To make it easier and more intuitive for Junior and Senior Contributors to *participate* on talk pages, the #Editing-team is exploring ways to improve the workflow(s) for starting a new discussion.
In an effort to better understand Junior Contributors' //current// experiences starting new discussions on talk pages, we will conduct a series of user tests.
The results of these tests will inform the design of v1.0 (T243248) and serve as helpful baselines to compare against the findings in T243249.
=== Test goals
- To better understand the challenges Junior Contributors' face in the process of starting a new discussion on an **article talk** page.
- To better understand the challenges Junior Contributors' face in the process of starting a conversation with on another contributor on their **user talk** page.
- To identify how the workflows for starting new discussions on article and user talk pages could be improved.
=== Research questions
//A draft list; design to complete in the process of drafting the test script//
For both **mobile** and **desktop**, we would like to know:
- Is the workflow discoverable?
- What parts of workflow do Junior Contributors have difficulty with?
- What mistakes do Junior Contributors consistently make in the process of attempting to start new discussions?
- What about the existing workflow do contributors find to be intuitive?
=== Workflows to test
//A draft list; design and product to complete in the process of drafting the test script//
- Starting a new discussion on an article talk page and on another contributor's talk page.
- Starting a new topic within an existing conversation (read: adding a 0th level comment in an existing section)
=== "Done"
- [ ] Finalize testing goals and research questions
- [ ] Write user tests
- [ ] Run test(s)
- [ ] Summarize test findings
- [ ] Create Phab tickets to address test findings