Bug report #24
First I'd start with my observation of the workflow:
- 1. Choose images
- 2. Write captions
- 3. (repeat 1 or 2)
- 4. Name the Wikistories (choose a title)
- 5. Save
I always thought that the flow is not natural. When people creates a Wikipedia article, they always start with the title first, then the content. But this is just a minor observation, and I suppose there's a strong reason for this arrangement.
The problem arise when the title choosing is placed at the last step (as of current iteration):
- 0. There's so much blank space in this step that beg the question: what can be added in this step?
- 1. User (a.k.a. me) could forgot the title of the article, or at least the exact wording of the title. It happened to me yesterday, and I have no way to know the (exact) title of the page I'm at (other than to start over, but that would be Very annoying). So, please display the title of the article at this step. Displaying the Wikidata description underneath would be a plus (I'm not sure if that's my gadget or default feature in id.wp). PS: Hitting the back button is Not intuitive in this scenario. At the very least, autofill with the article name, like in step 1 (choosing images), although I realize this would conflict with #3 below (choosing unique title).
- 2a. There's no way to know which Wikistories title is already taken (when there's ton of Wikistories, like id:Kucing, and it could frustrate users. I suggest to display all Wikistories titles of that article below the textbox. To avoid over-information, the list could be not shown by default, and only shown when the user click "Click here to see all the Wikistories that have been made" button or something.
- 2b. And since this is a beta feature, you should never assume the user know that Wikistories title have to be unique, since there's no indication anywhere in this step. Therefore please tell the user so when they are at this step, and not after they gave a title that's already taken. (Plus list all the taken names, otherwise, they might fail to input a non-yet-taken names after several tries and get frustrated).
- 2c. When a name is taken, auto suggest other names. Either use numeral, or other suggestions.
- 3. A spellchecker would be a bonus, since many times I found users had typos in the title. And there's no easy way to change the title/redirect the page. (Please make this easier! At least put the link to Special:MovePage/Story:... in the three dot menu). I had to make id:Wikipedia:Wikistories/Permintaan bantuan for this.
Or, is it possible to start with the title of the Wikistories first?