Personally, I welcome this change. Some trainees just do not pick up that they are
changing the live version of the site, even after lengthy explanations and demonstrations:
it just goes against their experience of how the web works. Some very, very popular sites
have this Save/ Publish distinction. I see that there can be some confusion about
"Publish" in draft space, but I think people need to be reminded that creating
or altering a draft is making something visible to the public, unlike other platforms in
which you can create a "draft".
Thanks for the explanation, Sherry.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:50:52 +0000
From: "Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder" <ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
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Subject: [GLAM] Changes to the 'Save' button
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*Nutshell: The big, blue button will soon say "Publish page" instead of
"Save page", because when you click it, the contents get published on the
internet.*
I apologize for cross-posting this to the GLAM and Education lists:
A long-requested change to the "Save" button may finally happen towards the end
of March. This is a button that anyone leading a workshop about editing is going to talk
about, so I wanted to make sure that you didn't get surprised by this change.
Last year, the WMF looked into an old request to clarify the language on the
"Save" button, which confuses some new contributors. The main problem is that
it is unclear whether "Save" means "save a private copy" (as it does
on most websites these days) or "irrevocably post this to the internet". This
confusion apparently explains a few unwanted behaviors, such as editors who save the page
("just to be safe") before previewing their changes.
There are some other reasons behind to do this: It creates some inconsistency in the
interface, as some things (e.g., Special:Preferences) get saved but kept private, while
other things (e.g., normal wiki pages) get saved and immediately published. It is also
difficult to translate the label into some languages, as the word has multiple possible
translations in some languages.
The plan, therefore, is to change "Save" to "Publish". Instead of the
big blue[1] button saying "Save page" (for a new page) or "Save
changes" (when you edit an existing page), the button will instead say "Publish
page" or "Publish changes".
The upside to this small change is that new contributors will understand that all of their
edits go to the public immediately.[2] The downside is that all of the documentation and
help pages is going to be out of date.
This plan was announced on the wikis last August, and is tentatively scheduled for
sometime in March. I hope that this extra note will keep you from getting surprised in
front of a group and give you enough time to update any handouts that you might be using
in the future.
Relevant links:
-
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132 – main task (best place to
figure out if this gets postponed again)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishpage
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&message=Publishpage>
(translation
status)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishchanges
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&message=Publishchanges>
(translation
status)
[1] The color of this button in all of the older wikitext editors will be changing this
week. It's going to be big and blue.
[2] This is true even when the wiki is using FlaggedRevisions or PendingChanges, because
the un-accepted changes can be seen by the general public from the history page or from
&oldid URLs, regardless of whether the revision has been accepted.
--
Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
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