User blog comment:Kirkburn/Finding the latest activity on your wiki just got simpler!/@comment-126761-20091110172155

Hullo!

I want to thank each of you for taking the time to give us feedback. We have been reading and discussing your feedback with great interest around the office over the last week. In addition to reading the comments on this post, we have been monitoring email that comes directly from users, local wiki forum discussions and of course looking at the data to see how people are interacting with the Latest Activity widget.

I would like to summarize the feedback/questions we are hearing as well as give you an update on changes we have made and what's next.


 * 1) Font size - We've reduced the size of the widget text to match that of the content navigation on the sidebar. Now all the links to article names are the same size.
 * 2) Long article names - Text overlapping the content area has been fixed, and we also plan to reduce the cases where long article titles can get partially hidden.
 * 3) Making this widget optional - A few of you have requested the ability to close this widget for yourself. The previous community widget which this widget replaced was also not optional and we did not want to change that. We will re-evaluate this decision at a later date based on usage data.
 * 4) Adding links to diff and recent changes - The primary audience for this widget is readers and new editors. In their current form diff pages and recent changes are not very new user friendly. We are exploring other options to make these links accessible for those who want these. Don't forget that recent changes is linked on the sidebar right below content navigation.
 * 5) Namespace inclusion - Again the primary audience for this widget is reader and new editors so we wanted to make sure that this widget highlighted the most easy to understand changes on the wiki. Recent changes is still the place to go to see a full site change log, and we don't want to try to replace that. Again, we are exploring making a namespace option available for those who want it.

Thanks for your continued feedback - we are listening! (And apologies for not getting back to you sooner - been travelling to the US, much fun!)