Go for it Florian! Just remove the change id so we don't confuse each others patches. (I've been poking around at it a little more but I'm not sure how best to implement it yet :) On 29 Aug 2014 05:01, "Dan Garry" dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks Sage. Keep your eye out for it in the Wikipedia Beta app! :-)
Dan
On 28 August 2014 16:43, Sage Ross sage@ragesoss.com wrote:
Grey all the things!
This sounds like an excellent project. I don't use syntax highlighting, because it's complicated and ends up generally *highlighting* the markup rather than making the content stand out. But something simple like this, intended to separate markup from content but keeping the content in the foreground... that's potentially very appealing.
Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
-Sage
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
Dmitry, Monte, James, Vibha and I just met to discuss where to go with syntax highlighting in the apps.
For a variety of technical reasons, implementing VisualEditor in the
apps is
a gigantic undertaking. The Mobile Apps team left wondering whether
there
are lower-hanging fruit that we can run with in the meantime. So we're looking at syntax highlighting for wikitext to make it easier for users
to
understand.
Dmitry has a working prototype (example screenshot). On discussing this prototype, we were wary that while multi-coloured highlighting makes a
lot
of sense for programmers it may not make sense for newer users who
aren't
programmers, and may actually have the opposite of intended effect of
making
wikitext more scary. Oops!
The way we're going to proceed is by changing the colour of all the highlighting to grey. That way, the actual content in the wikitext is brought to the foreground. The exception will be wikilinks; the text
will be
black, but the brackets will be grey. Hopefully this will help users
make
the association between the wikitext and the reader experience more apparent. We need to choose the right colour such that the text doesn't
look
disabled and disincline people from touching it if they want to, but we
can
do that!
Since this is a side-project and potentially could make the experience
a lot
worse if we do it wrong, this is just going to be pushed to the
Wikipedia
Beta app on Android, and we'll analyse the data. We are only going to
push
this to production if the data strongly supports our hypothesis (i.e.
the
bounce rate on the edit screen is significantly reduced). If the data
does
not support this, or is inconclusive, we'll look at other ways to test
this
hypothesis.
Special thanks to James for offering his editing domain knowledge to us
for
this meeting. :-)
Let me know if there any questions!
Thanks, Dan
tl;dr: EVERYTHING GREY
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