Wikipedia:User Advocacy/VisualEditor

A number of research questions that may be explored around the deployment of the VisualEditor exist:


 * Communication failure: did it occur?
 * Measuring usage

Advocacy needs to be conducted in the following areas:
 * User documentation (help, tutorials, user manuals) needs to be updated, a thread is open here

Communication failure: did it occur?
Proposal: A survey to a random selection of users, with invitations posted to their talk page.

Questions:


 * 1) When did you first become aware that the Visual Editor was to be deployed?
 * 2) Before June 2013
 * 3) During June 2013
 * 4) When I went to edit a page, I noticed that the editor had changed
 * 5) I am not aware that the Visual Editor was deployed
 * 6) Did you see the WatchList notice about the Visual Editor deployment?
 * 7) Before June 2013
 * 8) During June 2013
 * 9) In July 2013
 * 10) I didn't see a WathList notice
 * 11) I don't know
 * 12) Did you see notices to any notice boards that ?
 * 13) Before June 2013
 * 14) In June 2013
 * 15) In July 2013
 * 16) I didn't see a notices in a noticeboard
 * 17) I don't know
 * 18) If you saw a WatchList notification or a notice in a noticeboard, did you click through to the Visual Editor information page?
 * 19) Yes
 * 20) No
 * 21) I don't know
 * 22) I didn't see a WatchList notification or a notice in a noticeboard
 * 23) How well informed were you about the Visual Editor deployment ahead of the deployment
 * 24) I was not informed at all
 * 25) I had some idea, but I wasn't as informed as I should have been
 * 26) I was pretty well informed, some things surprised me, but not much
 * 27) I knew exactly what to expect
 * 28) How well informed do you feel about the Visual Editor now
 * 29) I don't feel informed at all
 * 30) I'm confused about some things and I don't really feel in control
 * 31) I think I know most things, I'm pretty confident I do anyway
 * 32) I know exactly what's going on.

Measuring usage
Proposal: Usage will be measured over time and between user groups using regular automated scripts.

Usage should be measured across the following user groups:


 * New users (definition required)
 * Regular users (definition required)
 * Infrequent users (definition required)
 * IPs

Considerations in calculating metrics:


 * Deployment is only to the Article and User namespaces
 * Deployment is currently only to logged in users
 * Bots and semi-automated editing tools should be excluded or measured separately

Statistical analysis could determine:
 * Update within different user groups
 * Correlations between user groups and usage
 * Increases or decreases in usage over time

Source code for scripts (or a link to) and a clear methodology should be posted here. On-going output of scripts should be posted here or to subpage.