One important thing to bear in mind: the top-of-article "edit" tab is not
the only way into the article. Many new contributors go straight in through
section-edit links. Indeed, an awful lot of them *only* see the
section-edit links and never notice the edit tab at the top, or don't
realise what it means.
(One of the most common OTRS queries is some variant on "how do I edit the
first section")
As a result, a few other things we could try A/B testing:
* adding a top-section [edit] link for some users (already a preferences
option)
* highlighting section-edit links in some way
* moving their positioning (eg, to beside the header text, as is done on
fr.wp
* switch "edit" to "improve" or "contribute"
All of these should be fairly simple and low-impact, except for the fourth
one - which could be quite confusing given that all our literature & help
pages talk about "edit" tabs :-)
- Andrew.
On Wednesday, 9 January 2013, Jan Kučera wrote:
Hi there,
everybody speaks here about editor retention and how we dont know the
reasons for editing decline. What about highlighting the the edit tab some
special color (maybe red) like this:
http://postimage.org/image/u7060y3bf/
Kozuch
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