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.