On 7 October 2010 01:55, Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/6/10 4:44 PM, Krinkle wrote: > > The clear icons to the right were better in my opinion without being > > disturbing or overwhelming. > > What is the motivation / reason for the change ? > > Taking in account that the UsabilityInitiative had a similar design; > > like the one you had for a few days (the larger icons to the right). > > Yeah, I liked it much better with the icons on the right as well. > > Promoting reuse is one of the primary functions of Wikimedia Commons, so > we ought to make it as easy and visible as possible. > > > > Op 6 okt 2010, om 22:24 heeft Magnus Manske het volgende geschreven: > >> Also, I had added a bunch of social network "share this" icons, but > >> Geni removed them. Ah well. > > Yeah, that had its uses, so why was that removed? Deemed annoying? > > I've tried to research what's the best way to do "share this" buttons > and there isn't any clear data or consensus on this. Collapsing the > various share icons into one popup is probably the most extensible / > least annoying. > > > -- > Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> > > For what it's worth, Several staff of the people where I'm currently working had noticed the reuse buttons when they were on the right and remarked on them to me as really cool. These were going to be used as an example in a meeting about how their own interface could look but when the buttons moved neither they nor I could find the buttons any more. I only noticed the buttons again when I read this thread. Summary - those buttons placed on the right hand side of the image were noticed by "non-wikipedians" and seen as a good idea. When they moved it was assumed that they were gone, not merely moved. As for the "share" buttons - precisely why were they removed? Are we anti-social networks (or their logos on our pages), or is it because they were too big or something? FWIW WikiNews has been using these kinds of buttons for a long time in articles. -Liam
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