[WikiEN-l] Cheatsheet

[Charles Matthews]

James Forrester wrote:
> On 29 June 2010 10:05, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>   
>> Where is our cheatsheet for Wikipedia editing? Is it any good?
>>     
>
> There's http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheatsheet-en.pdf (on
> wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CHEATSHEET) but it
> doesn't cover tables, templates or citations - it's just a basic
> hand-out, good for people on new wikis but sadly not enough for wikis
> with crazy levels of code, like enwiki. Hopefully the UX work will be
> useful in this regard!
>   
I thought about this in 2008, and again just recently as a result of a 
conversation on usability. Of various approaches to user-friendliness, 
most attention seems to be given to changing the interface, and then to 
the existence of wizards (I'm simplifying, of course). I hear little 
about documentation, and I don't remember hearing anything about working 
on a minimal page or sheet that could be the resource to give to a 
competent person who just wants to do some spot-editing. When in 2008 I 
looked, there wasn't an adequate resource.

WP:CHEATSHEET ducks discussing references by linking to detailed pages. 
I think this could be improved.

Charles