On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.orgwrote:
RE: Page actions moving into the header: (This is me collecting mycomments from a meeting to this list)
As I mentioned in yesterday’s design review, my gut instinct isthat moving article actions into the header is the wrong path:
* I don’t think they’re needed up there. Peoplealready scroll to the top when they need these functions. * I think it conflates those actions with the “personal bar” actions and creates confusion. A primary motivation for Winter is to segregate the following types of actions: Site actions (sidebar chrome), Content actions (page stuff), and Personal actions (user stuff). The search box is a site affordance. The personal actions are obviously thus. Mixing article actions next to the personal actions seems weird to me. * The point of discussion being always available is a valid one - the use case being, “I’m in this section, and I see an error, and I want to talk about it”. However, I don’t necessarily think that dumping the user into the “master” talk page at any point is going to solve that. A long time ago I had the idea to add a “discuss” link next to the section edit links. This would target the specific section and create a new discussion with that title (or find an existing one) and work within that. This is obviously something that can easily be done with Flow (though my original thoughts were with LQT). I’m not sure it works well with Talk. This is something I’ll want to experiment with.
I agree with those conclusions, and was getting worried about the number of icons in the current Winter headerbar, once scrolled. 7 ± 2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_plus_or_minus_twoworks.
One possibility would be replacing the current "article actions" icons in the headerbar, with a "scroll to top" button. It's a commonly requested feature, and (iirc) is generally turned down because of the sheer quantity of links that would be added, if they were attached to every section.