On 11 May 2013 21:59, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote:

>We run usability tests
> with every iteration of the Getting Started experiment we launch these
> days, and every time new people who click Edit for the first time are quite
> literally shocked by the crazy mess that is wikitext.


This is true. I am a Level 20 Wizard or whatever in computery stuff
and I *still* find it incomprehensible computer guacamole, so I
suppose this may well not actually be worse.


>It may have extreme limitations, but at least it
> is roughly what new editors expect to see after hitting edit, instead of a
> garbled mass of incomprehensible code.


Well, yes :-) Perhaps big banners (big orange banners?) for "THIS IS
ALPHA, WHICH IS THE STAGE BEFORE BETA" ...


- d.

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