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.
This would apply to at least these actions: * Watch * Unwatch * Move
Something similar could be done when saving an edit, adding text like "Your edit has been saved."
Any takers? Should I bugzilla this asa formal feature requset?
Steve
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
On 8/26/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
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.
That's actually fair enough. But boy that text could be improved. There should be *law* against having two hyperlinks in the same sentence when you actually *want* the user to click on one of them. I'm talking about the sentence that goes "Please [check] to see if any [double redirects] have been created." It should be something like "Please check to see if any double redirects have been created. [Show all double redirects]."
Filing...
Steve
On 8/26/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Any takers? Should I bugzilla this asa formal feature requset?
Yes.
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7129
Steve
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On Saturday 26 August 2006 16:17, Steve Bennett 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.
This would apply to at least these actions:
- Watch
- Unwatch
- Move
Please ad "login". I hate it when I want to edit, then have to click in that order:
* while loged out, click "edit" * see msg about need to log int, click "login" * (firefox fills in pwd/user) press button "login" * click "go back to page" * click "edit"
That could be reduced by at least one click :)
All the best,
Tels
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Tels wrote:
Please ad "login". I hate it when I want to edit, then have to click in that order:
- while loged out, click "edit"
- see msg about need to log int, click "login"
- (firefox fills in pwd/user) press button "login"
- click "go back to page"
- click "edit"
That could be reduced by at least one click :)
More than one, we could just put a username and password box on the edit form.
-- Tim Starling
On 8/29/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
More than one, we could just put a username and password box on the edit form.
I think I suggested exactly that in the bug report :)
Steve
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:32:04PM +1000, Tim Starling wrote:
Tels wrote:
Please ad "login". I hate it when I want to edit, then have to click in that order:
- while loged out, click "edit"
- see msg about need to log int, click "login"
- (firefox fills in pwd/user) press button "login"
- click "go back to page"
- click "edit"
That could be reduced by at least one click :)
More than one, we could just put a username and password box on the edit form.
*Puhleeze*? (and you might want to put the obligatory companion "Log me in?" "Remember me?" and "Don't ever remember anyone, this is a public computer" check boxes, though perhaps that's too much...)
Cheers, -- jra
On 29/08/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
*Puhleeze*? (and you might want to put the obligatory companion "Log me in?" "Remember me?" and "Don't ever remember anyone, this is a public computer" check boxes, though perhaps that's too much...)
"Puhleeze"? You can't submit a patch? ;)
Rob Church
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 05:12:19PM +0100, Rob Church wrote:
On 29/08/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
*Puhleeze*? (and you might want to put the obligatory companion "Log me in?" "Remember me?" and "Don't ever remember anyone, this is a public computer" check boxes, though perhaps that's too much...)
"Puhleeze"? You can't submit a patch? ;)
:-)
Even if I wasn't hanging paper on three houses with only one hand, I probably couldn't, no. Dammit, Rob, I'm an analyst, not a programmer.
Cheers, -- jra
On 29/08/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
Even if I wasn't hanging paper on three houses with only one hand, I probably couldn't, no. Dammit, Rob, I'm an analyst, not a programmer.
All right, then...
...I want a UI mockup, full implementation plans (incl. flow charts and a few GANTT chars), proof-of-concept code and volunteers to cover all aspects of user discussion, integration, education; documentation updating, advertising, etc., STAT!
Rob Church
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