FWIW, we have pretty much standardized on a banner height of 172px and, to my knowledge, have no plans to modify that. If we did, it would get smaller and not larger.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > This has already been hashed out technically, and is doable. The only > issue is getting people to standardize on a banner size, which I've > tried for the past few months to get people to agree on, but with no > luck. In order for this to work we need a benevolent dictator (Zach?, > Erik?) to state that all banners (including chapter banners) need to be > a certain height during the fundraiser. As it's not a high priority > issue currently, I'm not sure if there's any likelihood of that actually > happening. > > If people want to discuss further, the bug is at: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26234 > > Ryan Kaldari > > On 11/20/11 3:42 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> A Wikipedia page loads. The last thing to load is the banner. This > >> pushes the page content down. If you've clicked on a link near the top > >> of the page, the banner grabs it instead. > >> > >> This happened last year and it was reported then (and it was > >> incredibly annoying then too). It also fouls up stats on banner > >> effectiveness, as banners are clicked on without intention to do so. > >> > >> Please load the page with a space for the banner to avoid this effect. > >> > > CC fr-tech. > > > > This should be doable provided that all banners have the same > > dimensions. Which banner will be selected (if one is selected at all) > > is determined by JS and is not known by PHP (and can't be known by PHP > > due to Squid caching). > > > > Roan > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
