Sure, and I'm all for trying new things - if you know me you know this is the case - I'm all for stabs at anything. It was just something interesting I saw in the apps that I hadn't come across before, and I was wondering about it for the purpose of mobile web and whether such a thing would be useful there.
It wasn't 100% clear to me however what the goals for canned edit summaries were and what the rationale was for it - hence this discussion. I imagine there is data to back up the need for this, but there is no conversation anywhere on a mailing list - so hence this conversation and a request to please share that and show me they are useful so I spend my free time coding it for mobile web :-). I know I personally with an autocomplete/tag setup would become lazy. Whereas I might currently use an edit summary like "it's->its" might instead resort to the easy "Spelling/grammar change". I don't know which of those edit summaries would be more useful to the people that deal with them on a day to day basis. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I worry tags will encourage laziness and on the long term not very >> useful summaries for poor wiki patrollers. There are other ways to >> educate e.g. help icon that elaborates or "see some examples". > > > Jon: don't worry about that. We already use mass revision tagging > effectively this way with AbuseFilter, and in extensions like > GettingStarted, mobile, or VisualEditor. Patrollers see thousands and > thousands of edits, and these tags really do help with context. > > I think it's good to do some exploratory design with canned edit summaries, > if we keep in mind that this is new and we've never put something like this > in production before. It may or may not work, but it doesn't hurt to take a > stab at it. In my mind, the challenge here is not the UI. Whether it's tags > or a dropdown or whatever we can work out easily. The hard part is figuring > out what edit summaries are so common that they should be canned. Since > there are so many different kinds of edits, that's the difficult part. > > > -- > Steven Walling, > Product Manager > https://wikimediafoundation.org/ -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
