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).
When the happy day comes where we have a bunch of Guided tours available (these editing tours plus watchlist plus whatever), how does a user keep track of the tours she's taken, or go back to them? Notifications can help, and maybe Getting Started could morph to have alternative tasks "Try editing your user page", "You can play in your sandbox", "Check out the Community Portal" that appear in place of [No thanks, return to ] on subsequent visits. The long-term answer is likely to be a user dashboard.
Possibly. There could certainly be tour links on various documentation pages, but it might make sense to link them from special pages like GettingStarted/Dashboard too.
Matt Flaschen