On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone ever done usability studies of newbies
-- new Internet
users, experienced Internet users who are non-editors, or new editors?
Yep, that's what the Usability Initiative does.
Ah, I just took a look at their website now:
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Have the study
conductors watched how they play with the history
tools?
That I don't know. I don't know if descriptions of the Usability
Initiative's studies are all public, or what. Maybe one of them could
fill us in. My personal guess is that the best usability for newbies
would be to hide as many things as possible to make it less
intimidating.
By the way, why does page history say
"12,345 bytes" and not "12,345
characters"?
Because it's 12,345 bytes, not 12,345 characters. :)
Does the difference really matter so much that we must really use the
more-obscure and more-technical term "bytes"?