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LastModified output overlaps with article icons (emblems)
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Looking at https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus?uselang=test where the LastModified extension has recently been enabled, the little icons used on wikis such as the English Wikipedia overlap with the extension's output. I'll attach a screenshot momentarily.

Ideally this extension's output would be above the article tabs (where there's plenty of room). Putting this text on the same line as the article title risks hitting the little icons or, with long page titles, hitting the page title. This is bad.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 12:21 AM
bzimport added a project: LastModified.
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Created attachment 10673
Screenshot of overlap between LastModified extension's output and article icons

These icons were pulled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan.

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lastmodified-article-icon-overlap.png (182×981 px, 24 KB)

Well that sucks. I guess we should see if the designers have any ideas. I don't really like the idea of having it outside the content area since it then looses the visual association with the content, but I'm not sure where else would be better.

FWIW, the original implementation had the message in the upper-right hand corner of the content div, but this doesn't work very well with CentralNotice. Perhaps if it were in very small print and flush against the top...

I bugged the E3 people about this and it looks like we're going to try replacing the 'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia' message with the last modified message.

(In reply to comment #4)

I bugged the E3 people about this and it looks like we're going to try
replacing the 'From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia' message with the last
modified message.

I suppose someone considered beneath or next to that line?

I think one of the (popular) assessment gadgets inserts text in that area. Hmm.

(In reply to comment #5)

I think one of the (popular) assessment gadgets inserts text in that area. Hmm.

I went ahead and looked this up. It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pyrospirit/metadata. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/User_preferences#Gadgets, it's used by about 13,000 people.

swalling wrote:

(In reply to comment #6)

(In reply to comment #5)

I think one of the (popular) assessment gadgets inserts text in that area. Hmm.

I went ahead and looked this up. It's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pyrospirit/metadata. According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/User_preferences#Gadgets,
it's used by about 13,000 people.

Sounds like we need to go back to the drawing board on placement. We'll talk about it on Monday when everyone is back in the office, but in the meantime, I'll document our options on the requirements page on MediaWiki.org. That's probably easier for everyone than Bugzilla.

MZ, Kaldari: thank you for your help on this!

Fixed by Ori: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MW-LastUpdate-Timestamp-Proposed.png

Now it detects where the icons are and positions itself accordingly.