[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Move the title field to the Document Information panel
Hi, I'd like to propose moving the title field in edit mode to the side, in the information panel, just before the Parent field. We have already parent and tags there and the title would fit nicely there. The main reason for this is to clear up more space for the main content edition. It's also more consistent to put the page metadata together on the side (which has a lot of unused space). Here's my +1 Thanks -Vincent PS: It really helps in Toucan skin to have that title field on the side since a major theme of Toucan is to simplify the interface and provide more space for the content.
+1 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to propose moving the title field in edit mode to the side, in the information panel, just before the Parent field. We have already parent and tags there and the title would fit nicely there.
The main reason for this is to clear up more space for the main content edition. It's also more consistent to put the page metadata together on the side (which has a lot of unused space).
Here's my +1
Thanks -Vincent
PS: It really helps in Toucan skin to have that title field on the side since a major theme of Toucan is to simplify the interface and provide more space for the content.
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Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to propose moving the title field in edit mode to the side, in the information panel, just before the Parent field. We have already parent and tags there and the title would fit nicely there.
The main reason for this is to clear up more space for the main content edition. It's also more consistent to put the page metadata together on the side (which has a lot of unused space).
Here's my +1
Thanks -Vincent
PS: It really helps in Toucan skin to have that title field on the side since a major theme of Toucan is to simplify the interface and provide more space for the content.
-0 I think the title field is a bit more important than the other metadata fields, and it deserves some more space. It also encourages people to write document titles, thus giving more structure to the data. I'd say it should stay where it is. More, I say it should be automatically inserted in the content, like it happens in MediaWiki, and it should have a greater importance in the Lucene result score. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Hi,
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I think the title field is a bit more important than the other metadata fields, and it deserves some more space. It also encourages people to write document titles, thus giving more structure to the data.
I'd say it should stay where it is. More, I say it should be automatically inserted in the content, like it happens in MediaWiki, and it should have a greater importance in the Lucene result score.
I agree with Sergiu on the fact that a title is more important than other kind of document metadata. From my POW, automatically displaying a document's title would be more interesting than putting it away and in fine relying on 1 headers to dislay page titles. In fact, in order to lake the title field more relevant I would even put it closer to the content than it is now, between the tabs and the textarea instead of above the tabs in order to make it more relevant. WDYT ? Guillaume
Hi,
-0
I think the title field is a bit more important than the other metadata fields, and it deserves some more space. It also encourages people to write document titles, thus giving more structure to the data.
I'd say it should stay where it is. More, I say it should be automatically inserted in the content, like it happens in MediaWiki, and it should have a greater importance in the Lucene result score.
I agree with Sergiu on the fact that a title is more important than other kind of document metadata. From my POW, automatically displaying a document's title would be more interesting than putting it away and in fine relying on 1 headers to dislay page titles.
In fact, in order to lake the title field more relevant I would even put it closer to the content than it is now, between the tabs and the textarea instead of above the tabs in order to make it more relevant.
WDYT ?
I'm 0 too, IMHO it would make it both less visible and less usable (smaller field). I agree with Sergiu & Guillaume's : we need to find ways to encourage users to enter titles. Jerome.
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Hi Sergiu, On Feb 15, 2008, at 2:11 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: [snip]
I think the title field is a bit more important than the other metadata fields, and it deserves some more space. It also encourages people to write document titles, thus giving more structure to the data.
I'm not sure why writing document titles explicitely is a good thing. I view it as an impediment. When I write docs with XWiki I don't have to bother with titles since the title matches my level 1 title. It's a more natural flow when writing documentation. I think what we have in xwiki is better than what exist in other wikis where users have to explicitely enter titles. However there are some cases when the computed title isn't right (for example when you put some velocity in titles or when titles are computed as part of some scripting construct). For those odd cases it's good to have a title field override and it makes sense to have that in the metadata.
I'd say it should stay where it is. More, I say it should be automatically inserted in the content, like it happens in MediaWiki,
I don't like this too much. While it's good to be consistent with other wikis I think xwiki is more advanced in this domain so it's pity to loose that. The fact that xwiki can auto-generate valid titles in 99% of cases is a really big plus IMO. The other wikis will use the document name as the title I guess which is way less good than what we have.
and it should have a greater importance in the Lucene result score.
This is agree :) Thanks -Vincent
participants (6)
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Guillaume Lerouge -
Jean-Vincent Drean -
Jerome Velociter -
Sergiu Dumitriu -
Thomas Mortagne -
Vincent Massol