probably depend highly on page traffic)
- Analysis and Report (~4 weeks)
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- What has been learnt?
- Opportunities to continue the work?
- What can be transferred to other languages and projects?
- Ongoing elements
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- Community engagement: discussion, recruitment and reporting
Accepted for fellowship
[edit]This project idea has been matched with The wub. Thanks to Ragesoss for the idea and to the wub for taking on a 6 month fellowship to tackle it! See the project documentation on EN:WP as this fellowship moves forward. Siko Bouterse (WMF) (talk) 21:16, 12 April 2012 (UTC)