Hello Design,
This is a little frivolous, but I thought it'd be pleasant if the Vagrant MediaWiki instance (https://github.com/wikimedia/wmf-vagrant) was configured with its own logo, rather than the "Set $wgLogo to the path to your own logo image" default image.
There is a crop of rejected Wikidata logos here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Logo_voting
Some are quite nice and graphically generic, and I bet the authors wouldn't mind if the logo was appropriated for a different use (they're all CC, but it'd still be nice to ask.)
I'm emailing the list (a) to see which one you'd choose, and (b) on the off-chance that one of you would enjoy making a new one.
Thanks!
O
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Ori Livneh
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http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html
Some good stuff to learn from here, and partly supports my not-so-hidden
agenda of making sure Agora buttons and icons aren't *too* flat. :-)
Munaf
At this point it's about creating variants of the theme that received
the most votes in the first round, a kind of arrow-y maelstrom of
doom:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Logo
Would love to see some WMF submissions in these contests. ;-)
Cheers,
Erik
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Hey all,
This is a note of prior explanation about a small design enhancement
upcoming.
*## Background*
You might remember that part of the original Vector plans was to redesign
section edit links to make them more accessible to new contributors. (Look
at the Acai release on usability.wikimedia.org).
Later on, Trevor collaborated with the Community Dept. to run an A/B test
on English Wikipedia of his redesign, which conclusively showed that the
new look increased both clicks and the net number of edits by a significant
amount.
At the time, there was no big push to productize the changes, but the code
has been sitting around inside the ClickTracking extension. My team became
the de facto maintainers of ClickTracking since we were its most heavy
users, and are now deprecating it in favor of EventLogging.
Skipping the big analytics discussion there, suffice it to say that we
don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater, and are working to
productize Trevor's road tested new design for section edit links in
Vector. (No change in Monobook et al.)
*## Plan of action*
Here's the plan for execution, which I've discussed with Howie Fung and
some of the design team so far:
1. We'll deploy the current version of the section edit redesign, which
you can see at http://piramido.wmflabs.org/wiki/Hipster_ipsum. I've
committed to handling the necessary community announcements and final QA.
2. For the second iteration, Munaf and Vibha will work on a redesigned
icon to fit with Agora style, and we'll explore the idea Munaf had -- the
icons appearing only on hover in the section. It's a good one.
The current iteration is perhaps not perfect, but it was tested with users
and showed an improved conversion across the board. It also appears to be
using the previous localization message, so we can safely deploy it
everywhere Vector is in use.
The caveat Howie and I have discussed is the fact that no quality
measurements were done on the increase in editing. This change is really a
basic necessity as far as Product is concerned, so we aren't going to make
that a blocker, but should be prepared to roll it back if it makes the
wikis explode with vandalism etc.
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The Google Chrome Mobile Team and Brad Frost are organizing a Hangout about
responsive design on November 14, 4:30 PM GMT+01:00.
If you are interested, the event link is
https://plus.google.com/events/cm7j0havjjqg37m47j2928sdfig
Pau
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Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
