https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50601
Bill Skaggs <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #10 from Bill Skaggs <[email protected]> --- I've had quite a bit of experience with things like this working on the GIMP project, and would like to try to convey a bit of "wisdom" that we learned the hard way. First, there are severe limits on the amount of information a new user, unfamiliar with the interface, can learn from a guided tour. A tour can give some increased sense of familiarity, but it can't give an ability to do specific tasks. Above all, a tour can't substitute for simplicity and discoverability. Second, a guided tour should never be forced on anybody. It can be offered if that can be done unobtrusively, but should never be required. Third, if a guided tour exists, it should be available on demand, and able to be repeated as often as desired. Ideally there should be some sort of "help" menu in the interface, offering the tour as one of the entries. Fourth, if you make a guided tour, you should consider making a video version and putting it on Youtube. That might seem like a bizarre idea, but many users are very comfortable with that format. Also I agree that there is a strong need to show a warning to users who try to enter wiki-markup directly (with a link to an extended explanation). -- 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
