'Get MediaWiki'? We've already got that in the sidebar. We have a mainpage to go beyond what's in the sidebar. What are the current releases? What's the status? Is there any important security information we need to know about? This stuff is important, and not everyone subscribes to the release lists (and even if they do, we can't expect people to rely on them). The mainpage would be the obvious place to look for updates.
Also some other random thoughts -
What's the Publish/Discuss/Translate/etc blocks for? They look like navigation but don't seem to go anywhere or correspond to anything. They're also not consistent - for instance 'Translate' is an active verb probably referring to TWN (I guess? TWN isn't exactly specific to mw; they handle translations for a lot of other projects too), and 'On the go' is a random statement that I don't know what it's referring to at all. I mean, 'Ready for mobile devices and tablets' certainly isn't true of MediaWiki. It can be made to work for them, but it can be made to do just about anything.
I also still haven't seen an answer to what that big picture is actually for. So what's it for?
Images being used to illustrate links should also link to the target as opposed to the image (such as the documentation, support, etc), because people are more likely to click on the image than the small text caption. You will need to find PD or other non-SA licensed images to do this, however, because you will lose the attribution for the images.
Bugzilla should have a prominent link. Sysadmins and other users who found bugs are not necessarily looking to 'get involved'. They found bugs and want to report them or find fixes. They're looking for a bug thing. Where is that?
On 24/02/14 21:06, Quim Gil wrote:
On 02/24/2014 01:04 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Most of the visitors to mediawiki.org http://mediawiki.org just want to download the software. I don't see any way to do that in the proposed redesign.
This is the design we are after:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_Homepage_Mockup_Graphic_With_H...
The big picture needs to be cut and be converted in a panoramic image.
Then the "Get MediaWiki" label needs to be converted in a propoer button styled by mediawiki.ui... if you can help us to make the CSS work:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview#medi...
Ryan Kaldari
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Brena Monteiro <monteirobrena@gmail.com mailto:monteirobrena@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki Homepage. Your opinion, contribution and help are very welcome. Thank you. Best regards, [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview