https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19484
--- Comment #5 from Robert Stojnic <[email protected]> 2009-07-06 10:07:18 UTC --- The usability of the search page is of my business. The old Go (aka article creation wizard) and Search (aka normal search) model is a neat idea but in practice doesn't work. I know lots of old users are used to it and that it makes sense to them, but remember that majority of views come from readers, and that in the end we want this project to be useful for readers and provide information. This is what typically happens. User gets to your favorite wmf project, sees the search box and types in somethings. He presses enter since it is the easiest and because he's in doubt what go&search means. Where there is no exact match, Special:Search is shown. User sees a bunch of buttons and warnings, on lower resolutions might not even see a single search results. He gives the page a quick glance, concludes that there are no search results and closes the tab/windows. There have been numerous complains about this, and from personal communication from Trevor Pascal I also know the usability study found the same. The search UI sucked, and it is partly the communities fault by putting unnecessary information up, it is also partly developers fault for not giving them the tools to do it differently and for neglecting it for so long that people used to it. Having some kind of an intermediate page with those templates would be IMHO much nicer, or just compressing them so that they are there for the experienced user but not interfere with anonymous user navigation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
