On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
I don't remember if we ever asked, in our general surveys, how and when contributors discovered that they /could/ edit. But perhaps after they've edited it's too late becauser they've already fallen in the category "I don't remember, I've always known it".
I remember how it happened for me. I was just browsing and I clicked on a red link expecting to be taken to a page on the subject. I was presented with the editing interface and was utterly confused. I thought I'd broken the site, that the site had catastrophically failed somehow.
I remember one of my early contributions was to somewhere like the Village Pump saying what I'd experienced and what my initial reaction was and positing that maybe other newbies would assume they'd broken the site too. But I think the response was "no, I don't think people will believe they broke the site." It didn't really generate much discussion as far as I recall.
Bodnotbod