People don't know how to prevent text strings with capitals from turning into WikiWords.

Observation

Like when I talk about Ronald McDonald, I don't plan to write an article about "McDonald".

I know there's some way to stop such strings from turning into WikiWords, but most people don't know this, and most people don't look it up.

Task

Users

Average users, the type that don't contribute to MoinMoin wikis every day, just sometimes.

Context

Discussion

I think users fail to do this task because it's not intuitive how to prevent this.

I think the only way to fix this is to move from JammedTogetherWord syntax to [some bracket style] syntax.

I agree. To disable CamelCase in you wiki, use ParserMarket/NoCamelCase. -- NirSoffer 2005-08-05 17:47:17

Probably a hint below the editor mask is useful too. Just an explaination like:

New wiki page e.g. WikiWord prevented by ! e.g. !WikiWord shows WikiWord

-- ReimarBauer 2005-08-05 18:42:14

Yea, but !NoLink is disabled by default and No``Link is enabled by default but might be disabled. This leave us with This''''''Impossible''''''Markup.

No``Link NoLink is no link I am surprised too. ;-)

I find this behavior is highly annoying and I certainly wouldn't expect non-technical wiki users to deal with it.

We are willing to change the Camelcase+freelink link pattern in the future to freelinks ([[ ]]) only, but we can't do it currently. The most important blockers are that we need a lot of help for this change from more than 40 translators. And we are currently busy with merging all the student repositories into the main code base. -- ReimarBauer 2008-11-27 22:51:45


CategoryUsabilityObservation

MoinMoin: UsabilityObservation/MakingUnnecessaryWikiWords (last edited 2008-11-28 07:42:28 by ThomasWaldmann)