Testing notes - to check after the fix:

• RTL wiki
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T346704

So, the button showing on the text seems to be indeed what was designed by @RHo:

However, it seems to now be showing in the middle and not at the bottom of the button/link. Aside from its overall horizontal misalignment.

Change #1127047 had a related patch set uploaded (by Michael Große; author: Michael Große):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] fix(NewcomerTask): realign pulsating dot on edit

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1127047

To analogize this to how we show the pulsing-dot inside VisualEditor, we put it a bit lower down than that -- aligned onto the edge of the toolbar, rather than within the button:

We never extended this to mobile VE, though, so I can't say whether we'd have wanted to alter that in a more space-constrained environment.

Change #1127047 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] fix(NewcomerTask): realign pulsating dot on edit

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1127047

Checked in beta:

In T388602#10629079, @DLynch wrote:

To analogize this to how we show the pulsing-dot inside VisualEditor, we put it a bit lower down than that -- aligned onto the edge of the toolbar, rather than within the button:

We never extended this to mobile VE, though, so I can't say whether we'd have wanted to alter that in a more space-constrained environment.

For quite some time, the animation ( i.e. "pulsing") was missing and, also, the blue dot looks flat without an area with a gradient blue color: