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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 February 2012 18:55, Oliver Keyes
<okeyes(a)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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