On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, at 8:32, Jon Robson wrote: > The app team showed a demo to the mobile web team today of the latest > editing experience for the new Wikipedia app that is being worked on. > The mobile app editing experience was very consistent with mobile web > which is a great thing, that said it had one significant difference - > canned edit summaries. > > The interface showed various buttons that when clicked would populate > the edit summary input. e.g. "Fixed typos/grammar" or "Added links") > > I wanted to discuss whether this is a good idea?
No. > > If the goal is to give ideas to users on what they can do to edit, we > should be doing that at the start of the workflow in my opinion - tell > a new user what they can, give them a better idea using the article > issues templates. > > If the goal is to make the users editing experience easier (which it > should be), personally I think it would be more useful to have an > autocomplete that allows an editor to recycle older edit summaries. That's what a browser form history is for. I am yet to see two users who would use the same edit summaries. > > PS. Is there a link to a wiki page for these designs, so other people > can see what I'm talking about? > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > Design@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design _______________________________________________ Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
