Human centered design for using and editing structured data in Wikipedia infoboxes

Charlie Kritschmar @thefakeincabellIntern UX Design/ResearchWikimedia Deutschland e. V.

What we want to do

● Provide structured data to Wikimedia projects

● Edit Wikidata from Wikipedia and other sister projects

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Why we want to do it

● Inconsistent data● Inaccurate / outdated data● Redundancy

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Feedback from Wikidata Project

Chat

● Focus on Wikipedia● Focus on Infobox integration● Integrate into VisualEditor

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_telescope

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https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WE-Framework

Approach

● Pragmatic Personas● Scenarios● Requirements analysis● Mock-up development● Usability test● Evaluation

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Infobox in VisualEditor edit mode Prototype

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Which improvements do we expect?

● Quality of data in infobox increases

● Consistency of data on Wikipedia increases

● More editors on Wikidata

● Quality of data on Wikidata increases

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Conclusion

● Good basis for further research and work

● User-centered approach resulted in valuable feedback

● Further iterations required:

○ Integrate the feedback from the user test

○ Finalize the concept

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Questions?

Charlie Kritschmar @thefakeincabellIntern UX Design/ResearchWikimedia Deutschland e. V.

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