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Why does Wikipedia animate edit links?

  • I'm curious to know why Wikipedia chose to animate the edit links for H2 headers. It seems out of character, and a bit distracting. Maybe it's really helpful to people in some way? I can live with it if people really like, I'm just puzzled. The relevant css (without per-browser iterations): .mw-editsection-bracket{ margin 100ms ease-out; }

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    It was an experiment to reduce clutter in the section heading. When the VisualEditor was introduced, we had to add a new item, "edit source" to the heading.  Having two links is confusing (but so is only having one that has a hover effect). I believe this behavior is being reverted as it's a sub-optimal solution.

Brandon Harris at Quora Visit the source

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I have no inside information, but I assume it's to help drive editor engagement. It's a flashing reminder that users can edit the site. I'm sure they have done testing, and if animated links lead to more editing then it seems well worth it to me. Anecdotally, I know that seeing the animation as I scroll down the page has triggered me to make some edits that I might not have otherwise. For instance I would always correct an obvious spelling or grammar error, but lately I find myself more often making minor edits for and readability in articles I had just been reading and not intending to work on.

Thomas Craven

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