On 11 May 2013 21:59, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
We run usability tests with every iteration of the Getting Started experiment we launch these days, and every time new people who click Edit for the first time are quite literally shocked by the crazy mess that is wikitext.
This is true. I am a Level 20 Wizard or whatever in computery stuff and I *still* find it incomprehensible computer guacamole, so I suppose this may well not actually be worse.
It may have extreme limitations, but at least it is roughly what new editors expect to see after hitting edit, instead of a garbled mass of incomprehensible code.
Well, yes :-) Perhaps big banners (big orange banners?) for "THIS IS ALPHA, WHICH IS THE STAGE BEFORE BETA" ...
- d.