Summary

Notes

Fixing typo

She first scans the entire page and clicks a section edit link. She immediately enters the edit summary, and she notices the examples below the textbox.

She notes that the editing is through direct manipulation, and also says that the syntax isn't really great. I tell her to save the page, and goes to the bottom. When finding nothing there, she quickly finds the publish button.

Adding a sentence

She finds a section where to add the sentence and clicks the edit section button (but with this interface the entire page is edited).

Enters an edit summary, and notes that it's weird that you have to enter it before actually editing, like you have done it already. She also notes that having an actual cursor would be better. She plays around with the sentence and then saves the page.

Adding a reference

She notices that it's weird that clicking a section edit button edits the entire page. She tries to add a reference in sentence mode, and finds out that it's impossible to find the reference code this way.

Being stuck, she defers to entering the edit summary. Now she says that she would normally stop about now, and perhaps google this information. I tell her this is okay, and she heads to google to find information. On a help page she finds the correct syntax for references. However, she doesn't really understand the syntax and explains her expectation, which is some sort of HTML-like syntax. She states that she would definitely stop now.

We decide to continue, and she tries to add a reference with the syntax found online. She finds that this kind of works, but as she forgot to add 'http://', the link isn't automatically created and she is not satisfied.

Adding an external link

She finds that in sentence editing mode, the list isn't highlighted. She goes back and forth on the page, and doesn't try to switch to another edit mode. She tries to google it again, but obviously doesn't find anything as this is a new interface.

I give her the hint to switch to a different edit mode. First she tries the full editor, and as she is quite familiar with editing syntax like this, she quickly finds the correct section and copies the format of another link. She notices that the save page button is a bit far away from the input field, but as there isn't anything else she clicks it anyway. She doesn't notice the edit summary field here.

Changing population count

She clicks a section edit link again, and fills in an edit summary. She first edits a sentence, and notices that editing the template right away doesn't work, so she first saves the page. She then proceeds to the full editor again, and finds the correct field and changes it. She tries the preview tab, and is confused as she can't find the publish button right way. Then she finds the save button and notices the inconsistency with the publish button seen before.

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