Usability Issues in Tikiwiki | |
Usability issues are best categorized by types of users (developers, site admins and end users) and possibly by types of differing uses (public wiki), , group intranets, blogs, discussion boards, etc.) for tikiwiki. |
What is tikiwiki used for? | |
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How should tikiwiki evolve? | |
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usability for users | |
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psychological barrier to wiki. | |
For most typical web users, the biggest usability barrier for tikiwiki is understanding the concept of wiki itself - mainly collaborative editing as opposed to blog or discussion board. These are barriers more psychological than technical, but the help/faq/documentation for the site should take special care to help people with this barrier. |
Too many features/options | |
End users should not be overwhelmed with choices. We should help site admins to pack away excess features and focus on core services provided by the site. For example, a newbie trying to edit this page will not recognize where the text editing area is, there are 6 different input fields 16 buttons and dozens of links. |
usability for admins | |
The biggiest issue for new admins of tikiwiki as a large public wiki is the preponderance of features that are not to be used. The best solution for this is a redesigned admin interface that "buries" infrequently used features for this type of user and brings the wiki/article admin features to the front and center (hopefully with better documentation. |
initial wiki database | |
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tikiwiki configuration wizard. | |
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Usability for a large public wiki | |
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speed - how does tw perform when thousands of pages are created and dozens of users are editing at the same time? | |
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organization - is the site using wiki best practices | |
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