Actually, you can hide the top and side bars as well, fairly straightforwardly.
For once, I'm with mike. A decent front end dev with a bit of patience really can do anything you want with the wiki front page.
Forget the anti-cabal rhetoric for a minute. I'm a big fan of a more inviting landing page, but duplicating the front page will only lead to a confusing UX, and is honestly unnecessary.
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On 11 Jun 2014, at 06:05, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
On 10 Jun 2014, at 17:12, Jon Davies jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
We have smartened it up already through the support of UK Wikipedians but it has its limits.
This is the bit I don't understand. What does the current proposal do that *can't* be done on the wiki? Why do we *have* to have these non-editable pages? If it's just visual content, then that can be done on the wikis fairly straightforwardly *. If it's to add technical features (e.g. in-line contact forms etc.), then I can understand this move - it's analogous to how donate.wikimedia.org.uk isn't on-wiki as that uses technical features that the wiki can't support. My understanding is it's just the former, though, which is why this doesn't make sense to me.
- The exception being the side-bars / page surround, but that's an intrinsic part of the Wikimedia/Wikipedia brand identity (it's what people recognise as 'Wikipedia' beyond the logo) so should really be kept regardless.
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