Hey DJ,
Thanks for the feedback! Responses in-line.
On 21 May 2016 at 04:52, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that some standardisation of the phrases used here would be useful. I'll pass that feedback on to Communications, who I believe handles most of these kinds of situations. In the mean time, I think Discovery can take a quick pass on the phrases that are being used on the portal to make them a bit more consistent.
I can see what you mean. A lot of the styles of the new elements have been made to fit the old style of the page. I'm not a designer, so I don't know specifically what to recommend to the team here, but I think they can keep this in mind for the future.
Also, I do wonder a bit about the consistency of the portals and the lack
As explained in T110070#1653320 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110070#1653320, Discovery is not actively maintaining the other portals. That said, I agree that trying to get our code to a state where it's easily re-useable for other portals so that interested people can migrate it over to the other portals would be good to do. I filed T136151 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136151 to track that work.
For community participation, I also have some ideas: 1: There is no README.md
Good point. I saw you filed T135902 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135902 and T135903 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135903 for this. Thanks! The licensing question is somewhat complicated given the history of the portals; we will need to consult with Legal on this to make sure we get it right.
2: Make sure that it's easy to test the master version.
The great thing about github for instance is that you can do tricks like:
I'll pass this feedback on to the engineers working on the project.
3: Update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals%3E
I wasn't aware of this page. I'll pass it on to Chris Koerner, Discovery's community liaison, so he can look at updating it.
Thanks!
Dan
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