WMF UX Improvement Effort

Phase 1

Critical bugs phase (8/24/11 - 8/31/11)

Task	Title	Description	Next step	Progress	Bug	Priority	Difficulty
#16	Critical bugs	[Kiwix for Windows crashby opening specific ZIM file] [Not possible on Windows to open a ZIM file if accented path] [Search engine does not always work on Windows] [Deal with relative paths in the library]	implementation	75%		Top	20 hours

Phase 2

Feedback system (8/31/11 - 8/21/11)

Task	Title	Description	Next step	Progress	Bug	Priority	Difficulty
#7	Menu item feedback	In browser feedback		0%		High	2
#8	Post download feedback	Post content download		0%		High	4
#9	Feedback system	Supporting in browser and post download	implementation	50%		High	40

Backlog

Task	Title	Description	Next step	Progress	Bug	Priority	Difficulty
#1	#Revamp the help page	The help page must be more complete, more sexy, with screenshots. It should also provide an easy way to download new content.	proposal	0%		Low	30 hours
#2	#Kiosk mode	It would also be cool to have a kiosk mode available in which the interface would be fullscreen unless a special keyboard command was issued.	discussion	0%		low	5 hours
#3	#History navigator	You can purge your history, but you can't view it. It would be nice to be able to browse through your history either from a menu or the Sidebar..	discussion	0%		Low	really depends what we want here. A few hours to get a simple list of pages but a lot of work if you want a mgmt tool.
#4	Desktop File browser integration	ZIM file mime-type should be recognized as "application/x-zim", icon should be the kiwix one and double click on them should start kiwix and open the file.	realization	70%		Medium	20 hours
#5	Filters and sorting	Add ability to filter and sort listed ZIM files	concept	0%		Low	15
#6	Searching	Add ability to search available ZIM files (title and description)	concept	0%		Low	15
#10	#Refine Kiwix UI	Improve the look and feel		0%		Low	20
#11	Upgrade to XUL 2.0	Upgrade to XUL runner 2.0		0%		Low	40
#12	KPIS	Implement KPIS		0%		Low	60
#13	Search	Improve search		0%		Low	40
#14	ePub	Add ePub support		0%		Low	60
#15	Distribution	Easier workflow for local distribution		0%		Low	40

Posponed

Task	Title	Description	Next step	Progress	Bug	Priority	Difficulty
#1	Allow multzim search and make it configurable		concept	0%		Low	20 hours
#2	Ability to build zim files	Implement a full pipeline for openZim files	grant request ongoing	0%		Low	500
#3	Revamp bookmarks	Bookmarks needs to be rethink and reimplemented	proposal	0%		Low	60

Notes

Refine Kiwix UI

Improve the appearence. Appearance is important to gain confidence in the software and make the whole user experience better. I propose here to involve here someone with design skills and propose to implement his proposition after discussion in the app. Kelson 20:39, 22 August 2011 (CEST)

Propositions:

• Better language switch menu organisation, they are now too much language in one list
• Still continue to improve the tabs design

Automate zim file generation

Work on a solution to fully automatize the generation of full ZIM files. We need to simply and multiply the generation of Full ZIM files. I have currently script, but I need something to build on the top (a good Makefile for example and afterward a Web UI) to make them simplier to use.

Open bugs

Select a subset of bugs and improvment in the list we have build with our testers. They are a few bugs we *must* fix in the next release.

XUL 2.0

Migrate to xulrunner 2.0 to use the best of the Mozilla code and last improvments bug fix.

KPIS

Implement KPIs. Is essential the measure the performance of the project, is also important for other sponsors.

Improve Search Engine

Improve the search engine... currently it's OK, but we could be better. Here a few possible improvments:

• integrating stop words
• search pattern words in bold
• better ranking

Archives

• Season 1: Feb. to Jun. 2011

See also

• User interface feedback