Thanks for taking down the thoughts, Daniel; the translation and mobile friendliness got me amused too.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, at 9:18, Daniel Friesen wrote: > I'm definitely going to have to agree. > > The "Feature" bits are practically bs: > - Publish: Talks about VisualEditor, HTML, and embedded media. A > non-default editor practically only available on Wikipedia at the > moment, completely ignores WikiText, and "embedded media" doesn't really > even fit a description of our file upload system, much less does this > describe any real publishing features that are core to MediaWiki like > the history tracking of pages. > - Discuss: Yeah we have talk pages for each page, but frankly that > iconography feels rather deceptive to how that system really works. > - Translate: ^_^ Most of this does look good, aside from our abuse of > MediaWiki: pages we do have great i18n. However " translation tools to > crowdsource multilingual sites" are not core but things like the tools > that TranslateWiki uses, and are not going to be easy to find without > any links. > - Extend: Ok I guess the text here is fine, but for a homepage > exclaiming that MediaWiki can be extended I don't see a single link to > information on our extensions. > - On the Go: Bullshit, Mobile Frontend is an extension not core, and not > installed on most wiki, MediaWiki is not "Ready for mobile devices and > tablets" out of the box as this deceptively suggests. > - Reliable: I'm not sure about the W icon for this. But for a point on > being tested and maintained as long as Wikipedia exists, what about how > MW is designed to scale up to the level of traffic and reliability > needed by a wiki as large as Wikipedia. > > But frankly I see something even worse on this page. Scanning the entire > text of this homepage, aside from "MediaWiki" and "Wikipedia", I do not > see one single use of the word "wiki". And worse, not a single piece of > text noting that MediaWiki is open source. > > Forget the way it ignores the existence of the WMF outside of Wikipedia, > it's like the fundamental pieces of MediaWiki, a piece of "open-source" > "wiki" software, have been completely forgotten and replaced with the > kind of homepage you'd see on a for-profit proprietary piece of software. > > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] > > On 2014-02-25 7:49 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > > The huge image at the top, pushing all the real content "below the > > fold", seems pretty awful to me. I also don't much care for the weird, > > vague "feature" bits at the bottom that don't even link to anything > > useful and distract from the links to actual useful content just below > > them, or the fact that in the "News" section useful stuff like > > security releases has been replaced with irrelevancies (and given such > > little space that it wraps the headlines after every word or two), or > > the lack of mention as to what the current version number is near the > > "Get MediaWiki" button. > > > > It seems to me that you probably concentrated too much on the "to > > better promote MediaWiki as a product" part and not the "and as a free > > software project" part. > > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Brena Monteiro <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> I would like to invite you to take a look the preview [1] of MediaWiki > >> Homepage. Your opinion, contribution and help are very welcome. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> > >> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview > >> > >> Brena Monteiro > >> +55 27 98109 0123 > >> @monteirobrena <http://twitter.com/monteirobrena> > >> Reflexões Brenianas <http://monteirobrena.wordpress.com> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
