On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I would question that page level editing is actually
"most important call
to action on the page"
What would you put above it?
Reading? Clicking links? Viewing images? Those are not "calls to action".
They are functions people are motivated to do naturally, and which will not
be detracted from if you make Edit more prominent.
In VisualEditor there effectively is no section edit, we're retaining it
for consistency with wikitext and to provide extra CTAs. Other CTAs are
viewing history, viewing the discussion page, or using editor-related items
like notifications or watchlist. These are less important or ancillary to
editing.
Our single biggest challenge right now is getting people to edit Wikipedia.
We haven't made significant progress on turning that trend around, so if
we're going to do a redesign of the skin as significant as this we need to
emphasize this. As Brandon right points out, just turning the current
Vector edit button in to a mw-ui-constructive style button would not solve
the deeper problems in Vector, and would no doubt be odd-looking. I'm
really glad this prototype starts to tackle those issues. But if you
*seriously* think that Editing articles is not our most important call to
action then we need to have a sit down and talk about this in person.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/