I can't believe that with all the complains no one has yet brought up the fact that
the 'watch' has been replaced by a star that turns blue instead of yellow.
I always think I don't have the page in my watchlist!!!
Now, that's a reason to complain (Lynch the usability team!)
MarianoC.-
--- El dom 6-jun-10, Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv(a)gmail.com> escribió:
De: Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv(a)gmail.com>
Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2
Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Fecha: domingo, 6 de junio de 2010, 17:40
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Erik
Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
The original intent of the UX team, as I
understand
it, was to help
readers find essential (frequently clicked)
elements
in the navigation
more easily by collapsing less essential ones.
This is wrong approach of reworking sidebar. To do it
correctly, you
have to prioritize existing things. Add icons to most
important items
and move them to the top (random article is far more
popular than
current events). Move toolbox to the bottom and, ensuring
youself
before that most users don't use it, hide it for anonymous
users only.
Move most probably used interwikis to the top (I'd
volunteer for
coding this if I was sure I had enough spare time this
summer). Add
language codes, they are much easier to understand and to
look for in
a long list than a language name in language itself. Add
more icons,
so things are distinguishable.
Oh, and no wonder that IW links are used less in Vector
than in
Monobook. Monobook sidebar has clear division between
blocks. Vector
has some loosy line between them. Also, in Vector sidebar
elements are
on the grey background, so most people don't notice them.
Honestly,
the set of blue links on the grey background is one of the
worst thing
you may introduce to improve the usability of the sidebar.
--vvv
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