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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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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