https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66577
Bug ID: 66577
Summary: Notifications count is displayed in a confusing way
Product: MobileFrontend
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: design, i18n
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
CC: aricha...@wikimedia.org, jrob...@wikimedia.org,
kw...@wikimedia.org, maxsem.w...@gmail.com,
rkald...@wikimedia.org
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
The notifications count is displayed in a confusing way.
If you log in and click the notifications indicator, you are shown the
notifications list, and the heading is "Notifications 0", "Notifications 3",
etc. The word "Notifications" is in <strong>.
This is suboptimal. "Notifications 0" is not a natural sentence in English. It
might be OK in some languages to say the number after the word "notifications",
but that would be just luck.
If the intention is that it won't be a proper sentence, but that
"Notifications" will be a label for the notifications count, than it's an
acceptable idea, but the implementation must be tweaked. Having it as <strong>
is not enough as separation between the label and the value. Mobile fonts don't
necessarily show bold face clearly enough to be separate, and even when they
do, the number is usually short, so it's not clear.
It would be better to put the count in a little frame, as it is shown on most
pages. Another option is to put a colon between the word "Notifications" and
the number; in this case, the whole thing including the number will have to be
one MediaWiki message, because some languages use the colon differently
(something like "<strong>Notifications</strong>: $1").
You also need to decide whether to use {{PLURAL}}. You may want to always
display it in plural, but then please note it in qqq to prevent questions. Or
you may decide to use {{PLURAL}}, with something like {{PLURAL:$1|$1
Notification|$1 Notifications|0=No new notifications}}.
The decisions should probably be made by designers, so I'm tagging it
accordingly.
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