On 5/21/07, P. Birken pbirken@gmail.com wrote:
Furthermore, there is one question left: If we do not provide a prominent textbox telling people all the stuff (which I like very much), the potential for confusion if the default version is not the current one is increased. In particular, as the edit button is hidden, large parts of the wiki might look uneditable to IP users. How do we solve this?
One could implement a relatively simple UI control to set the "default view" to be either the latest version, latest sighted version, latest reviewed version, etc. IMHO this control should be always visible, and the default should _not_ be different for registered & unregistered users.
I would suggest something roughly like:
My preferred view: [ ^ Most recent revision ] Last sighted revision Last accurate revision ...
That way, both readers and editors could choose the setting they prefer. This would require storing the preference in a cookie for readers, but that shouldn't be a big deal (we already do this for table of contents collapse/expand preferences).
The "default view" is a very important concept and I do not really think we can or should simplify it behind an icon.