[Wikipedia-l] Useability

[White Cat]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The menu on the left hand side lists, in this order
>
> Navigation
>        Main Page
>        Contents
>        Featured content
>        Current events
>        Random article
> interaction
>        About Wikipedia
>        Community portal
>        Recent changes
>        Contact Wikipedia
>        Donate to Wikipedia
>        Help
> search
>        search box
>
> ----------
>
> Problem: on small screens, the search box is not visible and readers
> must scroll each time they get to a new page to find it.
> Whether we are happy with this, or would prefer that people navigate
> three featured content or indexes or random article, does not change the
> fact that most poeple actually use search system on internet.
>
> What about changing the search box place ?
> Perhaps under the logo. Or below the Navigation block. Or fully at the
> top of the page ?
>
> Ant
>
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A lot of the links on the side bar are quite useless. A good number of them
can be removed or moved. I do not like the example skins though.

I really like the suggestion where the links are placed on top like so (with
no side bar):

--------------
general links (to main page and etc)
--------------
article spesific links (article link, talk page link, history link, move
link and etc)
--------------
article content
--------------
footer (copyright notice, disclaimer notice etc)
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