https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44922
--- Comment #5 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #0) > > "You are not currently watching any pages > > First, there is a full stop missing at the end of > > the first sentence. > > Agreed. We should add this in. > > > Second, calling watchlists a bookmarking service is > > inaccurate. Watchlists are a list of changes to watched pages, and confusing > > the concept with a bookmarking service is a disservice to users. The reason > > we have the feature is not to keep a reading list. > > While you are correct about the purpose of Watchlists (and the general > principle that feature conflation is a bad thing), I disagree about the > confusion. I think the confusion would go in the other direction. > > Looking at the bigger picture, we use a star icon to denote Watchlist items, > as > well as adding to the Watchlist. This is a Favorites icon by web and mobile > convention. We've always used it, meaning we've always broken an established > pattern. I'd argue that it would be confusing to discourage this behavior > since > it's what people are used to in so many apps, as well as every web browser. > > Secondly, the main thing differentiating a Watchlist from a Favorites list > is a > diff view. "Favorites" are a subset of Watchlists in terms of feature > requirements, so it's unlikely this copy would produce any sort of cognitive > dissonance among new users because they wouldn't be missing any features. > > The main reason to change this copy, as far as I can see, is that experienced > users may take issue with it not meshing with the way they use Watchlists. > However, can we say with confidence that some experienced users don't also > use > Watchlists to save a page for later? Take a step back. Who is a watchlist for? Since it was launched, a watchlist has always been for editors. It is not a reader feature, and has never been designed that way. The point of it is to help editors see changes to the subset of pages they care about, and review those changes. I have seen previous iterations of real reading lists on mobile, particularly in our native apps. These work well, and obviously they're a feature that users want. But the whole idea of trying to cram two activities -- saving a reading list and watching changes to articles -- is what I'm rejecting. You shouldn't be trying to do that, because you're going to end up with a muddled user experience that works well for neither readers nor editors. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
