I will be adding my team's vote before the
end of the day. Thanks for
this!
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
No public goals yet please. Let's get
internal agreement first. Step by
step.
-Toby
On Tuesday, November 10, 2015, Wes Moran <wmoran(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Readi…
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the updates!
>>
>> From a process perspective, I'd ask that you post your goals to the public
>> goals page
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals>,
>> as it's the centralised place where we keep all goals.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>> On 10 November 2015 at 09:43, May Tee-Galloway <
>> mgalloway(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> We want to post an update on the progress on UI standardization’s Q2
>>> goals.
>>>
>>> Late last week we were able to collect most of your team priorities so
>>> we, the UI Standardization team, can better sync efforts to
>>> collectively achieve UI consistency with other teams. We’ve started
>>> with Reading, Editing and Search/Discovery. Through learnings from
>>> more conversations, we then reached out to several teams across the
>>> foundation that produce front-end user interfaces. These priorities
>>> are documented here:
>>>
>>>
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/163SxJchYcDozOwjkzBs…
>>>
>>> We are still in the process of gathering feedback from more community
>>> members, Community Resources, and Design Research teams. The timing
>>> hasn’t been ideal, but I am very happy to see this many participation
>>> from relevant parties as a start from the *entire* foundation. We are
>>> learning to better join forces and we are learning fast. Hence, going
>>> forward in the next quarters to come, we want to make it a point to
>>> better integrate teams and community members that do similar work and
>>> care about this matter.
>>>
>>> It's well into mid Q2 now, our scope for Q2 will be smaller, but
>>> nonetheless productive and impactful. For the remaining quarter, we
>>> will be prioritizing on these efforts:
>>> 1- Basic styles implemented with CSS and accompanying HTML
>>> 2- Style Guide - Guide on how and when to use UI components
>>> 3- Improve accessibility of our interface (Vector, OOjs UI, MediaWiki
>>> UI)
>>>
>>> There will be list of FAQ on our MediaWiki page
>>> (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface) in the next
>>> couple of days on how we came to prioritize these requests with your
>>> help. We will also be sharing the estimated timelines for these said
>>> top priorities within this week.
>>>
>>> We will be posting more on the public design list so our community can
>>> be in the loop and have weight even at goal settings. I hope to see
>>> further design-related topics be brought up in the same channel as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> So, stay tuned! More updates to come.
>>>
>>> May & Volker
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dan Garry
>> Lead Product Manager, Discovery
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>
>
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