Language options is really extremely important for Wikimedia projects especially for Wikipedia. But I have a little suggestion is to add a banner at top of the articles like wikivoyage looks like, it helps the user to have a first image of the country or person or thing... Also, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2014_main_page_redesign_proposal#Pro..., User:Guy Macon proposed a new design of the main page, I personally strongly oppose to this design, how do you guys think of? _______________________________________________ Gabriel Lee, 13, Hong Kong Student, Admin of wy/zh, beta
2014-02-27 14:59 GMT+08:00 Denis Jacquerye moyogo@gmail.com:
To their credit, they do have a World icon, in large view it has "English" next to it.
Zooming shows they use Helvetica.
http://weare1910.com/sites/default/files/project/wikipedia_new_desktop_full....
There is no evidence all serif fonts are worse for dyslexics. Some some serif fonts perform adequately. You can't throw away all serif fonts just because some perform poorly, unfortunately it's not that simple. http://www.luzrello.com/Publications_files/assets2013.pdf
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Kaity Hammerstein khammerstein@wikimedia.org wrote:
Here's their original post - bigger pics and explanation http://blog.weare1910.com/post/75576312730/a-readable-wikipedia Because they have no constraints, they could have done so much better!
Not
very creative or inspiring
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.org wrote:
Oh, joy. Another group of people who don't understand that themultiple languages thing is Wikipedia's *most important feature* so
they of
course scrap it entirely.
I can't zoom in on the photos but that looks like a serif fontfor
everything, so I guess dyslexics aren't supposed to use this, either.
Design is easy when you don't have to worry about real-worldconstraints.
On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
This showed up in my Google alerts. This one looks a lot like the existing mobile website... :)
http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/wikipedia-design-layout-change.html/wikipedia-re...
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