[WikiEN-l] Editor Engagement list

2013-01-29 Thread David Gerard
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew Gray
On 28 January 2013 20:20, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I found this one visually appealing: http://dribbble.com/wirwoluf/projects/104912-wikipedia-redesign No doubt others will now take it apart :-) Minor quibbles: * The header hits a common problem - treating

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

2013-01-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 January 2013 11:46, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: * The header hits a common problem - treating read/talk/edit/history as four different interfaces to the same page, while they're really three interfaces to the page (read/edit/history) and one link to another page (talk)

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

2013-01-29 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Minor quibbles: * The header hits a common problem - treating read/talk/edit/history as four different interfaces to the same page, while they're really three interfaces to the page (read/edit/history) and one link

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

2013-01-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 January 2013 12:10, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I couldn't find a way to comment to the designer to point them to this thread or to the WP redesigns page ... can anyone else work out Dribble's exquisitely-designed interface? I found my way to the designer's website and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

2013-01-29 Thread Magnus Manske
For those of you who like to try out a similar three-column layout, this just fresh from the presses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/common.css (activates on wide screens only) On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:55 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 January 2013 12:10,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

2013-01-29 Thread Steve Bennett
Hey, that works :) I put it on userstyles.org. So if you use the Stylish plugin for Chrome or Firefox, you can add it here: http://userstyles.org/styles/82333/wikipedia-3-columns-magnus-manske Steve On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: For those

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

2013-01-29 Thread Steve Bennett
A couple of screenshots to save people the effort: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-normal.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-three-columns.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-three-columns-more.png Looking at these, it's remarkable that we've put up with such a bad layout for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

2013-01-29 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:46:51 +, Andrew Gray wrote: * The three-column system will look strangely constrained for pages with very short (1 screen height) infoboxes or very few headings. * It's not clear what would happen to our usual mass of footer navboxes, most of which assume