Yeah, these are good ideas. I really like that form for create topic and edit post.
Just to level-set, I had two basic intentions for making changes to the log items a few months ago: #1) Put the topic name / board name at the front, so it's easier to tell topics apart. #2) Establish something as the "baseline" default action -- the run-of-the-mill action that doesn't need extra explanation. We've got some unusual actions on a Flow board (hide, delete, restore), that need to be called out as special. The basic action -- posting a message on an existing topic -- doesn't need a full sentence with a subject, object and verb. But I agree with you that the current version makes some non-baseline actions invisible -- creating a new topic, editing a post. Editing a post is important to call out, especially because that explains the presence/absence of a live diff link. For creating a new topic: I've been skeptical about including a text snippet -- "Truncated body of initial post..." -- for every message that's posted, but for a new topic, it makes sense. I don't know if "added a new post to the topic" vs "reply to a post" is meaningful enough to differentiate. For the second post on a topic, it's just a question of which input field you used. I think for now we could leave those as the baseline default action. So how about this -- use Matt's messages for "create/first post in a new topic" and "edit a post": (diff | hist) Test post on Wikipedia talk:Flow/Developer test page; 21:09 . . (+9) . . Mattflaschen (WMF) (talk | contribs) (←Created new topic with "Truncated body of initial post...") (diff | hist) Test post on Wikipedia talk:Flow/Developer test page; 21:09 . . (+8) . . Mattflaschen (WMF) (talk | contribs) (←Edited a post) But keep "added a new post to the topic" and "replied to a post" as it currently is: (diff | hist) Test post on Wikipedia talk:Flow/Developer test page; 21:09 . . (+8) . . Mattflaschen (WMF) (talk | contribs) What do you think? On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/10/2014 06:46 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> I'd like to think about how we can clarify the Flow recent changes text. >> > > I think using the automatic summary idea also allows being consistent with > non-Flow actions everywhere (RecentChanges, history, contributions), since > all of these can show (automatic) edit summaries. > > > Matt Flaschen > > > _______________________________________________ > EE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee >
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