[Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

[Chris Keating]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
>
> The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted
> emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff
> inside of my email when I get notification about changing my talk page).
>
> But, then I've realized that we don't have a designer. By "designer" I
> mean a person who is employed by WMF and who is constantly working on
> improving MediaWiki look and feel.
>
> While a lot of us may be completely fine with reading Wikipedia articles
> through links, there are people who care about look and feel.


 Indeed. As the rest of the web gets prettier and prettier, MediaWiki risks
starting to look like an ugly duckling...