On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry you missed it! If you want to have a look at the presentation, you can find it at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Localisation_team_Sprint_14_demo.pdf.
Small note on the design prototype of ULS that just struck me.
The personal bar is currently used by communities, to add custom items. Moodbar also uses it. Would the ULS be using personal-bar, in which case it might be a good idea to check if the screen breaks (not just in English, but in languages which have lengthy translations of personal-bar[1]). Also, would ULS be preceeding the proposed(?) redesign of personal bar?
Thanks for the feedback, Srikanth.
The current designs are not final by any means, so on exact position and other properties I cannot reply with any certainty. Our goal as Localisation team, is to provide anyone with a user experience that is equal to that in the English language. This means that language, or localisation, should not unnecessarily hinder user experience. The flexibility of the MediaWiki software, with its gadgets, skins, and other arbitrary visual elements pose a big challenge. I accept that any and all eventualities cannot be foreseen for each and every language. Inevitably, some things will pop up that we need to address once the functionality has been developed.
I've asked the design group to expedite the creation of a design guide for MediaWiki[1] a while ago in the Product Management team. The current guide is mostly about shapes and colours of different possible elements. Having guidelines for adding elements to the standard chrome in a standard and prescribed way, may help reduce future issues. Until then, we have to unfortunately mostly guess and hope that when and where we add elements, they will not interfere (too much) with already existing unknown elements.
I'm not sure if this fully satisfies as an answer to your question, but at the moment it's the best I can provide. Maybe someone from the design list[2] is able to provide additional input.
Cheers!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Style_guide [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design