614174 - Differentiate and interlink talk pages and their topic pages

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Janet Swisher]

Current behavior:

The new MDN skin provides no cues, other than the URL, to visually distinguish a talk page from the corresponding topic page. The title and breadcrumbs are the same (possibly with capitalization differences). Also, the talk page has no UI, other than the Back button, for returning to its topic page. If you arrive a talk page from a search, the only way to get to the topic page is to edit the URL.

Desired behavior:

Differentiate talk pages in the title and breadcrumbs by including "Talk:".
Provide a UI for navigating from a talk page to its topic page (e.g., in the "This page" menu).

User complaint: 
http://mdn.uservoice.com/forums/51389-mdn-website-feedback-http-developer-mozilla-org/suggestions/1243483-talk-page-should-link-back-to-normal-page

Sample MindTouch template for navigating back to topic page: 
http://developer.mindtouch.com/en/kb/Create_a_front_or_talk_page_visual_navigation

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This is IMHO a significant issue we should try to address ASAP.

Comment 2

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

In r78485 I've added "This is the talk page for ____" under the title on talk pages, linking back to the parent article. 

The breadcrumbs are trickier, and unfortunately we don't have a lot of control over their output short of building our own breadcrumb function from scratch to use in place of Mindtouch's code. Hopefully the prominent notice under the title will be enough for now.

Comment 3

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

qa-verified-stage https://developer-stage9.mozilla.org/Talk:en/Javascript

Comment 4

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

verified fixed https://developer.mozilla.org/Talk:en/Javascript