User blog comment:Mira Laime/Did you graduate from Wikia University?/@comment-24473195-20160321224831

To be truly informative a video would have to be too big, and that requires considerable bandwidth. Help pages on the other hand contain a lot of jargon. I still recall reading about infoboxes a few years ago on a help page and hardly understanding it. In fact, even with the portable infoboxes people still claim that they don't understand it. Eventually I learnt more from a user created blog than from it.

A better tool is an interactive wizard. Something like The_Wikipedia_Adventure or  which lets the user learn by trial and error with the actual interface that they'll use. In some cases a mock interface can be created to prevent people saving junk to an actual system / wiki.

I think that the biggest mistake that MediaWiki developers made early on was not introducing any walkthrough wizard or interactive learning tool to help create / edit / manage pages. Although in the good old days almost everything was done with the source editor, there was still plently that could be taught using a walkthrough / online help system. This could still be done using the visual editor though using  a panel on the right hand side.