Re: Results of user testing, and space handling in links

Murray Altheim wrote:

> In some recent user testing we found that there was considerable
> confusion in space handling within wiki links, e.g., when
>
>    [Gary Snyder]
>
> is parsed and turned into a link to a new page, that new page will
> incorporate the space character as "%20". This is both rather
> counterintuitive, and created a situation where there were now two
> pages, GarySnyder and Gary%20Snyder. The users were very confused
> by this, it really screwed with their idea of the value of a
> WikiWord. One said "why the hell would I want to use a WikiWord
> then?" She was quite frustrated that after making the investment in
> trying to understand WikiWords, thinking she did, then having the
> system not work as she'd have thought. I have to agree.

I'm not sure when that became a feature.  In my Sandbox I created links
to [Sam Spade] and [SamSpade].  I clicked on the ? mark and got to the
edit page for SamSpade

>
> I've been looking around but can't find out how to turn off this
> behaviour. Isn't there a setting somewhere to automatically remove
> whitespace from links?
>
> We also found that people had a great deal of difficulty understanding
> how to create a new page. 

One of the skins has a box in the left nav bar that says
Create New Page, pop a name in it and it takes you to a confirm page 
that you wanted
to create a new page.  It has a link to the edit page for the new document.

<div class="createbox">
<form action="http://localhost/Edit.jsp" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1,UTF-8">
<a class="wikipage" href="http://localhost/Wiki.jsp?page=CreateNewPage"> 
Create New Page: </a>
  <input name="page" size="20" type="text"> </form>
</div>

> If anything else comes up I'll forward comments on.
>
> Murray
>
>