https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50601
James Forrester <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Assignee|[email protected] |[email protected] Summary|GuidedTour for first-time |VisualEditor: Provide a |VisualEditor users |GuidedTour for first-time | |VisualEditor users (ones | |for both newbies for and | |experienced editors?) --- Comment #5 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Adding Steven in case his team wants to help/weigh in. > > TL;DR: > > Unless VE team wants to own it, I think E3 can handle any tours of basic > editing functionality (with and without VE). What we have is 1/2 way toward > the changes Erik requested. Awesome; very happy for E3 to lead on this. We'll support as needed, of course. > We are working on adding better VE support in GuidedTour currently, and I've > added Matt Flaschen since he's tackling that. We are shooting for feature > parity with our previous guided tour of editing for the first time delivered > to GettingStarted editors, with the exception being that there is no Preview > step to point to in VE. > > Also, soon we hope to test delivering a guided tour to all newly-registered > editors, outside the GettingStarted funnel. (Docs: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Guided_tours). Whether we run that > test on a wiki like Spanish or French instead of English depends on l10n of > the "first edit" tour and whether VE support is ready. S Page is helping > out with this test, so I've added him as well. > > If we're interested in pointing out the difference between VE and wikitext to > users right away, we could easily build that in as step for the guided tours > delivered via GettingStarted and the general "first edit" tour we're > planning. Currently with the tour that's in production, we just point to the > Edit button and section edit buttons. > > I'm open to changing that, but I do think we should be cautious about > throwing too much complexity at first time editors too soon, by pointing out > the multiple methods of editing. I added Pau for his input. Yeah, I'm not convinced I know what we'd want to do. Maybe just a simple "you're using VisualEditor" on first load for experienced users? Maybe a set of "add a {reference,template} by clicking here" ones too? Maybe not? What do you advise? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
