the wiki editing needs to be more user-friendly

[Mauricio Hernandez Z.]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 00:56 +0530, Shirish Agarwal wrote:
> Hi all,
>         This is my first post-so maybe called a noOb post. I want to 
> edit few wiki pages but find the whole experience frustrating.Lemme 
> explain :-
> 1. There is no toolbar for general formatting like to put code or to 
> bold or something like this unlike in wikipedia which is relatively 
> easy. This makes for a better user input. At some point the wiki needs 
> to have more images while explaining concepts as it's right now pretty dry!
> 2. As I understand there is a concept of ownership of pages. So one guy 
> more or less does one page or something. This is appreciable but let's 
> say I have some info. which I want to bring to whoever has been running 
> that page/add or improve or whatever there should be a way to talk or 
> atleast send the mail to the other person once you're logged in. I see 
> the author's name at the end of the page but no way to connect with him.
> 3. The categorization of stuff is a mess. On the front page of the wiki 
> there are no. of links given to different subjects but not an option of  
> some kind of static or dynamic tree-view. This would help in 
> getting/searching things much better.
>                                       I'm sure all of this is in your 
> to-do page just would urge u guys to get u'r leg up. If u guys make it 
> easier for people to enter things then people would enter things. The 
> lesser I have to think about formatting & stuff the more I can 
> concentrate on writing stuff on things. I'm sure it's the same for all 
> people. If there are any links/calendar when we can see some usability 
> advances lemme know, would be eager to check out & chip in. Till then 
> it's lights out.
>  

I 100% understand your feelings. I can say that the 1st time I tried to
edit a page was TOO difficult for me. When someone showed me how easy it
was... I remembered that always happens. When things are too clear or
simple, they usually seem difficult to our minds.

Nevertheless, I guess the easies road to make user experiences a real
pleausre is to upgrade our current wiki to latest version. That version
includes a whole WYSIWYG editor and all we should teach then would be
some little additional tricks.
-- 
Cordialmente,

Mauricio Hernandez Z.
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