On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone ever done usability studies of newbies -- new Internet >> users, experienced Internet users who are non-editors, or new editors? > > Yep, that's what the Usability Initiative does.
Ah, I just took a look at their website now: http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page >> Have the study conductors watched how they play with the history >> tools? > > That I don't know. I don't know if descriptions of the Usability > Initiative's studies are all public, or what. Maybe one of them could > fill us in. My personal guess is that the best usability for newbies > would be to hide as many things as possible to make it less > intimidating. > >> By the way, why does page history say "12,345 bytes" and not "12,345 >> characters"? > > Because it's 12,345 bytes, not 12,345 characters. :) Does the difference really matter so much that we must really use the more-obscure and more-technical term "bytes"? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
