Florence Devouard wrote:
quiddity wrote:
The last mention I can find now, is this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7493#c45
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So, that's where it currently stands.
unfortunate...
I should note that I was never involved in reminding/bugging either of them about helping with this particular issue, and that bugzilla thread looked quite confusing for everyone involved - so - possibly a dev just needs to be re-convinced (by someone they respect) that this would be a useful fix to devote energy to?
(possibly related, http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:GP1 covered "a redesign of the default website interface", does anyone know anything more about this proposal? is it in active development?)
I think it went nowhere. Much to my regret.
Last year at Wikimania, we had both a workshop session where we discussed useability (this proceeding) and the session handled by Andrew, where we discussed again the rather poor useability of the website and poor welcome of newbies in some communities.
If my memory is good, many agreed (for example) that templates are a disaster ;-) But it seems very little has been done in the past year to improve the situation. I think the special page has been improved though (it was very messy, now nicely reorganized). Anythink else ?
The Modern skin is fairly recent. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=modern The only thing I could find out about it, is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technica...
but it has no Wikipedia globe logo, which I've grown quite attached to. :(
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What we need, is a short note printed on napkins, and pinned on the corkboards at Google, whispering that we need a new skin designed for our site. They must have a /few/ people that understand clean UI and knowledge structures, and have 20%time to fill... ^_^
Quiddity
Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
I've always been bothered by the fact that the main page doesn't have a big search box in the middle of it
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/... for the last time it was seriously considered. There are a few [[Wikipedia:Main Page alternatives]] that you can set to be your own default mainpage, some of which include search boxes.
Quiddity