A request for help with developing an offline reading feature from the
Wikimedia Foundation, particularly from people that don't know Wikipedia
well.
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Subject: [African Wikimedians] Supporting offline reading: Looking for
testers
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:33:20 -0800
From: Joe Sutherland <jsutherl...@wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
<african-wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>
To: african-wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org
CC: Anne Gomez <ago...@wikimedia.org>
Hello, Wikimedians of Africa!
The Reading team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working to support
readers who want to take articles offline to read and share later on
their phones - a use case we learned about from deep research earlier
this year <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Findings> [0].
We’ve built a few prototypes and are looking for people to test them,
particularly people who don’t know Wikipedia all that well.
We’d love if you could help us find anyone who doesn’t edit who might be
interested in this feature and would want to test it. If you know anyone
like this, please send them the following message:
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Hello! Wikipedia needs your help to improve. We’re looking for people
who have internet access at least sometimes and like to have access to
content when they’re not connected to the internet. We would like to
learn from you. If you would be willing to participate in a study to
tell us more, please fill out this survey
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_09wJQzQs54DETUF> [1] before
November 25. Testing will only be available in English for now.
Thank you!
[1] https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_09wJQzQs54DETUF
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_09wJQzQs54DETUF> This survey
is hosted on a third-party service. For information about data handling
and privacy, please see the survey privacy statement:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Screener_Survey_for_Offline_Reading_Study_Privacy_Statement
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Screener_Survey_for_Offline_Reading_Study_Privacy_Statement>
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You can see the prototypes and leave comments on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline>[2], though please
don’t send this page to anyone filling out the survey as it could bias
test results.
We’re also looking for feedback about how to identify and prioritize
regions for our work, and would welcome your perspective on that meta
page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Target_countries>[3]
as well.
Thanks,
Joe + New Readers
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Findings
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Findings>
[1] (duplicated from excerpt above)
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_09wJQzQs54DETUF
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_09wJQzQs54DETUF> This survey
is hosted on a third-party service. For information about data handling
and privacy, please see the survey privacy statement:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Screener_Survey_for_Offline_Reading_Study_Privacy_Statement
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Screener_Survey_for_Offline_Reading_Study_Privacy_Statement>
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline>
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Target_countries
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Target_countries>
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*Joe Sutherland*
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
joesutherland.rocks <http://joesutherland.rocks> | @jrbsu
<http://twitter.com/jrbsu>
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