Last modified: 2012-12-13 11:20:19 UTC
Every sitelink ends in a small toolbar with edit and remove links. This makes the interface somewhat cluttered. The remove link could be displayed only after edit has been clicked, and thus the number of links in the action column could be significantly reduced.
That seems very counter-intuitive to me. If I wanted to remove something from a list, I'd not expect that clicking "edit" is the way to do that.
I assume this is referring to the [edit|remove] links at <http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Data:Q2>. It could use some design love, for sure. Not sure text is best; icons would be nice.
Icons need localization too, and that's way more tricky than translation text... Also, icons can be quite visually distracting. Not a reason not to use icons, just a reason to think about it first.
Tossed around some ideas with Daniel: trash can icon, [x] icon, etc. But some of these icons may be culture- or language-specific, I'm told, so that's something to keep in mind. Personally, I think computer users can be expected to know [x] is close in an interface. There's a separate concern about how easy it is to remove a bunch of entries (vandalism vector), but that's outside the scope of this bug.
Another comment came from a Hebrew Wikipedia user: It's a bit too easy. Just click "remove". It can be inadvertently disruptive and it can go unnoticed for some time, because with Wikidata interlanguage links edits will be even less visible in the watchlist than they are now (and this is probably an understatement). There should probably be some kind of a confirmation.
verified on demo system
