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Wikipedia:User Advocacy/VisualEditor

A number of research questions that may be explored around the deployment of the VisualEditor exist:

  • Communication failure: did it occur?
  • Measuring usage

Advocacy needs to be conducted in the following areas:

Communication failure: did it occur?

Proposal: A survey to a random selection of users, with invitations posted to their talk page.

Questions:

  1. When did you first become aware that the Visual Editor was to be deployed?
  2. Before June 2013
  3. During June 2013
  4. When I went to edit a page, I noticed that the editor had changed
  5. I am not aware that the Visual Editor was deployed
  6. Did you see the WatchList notice about the Visual Editor deployment?
  7. Before June 2013
  8. During June 2013
  9. In July 2013
  10. I didn't see a WathList notice
  11. I don't know
  12. Did you see notices to any notice boards that ?
  13. Before June 2013
  14. In June 2013
  15. In July 2013
  16. I didn't see a notices in a noticeboard
  17. I don't know
  18. If you saw a WatchList notification or a notice in a noticeboard, did you click through to the Visual Editor information page?
  19. Yes
  20. No
  21. I don't know
  22. I didn't see a WatchList notification or a notice in a noticeboard
  23. How well informed were you about the Visual Editor deployment ahead of the deployment
  24. I was not informed at all
  25. I had some idea, but I wasn't as informed as I should have been
  26. I was pretty well informed, some things surprised me, but not much
  27. I knew exactly what to expect
  28. How well informed do you feel about the Visual Editor now
  29. I don't feel informed at all
  30. I'm confused about some things and I don't really feel in control
  31. I think I know most things, I'm pretty confident I do anyway
  32. I know exactly what's going on.

Measuring usage

Proposal: Usage will be measured over time and between user groups using regular automated scripts.

Usage should be measured across the following user groups:

  • New users (definition required)
  • Regular users (definition required)
  • Infrequent users (definition required)
  • IPs

Considerations in calculating metrics:

  • Deployment is only to the Article and User namespaces
  • Deployment is currently only to logged in users
  • Bots and semi-automated editing tools should be excluded or measured separately

Statistical analysis could determine:

  • Update within different user groups
  • Correlations between user groups and usage
  • Increases or decreases in usage over time

Source code for scripts (or a link to) and a clear methodology should be posted here. On-going output of scripts should be posted here or to subpage.