"Darkoneko" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r105280. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/105280#c27780
Commit summary for MediaWiki.r105280: Diff colors now use the french Wikipedia scheme The french community has been using a specific set of colors for diff, it is believed to be easier to read for people perceiving colors differently. Source is from: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=72567845&uselang=en This commit override r94429 / r94461. See also docs/uidesign/mediawiki.action.history.diff.html Darkoneko's comment: I have to disagree with your 2006 argumentation : The average life expectancy of an active wikimedia editor is (if I remember that WMF study correctly) around 18 months ; be it in 2006 or 2011, half the editors have been there for that time or less ; Even now I expect a most of the rest to be under 3 to 4 years old. Please note that I don't have a real preference for either way. Like hashar said below, it was pretty random... I didn't want red, which left the 2 other primary colours, green and blue. The real point of that code is to highlight the changed parts better, aka setting a different background colour rather than just putting the changed text in red. Having the whole paragraph in a much lighter version of that background, or having a different background colour on left and on right ? Those only serves as eye candies. ---- Your later question is the same as mine, as I still don't agree this "green must be on the right" reasoning. I take the issue from another perspective : frwiki isn't the only one using the green/blue scheme; several other wikis have since reused that code into their own CSS >From a quick (and incomplete) search on the wikipedia.org domains, at least >af:, ar:, bs:, da:, he:, lv:, nl:, oc:, pt:, sl: and sr: uses it too. Currently, we have : -yellow #FFFFAA (changed text in red) / lightgreen #CCFFCC (changed text in red) the current default -lightgreen #E4F6D8 / lightblue #D8E4F6 (on various wikis), the proposed version those are two pretty distinct schemes, people shouldn't have problem differentiate them If we go with the inverted version, we will have : -lightblue #D8E4F6 / lightgreen #E4F6D8 (new default) -lightgreen #E4F6D8 / lightblue #D8E4F6 (on various wikis) these 2 schemes are just the opposite of one another, I expect them to confuse the hell out of any multi-wiki editor _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-CodeReview mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-codereview
