Jon, Agree with you here. Designs are up on the Trello board for now. I don't know that we are posting them anywhere else for apps.
Regarding the edit summary - We decided to make this a regular input field with tags as suggestion, so a new user isn't quite lost about what to say here. Along with providing help at the start, having these in tag/autocomplete form makes it faster so a user doesn't have to type them in or even wonder how to describe their small change. Key things the guide text needs to do is -Explain when and why an edit summary is useful -Provide some quick actionable examples -If you added key information, or edited a large amount, provide specificity about what you did. Thanks Vibha On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> 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? > > 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. > > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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