On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Daniel Friesen, a volunteer, is currently working on improving this
> system further into a more general notification message front-end. [2]
> This change has not been merged yet. You can find a video of the
> system in action here:
As an update, this has now been merged and deployed to all wikis (it's
part of 1.20wmf11).
It's easy to play with - in e.g. Chrome, open the dev tools on any
Wikipedia page (F12), and then enter on the console:
mw.notify( 'The Wikipedia Signpost app is out!' );
This creates a notification with no parameters/options. Running it
repeatedly will stack the notifications.
As a second parameter, you can specify several options:
autoHide: true/false - should the notification time out after 5
seconds - if not, click to hide
title: if specified, shown in bold text above the notification itself
tag: if specified, a message with the same tag will replace the most
recently displayed message with this tag
e.g.
mw.notify( 'The Wikipedia Signpost app is out!', { autoHide: false,
title: 'Mobile updates', tag: 'mobile' } );
This example shows a notification that has to be clicked to be hidden,
and that's tagged, so any other 'mobile' notifications will replace
it.
I agree that this pattern isn't always appropriate, but it's nice to
have it available.
Erik
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Erik Möller
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One of the issues commented during the workshop yesterday was the
difficulty of involving in our projects volunteer contributors that are
interested in design.
The UX community from stackexchange <http://ux.stackexchange.com/> may be a
good place to get feedback from other designers or design enthusiasts.
It is a Q&A site with 15k users and 99% of questions get answers according
to their statistics.
We tried this some time ago, and published a question with out initial
wireframes<http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/21718/which-is-the-best-way-to-select…>to
bring attention to the ULS designs.
I think it is a good way to have some additional feedback from a different
point of view, but also to make design enthusiasts aware that they can find
design-related projects in MediaWiki.org.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation