On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Parul Vora <pv...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all! > > The Wikipedia Usability Initiative conducted a user research study with > SF based Bolt Peters in late March to uncover barriers new editors face. > We are in the process of completing a full report on our methodology, > process and analysis, but wanted to share with you some of the major > themes and findings in the meantime....
>From what I read, the main problem is that new, eager, serious contributers surrender between our markup and an overwhelming flood of descriptions. I know a new GUI is being worked on. For the moment I hacked the following JavaScript suggestion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/newbiehelp.js This adds a "how?" link into the "edit" tab, and launches a floating panel with some extremely general content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edit_how.png Never mind the wording, the color scheme, or important points I missed :-) If that were added for all anons by default, it might save the willing and able some grief. Just a thought. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
