[WikiEN-l] Usability

[Ray Saintonge]

Peter Shaw wrote:

>On Monday 14 November 2005 05:39, ABCD wrote:
>  
>
>>Looking through the Helpdesk-l mailing list, it seems that some people
>>are having a hard time finding the edit link at the top of the page,
>>although they can find the edit links for the sections.  Should
>>something be done about this?
>>    
>>
>A solution I can think of, is that wikipedia leaves a cookie that says ¨this 
>person is not a competely and utter noob¨. If such a cookie does not exist 
>yet, a big fat, blinking (ok, maybe not blinking) box is displayed which 
>tells you how to stop being very lost. It would also contain a link to never 
>ever display this box again. A smart implementation would be to use this only 
>for Windows/Mac users coming on the page with either IE, Firefox or <Standard 
>Mac Browser>
>
The trigger to turn off the annoying feature would be to edit anything. :-)

Ec