Indeed; do love your blog :). Thank you for reminding me of that post - I was about to spend an hour writing a frustrating post of my own about how people shouldn't base decisions on how *they* think a mass of other people would feel. This has precluded that ;p.
On 12 February 2012 19:03, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation
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