Design January 2014

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Static Header + Navigation Mod, Part 2
by Brandon Harris 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

I’ve made some fairly significant changes to the Static Header/Nav Mod prototype. You can play with it here: http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/navmod/ Changes below. Note that most icons are placeholders. === New Changes === * Added "watch" button to button ribbon * Shadow only appears on scrolling; disappears and turns to solid border when not moving. * Added icons to article action elements * Turned "more" action into a single pulldown * Edit buttons now have secondary pull down for additional actions (edit source, insert image, etc.) * Section edit link buttons are now standard "white" color until hover, where they turn blue. * Targeted sections now have a slight border in addition to light color fill * Removed border from Table of Contents * Left aligned TOC header * Search placeholder text is now replaced with article title on scroll * All menu items now have icons (placeholders, mostly) === Bugfixes === * Fixed issue with hoverstate on H2 sections and striping (set background color to transparent rather than white) * Fixed border radius issues with internal button ribbon --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Call for contribute to the MediaWiki Homepage Redesign Project
by Brena Monteiro 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hello everyone, The MediaWiki homepage redesign project evolved and Design Document [1] is being built. This time we really need community involvement to help us decide which improvements will be included and implemented in the new layout. Thank you. Best regards, [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Design_Document -- Brena Monteiro

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nytimes.com redesign
by Steven Walling 12 Jan '14

12 Jan '14

I think you'll be able to see it with http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/christie-aide-tied-to-bridge-lan… This is quite interesting, since we've talked about similar redesigns involving elements they use here, such as... - Fully unifying the design across tablets, desktop, etc. - Fixed header - More use of dropdowns (like the "hamburger" menu from mobile) to collapse cluttered menus - Much tighter column width Other elements that I think are interesting and new to us are... - Putting the comments in a column alongside the content directly, when opened - Variable type sizing (see the cog icon for settings) - Content recommendations in a carousel at the top of the page - Navigating in a category of pages using left and right swiping. (Personally I think they will regret this one. People hate it so.) -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Strategy for rolling out new button styles
by Matthew Flaschen 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

Now that the new button styles and classes are headed for core (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103494/), we should decide on a rollout strategy for using the classes. Basically one of: 1. All at once (do https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/52169) 2. Continue piece by piece (e.g. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58296, wpSave, wpPreview, and wpDiff, which Tony Thomas just took). I'm inclined to #1, for horizontal consistency. Matt Flaschen

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Releasing new overlays to stable
by Juliusz Gonera 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Quick question. I noticed the story was changed slightly on Monday and now includes: "Decrease font size of Search Wikipedia search input text and headings on Nearby and Uploads from 18px to 16px" The text in the search input is bigger for a reason: Chrome on Android will zoom the whole page if the text is too small (too small for someone from Google I guess). We have to either keep the text size the way it is or disable zooming altogether to prevent this. So, what should we do? -- Juliusz

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Update to the typography refresh beta feature
by Steven Walling 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

Hi everyone, As Jared and I hinted at previously, we're about to launch a new iteration on the "typography refresh" beta feature for Vector users. You can find all the details about what we've changed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh Note: this won't go live to all wikis until this Thursday. You can see some of the latest changes by using the beta on mediawiki.org, but we're actually making a few final tweaks as we speak this afternoon. For a comprehensive list of what will change, see the link I posted above. -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Easy reader, possibly useful for BetaFeatures
by Mark Holmquist 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

Hi! I was pointed, this morning, at a blog post [1] by Molly White, who has been an editor and technical contributor for some time now. She also did GSoC with us under Matt Walker. The post describes her system for making long talk pages easier to read. I think what she describes (and what she clarified for me when I asked) could easily be turned into another BetaFeatures experiement in Jon's VectorBeta extension. I'm looking for some thoughts on the concept, and maybe a volunteer to help out with the implementation. This would be particularly nice because we haven't, as yet, had a feature driven by volunteers that was a BetaFeatures thing. Another candidate I'm eyeing is Daniel Schwen's "favorite images" gadget, but that's a ways off IMO. [1] http://blog.mollywhite.net/easyreader/ Thanks, -- Mark Holmquist Software Engineer, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist

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NYT 2013 "interactive storytelling" recap
by MZMcBride 01 Jan '14

01 Jan '14

http://nyti.ms/1h9NkB0 There are some very neat ideas in here that we may want to borrow/adapt in 2014 and beyond. MZMcBride

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