Language options is really extremely important for Wikimedia projects especially for Wikipedia. But I have a little suggestion is to add a banner at top of the articles like wikivoyage looks like, it helps the user to have a first image of the country or person or thing... Also, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2014_main_page_redesign_proposal#Proposal_.2301:_Simple_Main_Page, User:Guy Macon proposed a new design of the main page, I personally strongly oppose to this design, how do you guys think of? _______________________________________________ Gabriel Lee, 13, Hong Kong Student, Admin of wy/zh, beta
2014-02-27 14:59 GMT+08:00 Denis Jacquerye <[email protected]>: > To their credit, they do have a World icon, in large view it has > "English" next to it. > > Zooming shows they use Helvetica. > > http://weare1910.com/sites/default/files/project/wikipedia_new_desktop_full.jpg > > There is no evidence all serif fonts are worse for dyslexics. > Some some serif fonts perform adequately. > You can't throw away all serif fonts just because some perform poorly, > unfortunately it's not that simple. > http://www.luzrello.com/Publications_files/assets2013.pdf > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Kaity Hammerstein > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's their original post - bigger pics and explanation > > http://blog.weare1910.com/post/75576312730/a-readable-wikipedia > > Because they have no constraints, they could have done so much better! > Not > > very creative or inspiring > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Brandon Harris <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> Oh, joy. Another group of people who don't understand that the > >> multiple languages thing is Wikipedia's *most important feature* so > they of > >> course scrap it entirely. > >> > >> I can't zoom in on the photos but that looks like a serif font > for > >> everything, so I guess dyslexics aren't supposed to use this, either. > >> > >> Design is easy when you don't have to worry about real-world > >> constraints. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > This showed up in my Google alerts. This one looks a lot like the > >> > existing mobile website... :) > >> > > >> > > >> > > http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/wikipedia-design-layout-change.html/wikipedia-redesign-1910-2#!xCd2D > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Design mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >> > >> --- > >> Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation > >> > >> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Design mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Design mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > > > > > -- > Denis Moyogo Jacquerye > African Network for Localisation http://www.africanlocalisation.net/ > Nkótá ya Kongó míbalé --- http://info-langues-congo.1sd.org/ > DejaVu fonts --- http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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