Last modified: 2013-08-19 08:31:07 UTC
Based on anecdotal evidence, I think a lot of people don't edit because they're afraid that they'll break something. One way to mitigate this fear is to make it simpler to revert (or undo) an edit. If people realize that they can easily undo whatever they do, they'll feel more comfortable trying to edit. Currently in order to undo your own edit, the workflow is something like this after successfully making an edit: * click "history" page tab * click "undo" link next to your edit * load edit window again and display whether the edit can be undone * scroll down and press "save page" A possible way to make it easier might be to add an "(undo)" option to a post-edit feedback dialog box. "Thank you for your edit! (undo)" Or something like that. There are likely other ways to make it easier. One or two should be implemented.
(moving to Page editing) Though "Interface" is somewhat vaguely defined, I don't think it should contain requests for new interfaces, only generic bugs in MediaWiki interfaces in general. Any new features should be handled by the component that will house the feature.
The "post-edit feedback" suggestion above may be a coincidence, but this should probably considered as feature for the PostEdit extension.
PostEdit extension has been replaced by core functionality in the MediaWiki software (which was added in version 1.22). Moving back to "Page Editing".
