Design September 2012

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Translation workflow prototype
by Pau Giner 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hi all, I wanted to share a short video that illustrates some ideas for the user experience improvement of the Translate extension. The video is available at http://youtu.be/xKfaLyJE4ow?hd=1 (links to different language-specific versions of the prototypes are available at the video description) Arun and I are organizing usability testing sessions these weeks. Anybody can volunteer for participation in the usability tests at http://goo.gl/E5dvO The only requirement is to speak more than one language, but no previous experience with translation is required. Feel free to provide any comment on the prototype, or join the testing sessions. Pau -- Pau Giner Interaction Designer Wikimedia Foundation

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New(ish) skin
by Nick White 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi, I'm new to the list, and the mediawiki world. If this would be better directed elsewhere, let me know. I recently came across a skin for Mediawiki called Erudite[1], which is based on a Wordpress theme of the same name[2]. I updated it to the work well with the current Mediawiki version, fix bugs, and try and ensure everything was general enough that it should work on any wiki with any extensions. As I say, I'm new to mediawiki, so my ideas on the best ways of doing things come largely from a blog post[3], the mediawiki wiki, and delving into mediawiki's code for things I wasn't sure about. It's possible I didn't follow best practises in some places, but I certainly tried to. I set up a new wiki demoing the skin (editing and creating accounts is enabled; try it out,) here: https://www.dur.ac.uk/nick.white/erudite-demo/mediawiki-current/ And the code is all here: https://www.dur.ac.uk/nick.white/eruditeskin-0.9.4-r1.tar.bz2 If anybody interested could take a look, and give me feedback, that would be wonderful. I'd also ideally love the skin to be taken as one of the standard skins that is distributed with mediawiki. I think it's very attractive, and quite different to the other mediawiki themes I found, so could be a good fit. Might that be possible? How would I go about pushing that forward? Thanks, and I look forward to hearing back from folks. Nick White 1: http://www.unifiedrepublicofstars.com/reference/The_Unified_Republic_of_Sta… 2: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/the-erudite 3: http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/08/mediawiki-skinning-tutorial/

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Template parameter wizard
by Erik Moeller 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Pretty nice user script for the pre-Visual Editor era (and a problem we'll have to solve in VE land as well), developed by a Hebrew Wikipedia contributor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT#Template_Parameter_Wizard It gives you an autocomplete search box for templates to add in the edit window, renders the template key/value parameters as a form, and apparently has a feature for parameter help/documentation as well. JS code here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%… Something similar has been around in de.wp for a while as well, but at least for plain vanilla template insertion, this one looks a bit cleaner and simpler. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Drafts extension
by Steven Walling 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Hey, Heads up that it is a possibility that Trevor's Drafts extension may be enabled after it is reviewed. I wanted to bring this to the attention of the design team just in case it hasn't been mentioned, because it currently adds a button to the editing interface. If anyone wants to have input on this, now is the time to speak up. As I understand it, this is different than the drafts idea that has been discussed for article creation. Rather than a namespace where pages could be moved in and out, this is instead drafts at the more granular level of individual edits. Drafts are put in to a log, but are individually owned. Docs: * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37992 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Drafts * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions… -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Page layer navigation model for mobile wikipedia
by Arun Ganesh 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Inspired by the discussions of the design team meetings, I have been playing around with a few ideas for a simple navigation model for the mobile that can extend the feature set of tools and options available to users. It struck me that the article lead, some images and infobox data can give a very good idea of a topic that is alien to the reader and such a compact view on the mobile screen has a lot of value. It got me thinking of the possibility of decomposing any wiki page into multiple 'views' or layer that can alter the way one views the same page by selectively rearranging and hiding the content. Possible page layers could be: A) Overview: Condensed view of the article optimized for the small touch screen. It can also contain an index of topics covered that can act as navigation aid to jump to a section in the Article layer B) Article: The whole article, just like what you see in the current mobile site C) Gallery: Thumbnails of pictures, videos from the article. Could also fetch related content from other wikimedia projects D) Category: Allows you to jump to related topics if you are interested in the subject. E) Discussion: The talk page to discuss The search and other page functions including language selections go into a menubar that floats above the article. It would work like the menubar in Google Now which Pau had demoed. When you scroll down its hidden, as you scroll up, the menu pops up again, which means that all the functions including search can be accessed from any part of the page. This also saves screen space when you are reading and scrolling down, giving you a full page view of the article with no distractions. You can see a visual overview of this here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Wikimedia_mobile_layer_n… Just an idea, more discussion with the design team pending. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>

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VisualEditor Diffs and Edit Conflicts
by Trevor Parscal 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

I'm interested in getting a few interested people together to talk about possible solutions for viewing diffs (including previewing changes) and handling edit conflicts for VisualEditor. We don't need to do anything formal really - if you are particularly interested in getting involved let me know. If there are a few of us I will throw a short brainstorming session together and we can go from there. Just to throw something out there to give you a feel for what little we have considered in this area: it is possible to utilize the granular history data we capture for undo/redo purposes to support playback. This would give the user a time-slider that takes the document from one state to another, and a play button to animate between these states. This is usually considered to be a "cool" idea, but we don't know that it's practical or respectful enough of people's privacy. I think this is an exciting area of VisualEditor with few restrictions and almost no existing ideas or plans, which makes it possible for us to come up with radical solutions and make them a reality. - Trevor

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Styling, typography and internationalization
by Amir E. Aharoni 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi, Continuing yesterday's theme of deciding about fonts for projects in many languages, I wrote a page about the desired first step in that direction: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Internationalization/Styling_and_typography The rest of the Localization team supports me on that. TL;DR: Before writing a big new movement-wide style guide we must understand and document the different content and UI elements that need styling in different languages and communities and only after that start to bikeshed about particular fonts, weights etc. Comments about that page are welcome. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Sans Serif Typefaces
by Vibha Bamba 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Here is a comparison of serif and sans serif typefaces.

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Drafts extension
by Helder . 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Oliver Keyes said: > Like, if I save a draft, cool. Except it doesn't reappear when I open the > same page's editing window again. When I open a page for which I made a draft of a new version, it shows the list of existing drafts on top of the edit window. If I click in the link provided, the page is reloaded with my draft inside the edit box and I can continue updating it before publishing it. Maybe it was just a bug when you tested? Best regards, Helder

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Re: [Design] [ee] [Echo] Bubble notifications
by Steven Walling 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > that's fantastic, is there any plan to support some basic markup/HTML > parsing in the message - or is it not within the scope of this type of > notifications? I asked about this on wikitech. Daniel Friesen's answer: mw.notify accepts DOM nodes and jQuery objects. So you can add in whatever > html you want by parsing it into dom. mw.notify also accepts mw.Message > objects so you can use `mw.notify(mw.message( 'foo' ) );` and it'll be > parsed. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-September/063189.html -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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