> Oic, you can create your own account on the labs site. > > My thoughts: > > - The choices "use the article wizard", "create a draft", "create this > article myself" are a bit confusing. Especially the first two - that's > a really unusual distinction that doesn't make much sense to me. I'd > expect the choices to be between "I'm a newbie" and "I'm experienced". > - The "create a draft" option seems to just dump you in your sandbox. > I think you need to add a lot of support to make that a useful thing > to do (like telling them how to get from "first draft" to "published" > - if there is such a mechanism). > > Here's an alternative mechanism: > > There are two choices: > 1) "Help me create an article" > 2) "Expert mode" > > Option 1 takes you to the article wizard (whatever that is...) > Option 2 takes you to the "create a draft" (ie sandbox) editor. After > you save, there's a button to request assistance in publishing it. > That also provides information on how to activate the secret Option 3, > which skips the sandbox altogether for future article creation. > (Probably a preference somewhere...) > > Steve > > > Great ideas all :). I agree there needs to be more of a distinction in language, and an absence of support for drafts is something I noticed too. I'm going to email round all the comments to the staffers working on it come Monday morning PST, so keep em coming!
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