# Wiki Edit behavior change
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [January 24, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242 "2017-01-24T00:43:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/1 "2017-01-24T00:43:41Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Can't mark a post as wiki anymore](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-mark-a-post-as-wiki-anymore/40090/25):
In the past, there were two icons for wiki posts - a wiki edit icon (pencil and paper) and an edit log icon (pencil). Clicking the wiki edit icon opened the editor, clicking the edit log icon opened the edit log. Now, the edit log icon seems to have been removed entirely from wiki posts, and it clicking the wiki edit icon brings up the log, not the editor. Was this change intentional? I’ve already gotten 2 complaints from my site about this change.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/2 "2017-01-24T01:21:30Z")
Yup this was intentional. When there isn’t any edit history, the wiki icon will bring up the editor. Once an edit has been made, the wiki icon brings up the edit log.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/3 "2017-01-24T01:29:21Z")
What was the rational behind the change? It’s really confused my users - we had to unhide the edit icon.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/4 "2017-01-24T02:08:40Z")
The “wiki icon + the edit icon” pattern added one more glyph for users to puzzle about. Perhaps you can find out why they feel strongly about using the wiki button to edit the post instead of just using the normal edit button?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/5 "2017-01-24T02:10:51Z")
The issue wasn’t that they felt “strongly about using the wiki button” more that it was a subtle and unexpected change. For the purposes of my site, editing your own post is rare, but 90%+ of topics are wiki (internal knowledgebase) so that’s what everyone was used to. When we did training on Discourse that’s how we taught people to work.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/6 "2017-01-25T03:02:21Z")
I was thinking about this, and I suggest we add an “edit” button to the edit history dialog to allow for this case. Maybe only visible on the latest revision. Can you take that @tgxworld
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/7 "2017-01-25T06:37:38Z")
PR in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4673](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4673)
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/8 "2017-01-26T05:34:37Z")
Ok this has been merged. I’ll give it a couple of days for people to test it out before closing this.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/9 "2017-01-26T08:04:59Z")
I think the Edit Wiki button is OK at the bottom but it is awfully buried there way way down at the bottom, too. I suggest _duplicating_ the Edit Wiki button here at the top too.
Also I suggest `Edit Wiki` instead of `Edit wiki`
(In a related change, I decided to de-emphasize the switch view buttons on the right with CSS, as they were fighting with all the other buttons on that dialog for attention.)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/10 "2017-01-27T23:46:29Z")
I say this is definitively fixed now 😉 thanks @tgxworld
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-edit-behavior-change/56242/11 "2017-01-27T23:46:33Z")