On Wednesday 25 July 2007 20:40:22 Simetrical wrote:
There are a number of places to insert extra stuff: content actions, toolbox, page caption [although perhaps that's not flexible enough], footer, message boxes stuck anywhere you like.
The left side is already to big, cause of sidebar, tools, search and interwiki links: It is not good to scroll in order to see the last interwiki, any new element in the toolbox would reduce visibility of interwikis and this can't be good as these other langauges feature is one of our unique strengths.
Page caption (aligned to the right on the title line) is a good place for an easy setup but sadly currently any html code injected there gets escaped, so MediaWiki needs to be patched in order to be able using it.
Footer is too invisible (you don't want to read after reading that the version you read was the wrong one) and currently used for applying the flags.
In the content reagion below the title you will have the problem of stacked templates like current event, neutrality... but still it is one of the two possible places.
If existing customizations are fragile enough to be b0rkable, then that's the fault of their authors and it's the customizations that will have to be fixed.
Well depends how widespread they are. At the moment it is technically no problem inserting an element in the sitenotice line to the right. But guess what is there? Coordinates, featured article icon, locked article icon and some other heavily used stuff. Do you want to mess with the people if you don't need to? ;-)
Then a minimal number of parts of the system should vary according to the number of levels available, if this is the issue, and everything else should remain identical between the two. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you and that's all that's been done? Are there screenshots available of the interfaces?
There are two testwikis. Interested people please contact Aaron, Erik or me off-list (as this feature is beeing awaited for so long we want to keep it a bit under the radar in order to calm any outside expectations).
However be aware that although that all features for the first version are there the GUI still needs to be ironed out.
Arnomane