On 02/01/2013 06:17 PM, Ori Livneh wrote:
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.
Yeah, that's basically what I was thinking. Besides needing to be privileged (and you're right about hand-holding backlash among some of that group), this is something where all of the real work is in one text box, unlike e.g. uploading an image and using it in an article, nominating a page for deletion, checking your watchlist, etc.
Any objection if I remove the "launch a tour on tours" button?
Matt Flaschen