On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
RE: Page actions moving into the header: (This
is me collecting my
comments from a meeting to this list)
As I mentioned in yesterday’s design review, my gut instinct is
that moving article actions into the header is the wrong path:
* I don’t think they’re needed up there. People
already scroll to the top when they need these functions.
* I think it conflates those actions with the
“personal bar” actions and creates confusion. A primary motivation for
Winter is to segregate the following types of actions: Site actions
(sidebar chrome), Content actions (page stuff), and Personal actions (user
stuff). The search box is a site affordance. The personal actions are
obviously thus. Mixing article actions next to the personal actions seems
weird to me.
* The point of discussion being always available
is a valid one - the use case being, “I’m in this section, and I see an
error, and I want to talk about it”. However, I don’t necessarily think
that dumping the user into the “master” talk page at any point is going to
solve that. A long time ago I had the idea to add a “discuss” link next to
the section edit links. This would target the specific section and create
a new discussion with that title (or find an existing one) and work within
that. This is obviously something that can easily be done with Flow
(though my original thoughts were with LQT). I’m not sure it works well
with Talk. This is something I’ll want to experiment with.
I agree with those conclusions, and was getting worried about the number of
icons in the current Winter headerbar, once scrolled. 7 ±
2<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_plus_or_minus_two>works;works.
One possibility would be replacing the current "article actions" icons in
the headerbar, with a "scroll to top" button. It's a commonly requested
feature, and (iirc) is generally turned down because of the sheer quantity
of links that would be added, if they were attached to every section.