Hallo.
DYK: The first commit in the MediaWiki source repo is the change from
"Older versions" to "Page history".[1]
Does anybody think that calling the "history" tab "history" is really very
good?
Version "history" is a rather technical term that not all people who aren't
developers necessarily. understand without explanation. This becomes even
more confusing on a site like Wikipedia, many of whose pages deal with
History. This is anecdotal, but I saw people clicking the "History" tab in
the English Wikipedia and getting confused, because they expected to see
stuff about generals, monarchs and discoveries. Calling it "View history"
is not much better.
"Older versions" or "previous versions" or something along these lines
describes the essence of the link more precisely and clearly.
My home wiki, the Hebrew Wikipedia, calls the history tab "Previous
versions", even though in MessagesHe.php it's translated as "History". I
went to all the other Wikipedias that have over 50,000 articles and found
interesting results. Wikipedias in 7 languages don't call this tab
"history" or "view history", but rather:
German: Version history
Italian: Chronology
Polish: History and authors
Indonesian: Previous versions
Hebrew: Previous versions
Croatian: Show older changes
Latvian: Chronology
It's not a majority, but it does show some interesting variety, which must
not be ignored.
So I'm asking the experienced design people and anybody else who has an
opinion: Now that we are talking so much about major design changes
(Winter, etc.), can we consider changing this as well?
[1]
http://git.wikimedia.org/commitdiff/mediawiki%2Fcore/bdf01f1062405e1f2b46a9…
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http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hello All,
I'm very happy to announce the addition of Preteek Saxena as UX Prototyping
contractor to the UX Design team. Prateek will help the design team build
high fidelity mockups that allow us to do moderated and unmoderated user
testing with systems that test concepts outside the roadmaps of other
groups for early validation. Prateek will also aid in transitioning Explore
(20%) time experiments into code launchable as Beta Features.
Prateek is a developer with an eye for design. He has worked with
foundation developers on various projects in the past including the mobile
team. He has developed primarily for the web using frameworks like Ruby on
Rails in the back end and d3.js and jQuery on the front end. He has also
worked on design for the web, mobile and print.
When Prateek isn't making beautiful functional prototypes he can be found
working on game prototypes http://xvii.in/ & http://vertigo.clay.io/ and
making music with friends https://soundcloud.com/bowl-of-petunias
Prateek will be working with my team and product managers to bring static
design concepts to life. He will initially be focused on Navigation Popups
and Fixed Header Beta Features, but will certainly branch out to work with
us on other projects. He is located in Mumbai, so you'll mostly see him on
IRC or via email.
some links:
http://prtksxna.com/work/https://github.com/prtksxnahttp://xvii.in/http://vertigo.clay.io/https://soundcloud.com/bowl-of-petunias
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman>
Hello!
I was showing May the 'WikiLove' feature deployed on our wikis
yesterday, and notices that the UI felt a bit... dated. With help from
Prateek Saxena (who did the design and most of the CSS), and LegoKTM &
Kaldari (who helped with CR), I think it has been made slightly less
ugly now.
As before and after shots, it looked like
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mdx7frtablxebiy/Screenshot%202014-02-06%2023.12.4…
and now looks like
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ez3x8lliew37f2a/Screenshot%202014-02-06%2023.12.2…
It should be deployed to testwiki next Thursday, and English Wiki the
thursday after. Both Prateek and May told me that we should replace
the icons as well, which sounds like a good idea to me (once we have
icons made by people who are not-me :)).
Thanks everyone!
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Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Prateek! Im so excited to be working with you. Welcome Aboard.
I'm playing Bowl of Petunias <https://soundcloud.com/bowl-of-petunias> right
now for the Design team =]
Keep making fun stuff =]
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Shahyar Ghobadpour <
sghobadpour(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Welcome, Preteek! Great to have another addition to the UX team.
> vertigo.clay.io is messing with my head.
>
> --Shahyar
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Heather McAndrew <
> hmcandrew(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Welcome Prateek!!
