That's really interesting, could you give me more references on visual identity guidelines?
I'm currently working on the french wikiversity design, where a lot a "emphase box" are used. The help page [1] will give you an idea of how they look. I already began to switch some of them to a new theme[2] I designed and that the community accepted (they only reduced the icon size).
But now I think that the whole "box everywhere" thing was not the way to go, so I made a new proposition[3] which only use a left dark margin and a simple icon, like those from the noun project. I'm waiting comunity feedback on this proposition, and even if it's targeted to the french wikiversity, feel free to provide me some. You probably don't need to understand french to have a look and have an opinion. ;)
[1] https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Aide:Liste_des_mod%C3%A8les_de_cadres [2] https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Emphase [2] https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Projet:Wikiversit%C3%A9/Refonte_des_mod%C3%A...
https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Projet:Wikiversit%C3%A9/Refonte_des_mod%C3%A...
Le 2013-07-24 00:30, Ori Livneh a écrit :
Flagging this bug for the folks on this list: "Make Wikipedia distinct by styling of a prominent UI feature differently than the default" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51912 [1]
To be clear, I know about ongoing work to develop and implement visual identity guidelines. The bug above is related but much narrower in scope, referring specifically to a problem incurred as a side-effect of the popularity of MediaWiki as a platform.
Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org
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[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51912
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