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I have observed over 100 newbie users working on a wiki for about 6h each. Most of them were **very confused** by the fact that newlines were not rendered as line breaks. This confusion did not go away, even after I explained to them numerous times that newlines were not linebreaks (I didn't explain it in such technical terms of course). They just kept doing the same mistake over and over again. Granted, my subjects were Grade 4 kids, but having been the "help line" for many a wiki, I have noticed that non-tecchie adult users are also confused by that, and that they keep doing the same mistake even after I repeatadly tell them that newlines are not linebreaks.
I have observed over 100 newbie users working on a wiki for about 6h each. Most of them were **very confused** by the fact that newlines were not rendered as line breaks. This confusion did not go away, even after I explained to them numerous times that newlines were not linebreaks (I didn't explain it in such technical terms of course). They just kept doing the same mistake over and over again. Granted, my subjects were Grade 4 kids, but having served as the "help line" for many a wiki used by adults, I have noticed that non-tecchie adult users are also confused by that. And that they too keep doing the same mistakes over and over again even after I repeatadly tell them that newlines are not linebreaks.
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67 26-Sep-2007 09:44 49.696 kB ChuckSmith to previous restore
66 26-Sep-2007 01:47 49.716 kB 63.241.9.240 to previous | to last
65 25-Sep-2007 23:34 49.696 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last restore
64 25-Sep-2007 19:40 49.72 kB 207.44.238.95 to previous | to last
63 01-Mar-2007 09:06 49.696 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last typo
62 08-Feb-2007 18:29 49.696 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last No headings and rules in lists
61 08-Feb-2007 18:07 49.284 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last how do we do it in other contexts?
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