Hey there Kristof!

Thanks for sharing info about WalkHub. (For context: Matt is the lead developer on the GuidedTour extension, and I'm the product manager on our Growth team, which has been its heaviest user.)

I tried the donation tour you made, and it's pretty cool. It's interesting how it feels a bit like an interactive video. 

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen@wikimedia.org> wrote:
To be honest, I'm not sure right now if/how it can fit into our plans.

Of course right now we have a different architecture and tour format (MediaWiki instead of Drupal, JavaScript API-based tours instead of Selenium-based ones).

Also, we have some things that may or may not have equivalents in WalkHub/Selenium.  For example, we can listen for a JavaScript hook/event fired by part of our codebase to know when the tour is ready to proceed.  For example, the VisualEditor can tell us if the page is now save-able, so we know whether to point to the save button, regardless of how the page became save-able (typing, bolding some text with the toolbar, etc.).

Matt's summary is about right. 

It would be huge if we could enable Wikimedians to create tours just by walking through an interface as they normally would, and it'd be interesting to hear more about how to you accomplish this. Right now the code for creating tours is really simplified... but it's still writing JavaScript. That's a big barrier. 

I think a cool first step might just be sharing some feedback between the projects about lessons learned, enhancement ideas, etc. Maybe I could give you a list of tours we're running to try, and we could do the same for you? I already noticed a few things I like about WalkHub, and a few things GuidedTour does that it doesn't seem to yet. 

Thanks for reaching out to us on the list. :) 

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Steven Walling,
Product Manager