Thank you for the feedback Quim!
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M +1 415 609 4043 \\ @jaredzimmerman <http://loo.ms/g0> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, July 15, 2014, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The one thing that comes to my mind is that all the stuff at the right of > > the screen is what might be called the "bottom matter" from articles. > > Giving it primary place in an article, well above the majority of content > > is...well, suboptimal. > > > For me it was instant love. It puts the article in its widest context, > inviting users to discover all what the Wikimedia community is offering > about that topic. I was even wondering why the categories are not there, > assuming that they will be in some form in the real prototype/beta. > > > > It's at the bottom because it's really not all that > > important; links to other similar articles and other Wikimedia sites is > > (I'm going to be honest here) fluff, not content > > > Depends on what you are looking for. Readers interested precisely in the > article at sight and not in its context will not even look at the right > column after the initial surprise. Just like any news readers go directly > to the news piece ignoring whatever else is around. > > However, many (most?) users visit Wikipedia with a less precise motivation > and a wider curiosity about some topic. These are also the users less > likely to hit the bottom of an article, and less likely to know what & who > is behind every Wikipedia article. > > > > > - especially those massive > > templates that take the place of proper categorization. > > > Cause and consequence, perhaps? Maybe those templates became massive as a > way to call the attention at the bottom of the page, where proper > categories become almost invisible to the non-trained eye. The prototype > shows them expanded but they could be minimized by default in the beta > version. If we go forth with this design, editors will find solutions to > adapt oversize templates to their new privileged position. > > I'm sure Winter 1.0 can get this part right. While the previous Winter > features were evolutionary (and that was good), this one is a real > challenger, and this is good too. > > PS: and yes, thank you very much for prototyping. > > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
