Background
- Description:
We plan to add descriptive icons for Recent Changes coming form Wikidata and displayed on Wikipedia Recent Changes. With the icons it will be easier for the user to understand the meaning of the change log. However, there is currently no visual indicator about the action. Action could be update, remove, merge or add. This proposal is to add a update icon to Codex and OOUI.
- History:
There is a ticket about how this idea is evolved. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397256
- Known use case(s):
Wikidata's data can be used in Wikipedia articles. When this is the case, if the data in Wikidata is updated, user can see about this change log on Wikipedia Watchlist and Recent Changes. This button will be used change logs related to update changes. It will be visible on change logs auto summary part.
For the timeline, we already have an open ticket programming waiting for this update to be ready. So, sooner would be appreciated.
- Considerations:
No other considerations
User stories
As a user, I need an icon to visually identify the purpose of the change. (this design proposal is developed after user experiments)
Open questions
No open question from us.
Design proposal
To display a change is a update (not add, subtract, merge but update), change log will be supported with this icon.
SVG icon
Acceptance criteria for Done
Design
- The design of the new icon is ready, and it follows the icon guidelines
- An RTL icon has been created (if needed)
- The icon is recognizable on low DPI resolutions
- The icon has been exported as an optimized SVG and added to this task’s description
- The new icon has been included and published in the Codex Figma library
Code
- Add icon in Codex
- Add icon in OOUI
Documentation