Translations:User:Whatamidoing (WMF)/DiscussionTools/5/en

However, many volunteers have told the Editing Team that this is unnecessarily difficult. Specifically, user feedback,$ref1 usability tests,$ref2 the Talk Page Consultation (especially: #Newcomers, #Confusion, and #Design), and academic research$ref3 have highlighted the difficulties people have reading and using talk pages:""Talk pages and their current configuration proved confusing...For [some] participants, it took more than 4-5 minutes to understand the Talk page itself which was “disorganised” making it “difficult to take part in the discussion.”" ""I don't know what it means really to start a new discussion. Because none of this looks like a discussion."" ""I often have trouble visually parsing long discussions on the WP:Help desk, for example. Sometimes, a discussion will involve three or more people and/or have five or more posts. Spacing between posts is not standardized, nor are signatures, nor is indentation, nor is the length of posts. Sometimes, people become confused and respond as if one person is the author of what another user has written."" ""I felt I had to scan the page a lot for what i needed, as different elements didn't really stand out. It wasn't really obvious that i was looking at a message from someone..."" The Editing Team wants to make wikitext talk pages easier for people to understand. They hope to: