2010/8/3 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>om>:
Were they asked to "Make this page appear under
this different name"?
No, they were not. As I said, the focus was editing and general site
navigation, not viewing history, moving pages or a zillion other
things that, while they may appear elementary to us, are rather
advanced actions from a new user's perspective. I don't doubt that the
usability of all those things could be improved, but then looking for
features needing usability improvement in MediaWiki is about as hard
as looking for guns at an NRA rally, a Starbucks in central London,
things named after Robert C. Byrd in West Virginia or islands you
never knew existed in the South Pacific: they're everywhere you look.
The usability initiative had to limit its scope.
I can't really offer an informed opinion on where the move link
belongs usability-wise, I'll leave that to the people that actually
know stuff about user experience and user interface design. What I can
do is point out that the studies were limited to asking people to find
a page (both in terms of navigation and search) and edit it (both in
terms of finding the edit button and doing various things on the edit
page). If an action doesn't take place on the edit page and isn't one
that is commonly used to get to an edit page, it probably wasn't
tested.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)