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?
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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
> >> >
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