Usability test for Paste Check new flow
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	bmartinezcalvo
	Jul 28 2025, 2:48 PM

Description

Background goal

This task is to conduct some lightweight usability tests with newcomers to learn if people find the new flow proposed in T399675: Paste Check: Clarify resolution path/experience intuitive and get a sense for how effective it is in helping them to understand when and why it's not advisable to paste content into Wikipedia.

Decision(s) to be made

This test is an effort to make the following decision(s)...

What (if any) adjustments will we make to the Paste Check UX (broadly defined) before evaluating the impact of the experience through a controlled experiment (T399669)?

Usability testing findings

Paste Check: usability testing findings

Acceptance criteria (or done)

Implement a prototype with the new flow proposed in T399675: Paste Check: Clarify resolution path/experience
Conduct usability test with newcomers and analyze results
Decide on what (if any) adjustments will we make to the Paste Check UX

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[Do not merge] Suppress any complaints about not being logged in	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+2 -0

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T265163 Create a system to encode best practices into editing experiences
In Progress	nayoub	T359107 Paste Check: Prompt people pasting text to consider risk of copyright violation
Open	None	T405127 [MILESTONE] Deploy Paste Check to all Wikipedias
Open	ppelberg	T392954 [FY25-26] WE 1.1: Increase constructive edits
Open	MNeisler	T399669 [WE 1.1.1] Run an A/B test to evaluate impact of Paste Check
Resolved	bmartinezcalvo	T399557 Paste Check: Improve experience in the Mid-edit
Resolved	DLynch	T399675 Paste Check: Clarify resolution path/experience
Resolved	ppelberg	T400518 Paste Check: Finalize UX copy
Resolved	bmartinezcalvo	T400622 Usability test for Paste Check new flow

Event Timeline

bmartinezcalvo created this task.Jul 28 2025, 2:48 PM

bmartinezcalvo mentioned this in T399675: Paste Check: Clarify resolution path/experience.

bmartinezcalvo updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 28 2025, 2:51 PM

ppelberg mentioned this in T400518: Paste Check: Finalize UX copy.Jul 28 2025, 3:36 PM

ppelberg added a parent task: T400518: Paste Check: Finalize UX copy.

Per yesterday's offline discussion with @bmartinezcalvo + @nayoub, I'm assigning this task over to Bárbara to take a first pass at drafting the Paste Check test protocol.

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 29 2025, 7:25 PM

bmartinezcalvo moved this task from Ready to Be Worked On to Doing on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.Aug 4 2025, 5:25 PM

ppelberg added a parent task: T399557: Paste Check: Improve experience in the Mid-edit.Aug 6 2025, 5:14 PM

Next steps

1. Editing Engineer: create prototype that suppresses the "log in / create account" edit notice that appears when people tap edit who are not logged in
2. @bmartinezcalvo: re-run desktop usability test once "1." is done with ~5 people
3. @bmartinezcalvo: run mobile usability test once "1." is done with ~5 people