On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:06 AM, MZMcBride <z@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.