Actually, you can hide the top and side bars as well, fairly straightforwardly.
For once, I'm with mike. A decent front end dev with a bit of patience really can do anything you want with the wiki front page. Forget the anti-cabal rhetoric for a minute. I'm a big fan of a more inviting landing page, but duplicating the front page will only lead to a confusing UX, and is honestly unnecessary. Sent from my iPhone On 11 Jun 2014, at 06:05, Michael Peel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10 Jun 2014, at 17:12, Jon Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We have smartened it up already through the support of UK Wikipedians but it >> has its limits. > > This is the bit I don't understand. What does the current proposal do that > *can't* be done on the wiki? Why do we *have* to have these non-editable > pages? If it's just visual content, then that can be done on the wikis fairly > straightforwardly *. If it's to add technical features (e.g. in-line contact > forms etc.), then I can understand this move - it's analogous to how > donate.wikimedia.org.uk isn't on-wiki as that uses technical features that > the wiki can't support. My understanding is it's just the former, though, > which is why this doesn't make sense to me. > > * The exception being the side-bars / page surround, but that's an intrinsic > part of the Wikimedia/Wikipedia brand identity (it's what people recognise as > 'Wikipedia' beyond the logo) so should really be kept regardless. > > Thanks, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
