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Item	Reporter/Date	Who (Descript	Task involved	Describe the experience	What helped learning?	Notes
1	Tiff 08-09	marketing executive, late 40's, new to wikiVonemmel	edit her member profile form	she wanted to fill out a little, save her work and return later to complete it, but didn't know that was possible. So, she didn't start to fill out form.	explaning that a form is a wiki page, and one can save a page anytime and return anytime	tutorial - filling out a form and returning to add. add tip to forms. coaching in sign up process
2	Tiff 07-09	Camille Harris, entrepreneur/activist, 60's, new to wiki Vonemmel	add information to her member profile	she couldn't find how to add info.	explaning where edit button was and what she could do in a wiki with this button.	tutorial - Edit as way to add info, as well as edit info. making edit button more actionable
3	Tiff 08-09	therapist, 49 yr old, new to wiki	navigate to find a page	he looked at top of page for site nav, and didn't understand page nav, what it was for.	physically pointing to page with explanation of different types of nav and where they were - left side had site nav, top had page nav, and far top had self nav.	tutorial - orientation to structure coaching accessible from front page
4	Tiff 07-09	web worker, 50's, new to wiki	edit a page	she was editing a page for a long time, then clicked save and lost work, but didn't know why. she had become logged out. didn't see the explanation at top, and know what to do.	explanation of what happened, and tip to save often. FYI, current fucntion is that under certain conditions (when "remember me" checked?, firefox remembers?) your edits will still be in the edit box. Just sign back in and save.	tutorial - include Save often tip. dev - extend log in time, so people are not logged out? improve text explanation on top of "View Source
5	Tiff 08-09	Worker, Project Lead	find project page she was working on previously	she looked for a file hierarchy of pages, looked for drop downs in nav, then breadcrumbs. Then, she entered name in Search, didn't find.	explained the use of Recent Changes to find recent work. 2) showed her Category:Projects page. 3) showed her how to enter auto-saved URL in browser	tutorial - REcent Changes, Categories category management coaching
6	Scott Moore 05-09		How do I change my username?	how do I change my handle from Paulloper to Paul Loper	1. Go into your preferences (also in the yellow bar up top) 2. where it says "signature", put Paul Loper also "Real name" Q: Can I change it for my username? A: more complicated...need to install an extension.	Taken from: Mediawiki intro session Note: color change Real name not on preferences?
6	Scott Moore	Scott Moore	searching, editing	Many changes to how editing an searching works are part of personal preferences		Find relevant personal preferences that might be useful to a first time member.
7	Krys Freeman [09.11.09]	24, web 2.0 geek, bLaKtivist, social media enthusiast,	member profile vs. user page	I didn't understand why these two pages were different, nor how to get to the member page.	I'm inquisitive. I kept poking around to see what goes where. I realized that I can access it via my contributions in the upper right corner.	ways to track pages: "watchlist", "my contributions", "search" Any insight on how users are expected to interact with user page vs. user profiles are intended to function.
8	Krys Freeman	[[Scottmoore]]	Special:Form/Member	After creating the form, the user has two pages. The normal wiki page with their name and the User: page with their username. Someone has to manually redirect the User: page to the "profile page".	Human labor stepping in to handle the redirect and someone to explain the confusion away.	If there is a way to automatically make the redirect happen, it would reduce confusion.
9	Sasha	Dreamfish service team member, 37, has wiki experience,	added redirect, added personal info box	I am not sure I understand the point of redirection, couldn't find other way than following the example of doing this tasks other than copying same from my wall and user page	The examples I had on my pages have been very useful
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