Hey DJ,
Thanks for the feedback! Responses in-line.
On 21 May 2016 at 04:52, Derk-Jan Hartman <d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I like the addition of the descriptive subtitles. But
I would suggest
taking them to meta to settle on what they should be exactly, and also then
documenting them (including arguments) to make sure that they can be used
consistently throughout the projects.
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 was wondering about the colors. Have we considered
the MediaWiki/OOjs UI
color theme already. In my opinion the portal feels more cologneblue than
Vector right now..
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
of options for reuse of these improvements by other
portals, and I
personally think it would be great to start expanding parts of the
development to other portals now.
I think it would be wonderful if we could create a pipeline of reusable
elements among the portals, that allows for some consistency, but trying to
avoid blandness and uniformity. Simple things like a library of Less
variables usable by all portal pages can mean a lot for these kinds of
efforts and I'd love to see some attention devoted to that, so that other
portal pages can benefit.
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:
https://cdn.rawgit.com/wikimedia/portals/master/prod/wikipedia.org/index.ht…
That's powerful to be able to preview straight from a git repo. If you
have links like that to the readme/meta page.
I'll pass this feedback on to the engineers working on the project.
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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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
