On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is the system documented somewhere already so gadget/script authors can start using it?
+1 to docs for this, please. :)
My other question is similar to what Andrew asked earlier: what potential is there for including something more than just strings?
My team just finished up a test where simple "your edit was saved" confirmation messages lead to a significant bump in the editing activity of newbies on English Wikipedia.[1] The only core differences between the custom notification we built and bubble notifications are that it was center-aligned and that it included a checkmark icon. I would prefer to build on top of this if we're going to try and make an edit confirmation message a part of MediaWiki.
Steven
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Post-edit_feedback