I would say that is a Neutral button, because we have not idea if it would
be the primary action on the page, while it is the start of a workflow
(leaving a talk page message) it isn't necessarily the primary action on
the page.



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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:08 PM, May Tee-Galloway <[email protected]>
wrote:

> We're in the midst of determining which buttons should be blue. Here's a
> good place to talk about it and try to determine how we should use it.
>
> Blue is a progressive color. When I'm editing an article, a blue "Next"
> button lets me know what to do to move forward in this workflow that I
> intentionally started.
>
> If I want to use a blue button that isn't particularly in any workflow,
> say.. I'm looking at a page detailing why this user hid my comment, it has
> to be an action that moves me forward and completes a certain task from the
> current page, which could be a button like "Talk to User."
>
> Determine what the page is about and its intention and then think about
> what moves users forward and completes the user's most likely intended
> task, or our preferred route (if any) for the user.
>
> Another example.. say I'm at the Wikimedia shop, the cart link would be
> blue because it moves me forward and out of the site when I'm done with the
> page (which is to make you buy stuff).
>
> In the case of user profile, which is a page that shows you a user's
> activity, I wouldn't know what would be appropriate for a blue button. It's
> a pretty neutral page to me or I just don't know enough about this page to
> say what should be blue.
>
> mm
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In the profile page of mobile [1]  we have a button at the bottom of the
>> page.
>> Is there any reason for it having blue text?
>>
>> When you take a look at the styleguide it seems like an
>> mw-ui-progressive or just a simple mw-ui-button [2]
>>
>> We currently have a bug [3] associated with this button due to its
>> uniqueness, so I'm keen to work out how to make this button be
>> consistent with other buttons and opened a standardisation bug [4].
>>
>> Can someone chip in on the bug report with how it should be styled in
>> the language of the styleguide and if needed, provide a new icon for
>> talk that isn't blue?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserProfile/Jdlrobson
>> [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/section-2.html
>> [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/70947
>> [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/71071
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