Jon, Please also check out Pau's prototype design on the Content Translation Editor (which Language Eng is working on currently) for multilingual translation/editing.
http://pauginer.github.io/prototype-translate/content-translation.html#mies-sq Best, Alolita Alolita Sharma आलोलिता शर्मा Director of Engineering Internationalization & Localization Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Vibha Bamba <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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