2010/1/4 Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]>: > So lets not confuse the usability goals or making editing SIMPLE, > NON-INTIMIDATING, and DISCOVERABLE all of which are very much "wiki" > concepts, with the values of WYSIWYG which encourages increased but > hidden complexity.
And never mind the actual numbers from Wikia, which look very like having a WYSIWYG system for presentational markup was *the* key to having people actually complete a planned edit rather than click 'edit', go "what on earth" at the computer guacamole and go away? Obivously proper usability testing would be needed. But, y'know, there's nothing wrong with bad presentation in the edit. This is a wiki, someone will be around with a bot to fix it in about two minutes. The barrier is getting them to contribute at all and not run away screaming forever. I believe you posted something recently pointing out how easy it is to get someone to run away screaming forever. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
