Tels wrote:
- From my experience with people very new to wikis, I
also set up a new link
in the menu ala "Create new article". When clicked it asks about the
title, and then bounces them back to the wiki, the edit box open and a
text similar to yours already filled in.
People view this as _much_ easier than mucking about with the URL, putting
a link in somewhere else, and/or starting with an empty edit box.
Yep!
The most FAQ was "How do I start a new
article?" followed by "And why is
this so complicated?", closely followed by "How do I add a headline
again?"
That's specifically why I put how to make a section in that in the
example ;-)
I did a radio interview on Wikipedia yesterday. I actually tried to lure
casual editors to feel free to edit.
It'd be nice if anon contributors could start articles again. If
regulars don't like getting a template, perhaps it could be on just for
anon editors.
Especially in-frequent contributors tend to forget
these things very quick
and since the computer should help the humans and not vice versa, I
finally patched my local Mediawiki installation to fix this issue.
Everyone's been happy since :)
Please submit the patch! (Is there a bug for this yet?)
- d.