Article creation wizard

Dropping in from Quality Task Force, we found a tool that seems to be very useful for new editors: Article Creation Wizard. I'll also add from my experience (I've taught how to edit a Wiki to many dozens people) the main thing that scares them: 1) complex syntax (where is WYSWIG? or at least we need to "hide" complex syntax of infoboxes and cite templates from being seen by new editors - they click edit, see an infobox syntax, and give up... --Piotrus 00:53, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Do you think it would help if for templates and infoboxes we could have a help link in edit mode - something that's like "What's this?" and newbies can click on that and get an explanation? I think one of the hardest things about templates and other magic is that it's non-obvious what they do and how they work. If people could easily access an explanation of any template, that could help. Contextual help, in other words.

Still too confusing :) Anything with complex syntax should be hidden (see en wiki, Template:Hidden), i.e. minimized with an option to expand (and de-expand) as a default setting. Editors should see full syntax only upon request (and could of course make it a default view mode via preferences). But we should not scare n00bies with complex syntax on their first edits.