Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 7:07 PM, David Monniaux David.Monniaux@free.fr wrote:
- or put a discreet link underneath for the informations (the small
"enlarge this" icon we use at the right of the caption is NOT understood by most people).
I in fact never knew what that icon was for until you sent this mail. And I'm not exactly new to MediaWiki.
By the way, I'm arguing on another mailing-list that our discussion interface is deficient: for instance one has to click on '+' to leave a message, which is not intuitive and does not look like any other non-MediaWiki site out there. As a consequence, when we tell folks to "go discuss the issue on the discussion page" they don't even know how they can do this..
I begin to suspect that many problems with have with outsiders (= people not from the Wikipedia community) would be alleviated if our user interface was better understandable, more in line with what users are used to and they expect.
I think that the templates and menus for filling out image descriptions and licenses were a step in the right direction.