[Foundation-l] Moving towards a more usable MediaWiki

[Ting Chen]

Yes, indeed. If I recall right, the group started after Delphine posted 
her thread "Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?" at Sep. 25.

Delphine, who is surely a veteran wikipedian, failed to edit the article 
"Facebook" because she could not find the right place for her edit 
through all the templates and refs. I think her example showed very good 
our problem. The usability problem is not only a newbies problem, but a 
general problem. I can very good understand Delphines difficulty and I 
myself have more than once sitting before an article and feeling like I 
am working through some other peoples code on my job.

But back to the page. As always on meta and here on the list, a topic 
get hot and cools down again. But in the last time the topic usability 
is coming hot quite often. After Alexandria I this is already the fifth 
or sixth thread I read about this topic. So I think there is a really 
common feeling in the community that the problem is pressing. Maybe we 
should link that page direct on a prominant place on the start page of meta?

Ting

Samuel Klein wrote:
> Indeed -- and the [[usability group]] is still the first link on that
> page to people working on the topic.  But I see only four interested
> members there and the page is stale.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_group
>
> SJ
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> phoebe ayers wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> We're already aware of the UNICEF study & extensions and will be
>>>> reviewing them alongside other ongoing usability testing and development
>>>> projects throughout 2009.
>>>>
>>>> - -- brion
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Lovely. Usability in general is an important topic, and it goes beyond
>>> any particular task or set of projects; there are many things in
>>> MediaWiki that could be improved. (My vote would be for working on an
>>> easier referencing system, which has also been discussed many times).
>>>
>>> Is there a current page on Meta or elsewhere for this list of
>>> potential usability projects, adding suggestions, and discussion of
>>> them?
>>>
>>> -- Phoebe
>>>
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>> Yes there is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability
>>
>> Ting
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