[HOT] Level of user experience to focus on

[john whelan]

> We could also plan at the beginning of major activations to have more
basic tasks to offer to the new contributors. For example, it could be a
buildings only task with good imagery. This way, they would have less
instructions, tags and imagery problems to digest for their first
contribution.

We have suitable projects such as http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/687,
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/688, http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/690,
available but how do new mappers find them?  If they look at sorted by
creation date they see tasks such as http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1079
which is now mapped even though it was created quite recently.

Cheerio John

On 5 June 2015 at 18:41, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Susan,
>
> I also received some invalidations + comments for task that I completed
> with a message saying - This duplicates with a new task, more recent
> imagery. I politely answered to read the comments.
>
> But this shows that we need to revise our workflows with the Task Manager
> and avoid such ambiguities.
>
> As we discussed before, we need to better control who can validate.
> Invalidations by new contributors should be also restricted. This could be
> monitored / approved by the validators.
>
> We could also plan at the beginning of major activations to have more
> basic tasks to offer to the new contributors. For example, it could be a
> buildings only task with good imagery. This way, they would have less
> instructions, tags and imagery problems to digest for their first
> contribution.
>
> regard
>
> Pierre
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *De :* Suzan Reed <suzan at suzanreed.com>
> *À :* bgirardot at gmail.com
> *Cc :* hot OpenStreetMap Team) <hot at openstreetmap.org>
> *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 5 juin 2015 18h21
> *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Level of user experience to focus on
>
> A reminder to be kind and to completely describe what the validator found
> with more words would be helpful. I've had people send me terse, rude, and
> disheartening comments. Would they talk that way to me in person? I doubt
> it.
>
> Having a wiki for validators would be helpful with examples of complete
> sentence descriptions and so on.
>
> Also, establishing some bar of expertise a validator has to meet? So many
> tiles completed, or number of edits? I've had people with little or no
> experience validating my work, and they are far off target having not read
> the instructions. (Saying "no buildings tagged", when the Instructions
> clearly state no buildings are to be mapped.)
>
> Suzan
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 5, 2015, at 4:44 AM, Blake Girardot wrote:
> On 5/29/2015 9:37 AM, Suzan Reed wrote:
> Routing newbies to tasks where they are reviewed by mentors? I would have
> liked that.
>
> This is an interesting idea.
>
> While every project needs to have its task squares reviewed and validated
> (at least once), the idea of creating some projects that new contributors
> to HOT mapping are directed to and special attention is placed on reviewing
> those completed task squares and providing feedback as soon as absolutely
> possible seems like a good compromise between the ideal world (lots of
> training and mentoring) and what we can realistically do, especially when
> welcoming thousands of new mappers to HOT/OSM during a major event.
>
> It would also help give focus to experienced mappers who are doing
> validation and feedback knowing that certain projects are where they should
> always look to first to do validations.
>
> I think we kind of, sort of do this now, but making it more explicit would
> be a big improvement I think. It is at least worth a good solid try at some
> point.
>
> cheers,
> Blake
>
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