Mark Wagner wrote:
On 10/26/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
I don't expect them to "know all our rules and policies", but I *do* expect them to read the text "edit summary" (conveniently placed right next to the "save" button) and deduce that that's where they should place a summary of their edit.
Perhaps you should read up on human perception. There have been numerous studies showing that people just don't see things that aren't part of the task at hand, no matter how obvious they are.
The only parts of the user interface that the average new editor sees are the big edit field and the "save page" button. All the rest of it is quite literally invisible, and there is nothing we can do to change that: any text we add will be similarly invisible.
Taking this one step further. The average person who visits to read some article can remain completely unaware of "Edit this page".
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