⚓ T108620 On user's first use of VE-MW, provide a couple of educational pop-ups for links and for citations with some toolbar highlights to trigger them
- ️Mon Aug 10 2015
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I've made a pulsating dot and popup work (close when a button is pressed etc., some basic hardcoded content in there), but I need to figure out how it should be made generic to work in all the places we want without having to be rewritten.
I've made a pulsating dot and popup work (close when a button is pressed etc., some basic hardcoded content in there), but I need to figure out how it should be made generic to work in all the places we want without having to be rewritten. Nice. :-)
We could certain provide the ability to set a custom image, title and description for each popup. I'd rather not do custom buttons for each ('Okay, got it' vs. 'Add a citation'/'No thanks') - the idea is to point to the place where the user would go if they wanted to use the tool, another button to do it doesn't seem very useful.
From a content POV re: the link popup on WMF wikis,
I know it's tricky, but I wonder if that may encourage overlinking and, in particular, linking to external sites where they shouldn't be linked - AFAIK it should only be done in specific sections of a page on most of our wikis.
It may make more sense mentioning the external links for citing.
By the way - I added some links today (on Meta) in VE and was shown a popup explaining linking.
However, a few hours later, still logged in, same browser, I received the same popup when I added another link.
So, it's working, but not "user's first use of VE" as this ticket's name suggests.
I'm a little bit upset by this feature: as an experienced user, I don't need to see this pop-up. And when I click on the link icon to add a link, I need to click on the "okay" button, and then click again on the icon. Grunt.
Trizek - that's why it's supposed to be only for the first time you use VE. Not every time.
Trizek - that's why it's supposed to be only for the first time you use VE. Not every time. I know. I was using VE before this feature, and I use it with my two accounts on may wikis: you can imagine how many times I've seen the message! :)