Hi,
a few days ago, I wrote a patch for the navigation sidebar. The patch changes a few link names and fixes a bug. The current sidebar looks as follows:
Main page Recent changes Watch list Current events -------------------- Edit this page Watch this page Move this page Talk page | Subject page History What links here Watch links -------------------- Upload Bug reports Special pages
The links are perfectly OK, but I have problems with the words used and sometimes with the positioning. The modified sidebar looks like this:
Main Page Recent changes My watchlist Random page Current events -------------------- Edit this page Watch this page Move this page Discuss this page | View article Older versions What links here? Related changes -------------------- Upload file Special pages Bug reports
Explanations: - "Watch list" should be "My watchlist" to make clear that this is not a page that is the same for all users, like the other links in this section of the sidebar. Perhaps later we will also add a direct link "My contributions". - "Talk page" should be "Discuss this page" to use the same imperative style of the other links above it. Since users don't have to create "/Talk" links anymore, it's not necessary that we use the actual word "Talk" anywhere but in the URLs. - "Subject page" should be "View article" or "Back to article". "Subject page" is really ambiguous and hard to understand, I searched several times for a way back to the article because I didn't find an obvious link. - "History" should be "Older versions" or "Page history" to be more obvious. Most people are not familiar with the concept of article histories. - "What links here" needs a questionmark. - "Watch links" should be "Link history", "Related changes" or something else. "Watch links" suggests that this will add the links to my watchlist, which it doesn't do. - Upload should be "Upload file". True, a bit redundant, but more familiar this way. - Bug reports should be at the bottom as this is the least relevant.
If there are no objections, I will apply this change later today or tomorrow.
Regards,
Erik Moeller