About new "Continue editing" link in MediaWiki

About new "Continue editing" link in MediaWiki

Hi. Although I encountered very useful the new "→ Continue editing" link, the text shown by this feature is not always completely self explanatory for those users who have activated the "Show preview on first edit" check box in their options, because the link appears in the very first edit page, when no edition was made at all. The situation is even worst for those who have the "Show preview before edit box" feature active in addition, since a nonsensical "Continue editing" legend appears at the top of the -yet not edited- page.

I remark that the fault is not really the link presence itself, since this feature is useful even in the cited circumstances, but only the text shown.

So, I suggest the text of MediaWiki:Continue-editing/en (and also the name of mediawiki message itself, if possible) should be changed to "Go to editing area" or something so. Thus, the feature will be correctly understood in all cases.

Gustrónico (talk)20:54, 18 May 2012

This should go into bugzilla: to get wider attention.

Nike (talk)11:09, 23 May 2012
Edited by another user.
Last edit: 02:44, 8 June 2012

By the way, inserting a "→ " programmatically in front of the message is not a good practice. According to these suggestions:

the arrow should become part of the message text.

Purodha Blissenbach (talk)11:05, 7 June 2012