Hi, a few days ago I learned that the WMF design team selected "Arial as
our global typeface for all content and interface elements."
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Typography#Typef…
There is a collection of good reasons objecting to this decision at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Typography#…
- can someone answer, please?
I will be having a presentation in 4 weeks at FOSDEM and I want to take
our design guidelines as inspiration for that slide deck. I don't know
what fonts will be used but I can assure you Arial or any proprietary
font won't be there. Any suggestions? We have the community driven fonts
in Linux desktops spiced up by the work done by Canonical, Google and
even Adobe recently.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
I wasn't surprised when I found out there was not template for MediaWiki
based presentations, but I was when it turned out that there is no
template for Wikimedia Foundation slides either.
If you want to participate in the creation of a template for MediaWiki
related presentations here is your chance:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/Presentation_template
See the discussion, where Juliendorra and me have been drafting and
discussing some ideas. These include factors like identity, style,
palette, fonts... Input from more designers is really welcome.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Julien Dorra and I are starting to work on a template for MediaWiki
related presentations. This template will be used for the slides to be
shown at FOSDEM (hopefully, if we get a session accepted), and can be
used by others as well.
Before making hard choices with technology selections there is a
question we want to solve: how to make slides easy to update and localize?
This is the MediaWiki community (including Wikimedia tech), therefore it
makes sense to wonder whether a MediaWiki platform wit a Translate
extension and/or a plug to https://translatewiki.net/ could help here...
But even if that backend would work, how to go from strings translated
and updated via wiki to a final and nice-looking PDF or HTML based
presentation?
Your ideas welcome at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_DevRoom_-_Qgil#How_…
(short URL in case it breaks: http://bit.ly/TaWeQK )
or here, of course.
If you want to get involved in the production of this template and the
slides, in that URL you can find the other topics we are discussing
right now.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi all!
I am writing an extension for Karachay Wikipedia. The extension gives users
option to convert the page from Cyrillic to Latin. The discussion about it
is here: https://krc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия:Конвертер
The design is very simple and is similar to Serbian
Converter<https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D…>.
There is a switcher which have two options: Cyrillic and Latin. If user
choses Latin he gets converted page. Cyrillic is by default.
The development is on GitHub.
https://github.com/soslan/KB-Cyrl2Latn-Converter It is not finished yet. I
am going to add corresponding option to User Settings and switch to HTML
parser. Currently it uses regex to determine what to translate.
What do you think about user experience?
Thanks,
Soslan Khubulov
Built this last night as a mini-project. I figured the world needed another
Lorem Ipsum generator. Enjoy!
www.designeripsum.com
Munaf
PS: No, it's not responsive yet. :-)
Last week I presented the design process we follow in the Language
Engineering team at the Wikimedia Open Tech Chats. The talk emphasizes the
need for embracing cultural diversity in each step of the process.
Slides and video are available.
- Slides:
https://speakerdeck.com/pauginer/multilingual-design-and-testing
- Video: http://youtu.be/RFC2A_zTQ3s?t=45m28s
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
I'm about to submit a couple of proposals for presentations at FOSDEM
[1]. One will be a lightning talk about how to contribute to MediaWiki
and get the results of your work running in Wikipedia and similar sites.
The other one will be a session for the Community development and
Marketing DevRoom, explaining the MediaWiki community, how does it
relate to Wikipedia, ongoing activities, ways to get involved...
Maybe the second will be an extended play of the first. We'll see.
Regardless of whether the FOSDEM proposals are accepted or not, I will
work on them between now and the end of January. We need those
presentations so badly, especially now that we are ramping up MediaWiki
Groups [2] and many people will need exactly this kind of materials for
their own presentations and event.
I'm not bad at creating stories, even with slides. But I suck designing
and, what is worst, I spend a lot of time just to get average results.
Especially because I hate slides with bullet points. This is why I come
here looking for a volunteer teammate full of MediaWiki/Wikimedia love
and with some free time in the following weeks.
Interested? Just reply explaining your interest in this project, your
availability and links to works you have done. Thank you in advance!
PS: on a collateral note I just proposed MediaWiki Group Marketing [3] -
you might be interested in joining/endorsing, or you might prefer to
propose other groups with other scopes [4].
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Marketing
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Bit out dated but resurrecting this thread.
I think we would benefit from having a better strategy / better
thought process around copy text.
http://www.mail-archive.com/mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00134.html
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maggie Dennis <mdennis(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [WikimediaMobile] Copy text on mobile site
To: Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Interjecting, I think it's a great idea to try to find the most
friendly, effective language to draw people in that we can get. Wish I
had expertise myself to help out, but, alas, writing short has never
been my strong point. The idea of bringing in community feedback on
mobile language is an interesting one. :) We have all kinds of
expertise out there, although finding it can be hard. Obviously, we'd
just have to be clear that we're bringing in advice from multiple
streams, so that people aren't disappointed if the ideas they propose
prove unworkable for some reason, such as if they are not accessible
to ESL users.
I've been trying to think of any discussions that could be useful
already on Wiki for this kind of thing, but it's such a different
skillset, writing this succinctly.
In terms of copy-text experts, there must be somebody out there who
teaches people this stuff. Not sure how easy they are to find, though,
or if they'd be in budget.
Maggie
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Maggie Dennis
Community Liaison
WikimediaFoundation.org
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