On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)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(a)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.