On Aug 7, 2009, at 9:29 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> Vincent Massol wrote:
>> On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Ecaterina Valica wrote:
>>
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> You can see the proposal for the new skin at
>>> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/Skin20P1
>>> Comments, opinions and implementation help are welcomed :)
>>
>> Future:
>> * I'd like to see if there's a way to group tags at the top with the
>> rest + potentially move all page information to the top somewhere
>
> You can't have everything at the top. And I wouldn't like it. When I
> come to a page, I want to see the content. "Content is King".  
> Everybody
> who ever used the Web knows that comments are at the bottom.  
> Attachments
> too. In many blog platforms tags are at the bottom as well. People  
> know
> this. If not, they can learn it.

What I'd like actually is not the actual content on top of course but  
an easy way to navigate to that content (info, attachments, comments,  
etc).
Right now we kind of have this already with the action toolbar but I  
have the feeling it can be improved and it doesn't have a link to the  
page info for example.

Here's a example:
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+2.8+Screen+and+Menu+Changes

If you're logged in then the Tools menu has more actions.

- One think I like is the link to view the latest change directly at  
the top (in the line that says who was the last modifier).
- Another nice thing is the little icon showing the attachment and the  
number of attachments

FOSWiki also does it with icons and I don't feel they're standing in  
the way of the content:
http://foswiki.org/

Last, Lauren't experiment on 
http://laurent.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ModificationVM/ 
  shows everything at the top. I don't know how well or how badly it  
would work but it doesn't look too bad.

> WikiPatterns lists a lot of patterns that can push the wiki forward or
> backward, but most of them are about people, and not about the  
> placement
> of things in the UI. People should encourage each other to use tags  
> and
> comments; the fact that we push them higher on the page doesn't mean
> that people will start using them more often; it just annoys by  
> standing
> between the user and the content. And after I read the article and I'm
> at the bottom, I have to scroll back up to tag or rate it. Or should I
> tag a document before actually reading it?

I also don't want to clutter things. I hate clutter.

I'm not sure about tags at the top. Twiki does it but I don't like the  
way they've done it. I remember seeing somewhere where it was done in  
a non obtrusive way. however if we already have one line for the last  
updated it might be too much to have another one maybe. Lauren't page  
does it nicely also I think.

Thanks
-Vincent

> Anyway, I'd really like to hear more from our users on this topic.
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