[Wikimedia-l] a compromise proposal for visual editor dogfooding

[Kevin Wayne Williams]

Op 2013/08/03 6:58, Andrew Gray schreef:

I think there's a problem with any kind of A/B testing on the main
site interface for more than small changes - it's that we only have
one set of documentation. Wikipedia's help pages (certainly on enwiki)
aren't amazing, but they are used, and people will fall back to them
if they have problems using the site.

That's one of the biggest chicken-and-egg problems in this whole 
deployment: those help pages are exclusively maintained by editors. 
Until there's a substantial body of volunteers that believe that 
updating the help pages to match VE is a worthwhile endeavour, the pages 
will remain at the current version, which means that all new editors can 
only get help if they don't use VE. That makes it hard to ever find a 
group of people that thinks updating the documentation is worth the effort.

KWW