On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/18/08, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
This does largely disable the need for a main extensions page, and I'm not entirely sure it's true. I think there's a lot of stuff we could link in the main article, but that it might only serve to clutter the main article with a link to something that is better left in the subpages. I think our readers will pretty quickly be trained to use extensions effectively, especially if the main extensions page for each article is well laid out.
A number of people I've spoken to about Wikipedia said they have no idea how to edit it, and that they have never seen an "edit" link. Don't overestimate the readership...
OK. Let's go with "a reasonably savvy reader."
Though Lord knows we could do a lot better with our interface design and produce more reasonably savvy readers than we have.
-Phil