Well a number of sites have been doing this a lot lately, the position of the top bar or <div id = "header_outer"> in wikihow.com is *fixed* so even after reading the last line of article one does not need to scroll back up. The top bar provides certain functionality easily like searching, help section, log in etc.
I personally am trying to figure out whether this is possible in Wikipedia or not. While reading long articles, it is very tedious to scroll up for a search box or even for accessing the index !!
Would love to hear more on it. Thanks.
Thanks, Arnav http://arnavs.com/. (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati .
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Few other popular sites use MediaWiki as their primary CMS. Basically it's just us, Wikia, and wikiHow AFAIK. I'd definitely go to wikihow.com and check out what they've done in their just-launched redesign.
Here's a screenshot of their previous homepage, for comparison: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/9/9a/20131019173222%21Wiki...
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