https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50540
--- Comment #35 from Chris McKenna <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #34) > Chris McKenna said that a text link and an icon link were "a nightmare from a > usability perspective". > Yes, because they are inconsistent. > You are saying "it's about consistency". Something can be completely usable > and > not be consistent. Why is consistency important to you? I do not see the > need. Because there are two ways to do the same job (edit the page) the ways of doing this need to look the same. > According to your logic, we should delete the watchlist star icon because it > is > inconsistent with the text links at the top of pages. The watchlist star is irrelevant to this discussion. It does not offer an alternative interface to achieve the same job as one of the text links. Completely different situation > An icon avoids clutter on section header lines. We still need "edit" as text > at > least once, since that is what makes Wikipedia what it is; the encyclopedia > that anybody can *edit*. As explained above, "clutter" is very significantly less important than consistency. If we need it to say "edit" at least once then we need two text links. If two text links are two cluttered then we need two icons. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
