Will we prioritize making permalinks more discoverable at this time?

How would we make them more discoverable?

How many times have people shared a permalink to a wikitext comment or topic?

What does "shared" mean? Generated the link we can track, but not so much where they are published...

In T359489#9609374, @Esanders wrote:

Will we prioritize making permalinks more discoverable at this time?

How would we make them more discoverable?

For example by using a more noticeable (although at the same time more annoying) link color, or putting it in a menu (T338534).

My initial thought here is that generating permalinks is more something that experienced editors do than newcomers, so it's not the end of the world if the feature isn't all that discoverable. It's the sort of thing that, if someone sticks around, they'll eventually figure it out by the time they need to use it.

In T359489#9612122, @Tacsipacsi wrote:

In T359489#9609374, @Esanders wrote:

Will we prioritize making permalinks more discoverable at this time?

How would we make them more discoverable?

For example by using a more noticeable (although at the same time more annoying) link color, or putting it in a menu (T338534).

What you described is precisely what I had in mind...thank you for adding this context, @Tacsipacsi.

In T359489#9609374, @Esanders wrote:

How many times have people shared a permalink to a wikitext comment or topic?

What does "shared" mean? Generated the link we can track, but not so much where they are published...

Per what @Esanders shared offline today, it sounds like tracking how often links are shared isn't feasible at the moment.

In lieu of the above, we're going to see if there's a scalable way of what Ed demonstrated in T359182#9601493: tracking when a permalink to a wikitext talk page comment/topic is published.

In T359489#9612204, @Sdkb wrote:

My initial thought here is that generating permalinks is more something that experienced editors do than newcomers, so it's not the end of the world if the feature isn't all that discoverable. It's the sort of thing that, if someone sticks around, they'll eventually figure it out by the time they need to use it.

Thank you for adding this perspective, @Sdkb. [i]

While I do think there is long-term value in people across experience levels knowing they can generate links to comments/topics, I agree with you in thinking that, for now, we can wait and see how people receive the current implementation.

i. You doing so was the prompt I needed to update the task description to include breakdowns of who is generating permalinks by experience level.