I would argue that we should prioritize section editing over full page
editing, and eventually VE will have section editing, even prior to that it
at least has awareness of what section you triggered the edit action from.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
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/