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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
