Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Notes/Share and document workflows to improve Wikidata’s use experience

Title: Share and document workflows to improve Wikidata’s use experience

Note-taker(s): Lucas

Speaker(s)

Name or username: Jan Dittrich

Useful links: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Usability_and_usefulness

Abstract

What do you do on wikidata.org? And how and why do others work with it? Our workshop will be dedicated to sharing and documenting workflows and workarounds in Wikidata use – first with workshop participants, then on wiki.

Knowing about each others motivations and activities will enable us to create a better user experience together, since we can take them into account when plan for improving the interface. Without such information, e.g. the User Experience team needs to rely on their best guesses, but they want to do better!

Jan of the Wikidata UX team will give a brief intro to an established and intuitive documentation format, so called "Scenarios". We would then share tasks we do on Wikidata and form little groups if needed to document (different) approaches to typical tasks we do.

Collaborative notes of the session

Task for the audience, in groups of two: one person talks about how they use Wikidata, the other one listens, asks questions