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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) < smazel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Also see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/23424/ > > In my opinion, external link icons add a lot of visual noise and not that > much relevant information. > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> Changed subject to reflect this change in topic. Also cc'ing design >> mailing list. >> >> In terms of external links to me I don't care about whether I'm leaving >> the site or not. If I clicked on something and it wasn't what I expected >> that's a badly labeled link. A link saying there is more information on the >> [white house official website] and a link to the word [house] should be >> enough information to tell which I'd external and which isn't. >> >> I actually think the only place an icon next to a link really makes sense >> is for downloads. Clicking something that downloads a PDF when I thought it >> was a web page is a little confusing (on mobile at least). >> >> That said if all the external links are in the external links / >> references section wouldn't encouraging that organisation of links be >> better....? >> >> Also I agree with Juliusz that we shouldn't force behaviour of where >> links open. It should be up to the user if they want the same tab or new >> one and it should be configurable within the browser preferences. >> On 24 Oct 2013 16:07, "Juliusz Gonera" <jgon...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> No, we should definitely not warn people, that's just weird ;) It's >>> not like something bad is about to happen. >>> I'm also not saying that users have the expectation that links point to >>> local URLs, I'm only saying that it might be a useful piece of information >>> to some. >>> >>> >>> On 10/24/2013 02:48 PM, Jared Zimmerman wrote: >>> >>> Its definitely a less heavy handed way of doing the thing many >>> (annoying) sites do when they warn you that you're leaving their site. I >>> just wonder is the signal to noise it worth it. I don't know that modern >>> web users have any expectations that link within a site always point to >>> local site urls. >>> >>> * >>> * >>> * >>> * >>> *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia >>> Foundation >>> M : +1 415 609 4043 | : >>> @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> des...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >> >> > > > -- > Siebrand Mazeland > Product Manager Language Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > > M: +31 6 50 69 1239 > Skype: siebrand > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > des...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > -- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
