On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:15:22AM +1300, Murray Altheim wrote: > In some recent user testing we found that there was considerable > confusion in space handling within wiki links, e.g., when > > [Gary Snyder] > > is parsed and turned into a link to a new page, that new page will > incorporate the space character as "%20". This is both rather > counterintuitive, and created a situation where there were now two > pages, GarySnyder and Gary%20Snyder. The users were very confused > by this, it really screwed with their idea of the value of a > WikiWord. One said "why the hell would I want to use a WikiWord > then?" She was quite frustrated that after making the investment in > trying to understand WikiWords, thinking she did, then having the > system not work as she'd have thought. I have to agree. > > I've been looking around but can't find out how to turn off this > behaviour. Isn't there a setting somewhere to automatically remove > whitespace from links?
there is jspwiki.translatorReader.camelCaseLinks = false (but I am pretty sure thats not what you are looking for) or maybe this jspwiki.breakTitleWithSpaces = false > > We also found that people had a great deal of difficulty understanding > how to create a new page. It wasn't that (once they understood the > idea of a WikiWord) the difficulty was in writing the link, it was > in the cognitive leap required to understand that in order to create a > new page one really needed to *first* create a link to it, which meant > editing a page. They didn't understand why there wasn't a New Document > or New Page button or menu command. We didn't want to suggest creating > page islands (and even described that in documentation, that wasn't > during testing read), but it was a very common issue. > > Another thing was not understanding the difference between the three > main link presentations: inbound, external and createpage links. I > would guess that understanding the latter might help in solving the > difficulty in creating pages. Something I have found help full in another web app i use, are popup's, could we add pop up to these links to give some sort of advise as weather it's an internal, external, new page link ? Maybe there could be a time delay on the pop up ? > > This could probably be fixed by improving the documentation, but in > my own over-the-shoulder experiences I noted that few people actually > stop long enough to actually read a paragraph of text, even when it's > right in front of them -- they've been trained to look for menu > commands or buttons. If there's going to be documentation it should > be extremely terse, not written for geeks, i.e., no tech language. I > think a How To page for common actions as part of the normal distro > would be a good idea, with a link on the sidebar where users *might* > see it. > > If anything else comes up I'll forward comments on. > > Murray > > ........................................................................... > Murray Altheim <murray07 at altheim.com> === = = > http://www.altheim.com/murray/ = = === > SGML Grease Monkey, Banjo Player, Wantanabe Zen Monk = = = = > > Boundless wind and moon - the eye within eyes, > Inexhaustible heaven and earth - the light beyond light, > The willow dark, the flower bright - ten thousand houses, > Knock at any door - there's one who will respond. > -- The Blue Cliff Record > _______________________________________________ > This is the Jspwiki-users mailing list, in which we discuss the stable > release (even-numbered, 2.4.x, 2.6.x), and user-issues. For development > discussion, please join jspwiki-dev. > http://ecyrd.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jspwiki-users > http://www.jspwiki.org/JSPWikiMailingList >
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