On 12 February 2012 18:55, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:
> If your solution to "we need to avoid an overcomplicated interface mostly > used by people with a primacy in tech" is to develop an extension that > requires potential editors to have a specific piece of software people > mostly don't use or install it, you are making a very good argument for why > we should work on the research the usability initiative did with actual new > editors, and not the ideas of anyone attempting to put themselves into the > shoes of new editors. We're not new editors. We can't impersonate them - not > adequately, and not for the purpose of somehow divining what it is they > want. And we should stop pretending that we can. By the way, I covered most of this thread about a year ago: http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/ (This was posted just before the big WMF push for a visual editor.) - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
