Hello MediaWiki Developers,
I will be working on improving the watchlist feature in MediaWiki this summer for GSoC. For the initial scope of my project, I'm aiming to concurrently add grouping to watchlists, while improving the UI as recommended in the Visual Watchlist thread ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/61151 ).
This week, I'll begin by testing ways to make the watchlist options box collapsible/not take up as much space. (So far, I've created one patch that uses the mw-collapsible class - any better ideas?) I will also begin modifying RecentChangesLine to provide the # of chars added & removed, not just the net change amount (this leads up to the keystone feature of the visual watchlist.) I'm also looking for beta testers for the improved UI, so please reply back if you are interested.
Thanks, Aaron Pramana
Hey Aaron,
Let me know offlist if I can help beta test. :)
(Sorry for top posting. On my phone.) On May 15, 2012 6:37 PM, "Aaron Pramana" aaron@sociotopia.com wrote:
Hello MediaWiki Developers,
I will be working on improving the watchlist feature in MediaWiki this summer for GSoC. For the initial scope of my project, I'm aiming to concurrently add grouping to watchlists, while improving the UI as recommended in the Visual Watchlist thread ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/61151 ).
This week, I'll begin by testing ways to make the watchlist options box collapsible/not take up as much space. (So far, I've created one patch that uses the mw-collapsible class - any better ideas?) I will also begin modifying RecentChangesLine to provide the # of chars added & removed, not just the net change amount (this leads up to the keystone feature of the visual watchlist.) I'm also looking for beta testers for the improved UI, so please reply back if you are interested.
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You might also want to take a look at this user script: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Js/watchlist.js
It has some good ideas, but a poor user interface.
Ryan Kaldari
On 5/15/12 6:37 PM, Aaron Pramana wrote:
Hello MediaWiki Developers,
I will be working on improving the watchlist feature in MediaWiki this summer for GSoC. For the initial scope of my project, I'm aiming to concurrently add grouping to watchlists, while improving the UI as recommended in the Visual Watchlist thread ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/61151 ).
This week, I'll begin by testing ways to make the watchlist options box collapsible/not take up as much space. (So far, I've created one patch that uses the mw-collapsible class - any better ideas?) I will also begin modifying RecentChangesLine to provide the # of chars added& removed, not just the net change amount (this leads up to the keystone feature of the visual watchlist.) I'm also looking for beta testers for the improved UI, so please reply back if you are interested.
Thanks, Aaron Pramana _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Hi Aaron, it's great that someone's working on this - it's a much needed improvement.
I was messing around with watchlist header ideas recently, and found it looked quite good to have notices in a floating box off to the right, so they're separated from the actual options. Never did try actually implementing it, but thought it might be helpful.
Would also be happy to beta test whatever you come up with.
Peter
On 15 May 2012 18:37, Aaron Pramana aaron@sociotopia.com wrote:
Hello MediaWiki Developers,
I will be working on improving the watchlist feature in MediaWiki this summer for GSoC. For the initial scope of my project, I'm aiming to concurrently add grouping to watchlists, while improving the UI as recommended in the Visual Watchlist thread ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/61151 ).
This week, I'll begin by testing ways to make the watchlist options box collapsible/not take up as much space. (So far, I've created one patch that uses the mw-collapsible class - any better ideas?) I will also begin modifying RecentChangesLine to provide the # of chars added & removed, not just the net change amount (this leads up to the keystone feature of the visual watchlist.) I'm also looking for beta testers for the improved UI, so please reply back if you are interested.
Thanks, Aaron Pramana _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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