Highlight edit button (Community Wishlist/W496)

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.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish

System change

Tags

New contributors

Affected users

readers and potential editors

Phabricator tasks

T428816

Other details

Created: 16:39, 15 January 2026
Last updated: 18:45, 15 June 2026
Author: Ca (talk)

Voting

This wish currently has 25 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish

Support Ca (talk) 16:39, 15 January 2026

Support Smallchief (talk) 16:52, 15 January 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) 16:52, 15 January 2026

Support Czarking0 (talk) 18:35, 15 January 2026

Support Netjeff (talk) 05:21, 16 January 2026

Support Kowal2701 (talk) 16:25, 16 January 2026

Support Interesting idea, but is it possible to get the edit tab highlighted in rainbow? Imagination... 2601AC47 (talk) 19:17, 16 January 2026

Support This is a minor thing, but it could potentially make a big difference. Chess enjoyer (talk) 06:33, 17 January 2026

Support UnscapeableDeath (talk) 16:20, 17 January 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) 17:04, 18 January 2026

Support Yes. Good plan. Cremastra (talk) 18:19, 18 January 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) 13:45, 21 January 2026

Support Yellowmarkers (talk) 14:08, 23 January 2026

Support Karol739 (talk) 01:04, 9 February 2026

Support Conbene (talk) 11:59, 16 February 2026

Support Red Sneak (talk) 13:21, 18 February 2026

Support ZandDev (talk) 01:54, 27 February 2026

Support ChildrenWillListen (talk) 14:00, 12 March 2026

Support Toadspike (talk) 12:04, 15 March 2026

Support Sohom Datta (talk) 16:44, 20 March 2026

Support Asked42 (talk) 16:14, 30 March 2026

Support ChaoticV (talk) 09:52, 31 March 2026

Support FaviFake (talk) 13:49, 15 April 2026

Support However, I would definitely like to see an option to disable this in preferences. Axolitl (talk) 21:38, 28 July 2026

Support 魔琴 (talk) 15:20, 29 August 2026