On 26/08/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Would it be possible to follow the lead of many websites, and replace the two-step phase "The page ... has been removed from your watchlist."/click "Return to ...", by a one-step phase, whereby the page is shown again, but with a banner up the top that reads "This page has been removed from your watchlist"?
I imagine the mechanism would be something like what happens when you click a redirect (as we were discussing recently): The target of the redirect is shown, but with some added text explaining where you came from.
From the UI perspective, yes. From the backend perspective...well...
This would apply to at least these actions:
- Watch
- Unwatch
- Move
Disagree with moves; users need to be more aware of what needs to happen as a consequence of moving large pages, and the screen full of information that appears after a move is the best place for it.
Something similar could be done when saving an edit, adding text like "Your edit has been saved."
Might be a nice bit of visual confirmation, although it requires a change to how we handle the process; right now, we issue a redirect and make the user re-request the page.
Any takers? Should I bugzilla this asa formal feature requset?
Yes.
Rob Church