https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44922
--- Comment #7 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #6) > > 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 know that it's an editor feature and I know how it's intended to be used. > What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter to a new user. It has a star > (favorites/bookmarks) icon, and it saves pages. That's it's function as far > as > an onlooker is concerned. > > New users won't know and won't care what a feature is *intended* for. > > > 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. > > Consider the alternative, then. Two interfaces for saving a list of pages. > How > would you present the differences between them in order to illustrate their > purpose and intended use on a single glance? Can you think of a way to do > that > that doesn't introduce greater confusion? Not my problem to figure out. I filed the bug because the description of the watchlist is inaccurate. -- 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
