Samuel Klein wrote:
I've been working with swahili-speaking students
over the past week
introducing them to Wikipedia (as part of an article-writing contest sw:wp
is running this winter). They're net-savvy, many maintain a blog, but
they're not geeks. And they tend to be totally baffled by the Wikipedia
editing process, from finding the 'edit' tab to adding sections or images to
grasping the lifecycle of an article. That has significantly changed my
impression of the current barrier to entry for using MediaWiki.
I would love to see a more detailed writeup of how your impressions have
changed, and examples of experiences that have changed them.
One of the most pernicious problems in software development is that you
can't temporarily forget what you know. The closest you can come is to
learn about the experiences of novices. In aid of that, I've seen
real-life use cases provide a lot of insights.
William