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From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Date: 10-Oct-2006 08:23
Subject: Re: Re: [Wikitech-l] Insight into users' behaviour
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org>
On 10/10/06, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Very interesting usability analysis. We should take
this stuff to
heart. A lot should be fairly simple to implement (although much is
non-development, e.g., too-verbose messages/help).
There's something about some en: admins making them explain everything
in mind-numbingly excessive detail. Something that would take a simple
subject-verb object sentence gets turned into three sentences with
four dangling modifiers and two words over four syllables. Just in
case someone didn't get a TERRIBLY IMPORTANT detail shoved in their
face right there, y'know. Large chunks of Mediawiki: space need
rewriting in Comprehensible.
- d.