On 08/05/2009, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/5/8 Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com:
b) Need more cheat sheet type stuff, in-your-face, practically everywhere. When you create an article and when you edit- you need a cheat sheet showing you how to do stuff, it *seems* to be how most people work. Probably there should be a non blank create template with examples of commented out references and a few headings
I have suggested this repeatedly. The usual response has been FIGHT THE POWAH!
Well, the wikipedia is big... google is big also.
One of the tricks google use is they try stuff out on victims... I mean users. They pick a small percentage of the internet and do something slightly different for them, and see if it works or not. The advantage of only doing it for a small number is that it means you can write the test with prototyping tools, rather than having to make it run fast, and you'll have a lot less complaints if it doesn't work very well. It also means you can do back-back comparisons stuff like: 'we tried this, and it showed a 23% improvement in referencing'.
I think if at all practical, the wikipedia needs to start doing stuff like that.
- d.