Go for it Florian! Just remove the change id so we don't confuse each others patches. (I've been poking around at it a little more but I'm not sure how best to implement it yet :) On 29 Aug 2014 05:01, "Dan Garry" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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