On 04/15/2013 01:57 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
The real problem with the sandbox is that it gives no direction whatsoever about how to learn markup.
There is the help section of the toolbar, but I don't know how many people find that. So that is where the tour would come in.
The tour that would likely be of
most use on the Sandbox would likely be not substantially different than a general "first edit" tour. I'd really like us to someday have a Sandbox with a REPL-like instructor for progressively harder markup, though VisualEditor perhaps makes this less of a priority.
The difference is that the sandbox one would encourage them to experiment freely with "weird" (for some value of "weird") markup and emphasize that no one will care (or even notice) if they mess up.
The "first edit" tour would explain the key markup (or at least how to use the toolbar icons), but it won't have the same "go crazy" feel.
Matt Flaschen