On 13/11/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> And if they don't already understand the
jargon and don't understand
> what it is they haven't done according to the definition of wikitext?
That's why we write good error messages that
don't use jargon and
explain what is wrong in a way a typical user can understand.
Apart from en:wp's spectacular track record in instruction-creeping
the hell out of each and every MediaWiki: space message it gets its
hands on ...
The "good" error message is worse than no error message at all if at
all avoidable.
We are not writing XML here and having token-soup be parsable as
*something* is superior to that as a user interface.
- d.