"Darkoneko" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r105280. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/105280#c27781
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: (uh, sorry, it's just unreadable without the correct line separation. Someone please delete the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/105280#c27780 misformated duplicate]) 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. Taking 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 (changed text in red) / lightgreen (changed text in red), the current default *lightgreen #E4F6D8 (changed text with green background) / lightblue (changed text with blue background), currently on various wikis, and 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 / lightgreen (new default) *lightgreen / lightblue (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
