Indeed; do love your blog :). Thank you for reminding me of that post - I was about to spend an hour writing a frustrating post of my own about how people shouldn't base decisions on how *they* think a mass of other people would feel. This has precluded that ;p.
On 12 February 2012 19:03, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 February 2012 18:55, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
If your solution to "we need to avoid an overcomplicated interface mostly used by people with a primacy in tech" is to develop an extension that requires potential editors to have a specific piece of software people mostly don't use or install it, you are making a very good argument for
why
we should work on the research the usability initiative did with actual
new
editors, and not the ideas of anyone attempting to put themselves into
the
shoes of new editors. We're not new editors. We can't impersonate them -
not
adequately, and not for the purpose of somehow divining what it is they want. And we should stop pretending that we can.
By the way, I covered most of this thread about a year ago:
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/
(This was posted just before the big WMF push for a visual editor.)
- d.
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