Thanks Sage. Keep your eye out for it in the Wikipedia Beta app! :-) Dan
On 28 August 2014 16:43, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Grey all the things! > > This sounds like an excellent project. I don't use syntax > highlighting, because it's complicated and ends up generally > *highlighting* the markup rather than making the content stand out. > But something simple like this, intended to separate markup from > content but keeping the content in the foreground... that's > potentially very appealing. > > Looking forward to seeing how it turns out! > > -Sage > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Dmitry, Monte, James, Vibha and I just met to discuss where to go with > > syntax highlighting in the apps. > > > > For a variety of technical reasons, implementing VisualEditor in the > apps is > > a gigantic undertaking. The Mobile Apps team left wondering whether there > > are lower-hanging fruit that we can run with in the meantime. So we're > > looking at syntax highlighting for wikitext to make it easier for users > to > > understand. > > > > Dmitry has a working prototype (example screenshot). On discussing this > > prototype, we were wary that while multi-coloured highlighting makes a > lot > > of sense for programmers it may not make sense for newer users who aren't > > programmers, and may actually have the opposite of intended effect of > making > > wikitext more scary. Oops! > > > > The way we're going to proceed is by changing the colour of all the > > highlighting to grey. That way, the actual content in the wikitext is > > brought to the foreground. The exception will be wikilinks; the text > will be > > black, but the brackets will be grey. Hopefully this will help users make > > the association between the wikitext and the reader experience more > > apparent. We need to choose the right colour such that the text doesn't > look > > disabled and disincline people from touching it if they want to, but we > can > > do that! > > > > Since this is a side-project and potentially could make the experience a > lot > > worse if we do it wrong, this is just going to be pushed to the Wikipedia > > Beta app on Android, and we'll analyse the data. We are only going to > push > > this to production if the data strongly supports our hypothesis (i.e. the > > bounce rate on the edit screen is significantly reduced). If the data > does > > not support this, or is inconclusive, we'll look at other ways to test > this > > hypothesis. > > > > Special thanks to James for offering his editing domain knowledge to us > for > > this meeting. :-) > > > > Let me know if there any questions! > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > tl;dr: EVERYTHING GREY > > > > -- > > Dan Garry > > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mobile-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
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