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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