User blog comment:Toughpigs/Standard new page layout -- looking for feedback/@comment-265082-20100416200102

For the main page, the layouts without the activity feed(with headingA/B) look better and give more structure to a wiki.

The problem is that new people don't know how to add links(red) to new pages, so it would be good to add red-links on the main page so that the new users know what they look like when they are in edit mode. Maybe tailor they to the type of wiki, entertainment might have a red characters and episodes link. New users don't understand what double-brackets do, I have seen plenty of http links on the main page linking to other pages. The RTE may be causing some of this problem as users aren't forced to understand fundamental wiki-code.

For the standard pages, the current look is OK since a lot of pages are in that format(the picture replaced with an infobox mostly).

It would be very helpful if there were per-wiki customizable choices when the "Create a new article" box pops up. Much like a customizable createbox does.