It could work, but not the way things are currently instrumented, IMO. To make a tour, you need to edit the MediaWiki namespace; to edit the MediaWiki namespace you need to be a privileged user; to be a privileged user, you typically need to demonstrate considerable proficiency with MediaWiki. Highly proficient users of any software platform tend to find hand-holding unwelcome, since it intrudes upon existing workflows. The questions that such proficient users might have about tour-creation are not likely to be the ones that a guided tour is well-designed to answer.
If it were possible for novice users to create guided tours, this idea would be more viable and attractive.
-- Ori Livneh
On Friday, February 1, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Do people think it's possible to make a good tour on making tours? Currently, the test tour has essentially a redlink (or redbutton) for this.
It would probably go like:
- Enter such and such text (page name in MW namespace) into search box.
- Create page (with a guider linking to the docs on the edit page).
- Save
It could also have part of the tour point them to editing an on-wiki page for tour content (getPageAsDescription).
But I don't know if this is a good use of a tour or not. What do you think?
Even if we make such a tour, we're thinking of dropping the link going there from the test tour.
Matt Flaschen
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