Gerard Meijssen wrote: > It is hardly relevant what the demographics of the test group is. 100% > failure in Tanzania, well educated people in Austria failing to get to grips > with Wikipedia, we get people informing us about our perceived security > problem. The reason why it is hardly relevant is because the same studies > show that the changes implemented made a measurable difference. There is no > point finding fault at this. Even when a different demographic would be less > disastrously bad, there is a solution that is known to improve the odds of > finding people collaborating on a MediaWiki installation.
Known to whom? I am testing the CreatePage extension on http://www.appropedia.org and I find it harder to use than the usual way of creating pages. First I have to enter the page name and click on "Create Page" - OK, the usual. But then I have to choose a layout. I have no idea what a layout is, what layout should I choose, nor how will the layout I choose look. When I choose one at random, I get to the actual edit page. The only improvement I see here is that buttons above the edit field have textual description, which is something that, now that I see it, I find quite useful :) The form is several screens long which I find frightening, Save button is lost under the form, it is not obvious what a section is (of course, that is not obvious right now, but this doesn't help much), and there is no practical way to reorder the sections. To the right is a list of categories that, on a real Wikipedia, would be completely unusable (and by the way, Commons solved this problem when uploading a picture in a much better way). Keep it wiki, keep it simple. People love to share their knowledge, not to fill forms. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
