Hi all,
This is a heads up about some of the things the Growth team is thinking
about and working on with mediawiki.ui.
1. We're in the process of adding optional icon support for mediawiki.ui
buttons, with browser support down to IE8.[A]
2. We're going to get rid of the text shadow on the default mediawiki.ui
buttons.[B] It's distracting and doesn't increase readability. We don't
use
gradients in the colored buttons for similar reasons.
3. We need to do some tweaking of the design of the default mediawiki.ui
button.[D] We're designing the second iteration of the anonymous editor
signup invitation UI to A/B test.[E] When looking at these, you can see
that the default mediawiki.ui button ("continue editing") almost seems
disabled. We should talk about ways to improve on this design, such as
darkening the text color or giving the default button a background color.
This may come up in the WMF UX team's weekly design review as well, but I
wanted to give a heads up about these issues since the library is in
MediaWiki core.
A.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55535
B.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61940
C. These are viewable at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodilia?gettingStartedReturn=true if
you're logged in
D. See style guide:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/styleguide/desktop/section-2.html
E.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signup_invites_…
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Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/