On 04/06/2012 07:01 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote: > On 6 April 2012 12:41, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Chad recently mentioned that based on opinion of wikimedia users, most >> of users prefer simple options, I guess we could create a feature, >> perhaps a checkbox "Display advanced options" to user preferences, >> move lot of current settings which aren't really supposed to be >> changed by people who do not understand how they work and implement >> various new options in that. > > I think sweeping the problem under the carpet just like that is a good > idea. I don't oppose hiding some preferences by default, but only if > we consider also these issues: > > *1 Changing preferences directly from where they are used (like from > special pages) > *2 Make sure we are not going to add new preferences just because they > are not shown by default anymore > *3 Make sure each preference label is understandable, amending with > longer description where needed. There must be enough information that > *any* user can understand what the preference does after reading the > provided information. > *4 Not call them 'advanced' but something that indicates they are > rarely used and only relevant to minority of users. In other words, > the criteria for hiding must be the number of users, not difficulty of > understanding the preference. > *5 Have sane defaults, obviously. > > Re 5: For example I hate that I must everywhere change enhanced recent > changes to be the default. > -Niklas
This is an interaction design proposal, so I'm bringing in Brandon Harris, the WMF's senior designer. Brandon, could you comment on this? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
