Hi,
Chad recently mentioned that based on opinion of wikimedia users, most
of users prefer simple options, I guess we could create a feature,
perhaps a checkbox "Display advanced options" to user preferences,
move lot of current settings which aren't really supposed to be
changed by people who do not understand how they work and implement
various new options in that.
The advanced options could allow users to customize their recent
changes feed and many similar pages, hiding certain links, or toggling
various stuff. This would be great benefit for regular users since the
option would be more clear and contain only stuff they likely want to
change.
I think we should move following to hidden section:
Anything related to unified logins, new users do not need to use this
Image size limit etc, most of regular users do not even understand
what is this for
Advanced options (whole section)
Watchlist token, most of regular users do not even understand what is this for
Search: Disable AJAX suggestions, Enable enhanced search suggestions
(Vector skin only)
Whole misc
Instead of these options we could fill the space with description of
remaining options
When user check the "Advanced" they would of course see all options +
some extra new options
I guess this would be benefit either for advanced users as well as
newbies / computer illiterates