https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28850
--- Comment #11 from Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> 2011-08-05 16:24:21 UTC --- I disagree that the right answer here is to get metrics. It's a nice idea but I just don't have time to make a research project of this. We should just solve the problem. One possible solution was to auto-add categories if they haven't added them. I don't agree with this because: 1 - We also want to check for newly created categories and warn them this is a bad idea 2 - I have noticed that some users also type multiple categories into the field, space separated or comma separated, and this isn't correct either. Another is to have a multiple input box field. Personally I think these have rather poor usability. The widget I made (mwCoolCats) is designed to emulate similar interfaces around the web, particularly Flickr's, so there is some precedent that this can be useful. I think this is the solution: There is already field validation on the page. On submit, we can simply look for category widgets where the field is filled out but the button hasn't been pressed, and highlight those in red, saying they should press the "add" button. If there are other problems with their Category, they can fix them as they are entered. That should solve almost all the problems we currently have. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
