Move: "Move this page" good simple verb form.How about "Edit this text" (so that it applies either to content page or discussio page)? Edit: "You can edit this page." Now it's chatty rather than a verb or a noun.E.g., "View discussions about the content page". Discussion: "Discussion about the content page." First pop-up was a verb form (view.) this is a noun ("discussion") make consistent.Very nice! Very consisent! Tab shld be this consistent and clear.
Article/Message/Special/etc.: "View the content page".Pop-up help messages for tabs are inconsistent.What the heck is view source, then? I'm confused all over again. Or-wait-is it only in MediaWiki that it's called view source and everywhere else it's called edit? Huh, hang on, if I go to the discussion page, there's an Edit tab. Argh, let's see, when I'm displaying the article, there's a tab called View Source but not a tab called Edit. Consistency of labels for same function.And I'm a bold, experienced computer user! I'm not even sure what all of the tabs do (e.g., the "+") because I have been thoroughly intimidated by the fact that the ones I *have* clicked do not do what I expect them to, and I don't want to be mucking things up by clicking something I don't understand.It wasn't scary when it was a link that said "Add to my watchlist", but I do not expect tabs to perform functions. It doesn't it actually *performs a function* and changes the status of something (adds it to my watchlist), which is actually a little scary. Secondly, clicking the Watch tab when it appears should bring up a different display (standard tab behavior). This is not standard behavior for tabs and it's more confusing than NOT having the tabs. I have to use my browser's back button to get back to this edit. But I don't I am given an *empty* Editing page. If I click one of the other tabs and then click Discussion again, I should return to where I am. So, at the moment, the Discussion tab is current for me. Behavior of tabs: Tabs in standard interfaces switch back and forth among different displays.There's no reason for either of these text choices to be used except with those meanings. "Message" should always allow you to type an instant message or email message.
That's by standard convention under Mac and Windows and I think X interfaces, too.
"About" should always display the name of the software and the current version. Do I or anyone else care whether the article is a special article or some other odd-case kind of article? No. I suggest that, if you're in editing mode, it should always say "current" or "article" to display the current version of the page. Sometimes it says "about", sometimes "article", sometimes "special", sometimes all kinds of things, none of which mean anything in particular to me. I don't know why it doesn't say "current". I'm not even sure what it does, although I *suspect* that it displays the current version of this page. I don't want to send or leave a message, so I'm never going to click on that tab. Right at the moment (for me) it says "message".