Complex Stuff like Parsers and Macros come before the WYSIWYG Editor in German WikiKurs
Observation
A new user asked "What are Parsers?" after exploring the wiki for the first time. I asked where that question came from and she replied "It was in WikiKurs, so I thought it was important, but I did not understand it."
I would not expect a first time user finding her way around a wiki to even encounter the term "Parser" and surely not to believe it to be something important.
Task
A new user finding her way around the wiki
Users
University student. Knows email and chat but is new to wikis.
Context
A Tutor for a university course that will use a wiki at a German university. I asked her to use the wiki and create some pages about the course. I also asked her to note all problems she encountered. This was one of them.
MoinMoin Version 1.5.5a German and English system pages.
Discussion
In the german WikiKurs the pages WikiKurs/20_Dynamische_Inhalte, WikiKurs/21_Makros, WikiKurs/22_Parser, WikiKurs/23_Aktionen, come before the pages WikiKurs/30_Der_grafische_Editor and WikiKurs/40_Anlegen_von_weiteren_Seiten
They should either come later or be preceded with a note that this is advanced stuff and can be skipped (like I did on on that wiki: http://golf530.server4you.de/wiwa/WikiKurs/20_Dynamische_Inhalte ).
If people agree, I will edit this on MoinMaster -- ChristophKoenig
Maybe just add the skip link. -- ThomasWaldmann 2006-10-10 22:26:04
Done -- 217.224.36.23 2006-10-16 21:02:10