On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I would argue that we should prioritize section
editing over full page
editing, and eventually VE will have section editing, even prior to that it
at least has awareness of what section you triggered the edit action from.
This is an interesting hypothesis, and is largely dependent on what type
of page is most likely to be edited. I would agree with you on large pages.
But large, very popular pages are often likely to be difficult to edit for
other reasons, or even semi-protected. The long tail of Wikipedia articles
in all languages have maybe one or two sections at best, including
References. Most articles are stubs.
In any case, I don't see that prioritization in the design of winter right
now. Section edit links are very subtle visually. Also, they are moved back
to the right, though A/B tests ran by Trevor suggest that putting them near
the title with an icon was superior in conversion to editing.
Moving them next to the section-title would obviously have an effect, as
they're more in-our-face!
Annoyingly so. I'm using the
Enwiki to move them back to the right.
I like the Winter section-edit-links, in both placement and styling.