Version 2.0 testing feedback
TASK #4: What are your initial impressions of the tool? What stands out to you? Do you find something particularly eye-catching? Confusing?
The in-line editing window looks great! I really like and the seamless switch between the text and the visual editor.
The positioning and styling of the "Reply" links look a little odd, though. It would be nice if it could be a little more distinguished from the actual text possibly by italicizing it or something like that.
TASK #5: Could you figure out how to write and style a comment in the tool's visual mode do so? What did you think of this experience?
Yeah, that works nicely. The expected shortcuts work for styling. I love that Ctrl+K is mapped to adding links!
TASK #6: Could you figure out how to ping someone who has commented in the section you are replying in? What did you think of this experience?
Yeah, it's easy to do that. I type '@' and it shows a list of people who have already commented there. Nice.
TASK #7: Could you figure out how to ping someone who has not commented in the section you are replying in? What did you think of this experience?
Yeah, this is easy to do too. I just type @followed by the username of the person who hasn't yet commented there and hit enter. It even seems to be showing suggestions as and when I type. Nice.
I noticed one issue. In some cases it seems to automatically lower-casing the first character of the username. For example, I was trying to ping the 'Acct creation test 030' user. I typed in 'Acct creation test 03' the suggestions went away. Then I just continued typing the last character ('0') and hit space. I was shown 'acct creation test 030' (note the lower-case 'a') as a suggestion. I hit enter. The suggestion was used and the first character of the username got lower-cased. Not sure why the suggestion shows a username where the first character is lower-cased.
TASK #8: Could you figure out how to delete the ping you created in Task #7? What did you think of this experience?
I just hit backspace until the username was deleted. So, it's nice and works fine.
TASK #9: Could you figure out how to see the comment you were writing in the visual mode, in the source mode before posting the comment to the talk page? What – if any – part the wikitext looked different from how you expected?
Yeah, switching to the "Source" tab revealed the wiki-text. The wikitext looked like what I expected in most cases. For the ping, I thought the ping template might be used but the user page was linked. I think it makes sense to link to the user page.
TASK #10: Could you figure out how to post the comment you had written in Tasks #1 - #9 to the talk page?
Yeah. Ctrl+Enter works! Cool.
TASK #11: Does the diff you created by posting a comment look as you expected? What – if anything – were you surprised to see?
Yes. It looks good. I forgot to add the signature to the comment possibly due to my infrequency of replying in talk pages. It's nice to see the signature automatically added. Also, it's great to see that it respects custom signatures.
It might be nice to show a hint somewhere that the message would be auto-signed.
OVERALL: If there are other comments or questions you would like to make the team aware of, please write them here. A few things:
- It would be nice to visually distinguish the editor so that it is easily identifiable amongst the content while scrolling through the page. When drafting a reply, I happened to scroll the page to see other content but lost track of the location of the editor. It took me some time to find this. Given that the positioning of the editor could vary unlike the editors in other places, I guess it would be nice to visually distinguish this in a better way so that it could easily be identified.
- When I try to post a reply after a few minutes, I got a request to complete CAPTCHA. The comment got posted after I completed the CAPTCHA but it's not clear why the CAPTCHA was necessary. It would be nice if the reason is mentioned somewhere.
Apart from these, I noticed a issue when using the '{{quote}}' template. Consider the following wikitext which has been entered in the "Source" editor:
Lorem
Ipsum
{{quote|Quoted text}}
More text
Now, each time I switch to the 'Visual' editor and then back to 'Source', I see that each line of text before the quote template gets prefixed with ':'. So, the text looks like this after the first switch:
:Lorem
:Ipsum
:{{quote|Quoted text}}
More text
It looks like this after the second switch:
::Lorem
::Ipsum
::{{quote|Quoted text}}
More text
That doesn't look right, does it?