OK, here are my thought so far:
First, note that the original UI is still in the software, and is the default. Anyway, I don't like either of the alternates. Just having a checkbox (which either overlaps or moves the content around oddly when clicked isn't pretty and will go unnoticed. Thats why I add the "See the X revision" thing next to it. Also, my variant only works on monobook.
Phillip suggested putting ratings below the categories. Expanding on that, this seems like a good solution for the alternative UI. Doesn't get messed up by interwikis and works with all skins. I'll probably replace $wgSimpleFlaggedRevsUI with $wgFlaggedRevsTagsOnTop. That way, the tag would be on bottom and the little icon would appear on top only.
As for the tabs, they can stay, as they make things more clear, at worst, I can make a setting to disable them.
-Aaron Schulz
From: "P. Birken" pbirken@gmail.com Reply-To: Wikimedia Quality Discussions wikiquality-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: "Wikimedia Quality Discussions" wikiquality-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikiquality-l] Partial UI revert Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:47:37 +0200
Hi Aaron and the rest,
Jörg synchronized http://tools.wikimedia.de/~stable/phase3/index.php?title=Main_Page with your changes to trunk. Well, at last before you hacked some more ;-) The other "new UI" can still be seen at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~stable/phase3de/.
At this point there are in my view only a few questions left.
The first issue is: what is missing? In my eyes it is just getting the new UI to work in monobook as an alternative to Aarons original UI, which is working in every skin), making sure that the old UI is not lost and integrating this user interface into recent changes and watchlist, then some more testing, last bug fixes and we can turn this on at wikipedia.
So the first question: Does everybody share this view? In particular Aaron, do you want to do some more features? Or some other features?
The other issue is how the new UI will look like. In my view, unless there are serious problems with the design proposed by Jörg (now seen on http://tools.wikimedia.de/~stable/phase3de/), we should go with this design, which we talked about at length. So, are there problems with this design?
If yes, it might be worthwhile discussing the pro and cons also in regard to Aarons new UI (which is also thought out well, but has other problems in my eyes). If not, why don't we just stick with this and do it? We are so close! We could flag revisions live on the wikipedia within weeks! This is what we and in particular Aaron have been working for, right?
2007/6/24, Aaron Schulz jschulz_4587@msn.com:
OK, I spend all day hacking at this again. I've re-added some of the UI stuff effectively based on my suggestions. However, the little box is
still
below the title (It's hard to get it with the title without using nasty hacks). It is fairly unobtrusive there.
Mhmh.
It is only enable for monobook skins for now, and the regular tagging
shows
on edit and at special:stableversion (somewhat intentional, editors may
want
the info).
Yes, that looks like a feature to me, not a but.
Bye,
Philipp
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