On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:08:39AM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
On 6/26/07, Jens Frank jf@mormo.org wrote:
There was already a change after the user study. The edit link was not placed in the same line as the heading of the next section, but before it. This was indeed very confusing.
Today, the edit link is in the same line, and I think there's no need to change that.
Well, it's true that my CSS fiddling did move down the edit link slightly, but frankly, I doubt it's enough. Think about it: there's a clear line *under* the link. If you look at it, it looks like it belongs to the section above, separated from the one below by a horizontal rule.
That argumentation suggests that the heading belongs to the above section, too. I think the line is not seen that way by our readers.
We could all ask our wiki-ignorant friends what they think. That's about what a usability study consists of, after all, just a little more thorough. :)
I'll ask some colleagues who aren't wiki editors and will tell you tonight about the results.
On 6/26/07, Sebastian Moleski sebmol@gmail.com wrote:
As long as you implement it in a way that still allows the edit link to appear just to the right of the heading (the "German Wikipedia way"), no objections here. Ideally, this would be configurable so that each project and each user can set up their own defaults.
There should be no change at all in how the German Wikipedia way works either way we go, although I'll check that out firsthand before instituting changes. Those using the current default can preserve it with a one-line addition to MediaWiki:Common.css, and likewise for individual users.
Different behaviour for different wikis is a very bad idea. That would be confusing. The edit link should be placed in the same way on all WMF wikis.
jens