Author: jmfayard
Description:
Hello,
I´m a contributor to the french and german version of wikipedia.
One thing I hate is that the [edit] link is at the top of a section while I
think it should be at the bottom.
Reproducible : always
Imagine you are a new user, you search to know about Franz Liszt. By google, you
discover the article on wikipedia. You begin to read it. Very interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liszt
near the end of the first section, you see :
<i>In 1851 the revised version of the 1838 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante
d'apres Paganini; Grande Etudes Apres Paganini (Grand etudes after paganini),
the most famous of which is La Campanella, a study in octaves, shakes and jumps.</i>
Arggh. It missed a lot of french accents in this sentance : three É and one é
You continue to read, and you see a "[edit]" link.
Hhu ? What´s this encyclopedia ? That is wonderful, I can correct that. I WILL
correct that.
So you click on the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Franz_Liszt&action=edit§ion=1
What happen´s ? That´s not my text. Too bad, I move on.
So I made six times the mistake again and again when I began to contribute to
wikipedia, and I constantly get people who do the mistake too.
It´s not limited to new users in fact. The common sense said us it should be at
the bottom of the section. Fondamentally, here is why : you can´t correct a text
you haven´t read, and you read from the top to the bottom.
I raised the question on the french discussion page.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro
(Badly enough, I can´t find again the topic)
Most people agreed with me. One valid concern which was raised is what happens
when you are at the bottom an a section and a subsection and a subsubsection.
[edit]
[edit] <=== why is there 3 links, which is the good one ?
[edit]
[title of the section]
[title of the subsection] <=== this on the other hand provide information,
but takes too much room
[title of the subsubsection]
My proposal is this :
[edit §1.3.3]
[edit §1.3] <=== It´s easy to understand :
[edit §1] <=== do I want to modify the last small chunk of
the big chunk ?
AND
provide the name of the section like previously but without taking too much room
by using a tooltip thanks to the HTML attribute [title="title of the subsection"]
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement