Hi all,
In a recent meeting, a bunch of us discussed the various design
styles specified in skins, jQuery.ui, the newer mediawiki.ui library,
and in other places. There was general agreement that we're shooting
for consistency as the ideal, but that we've got a lot of work ahead
to standardize on any one look and feel, even just for Vector users.
One step agreed on was doing an audit of all the places and ways
Vector, jQuery.ui, or mediawiki.ui are applied today. To that end, S
Page started
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_audit [1] and an
associated category today.
Normally I try to upload screenshots to Commons, but it's kind of a
pain in the butt to upload MediaWiki screenshots there because you
have use custom licensing templates every time. So if you just want
to
upload locally to
MediaWiki.org like S was doing I think that works.
We also considered just opening a Dropbox folder, since this stuff
doesn't necessarily need to be permanent.
I don't like this idea, because:
* you make information less gathered and so for a new contributor, it
become harder to get the subject
* history
* as far as I know, dropbox is a non-free tool, which to my mind is not
consistent with the free/libre culture we are promoting.
Anyway, this is a good place to start. Thanks to S for kicking it
off.
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/ [2]
Links:
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[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_audit
[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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