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> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 12:42:21 -0700
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> From: Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>
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To: design(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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Subject: Re: [Design] Visual watchlist
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> Arun, you may be interested in the work being done on New Page Triage -
> specifically the "list" view, which is an attempt to add more useful meta
> data to the list of new pages.
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> So, before you do a lot of work on this (and you're welcome to do so), I
> think it may be useful to have a larger overview of what the "far reaching"
> plans are for watchlists and history views in general. I'll get to that in
> a bit, but I'll restrict my comments to your mockup.
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> First, I like the idea of doing a visual graph displaying size changes.
> However, Wikipedians as a whole prefer the numbers, which is a problem
> here. Clearly, we could do a lot of neat stuff like "show the numbers on
> hover" but that defeats a lot of the "at a glance" value that people get
> out of it. Mostly people want to see if things were *added* or *removed*
> (and this is currently handled by using red and green, which is bad, but
> it's not worth fighting over).
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> We can def. talk about this at the next Design Cabal meeting, if you like.
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> -b.
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Thanks Brandon. Clearly i have a lot to understand on this subject. I'm not
around for this week's cabal, We can discuss it next week.
-Arun
