On Wednesday 14 March 2007 17:01:29 Joerg Baach wrote:
Ah, there is an instance on
http://baach.de/phase3, running the extension.
Thanks a lot for the update. However I am bit concerned on interface issues with the drop down lists and with too many different flags (and to many quality scales for exach flag).
In Wikipedia article changes quickly get quite huge (much more than one screen page, worst case in that respect are systematical typo and comma corrections in an article) it is better to place the flagging buttons in between the difference and the text, like in this mockup here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Mockup-sighted-version-diff.png
Otherwise people either tend to skip reading parts of the diff or have to scroll again up after they did fully read it.
The drop down boxes: They need two mouse clicks, you can't grasp them without exploring them and drop down lists are prone to wrong selections. So a button like feature (or a button like link like the infamous "revert button" feature of admins, see also above screenshot) is more convenient.
So each flag only needs one button: The "apply" button. It is not desireable to uncheck again a tagged version (see my previous email for the detailed rationale).
As well different quality scales for each flag such as "unvandalised" and "superb" (and possibly more) tend to create a vote point system. Honest people waste to much time in giving a grade according to their judgement and dishonest people always take the highest grade. This social proplem alone has the potential to provoke new kinds of flames and trolling (flames about the right grade and such). Furthermore too much differenceiasation makes the system more complicated for the user.
So I advocate for a system that is not too generic in a technical way and which consists of single click through flagging (on diff view).
Keep up the good work, Daniel Arnold / Arnomane