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Pbsouthwood (talkcontribs)

@Harej

Not very intuitive,

It is not obvious what one must do and there are no instructions on the forms for using them

The icon selection page gives a lot of icons, but does not explain what they are supposed to mean.

It also states in a little information button, that other images can be used, but not how to get them.

Does the add topic button save my edit? I must find out by experiment, as there is no save button on the page. Seems like it does. It also becomes a "save changes" button after editing, which is more intuitive to me.

Harej (talkcontribs)

Thank you @Pbsouthwood.

  1. What are you currently trying to do that you are having trouble doing?
  2. For the icons, it's mostly a matter of what you think would be a good icon to go along with the content.
  3. Currently the interface for using other images as icons is not implemented; that help message will be updated accordingly.
Pbsouthwood (talkcontribs)
  1. I tried to create a hub and got as far as the input form for adding a feature. Then I saved (Ithink) and went back to the hub and there was a message that the feature I thought I had just created does not exist, and a box to create feature which took me back to the feature creation page and no obvious way to escape/cancel. If I click submit again it tells me the feature already exists. I opened manage hub and the feature was there, then I saved manage hub and the feature was on the hub. Is this a thing that takes time or is something happening when I opened the hub manager (or saved it)?
  2. I think it would be a good long range target to have a set of consistent icons for all projects. Standardise now to avoid edit wars and interminable RFCs later.
Harej (talkcontribs)

Number 1 can be explained by how the MediaWiki software caches pages. I think it should be fixed as soon as possible to avoid further confusion. I am keeping track of the issue here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160879.

There is a plan for "standard features," basically templates for WikiProject sections, and that would include a standard definition for an icon. For example, a "requested articles" feature would use a specific icon for that.

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