https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31378
--- Comment #12 from Gregor Hagedorn <[email protected]> 2011-10-11 08:06:06 UTC --- In my view the importance is orientation and feedback on what is possible. Users don't think in terms of multiple instances, and do not (and I believe should not) notice any difference between a field01, field02, field03 denormalization and a 1:n information model. The case of "author" is relatively simple and, since a core item, unlikely to be overlooked. However, even here, a user will initially scan the input forms for entry choices (where does my information belong in this form), not additional action buttons. I believe even advanced users will start looking at the action buttons as entry possibilities only relatively late. (Aside: For the author example, or keywords, I consider it actually desirable to have more than one data entry field per author or keyword, which is why I propose a convenience setting of allowing > 1 initial instances. However, this is a separate issue from providing any field at all.) In our case our motivation is a little bit higher than in the author case, because we have complex relations, that actually are abstract concepts, not easily described in a single word on a button. Example: a relation expression host plant, pathogen/pest, country of occurrence and quarantine status. Domain users seeing these 4 fields learn the data entry strategy much easier, than with just showing a button. However, even in the http://discoursedb.org/ example you pointed to above, I understood the concept only after pressing the button (that is, on a new form: http://discoursedb.org/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Source/Test "Wikipedia articles - Add another" is plain illogical. After pressing the illogical "add another", I suddenly see this is a single field, not 5 fields with some semantics, it seems to be about setting a relation, not about describing wikipedia articles, I see your prompt "Wikipedia article title (leave blank if equal to this page name):" and I start to understand... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
