Hello, I am Denis Favre, and I am brand new on the Design list.
I am a simple French Wikipedia user, but I have been driven to the
design list by Sylvain Boissel, Network Administrator at Wikimedia
France, because I have made him a suggestion to modify the design of
the Header and template of Wikipedia articles.
As a simple picture is worth a thousand words, before I explain
further, please have now a look to the attached picture I’ve made of
an article implementing my idea.
I took the example from the Wikipedia page "Arab-Israeli conflict”,
and added two lines below the title, lines intended to appear in the
header and template of Wikipedia articles.
These 2 lines highlight the number of editors, editions and watchers
of an article, informations token from the Statistics page.
Here are my reasons : you are not unaware that for a significant part
of the people, the reliability of Wikipedia is suspect ... For me, and
you will easily agree, the reason is, in part, because most people
ignore the reality of the collective writing of Wikipedia.
Yes, the tabs Talk and View history reflects explicitly whether well
the collective writing process which is the project of Wikipedia and
do exist up the page, of course, but they are not prominently
displayed for the general public, which have absolutely no knowledge
of them, as I can check it every time I ask the question in my
entourage, and it is even yet of University level (LOL !)
So, as you can see, the idea is to show very clearly to the readers
the collaborative aspect of the writing of wikipedia articles,
indicating in particular the importance of the number of contributors,
the modifications made and highlighting the discussion existing
between contributors, and leading the audience to surf to the tabs
contents or the Statistics ...
By indicating in the second line the number of supervisors and the
role of the robots, not only vandalism can be discouraged, but this
line highlights that the writing / corrections process is constantly
active and that the article has a good chance of to be up to date, or
at least to have few errors.
Just for you to know, at 57 years old, I had a science writer carrier,
and had a university course of Media sociology.
I hope this suggestion to modify the header and the template of the
articles may be relevant for the design team.
Please let me know what this idea may become...
Regards,
Denis
Hi WMF Design folks,
I found a short video on Youtube (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln2PGPpBkw) from the year 2017 that
discusses designing Wikipedia for communities which have limited Internet
capabilities. Is there any chance in the near future to get an update
regarding the types of reader research and contributor research that were
discussed in this video? I would be especially interested in hearing
updates regarding what the outcomes were of reader outreach programs for
refugees. Perhaps updates could be shared at a future Activities Meeting or
Research Showcase.
Thanks,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hi everybody -- we integrated the visuals into a deck
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ya1ZyVn-_PyNLUwpGH9oSuXov87OsDUZfk6oOCRa-…>
for Katherine and Janeen to help them understand our aspirations for the
annual plan and medium term plan.
Just heard back from them and THEY LOVE IT. Katherine apologized for
disturbing me on a weekend but wanted to let me know.
Thanks again for all the hard work people put into the deck, especially the
designers who dropped everything for a week to see the future.
-Toby
Curious to get thoughts on this design concept I developed called Family Circles
https://fc.jenika.com <https://fc.jenika.com/>
for viewing, building, and exploring genealogy/family relations visually.
To find out more about the applications the above URL has short video’s to provide quick intorductions.
I’m working with some folks at WikiTree to use their data as a possible service. But keep thinking that a combination of that relational data combined with wikipedia’s high profile people articles and Family Circles visualization would make for a great integration.
Family Circles integrates well, using different data stores. Take a look at the examples page. It is also great for visualizing photos like:
https://fc.jenika.com/examples/1939Orsi.html <https://fc.jenika.com/examples/1939Orsi.html>
Positioning families in really large models is still a big work in progress but this is a photo of the entire GOT data set with 833 people and 287 different families zoomed in on one person.
Hi all,
last week we've successfully brought the improved font choice to our mobile
skin MinervaNeue onto all wikis.
It helps to provide our users a better reading experience – across
languages, in and beyond latin scripts and a more modern typographic feel
to many of our text-focussed projects, taking advantage of specifically
designed and optimized fonts for every major system.
