On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
By popular demand here :-) I have re-enabled the larger top/side icons. It is easy to switch back and forth between them. Maybe a user option? Or would that be overkill? I left the "share" buttons turned off; see the discussion here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Stockphoto.js#Social_networking_icons Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
