On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone ever done usability studies of newbies -- new Internet > users, experienced Internet users who are non-editors, or new editors?
Yep, that's what the Usability Initiative does. > Have the study conductors watched how they play with the history > tools? That I don't know. I don't know if descriptions of the Usability Initiative's studies are all public, or what. Maybe one of them could fill us in. My personal guess is that the best usability for newbies would be to hide as many things as possible to make it less intimidating. > By the way, why does page history say "12,345 bytes" and not "12,345 > characters"? Because it's 12,345 bytes, not 12,345 characters. :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
