On Sep 18, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 September 2012 00:09, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Following up on what I said previously about wanting to build on top of this, there are some usability enhancements proposed at bug #40307.
On the truncation issue: length is already something of an issue, from my perspective. For example: the default watchlist message, which is 37 words, seems to have been written on the assumption that the notification container would be much wider. I've heard some complaints about it.[1] I'm not sure if truncation is the correct method, but we should do something to keep messages short.
Steven
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Hoi, The default watchlist is 37 words ... these words are probably en.wikipedia measurements. To what extend have different scripts and different languages been considered ? Thanks. GerardM
Doesn't matter in this case. The point is that the message is oversized. It contains too much redundant information for a simple confirmation that the page was added to the watchlist.
Considering that this message is not wiki-content, it doesn't make sense to truncate it. It simply needs to be shortened at the source. The interface messages in question are (from ApiWatch.php):
* addedwatchtext [1] * removedwatchtext [2]
"removedwatchtext" is short and to the point.
-- Krinkle
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:addedwatchtext/en [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:removedwatchtext/en