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Confusing position of gender setting notice
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Description

screenshot: internationalisation section

With the "gender setting notice" I mean this text:

"Setting this preference is optional. The software uses its value to
 address you and to mention you to others using the appropriate
 grammatical gender. This information will be public."

I think the position of the notice is confusing and suggest:

Place the notice immediately below "How do you prefer to be described?", in the same table cell.

Further motivation:

It is especially confusing if you only/first read "Setting this preference is optional", and even when you read the whole thing it might not be (instantly) clear that "grammatical gender" = "How do you prefer to be described?".

For instance, it could be taken to mean that "More language settings" is optional. (It immediately precedes the link, and those settings aren't even shown here, so it makes sense that they're optional.)

Or else it could mean that everything in the internationalisation section is optional+public, since the notice sort of ends that section.


Version: 1.23.0
Severity: enhancement

Attached:

which_preference_is_optional.png (232×1 px, 21 KB)

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Reference
bz59898

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 2:35 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz59898.

I would like to work on tis bug.Can someone please assign this to me.

Just prepare the patch!
www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial

(In reply to Dan Wolff from comment #0)

I think the position of the notice is confusing and suggest:

Place the notice immediately below "How do you prefer to be described?", in
the same table cell.

But then it would be inconsistent with the other help messages. If we are going to change one, I would prefer all would be changed.

Further motivation:

It is especially confusing if you only/first read "Setting this preference
is optional", and even when you read the whole thing it might not be
(instantly) clear that "grammatical gender" = "How do you prefer to be
described?".

For instance, it could be taken to mean that "More language settings" is
optional. (It immediately precedes the link, and those settings aren't even
shown here, so it makes sense that they're optional.)

Or else it could mean that everything in the internationalisation section is
optional+public, since the notice sort of ends that section.

Hmm, I definitely agree we should explicitly name the preference instead of using the word "this".

(In reply to Bawolff (Brian Wolff) from comment #3)

But then it would be inconsistent with the other help messages. If we are
going to change one, I would prefer all would be changed.

Can we figure out a way to make this work for all messages? Would something as easy as reducing the space above the message and adding some space below be enough?

Hmm, I definitely agree we should explicitly name the preference instead of
using the word "this".

This should probably be done regardless of other improvements to the styling.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:13 AM