Guillaume Paumier's weblog » media sharing http://www.gpaumier.org/blog open knowledge, design & technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:14:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Help us collect good ideas to improve Wikimedia Commons http://www.gpaumier.org/blog/353_help-us-collect-good-ideas-to-improve-wikimedia-commons/ http://www.gpaumier.org/blog/353_help-us-collect-good-ideas-to-improve-wikimedia-commons/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:01:33 +0000 Guillaume Paumier http://www.gpaumier.org/blog/?p=353 Continue reading →]]> As part of the Wikimedia Multimedia Usability project, we are currently doing what is called Domain research. Basically, it means that we look at how similar websites work and how they deal with the same issues we encounter. Since our goal is to make Wikimedia Commons more usable, we want to look at other media sharing platforms, such as Flickr, Youtube, Fotopedia, Picasa web, Panoramio, etc.

I would like to ask for your help to accomplish this research. It can take a lot of time if only one person is doing it. On the contrary, if ten or twenty people step in and all do a small part, we can collect helpful data very quickly. Besides, it is always better to have several people with different perspectives look at the data we collect, in order to better see the “big picture”.

Your help is crucial in order to move quickly towards the requirements definition phase. I have already prepared a list of websites and a few questions we are asking ourselves; they should facilitate the collection of data that can then be used directly by the team.

Please join us and make your contribution to the Domain research page on the Usability wiki.

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