Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Florence Devouard wrote:
Hello,
The menu on the left hand side lists, in this order
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Problem: on small screens, the search box is not visible and readers must scroll each time they get to a new page to find it. Whether we are happy with this, or would prefer that people navigate three featured content or indexes or random article, does not change the fact that most poeple actually use search system on internet.
What about changing the search box place ? Perhaps under the logo. Or below the Navigation block. Or fully at the top of the page ?
Ant
I think if you mosey over to Special:Preferences and choose the Skin Classic, your problems are much eased.
A completely different question is why it is only Classic that places the box in that convenient location...
Yours;
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Jussi
Note that I enjoy a large laptop which does not create this problem.
It was reported to me by a head of web companies (whose name I will not give) and who use a smaller laptop. Most users/readers of wikipedia have NO idea there are different skins, and that they might have access to a different interface if they were loggued-in.
Ant
Interesting. Reminds me of when we originally moved to "monobook". There was a real but brief episode where somebody using the nick "bgates" came into the channel #wikipedia on Internet Relay Chat, and very swiftly exited, after getting an answer that appeared to all present to be a sincerely technical one...
I confess I have ever since wondered was that the "real" "bgates" or just somebody with a sense of humour, who nevertheless was discomfited by our move to monobook.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Eh :-)
Well, in this case, the guy was real :-) I met him at http://assisesdunumerique.fr/actualites/
Nice opportunity by the way, to mention that last week, I met with various important people (at French scale), in the name of our prime minister (Fillon), the minister of education and research (Pecresse) and the secretary in charge of Innovation, digital economy and etc ... (Eric Besson).
I had the very "blushing-experience" of being both cited by Fillon (once) and Besson (twice) in a public event. I actually met Besson 3 times in two days, including a 7 members-2 hours breakfast at the minister, around digital economy considerations.
One of the top (hot) topic is that Besson has been asked by the prime minister to come with a series of propositions by end of july, regarding digital economy in France. I must point out that the very-short delay for this plan is 1) because our government was restructed recently (and for the first time, digital economy was given to a specific minister, rather than being nicely divided between minister of culture, of education, of industry etc..., and 2) because France will become president of Europe this summer, so obviously want to be a leading force of proposition in various areas, including internet considerations.
Anyway, the Assises du Numerique are usually an opportunity for *important* people (that is... politicians, industrial leaders, public services) to discuss of the future of our country and come up with propositions. Access is restricted.
This year, they decided to have unrestricted access to the Assises, the expand them to a collection of local Assises all accross the country, to let completely open the number of propositions which can be done, AND to open a wiki to either comment or tweak the current propositions, or to make NEW propositions. Is not that amazing ?
THe wiki was opened yesterday: http://wiki.assisesdunumerique.fr/xwiki/bin/view/Assises/
Poeple must log in to access the wiki, but creation of account is totally opened. I tested it yesterday during the Assises. License is cc-by 1.0.
I hope the french editors will take direct action and be a force of proposition. Otherwise, it would really mean that we should not complain in the future if the laws and activity of the government does not please us. We should only complain if they refuse our propositions ;-)
More to come later on the topic. Just wanted to mention it was the first time that my government was actually OPENING a place for us to work on action points together.
THIS is also thanks to us guys...
Ant