WikiNames slow down casual browsing

Filed under: Me · Date: Sat Jan 20 08:41:14 2007

Trying to browse documentation written using a wiki software proved to more difficult than normal web pages. I was browsing through The Seagull Project's documentation, and found linked wikinames to be slowing down my browsing because I had to actively scan for word breaks.

Reading wikis is not slow process, per se, this slowdown in reading speed happens only when you're browsing through a page, looking for a certain word. This may be because we're more tuned to finding words from within text, but not within other words.


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