[WikiEN-l] Newbie friendliness, markup hell, and editing structure

[Thomas Dalton]

On 11/03/2008, Judson Dunn <cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
> This seems like a pretty clear improvement in the interface, at least
>  for novice users, and as you say it can be deactivated for more
>  experienced people. As a proof of concept it looks pretty great. I
>  would say if this were going live, make the defaults be to not show
>  the header or footer, and only have this active in the mainspace. As
>  people are experienced more they could turn on the full editing view
>  in their preferences.

I haven't looked to see how it works, but if the header/footer are
going to be hidden by default, it needs to be very easy to work out
how to view them - having parts of the page that you can't easily edit
would be a very bad thing.