On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jared Zimmerman < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > > This is an interesting hypothesis, and is largely dependent on what type > of page is most likely to be edited. I would agree with you on large pages. > But large, very popular pages are often likely to be difficult to edit for > other reasons, or even semi-protected. The long tail of Wikipedia articles > in all languages have maybe one or two sections at best, including > References. Most articles are stubs. > > In any case, I don't see that prioritization in the design of winter right > now. Section edit links are very subtle visually. Also, they are moved back > to the right, though A/B tests ran by Trevor suggest that putting them near > the title with an icon was superior in conversion to editing. > Moving them next to the section-title would obviously have an effect, as they're more in-our-face! Annoyingly so. I'm using the gadget<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-righteditlinks.css>on Enwiki to move them back to the right. I like the Winter section-edit-links, in both placement and styling.
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