Re: Personas for Fedora Docs
On May 17, 2015, at 11:24 PM, Pete Travis <me(a)petetravis.com> wrote:
I'm concerned that edition-specific personas would cause some
unwanted inferences - writing only newbie docs for Workstation, only advanced docs for
server, etc.
agreed, however I believe that there will be personas we want to prioritize for a
given product and others will be delayed. This will be based on target audience and
likelihood of encountering the topics before having knowledge growth.
Thinking back to the metadata discussion - what do you think about
rating the complexity of an article on, say, a 1-5 scale? Later, tools could use the
complexity metadata value for sorting and filtering, or maybe link to our
'persona' for that experience level.
This could work, but we would need to both define the scale well enough for
writers to use and for readers to understand where they fall.
Now, if we had a large active reading community we could ask them to rate the article and
slowly have a view of how technical the audience found the article .. but I don’t know
that that is realistic.
Now, I just realized you're thinking about literally writing
narratives for the personas - I was thinking of it only as a composition / whiteboardind
tool. That could be interesting…
:D
regards,
bex
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