On Monday I began writing a couple of Special pages. The purpose of this
was to develop a proof of concept that could generate a style guide from
our CSS files.

Would love to get this production ready and use this going forward to
ensure we always have a live reference we can refer to...

 https://github.com/jdlrobson/MediaWiki-SpecialCssStyleGuide
On 5 Nov 2013 19:28, "Jared Zimmerman" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> yes.
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> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Jared Zimmerman <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Thanks for this summary S, the "living style guide" mentioned in
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization will include not only
>>> the visual styling of agora controls but best practices for using them.
>>> e.g. things like order of buttons (primary CTA rightmost) and what types of
>>> buttons should be disabled when invalid input is detected (places where a
>>> post would result in an error) as well as when to use different styles of
>>> buttons.
>>>
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>> Can the UX team please write the copy for these best practices now,
>> rather than later? We could really use the text accompaniment now, as we
>> begin to build and test the revisions to mediawiki.ui.
>>
>> For developers, having simple explanation of the intended patterns will
>> ease the transition to a new mediawiki.ui look. For product managers, we'll
>> be able to help make sure that our individual products conform to the
>> general style guide.
>>
>> Flow is not the only new product that is starting to conform to parts of
>> the new mediawiki.ui spec. For Growth team projects like anonymous editor
>> acquisition, onboarding, and article creation, Pau is already producing
>> mockups that incorporate elements of the new design. If you can produce a
>> single page guide with these best practices you describe, they can be used
>> now and incorporated in to the more interactive living style guide later.
>>
>> Steven
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