https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52871
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Bug ID: 52871
Summary: VE post-edit notification text needs revising
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: jforres...@wikimedia.org
Reporter: swall...@wikimedia.org
CC: jforres...@wikimedia.org, krinklem...@gmail.com
Classification: Unclassified
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Created attachment 13101
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Screenshot at 1024x768
Very happy to see that VE is now using the same post-edit styling as wikitext!
This is a big win for usability, since it is fixed position and so on.
I did find one suboptimal fact though... Since the text of the message includes
the page title, it is very variable width, depending on the page title length
and the browser width.
One of the UX goals for this notification is to have new users notice it, but
for it to eventually fade out of your attention as you become used to it. Since
the page title produces very different widths as you edit different pages, this
calls a lot more attention to the notification even if you've edit thousands of
times.
My recommendation would be to match what's in the wikitext version, "Your edit
was saved." since we A/B tested it and we know it meets the goals I mentioned
above. Another good solution is simply removing the page title, so that the VE
version says, "Your changes have been saved." That seems functionally the same,
though I think using edit is good for consistency with the tab names etc.
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