On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:06 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Vibha Bamba wrote:
I could not use the regular talk page after using
flow for
Hovercards for the last 12 months. This is what millions of readers
getting into the system feel like.
Click edit.
Sure. And then...
Do I have to add the [[User:MZMcBride]] in order to trigger a notification
that I've replied? Am I expected to copy the fancy markup around some
users' signatures? Must I watch the page to get my own notifications back?
Do I intersperse my replies with the colons and break up his post? Does the
~~~~ go on its own line?
I have been editing Wikimedia wikis since 2005, 1600 edits and another 4000
since I joined WMF. I'm pretty damn familiar with wiki markup, and yet I
have close-to-no f***Ing clue on this stuff.
Clicking [Edit] to have a conversation is an *anti-feature*. It's great
that there are tens of thousands of Wikipedians who feel comfortable with
it. *I'm not one of them*.
Regards,
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=S Page WMF Tech writer