https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29365
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Bug #: 29365
Summary: WikiEditor: Toolbar should be further from edit form
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikiEditor
AssignedTo: tpars...@wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: matthew.brit...@btinternet.com
CC: roan.katt...@gmail.com
Classification: Unclassified
Created attachment 8644
--> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=8644
comparison of old and new toolbars
Several buttons on the edit toolbar insert placeholder text when clicked. This
placeholder text is often left in the articles.
On en.wikipedia, one can search for "Bold text", "File:Example.jpg" and other
such strings and find instances where this has happened. Many are clearly
vandalism, but others appear to be legitimate edits save for this unwanted
string.
The conclusion is that users are clicking the toolbar buttons by accident, and
not realizing that the placeholder text has been added to the page.
Since the toolbar is flush with the top of the edit form, a slight misclick
when trying to select text at the top of the form can click a toolbar button
instead. When I first recognized this issue on en.wikipedia, I asked for the
local CSS to be changed to add a gap between the toolbar itself and the edit
form, to reduce the likelihood of accidentally clicking the buttons, which may
have helped somewhat.
When the new toolbar was introduced this change was lost. I suggest the same
thing is done with the new toolbar, and it might as well be done by default in
the extension itself rather than as customization on en.wikipedia only.
I have attached screenshots of the old and new toolbars as displayed on
en.wikipedia; note the gap below the old toolbar.
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