Added my comments on mediawiki.
@Steven:
No matter how much anyone doesn't like the globe including myself, it's a
huge part of Wikipedia's brand like you mentioned and shouldn't be wiped
out just for the sake of our personal preference. We should improve and not
trash it. Even if we trashed it and replaced with something else, we still
need SOMETHING people can relate to in regards to the project. Why do this
when people already relate the globe as Wikipedia. Wabi sabi wasabi man.
mm
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
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
\o/
The search prototype is great, and so are the improvements to the
toolbar, particularly the relation between the TOC and the way the page
actions slide out on scrolldown. I can't wait to see this as a beta
feature.
Some very small things:
- I realize the icons are mostly placeholders, but the user contribs one
is seriously confusing. It looks like there are two edit buttons when you
scroll down.
- I think the main edit button at the top should not be the quiet state
from mw-ui. There is very little use of color on the skin now, so it's not
like we're overwhelming things. We need to stop being afraid to make a few
things LOUDER, particularly since in this prototype we're removing some
color (like the Vector borders).
- The line underneath the page title h1 is a different thickness (and
color?) than the other borders. It's mildly annoying.
And one bigger thing... The lack of the puzzle globe when scrolling. I
know you hate the puzzle globe and so do many of our designers. But it's a
key part of our identity, and it's also a really nice large target for
"home" on desktop. Thinking of this as a potential future default look,
splitting the logo and wordmark on every page like that is a serious
change. We should have a larger conversation about it I think internally.
Either we do think the globe is an important part of our brand or we don't.
If we think it's so unimportant as to remove it on scroll, then that has
pretty wide implications for our branding I think.
Winter is coming, (I couldn't resist the Game of Thrones reference.)
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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