Sorry for cross-posting, but wanted to make sure folks knew that we were releasing this. This was tested as part of the typography refresh, but we didn't want to put it out with the initial release because it needed more testing. Like typography refresh, the design goals here are consistency across devices and simplifying the reading interface to increase emphasis on the content.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Wilson (Quiddity) nwilson@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:45 PM Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Thumbnail style update To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects < wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org>
Greetings all, There's an upcoming change to the thumbnail styling in Vector that we'd appreciate your assistance translating and announcing. The primary change is to remove the "box" border, which will bring the clean style that was recently added to <gallery> to all our thumbnails, plus consistency with our mobile view and the images on most Main Pages. It will be arriving on non-Wikipedias on August 12, and on Wikipedias on August 14, so there's additional time to acclimate. The design team will be available to discuss this, and other updates and ideas, with anyone interested at Wikimania in 2 weeks. Please see documentation and details, at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thumbnail_style_update
Much thanks, Quiddity
Hi all, The rollout of the Thumbnail style update has been postponed whilst the engineers look at how best to enable an optional border, for the few instances that really need it. Once that has been decided and written/tested/deployed, I'll send an update to these threads, and post wider announcements at the global equivalents of [[Help talk:Image markup]] (Q4618557). Much thanks to everyone that gave useful feedback, here and on the various talkpages. Have a good weekend.