2010/8/3 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com:
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)