Last modified: 2014-06-13 14:29:59 UTC
The notifications count is displayed in a confusing way. If you log in and click the notifications indicator, you are shown the notifications list, and the heading is "Notifications 0", "Notifications 3", etc. The word "Notifications" is in <strong>. This is suboptimal. "Notifications 0" is not a natural sentence in English. It might be OK in some languages to say the number after the word "notifications", but that would be just luck. If the intention is that it won't be a proper sentence, but that "Notifications" will be a label for the notifications count, than it's an acceptable idea, but the implementation must be tweaked. Having it as <strong> is not enough as separation between the label and the value. Mobile fonts don't necessarily show bold face clearly enough to be separate, and even when they do, the number is usually short, so it's not clear. It would be better to put the count in a little frame, as it is shown on most pages. Another option is to put a colon between the word "Notifications" and the number; in this case, the whole thing including the number will have to be one MediaWiki message, because some languages use the colon differently (something like "<strong>Notifications</strong>: $1"). You also need to decide whether to use {{PLURAL}}. You may want to always display it in plural, but then please note it in qqq to prevent questions. Or you may decide to use {{PLURAL}}, with something like {{PLURAL:$1|$1 Notification|$1 Notifications|0=No new notifications}}. The decisions should probably be made by designers, so I'm tagging it accordingly.
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/xGYe0mqy
I have the actual git version installed, and the view attached in the picture is, what i see :) I think, that your problem is resolved already, i think in this bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65912 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65914 If this isn't that, what you mean, feel free to reopen the bug :)
Created attachment 15647 [details] actual notifications view
Reopening. I am not talking about the icon. I am talking about the text heading of the page that is shown when you tap the icon. Direct link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page#/notifications
This is exactly, what i mean :) Like i said, i have installed the actual git version in my local test installation. There, this badge is removed from notifications overlay/page, like you see in my picture :) I don't know, when this version will be deployed on Wikipedia wikis, but this design bug is solved in git version :)
Yes we just redesigned this. There will be no notification icon in the overlay (you can preview this in the beta mode of the mobile site). https://trello.com/c/xH4Fu82w/2-2-change-notification-icon
