On 08/05/2009, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/8 Ian Woollard <[email protected]>: > >> b) Need more cheat sheet type stuff, in-your-face, practically >> everywhere. When you create an article and when you edit- you need a >> cheat sheet showing you how to do stuff, it *seems* to be how most >> people work. Probably there should be a non blank create template with >> examples of commented out references and a few headings > > > I have suggested this repeatedly. The usual response has been FIGHT THE > POWAH!
Well, the wikipedia is big... google is big also. One of the tricks google use is they try stuff out on victims... I mean users. They pick a small percentage of the internet and do something slightly different for them, and see if it works or not. The advantage of only doing it for a small number is that it means you can write the test with prototyping tools, rather than having to make it run fast, and you'll have a lot less complaints if it doesn't work very well. It also means you can do back-back comparisons stuff like: 'we tried this, and it showed a 23% improvement in referencing'. I think if at all practical, the wikipedia needs to start doing stuff like that. > - d. -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly imperfect world would be *much* better. Life in an imperfectly perfect world would be pretty ghastly though. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
