[WikiEN-l] Article Landing Pages - functional prototype to test and comment on

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did someone change the password? Those details aren't working for me.

Oic, you can create your own account on the labs site.

My thoughts:

- The choices "use the article wizard", "create a draft", "create this
article myself" are a bit confusing. Especially the first two - that's
a really unusual distinction that doesn't make much sense to me. I'd
expect the choices to be between "I'm a newbie" and "I'm experienced".
- The "create a draft" option seems to just dump you in your sandbox.
I think you need to add a lot of support to make that a useful thing
to do (like telling them how to get from "first draft" to "published"
- if there is such a mechanism).

Here's an alternative mechanism:

There are two choices:
1) "Help me create an article"
2) "Expert mode"

Option 1 takes you to the article wizard (whatever that is...)
Option 2 takes you to the "create a draft" (ie sandbox) editor. After
you save, there's a button to request assistance in publishing it.
That also provides information on how to activate the secret Option 3,
which skips the sandbox altogether for future article creation.
(Probably a preference somewhere...)

Steve