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[Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:20 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Karl Fogel wrote on 11/08/09 22:07:
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> > Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> writes:
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> >> If we really want a link to Help on every information-disseminating
> >> page, I think it needs to be phrased more in keeping with the
> >> character of the page (e.g. "If you have questions about the content
> >> of this page, please [[Help|ask us!]]") and would preferably be in a separate style to
> >> the per-page content such that people can easily start to ignore the
> >> boilerplate once they're aware of it.
> >
> > I've adjusted the WikiConventions page accordingly.
> >
> > Please just hack away at any summary bar you think needs it, and same
> > for the WikiConventions page.
> >...
> 
> You're trying to address two very different issues in one element.
> 
> The first is reassuring the reader that they're at the right page. I
> predict that a plain-text paragraph, one or two sentences, would do this
> more noticably than the bar does. And if you're on the wrong page, the
> bar has no space available for links to the right page.

I think this should be a rule for every page on the Web. I think we
should consider this this an essential element of every page we are
designing or updating on Launchpad.

This issue has come up in several Launchpad UI reviews. and it is
problematic because there are some Launchpad objects like a
DistributionSourcePackage that has no natural narrative, well, none that
I can think of. In the case of the cd and archive mirrors, Brad and I
were able to come agree what the narrative needs to explain.

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