On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 04/12/2013 06:43 PM, S Page wrote:
Great stuff, +1 to everything everyone else said.
Guided tours! I think a Guided tour for user sandbox, and a Guided tour for editing your user page would really help. They would feel related, reinforcing the idea "It's all editing pages, your new skills apply everywhere."
I agree. That's really key, so they understand which of their skills are transferable. The user page one may be kind of wiki-specific (due to stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes).
But I think we could do a general sandbox one (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47200).
Since we seem to be brainstorming, I'd like to see a GuidedTour that starts with a search.
This came up with the Weekend Testers at one point, I think we know that many new users want to edit an article or articles on a certain subject. So a Guided Tour that asks up front what subject you want to edit and then searches that subject for you would be interesting.