On Saturday, February 26, 2005, at 01:58 PM, Thomas Gries wrote:
Wish to receive your proposals for a changed screen layout ......
- how would *you* arrange the screens - proposal for the short text for such a link ? (diff-to-LVR)is not neat enough
I like the current setup on Meta (why is it different than the setup on en?); this link could be added in before the other two: * (chng) (diff) (hist) . . m [[page name]]; ti:me . . [[User:]] ([[User talk:]]) (edit summary)
I don't think it really matters what the short text is. Other than the nipple, no interface is intuitive; "incomprehensible acronym" or not, editors will learn what it does by clicking the link, as they have done for every other feature of MediaWiki. A four character acronym would be nice just for symmetry, that's why I chose "chng".
How will this affect server performance? My watchlist is refreshed half a dozen times on a day that I'm not working on Wikipedia, ten times as often on a day that I am. Even if you only store the read state for items in the watchlist, and not all visited pages, that's still over 500 articles (for me).
Those reservations aside, I am in favor of this feature, especially if it is opt-in by the users. I read a forum that stores read states on every thread, and it makes a world of difference in usability.
Ben