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From: Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 4:34 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019] Ouch, I have an OOUI:
Using OOUI without pain, March 27, 2019 at 18:00 UTC.
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Hi Everyone,
Get ready, because it is time for *Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019* Episode 2!
This month's talk will take place *March 27, 2019 at 18:00 UTC. *
*Topic*
Ouch, I have an OOUI: Using OOUI without pain
*Speaker*
Moriel Schottlender
*Summary*
OOUI is the interface widget library we are using for UI in the Wikimedia
projects. The library is meant to allow implementers to create useful
interfaces that automatically answer internationalized needs that are
unique to the global nature of our projects. Right-to-left support,
supporting old browsers, accessibility, etc, are things that OOUI is doing
in the background for you.
This tech talk will present OOUI’s history, basic and advanced usage, and
demonstrate how to create great interfaces without (much) pain within our
wiki ecosystem.
YouTube stream for viewers: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGfuLP9MqA>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_CUN2o4faw
During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office
You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
As always, feel free to reach out to me with any questions!
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodlund(a)wikimedia.org
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Hi all,
in my part of the Design team at Wikimedia Foundation, I'd like to
share an upcoming change in typography, that might be of interest for
you:
Improving reading experience on mobile [0] –
As many of our projects are putting textual content first, we are
consistently aiming at best possible reading experience for our users,
regardless of the device, software, or language of our readers.
Typography, and specifically font choices, build the base for
readability.
Therefore we have been proposing to rely on so-called system fonts as
our default mobile font choice in the mobile skin MinervaNeue. Both
major platforms, iOS and Android, but also operating systems like
macOS and Windows come out-of-box with better suited system fonts than
the general fallback `sans-serif`. Those specific fonts
- deliver a better native experience for readers,
- improve cross-platform and
- improve cross-language readability.
Please see the project page on mediawiki.org [0] for further technical
details of the changes and an overview of our wide-range testing. Our
current plan is to rollout the change to Beta-Cluster next week.
We welcome your feedback!
Best regards,
Volker
[0] – https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Projects/Improve_mobile_reading_exper…
Senior UX Engineer, UI Standardization Lead (he/him)
Wikimedia Foundation
volker.e(a)wikimedia.org | @Volker_E