Yes, I think you may have a point, Trevor.
The one thing that comes to my mind is that all the stuff at the right of the screen is what might be called the "bottom matter" from articles. Giving it primary place in an article, well above the majority of content is...well, suboptimal. It's at the bottom because it's really not all that important; links to other similar articles and other Wikimedia sites is (I'm going to be honest here) fluff, not content - especially those massive templates that take the place of proper categorization. I get the visual theory behind having it there; the problem isn't really the format, it's the quality and relative importance of the information.
Risker
On 14 July 2014 16:06, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
I want to suggest that we give Brandon a lot of slack here, and be as supportive as possible.
This is a prototype of a design, which is far better than a mockup of a design. It is not an actual implementation, but that is totally fine. I want to see more of this kind of thing, and by being more supportive and understanding I think we can encourage that.
- Trevor
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.org wrote:
As I've said before, it doesn't work in IE. I've only just gained
access to a Windows laptop and I'll see what I can do.
On Jul 14, 2014, at 5:55 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Brandon for letting us know about this. Since it will be many
hours
before I have a chance to make comments elsewhere, I'm going to let you know that, using a Win7 platform and IE9, the screen is illegible. All writing is in a faint shade of grey (or blue where applicable); text overlaps images and infoboxes; and there's massive whitespace to the
right
of the screen. Because of the very faint text, I can't be certain
what's
supposed to be above the title; however, what is there looks to all be crowded over to the right of the screen above the large amount of whitespace.
I'll try to grab a screenshot and send it in.
Risker/Anne
On 14 July 2014 01:03, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.org wrote:
I have uploaded a new version of the Winter
framework/prototype,
v. 0.6.
http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/ This version has significant changes over 0.5. The entire
undercarriage has been refactored into a framework to allow for anyone
to
do rapid prototyping within their own copy. The source code has been installed into gerrit, in the form of two depots, one of which is for specialized "modules" that change the way the prototype behaves (snowflakes).
Links to the source depots are available at:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter#The_Winter_Framework
This release adds in several major changes: * "Right rail" functionality, designed to surface
content
* Search functionality * Watchlist functionality (for testing) * A revisit to the design of the edit interface. A full changelog for version 0.6 can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter#Version_0.6.2C_July_13.2C_2014
As usual, feedback is welcomed here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Winter
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