IIRC: languages defaulted closed in a first iteration of the new skin,
and then following discussion/complaints they was set to default open
again. Please don't ask me for links to said discussion, I don't
remember where it was :)
Re: the redesigns --
Personally I don't like this particular proposed redesign, but I do
like in general the idea of people redesigning and remixing WP. Maybe
the page Steven started can evolve into a portal for potential
redesigns, design contests, resources for designers (especially for
people who actually want to get serious with the skin), and community
design challenges... eg SJ suggests that
wikipedia.org and
wikimedia.org need love, I'd add the front page of the english
wikipedia to my personal wish-it-were-more-beautiful list!
-- phoebe
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Open by default for me too on all the browsers I have
access to.
The question still came up at Wikimania :-/
Unfair of me to ascribe it to the skin. I suppose we've been hiding the
existence of other languages since the transition from having them above
the page title in Classic :-)
SJ
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:35 PM, James Alexander <jamesofur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:10 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9 August 2012 19:03, Samuel Klein
<meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When it comes to hiding the existence of other
languages... our current
skin has done that so effectively, that this design team didn't even
cover
the 'Other languages' sidebar in their
design. [and every month some
long-time reader of wikipedia asks me why we stopped including links to
other languages, which they found useful!]
Oh, someone changed this from defaulting open (like they were finally
convinced to) to defaulting closed? That's nice. Who did this and
when?
- d.
hmm, I'm still seeing it as defaulting open (Tested in new private session
on firefox and incognito window on chrome).
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James Alexander
jamesofur(a)gmail.com
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