Op 7 okt 2010, om 10:05 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote:
The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion without being disturbing or overwhelming. What is the motivation / reason for the change ? Taking in account that the UsabilityInitiative had a similar design; like the one you had for a few days (the larger icons to the right).
Yeah, I liked it much better with the icons on the right as well.
Promoting reuse is one of the primary functions of Wikimedia Commons, so we ought to make it as easy and visible as possible.
Op 6 okt 2010, om 22:24 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven:
Also, I had added a bunch of social network "share this" icons, but Geni removed them. Ah well.
Yeah, that had its uses, so why was that removed? Deemed annoying?
I've tried to research what's the best way to do "share this" buttons and there isn't any clear data or consensus on this. Collapsing the various share icons into one popup is probably the most extensible / least annoying.
-- Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org
For what it's worth, Several staff of the people where I'm currently working had noticed the reuse buttons when they were on the right and remarked on them to me as really cool. These were going to be used as an example in a meeting about how their own interface could look but when the buttons moved neither they nor I could find the buttons any more. I only noticed the buttons again when I read this thread.
Summary - those buttons placed on the right hand side of the image were noticed by "non-wikipedians" and seen as a good idea. When they moved it was assumed that they were gone, not merely moved. As for the "share" buttons - precisely why were they removed? Are we anti-social networks (or their logos on our pages), or is it because they were too big or something? FWIW WikiNews has been using these kinds of buttons for a long time in articles.
By popular demand here :-) I have re-enabled the larger top/side icons. It is easy to switch back and forth between them. Maybe a user option? Or would that be overkill?
I left the "share" buttons turned off; see the discussion here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Stockphoto.js#Social_networ...
Cheers, Magnus
We all love options and personal perferences. But I think it would be wise to keep this one as simple and equal as possible. Main reason being that, although the buttons are highly useful (and I can't imagine any big usercase in which they would be unwanted), so aside from that.... they are also in a very visible area that lots of scripts, tools and applications do or could potentially use to print their buttons and all sorts of triggers aswell. In order to not further complicate that area (eg. "Oh I can't program it here because some of the users of this particular script puts the buttons there also..");
So for that reason I would recommand not making options in terms of size or location of the buttons. Anything else that might be wished (text / no text, language, image-sets etc.) wouldn't be an issue though
Once again I want to say how much I like these buttons. its so... plain simple and obvious need. Thanks Magnus :-)
-- Krinkle