Hey all,
I'm currently working on the Typography style guide and it occurred to me that we might also want to co-maintain/unify the actual CSS we're using to ensure consistency.
I've had some success with LESS: http://lesscss.org/
In general, it's a great way to write CSS, but it's also a way to enforce consistency since it allows for things like global variables (e.g. @baseLinkColor) that one person can create/maintain and others can reuse.
Just wanted to start the discussion. What do you guys think? I will probably maintain my own LESS files and put them up on GitHub (and link them on the style guide Wiki), but maybe we can all keep up the same repo.
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Munaf Assaf
There is no SF/Oakland BART service today. There was a fire on the tracks or somesuch.
So. That's fun. You probably shouldn't expect many East Bayers - including myself - in the office. Consider this a WFH email. I'll be available via skype for various meetings and the like.
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Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi,
I have been adding some information regarding components and patterns to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Patterns_and_comp…
The content is very raw at the moment, since it is based on the patterns
and components I have been applying in the projects I have been involved
these months (Universal Language selector and Article Feedback).
The idea is to allow anybody to refine, correct, add examples, and discuss
the proposed recommendations where they think the solution proposed is not
the best for a specific context.
In this way we can go from the specific to the general (promoting our
particular project solutions into general recommendations) and the other
way around (applying improvements to the general patterns to the projects
they are using them).
I'll keep adding more information.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
If you haven't looked at it yet, (I know you have, Brandon) the Strategic
Plan describes core beliefs of the Wikimedia Movement and goes on to
describe a "vision for the movement through 2015". Maybe it will help
inform your decisions.
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summar…
-h
This is something I wrote about 1.5 years ago. I think it still has value; for context I was working through several problems relating with communication.
It should give you an idea of my mindset with regard to the problems we have with collaboration (and I'm not just talking about the technical limitations of the software).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jorm_(WMF)/Collaborative_Systems
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Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
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I updated the icon set page from our Etherpad thinger (finally) and created a page about color usage and philosophy.
(This is in response to the work that Vibha and Lindsay have been doing today).
You can find the stub works here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design
You'll note that I expanded our "color usage" document a bit to include information about general philosophies and how we should think about color usage going forward.
Please, BE BOLD, and make edits there. We need to be transparent.
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Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
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Just wanted to send out a resource regarding our ongoing icon refresh:
http://glyphish.com/
Glyphish is CC licensed and open source. $25 gets it for the entire
organization if we want it. Otherwise, it could just be inspiration.
Munaf
Hi folks,
Brandon and I agreed that it would make sense to have a labs wiki that
we can use to spin up experimental code changes. There's a lot of
stuff that goes into MediaWiki core that requires UX/design review,
and of course there are more complex extension changes as well.
Andrew and I put some finishing touches on the wiki today; right now
Brandon and I have root on it, but I'm happy to expand that group to
anyone in the design cabal with Linux sysadmin experience. The
instance currently lives here:
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/
I put together a simple derivative logo of the Labs logo, but feel
free to replace it with something nicer. :-)
Also, you'll find that Upload Wizard is installed here, and you can
test the new drag & drop feature that's currently in development.
You'll have to make an account and then visit
http://mwreview.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Special:UploadWizard
to see it. This would be a good first test case for systematic UX
feedback against a feature in active development. :-)
Cheers,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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