>>
>> Heather
>>
>> *Heather McAndrew*
>> *Recruiter*
>> hmcandrew(a)wikimedia.org
>> www.linkedin.com/in/recruitervolunteerheather/
>> *415-839-6885
>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/recruitervolunteerheather/> ext. 6829*
>>
>>
>> Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork
>> We welcome you to contribute to Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/Imnhhttp
>> Developers-Join us on IRC: http://bit.ly/VC07xq
>> Become a Product Advisor: http://bit.ly/R1obwD
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jared Zimmerman <
>> jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I'm very happy to announce the addition of Preteek Saxena as UX
>>> Prototyping contractor to the UX Design team. Prateek will help the design
>>> team build high fidelity mockups that allow us to do moderated and
>>> unmoderated user testing with systems that test concepts outside the
>>> roadmaps of other groups for early validation. Prateek will also aid in
>>> transitioning Explore (20%) time experiments into code launchable as Beta
>>> Features.
>>>
>>> Prateek is a developer with an eye for design. He has worked with
>>> foundation developers on various projects in the past including the mobile
>>> team. He has developed primarily for the web using frameworks like Ruby
>>> on Rails in the back end and d3.js and jQuery on the front end. He has also
>>> worked on design for the web, mobile and print.
>>>
>>>
>>> When Prateek isn't making beautiful functional prototypes he can be
>>> found working on game prototypes http://xvii.in/ &
>>> http://vertigo.clay.io/ and making music with friends
>>> https://soundcloud.com/bowl-of-petunias
>>>
>>> Prateek will be working with my team and product managers to bring
>>> static design concepts to life. He will initially be focused on Navigation
>>> Popups and Fixed Header Beta Features, but will certainly branch out to
>>> work with us on other projects. He is located in Mumbai, so you'll mostly
>>> see him on IRC or via email.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> some links:
>>>
>>> http://prtksxna.com/work/
>>>
>>> https://github.com/prtksxna
>>>
>>> http://xvii.in/
>>>
>>> http://vertigo.clay.io/
>>>
>>> https://soundcloud.com/bowl-of-petunias
>>>
>>>
>>> *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia
>>> Foundation
>>> M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman>
>>>
>>>
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Welcome Prateek! Good to have you on Jared's awesome UX team!
Best,
Alolita
Alolita Sharma
आलोलिता शर्मा
Director of Engineering
Internationalization / Localization
Wikimedia Foundation
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Heather McAndrew
<hmcandrew(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Welcome Prateek!!
>
> Heather
>
> *Heather McAndrew*
> *Recruiter*
> hmcandrew(a)wikimedia.org
> www.linkedin.com/in/recruitervolunteerheather/
> *415-839-6885 <http://www.linkedin.com/in/recruitervolunteerheather/> ext.
> 6829*
>
>
> Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork
> We welcome you to contribute to Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/Imnhhttp
> Developers-Join us on IRC: http://bit.ly/VC07xq
> Become a Product Advisor: http://bit.ly/R1obwD
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jared Zimmerman <
> jared.zimmerman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I’m very happy to announce the addition of Preteek Saxena as UX
>> Prototyping contractor to the UX Design team. Prateek will help the design
>> team build high fidelity mockups that allow us to do moderated and
>> unmoderated user testing with systems that test concepts outside the
>> roadmaps of other groups for early validation. Prateek will also aid in
>> transitioning Explore (20%) time experiments into code launchable as Beta
>> Features.
>>
>> Prateek is a developer with an eye for design. He has worked with
>> foundation developers on various projects in the past including the mobile
>> team. He has developed primarily for the web using frameworks like Ruby
>> on Rails in the back end and d3.js and jQuery on the front end. He has also
>> worked on design for the web, mobile and print.
>>
>>
>> When Prateek isn’t making beautiful functional prototypes he can be found
>> working on game prototypes http://xvii.in/ & http://vertigo.clay.io/ and
>> making music with friends https://soundcloud.com/bowl-of-petunias
>>
>> Prateek will be working with my team and product managers to bring
>> static design concepts to life. He will initially be focused on Navigation
>> Popups and Fixed Header Beta Features, but will certainly branch out to
>> work with us on other projects. He is located in Mumbai, so you’ll mostly
>> see him on IRC or via email.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> some links:
>>
>> http://prtksxna.com/work/
>>
>> https://github.com/prtksxna
>>
>> http://xvii.in/
>>
>> http://vertigo.clay.io/
>>
>> https://soundcloud.com/bowl-of-petunias
>>
>>
>> *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia
>> Foundation
>> M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wmfall mailing list
>> Wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall
>>
>>
>
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>
>
FYI. For designers on the list, this is also on Beta Labs right now, though
some patches are still needing merge before Thursday.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:09 PM
Subject: Small update to button styles in MediaWiki core
To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects <
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
This is just a notice that we are making a small series of updates to the
button styles in MediaWiki core. These buttons appear on login, account
creation, search, and some other interfaces.
