Special Characters [1 September 2025]
The link to "Special Characters" is broken. There is a page for Unicode characters that may fit the need, but I don't know what this subsection was intended to speak to.
- The Special Characters section can probably be removed. I believe it was meant to address a problem in older versions of MediaWiki that are no longer relevant. I usually just cut and paste special characters to WR and have not had any problems doing so. Has anyone else encountered any problems with entering special characters? --cos1776 16:50, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
- Based on the original section title, the original link was to help users add special characters such as accented characters. We should probably mention the Character Map for those who might not be aware of it. We could also mention alternate keyboards (and that we support characters entered that way). I don't think we need to get into an explanation of how to use either of those techniques, but if there is a good external link, we could add it.--DataAnalyst 17:49, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
- Sounds like a low priority item to me. I'm much more concerned with focusing on the things that a new user would need to know. In my small sample of users 90% had been using WeRelate for about ten years. 10% were new users, and after a few edits I don't think they did anything more. There is, I think, a need to build the user base. More user's means more clicks, more clicks means more ad revenue. But that means you need to retain new users to build-up the user base. Which means, I think, we need to focus on basic mechanics, end not make them wade through stuff they will rarely need. Good writing is when there's nothing left to remove. It's not that all of what's in these help pages is not potentially useful, but most of it is not needed by the new user and just gets in their way. In my edits of this page my focus was not on adding information, but on streamlining the section titles, indenting text so that the titles stood out better making it easier to find things. This is a "less is more" approach.
- I think one approach would be to create a section tailored to the editing needs of a new user, and then other pages which retain the greater detail. It's a hierarchy of needs things. Meet the needs of the new user first, and then the needs of the advanced user.--Bill Willis 13:11, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
Testing [31 August 2025]
1.2.3. --cos1776 16:10, 31 August 2025 (UTC)
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