On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen@wikimedia.org> wrote:

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.