On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
Recently Wikidata was changed which caused it much more work for especially power users. It is no longer easy to add/change parts of pages. Each time I now have to edit a section and save it before I can continue in another section.
A simple adding of 4 pages results in much more clicks. Was: click + paste + save + add + lang + paste + save Now: edit + click + paste + scrolling + save (outside my screen) + edit + add + lang + paste + save (on not expecting place) And that four times... This creates a much less efficient working situation. That is not workable.
Can the previous situation be restored? Or can someone write a gadget so that this change is bypassed?
Hey Romaine,
What you are seeing is an intermediate step in the work on the new design. Looking back we should have given this another two weeks of work before rolling it out. We will not be rolling this back however as that'd be non-trivial and counter-productive. We will instead fix the issues the current version has and push further towards the new design. The current issues I am aware of: * Edit conflicts often happening when editing more than one data point. In our testing this didn't happen so we are investigating why this is happening on the live-system now. Fix is high priority. * Long scrolling when editing an item with many sitelinks. You can press enter to save whatever you entered without needing to scroll up. That will help you right now. We will look into additional improvements over the next days.
In the bug report you mention being able to edit a section while in edit mode for another section. That has never been possible. Can you clarify that please?
Cheers Lydia