This isn't a big change, but I didn't want anyone to be taken by surprise
since there are some color changes and so on. On the positive side, those
who think our blue action buttons are too Facebook-like may be pleased with
the change. ;-)
This is added to Tech News next issue,[1] and you will be able to see it on
mediawiki.org as of Thursday, if you want to try it out before it is on
your wiki.
Thanks!
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/06
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Hello!
I’ve been making a thing. It’s actually got a code-name now! No more saying “Vector static header and navigation modification”.
LOTS of stuff going on with this update. Notably:
* Now asks for a username on load, so as to set things up
* All pages are loaded from the API via JSON. So it’s not just the single static page.
* Got rid of pretty much every color.
* Article actions now dock in the header as you scroll.
* Table of Contents is now in the header from the beginning
* The sidebar’s border goes away as you scroll past it
* Lots of links/actions do what you think they should. Most do not.
You can play with it here: http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/
And read more about it here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter
Here’s your changelog:
== Changes, January 20 ==
* New code name: Winter
* System now prompts for a user name upon load and will optionally save the value.
** This sets up the personal bar to be, well, personal.
** This action ''DOES NOT'' log the user into Wikipedia.
** Saved data can be cleared from the sidebar.
* Searchbox now drops text on focus and replaces it on blur
* Searchbox now has a hover state with invitation text.
* Searchbox icon now turns blue on focus
* Logo now snaps to white background when in locked position.
* Sidebar is now white by default, with a grey border that fades out when all items in the sidebar are out of view.
* The Table of Contents now appears in the header of the page from the beginning
** (Previous versions of Winter had the ToC only appear there after the in-page Table of Contents rolled off-screen)
* Article actions now dock in the header when they scroll out of view (iconfied).
* Added tipsy behaviors.
* Fixed issue with search box positioning.
* Added pencil icons to section edit buttons
* Section edit buttons now are visible at all times but do not have borders.
** On hover, they turn blue.
* Changed section edit hover transition from 'linear' to 'ease'
* Added footer section
* Added "categories" box in example article
* Added "Typography" toggle in sidebar. Activating it turns on:
** An approximation of restricted measure
* References have returned
* Built a JSON parser into the demo so that different pages can be loaded via the API.
* Language links are now slotted into the sidebar.
* System correctly recognizes when it's looking at ''User'' content (User: and User_talk:) and adds icons and functionality as required
* Handles contributions (sort of - buggy)
=== Known Issues ===
* Contributions views:
** Timestamps don't sort right
** Comment fields are not correctly parsed from wikitext to html
** Size changes are not correctly reflected
* Redlinks do not work
* System does not handle 404 loads correctly (fails silently, requires reload)
* Internal hash URLs don't scroll correctly
* Some buttons don't go away when they should
* Loading from JSON breaks the nice little "section hover" stuff.
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Hi,
Today I worked on finishing the new buttons styles. They're mostly done
but I would like to clarify a few things. You can preview the current
version by downloading https://www.dropbox.com/s/b1sn1x4slkwgqs9/buttons.zip
Every button variant has 4 subvariants:
* normal
* disabled
* quiet
* quiet disabled
Doubts:
1. The colors. I took them from
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Guide_Color.png but blue looks kind
of dim. Blue, green an red also don't seem to have the same level of
perceived lightness. Is that OK?
2. Quiet buttons. I remember clearly from talking to May that we wanted
them to be colored in their default state and make them slightly darker
in hover. I don't remember what they were supposed to look like when
disabled. Right now they're slightly lighter but maybe they should be
all gray?
3. Focus state. Right now it's the same as hover state, but I'm afraid
it might not be enough for people with poor vision or color-blind who
use keyboard for navigation. Opinions?
Thanks,
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Juliusz
