Highlight edit button (Community Wishlist/W496)
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Description
A surprising number of people are not aware that they can edit pages, and even when they do, believe they are "not allowed" to do so. We should actively invite readers to edit by highlighting the 'edit' button in some way or another. Perhaps this can be achieved by adding a faint rainbow outline or a blue background, but I'll leave this to experienced UI designers.
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Type of wish
System change
Affected users
readers and potential editors
Phabricator tasks
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Support Smallchief (talk) 08:52, January 15, 2026
Support I agree. Incorporating the newcomer tasks in some way would also make sense. Ganesha811 (talk) 16:52, 15 January 2026 (UTC) Ganesha811 (talk) 08:52, January 15, 2026
Support Interesting idea, but is it possible to get the edit tab highlighted in rainbow? Imagination... 2601AC47 (talk) 11:17, January 16, 2026
Support This is a minor thing, but it could potentially make a big difference. Chess enjoyer (talk) 22:33, January 16, 2026
Support UnscapeableDeath (talk) 08:20, January 17, 2026
Support Yes. This is the most literal "empowering and engaging people around the world to collect and develop educational content" from the WMF mission. JustARandomSquid (talk) 09:04, January 18, 2026
Support A faint rainbow outline would make for a bad design, and maybe there are better solutions than a blue background, but I support the idea. Paloi Sciurala (talk) 05:45, January 21, 2026
Support Yellowmarkers (talk) 06:08, January 23, 2026
Support ChildrenWillListen (talk) 07:00, March 12, 2026
Support Sohom Datta (talk) 09:44, March 20, 2026