On Sep 10, 2014 5:11 AM, "Keegan Peterzell" <keegan.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Wil Sinclair <w...@wllm.com> wrote: > > > > > FWIW, I signed my first comment by hand. I missed the comments about > > sigs in the wikitext editor interface. If it weren't for my family > > situation, I'm pretty sure I would have bailed. In any case, it was > > much easier to engage at WO, and that was partly- but not mostly- due > > to the fact that they run discussion software over there. > > > > ,Wil > > > > > This - signing by hand - is pretty much a universal experience for new > users, myself included. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:History_of_Alaska&diff=prev&oldid=26555079 > > > > -- > ~Keegan > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
I'm not saying that isn't crap and unwelcoming: it is, and it deters new users. But it's hardly the end of the world either. By signing the wrong way no real harm is done, if someone just tells you about the option to use ~~~~ It's crap and archaic and should be fixed, but it's also an example of the idea that there are no mistakes on a wiki. So you did something not right? Great, that means you contributed. So we fix it (collaboratively) and improve your contribution, no harm done. That said, auto sign and a reply button would be a *whole* lot friendlier than what we have now, and would be great improvements over the current situation. Flow definitely has a reply button, and automatic signing as well, but I can't help but think that just those features in isolation would be better then completely overhauling talk pages. --Martijn > > This is my personal email address. Everything sent from this email address > is in a personal capacity. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