Technically we're applying an operating system font first stack for running
text (every text element besides main page titles, headings of 2nd order,
blockquotes, code snippets, basically most of every page) on mobile devices
for most popular systems[0].
Thanks to everybody who has helped in the process of this project, Nirzar
Pangarkar for bringing the idea to the table[1], Jon Robson, Jan Drewniak,
and the rest of Reading Web team for co-researching and supporting the
implementation, Alex Hollender for fine-tuning design parts as well as
documenting pre- and post-change, Brad Jorsch for important reminder of
learnings from the Typography Refresh 2014 and Chris Koerner for
accompanying the communication externally along the way.
You can read more on the details on the project page and at the Phabricator
task.
Please let us know if you have any questions or further feedback, either by
responding to me or on the project's talk page[2].
[0] -
https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Projects/Improve_mobile_reading_experie…
[1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T175877
[2] -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Design/Projects/Improve_mobile_reading_…
Enjoy and best regards,
Volker
--
Senior UX Engineer, Lead User-Interface Standardization
Wikimedia Foundation
volker.e(a)wikimedia.org | @Volker_E
Forwarding.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Sarah R <srodlund(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 4:34 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019] Ouch, I have an OOUI:
Using OOUI without pain, March 27, 2019 at 18:00 UTC.
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Everyone,
Get ready, because it is time for *Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019* Episode 2!
This month's talk will take place *March 27, 2019 at 18:00 UTC. *
*Topic*
Ouch, I have an OOUI: Using OOUI without pain
*Speaker*
Moriel Schottlender
*Summary*
OOUI is the interface widget library we are using for UI in the Wikimedia
projects. The library is meant to allow implementers to create useful
interfaces that automatically answer internationalized needs that are
unique to the global nature of our projects. Right-to-left support,
supporting old browsers, accessibility, etc, are things that OOUI is doing
in the background for you.
This tech talk will present OOUI’s history, basic and advanced usage, and
demonstrate how to create great interfaces without (much) pain within our
wiki ecosystem.
YouTube stream for viewers: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQGfuLP9MqA>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_CUN2o4faw
During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office
You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks
If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Te…
As always, feel free to reach out to me with any questions!
Kindly,
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
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Hi all,
in my part of the Design team at Wikimedia Foundation, I'd like to
share an upcoming change in typography, that might be of interest for
you:
Improving reading experience on mobile [0] –
As many of our projects are putting textual content first, we are
consistently aiming at best possible reading experience for our users,
regardless of the device, software, or language of our readers.
Typography, and specifically font choices, build the base for
readability.
Therefore we have been proposing to rely on so-called system fonts as
our default mobile font choice in the mobile skin MinervaNeue. Both
major platforms, iOS and Android, but also operating systems like
macOS and Windows come out-of-box with better suited system fonts than
the general fallback `sans-serif`. Those specific fonts
- deliver a better native experience for readers,
- improve cross-platform and
- improve cross-language readability.
Please see the project page on mediawiki.org [0] for further technical
details of the changes and an overview of our wide-range testing. Our
current plan is to rollout the change to Beta-Cluster next week.
We welcome your feedback!
Best regards,
Volker
[0] – https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design/Projects/Improve_mobile_reading_exper…
Senior UX Engineer, UI Standardization Lead (he/him)
Wikimedia Foundation
volker.e(a)wikimedia.org | @Volker_E
Forwarding because I think that this announcement might be of interest on
other lists too.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Ryan Schmidt <skizzerz(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:01 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] New Request for Comment: Skin templating
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all!
I have recently started a new RFC on revamping how skins are created, to
improve usability in creating skins, extend skins with new UI (in
Extensions), and give more power and flexibility for system administrators
to customise skins for their own sites without causing undue burden on
upgrades.
Details are on the RFC page on mediawiki.org, linked below. I welcome all
comments and questions, as I believe that these changes will greatly
improve the current state of our skin system. I prefer that comments and
questions are collected on the mediawiki.org page so that we can keep them
all in one place, but I’ll answer anything here as well 😊
Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217158Mediawiki.org page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Skin_templating
Regards,
Skizzerz
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