---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Date: 10-Oct-2006 08:23 Subject: Re: Re: [Wikitech-l] Insight into users' behaviour To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@wikimedia.org
On 10/10/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
http://openusability.org/download.php/89/germanwikipedia_usabilitytest_edit....
Very interesting usability analysis. We should take this stuff to heart. A lot should be fairly simple to implement (although much is non-development, e.g., too-verbose messages/help).
There's something about some en: admins making them explain everything in mind-numbingly excessive detail. Something that would take a simple subject-verb object sentence gets turned into three sentences with four dangling modifiers and two words over four syllables. Just in case someone didn't get a TERRIBLY IMPORTANT detail shoved in their face right there, y'know. Large chunks of Mediawiki: space need rewriting in Comprehensible.
- d.