Among discussions, "experiments" and proposals, it's still unclear what actually happened. Is there a Phabricator report outlining recent or upcoming steps?

Kaity Hammerstein, 25/03/2015 21:47:

We've been working to improve the reader experience, and we've been
really focused on what readers see when they first arrive at an article.
There were so many icons, UI elements, page issues and such that gets in
the way of readers immediately understanding "what is this?"

And the answer to the question is "this is a collaboratively edited wiki page". Seeing the history means immediately understanding that.

I still really want to work on humanizing the editors

No idea what this means.

and letting people
know if an article is fresh.

That's not a particularly important goal.

We can do better for sure. Maybe a design
brainstorm sometime in the future?

Why in the future? It would be nice to define what's the expected benefit of altering the "last modified" link, for instance. See question above.

Then sub-questions can be asked, for instance where the link should be, whether other messaging would be more effective, whether the mention of a username is needed, whether linking some random special page is useful, etc. etc. Many ideas were provided across the years and it's not clear which were considered.

Nemo

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