Hey DJ, Thanks for the feedback! Responses in-line.
On 21 May 2016 at 04:52, Derk-Jan Hartman <d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like the addition of the descriptive subtitles. But I would suggest > taking them to meta to settle on what they should be exactly, and also then > documenting them (including arguments) to make sure that they can be used > consistently throughout the projects. > I agree that some standardisation of the phrases used here would be useful. I'll pass that feedback on to Communications, who I believe handles most of these kinds of situations. In the mean time, I think Discovery can take a quick pass on the phrases that are being used on the portal to make them a bit more consistent. > I was wondering about the colors. Have we considered the MediaWiki/OOjs UI > color theme already. In my opinion the portal feels more cologneblue than > Vector right now.. > I can see what you mean. A lot of the styles of the new elements have been made to fit the old style of the page. I'm not a designer, so I don't know specifically what to recommend to the team here, but I think they can keep this in mind for the future. Also, I do wonder a bit about the consistency of the portals and the lack > of options for reuse of these improvements by other portals, and I > personally think it would be great to start expanding parts of the > development to other portals now. > I think it would be wonderful if we could create a pipeline of reusable > elements among the portals, that allows for some consistency, but trying to > avoid blandness and uniformity. Simple things like a library of Less > variables usable by all portal pages can mean a lot for these kinds of > efforts and I'd love to see some attention devoted to that, so that other > portal pages can benefit. > As explained in T110070#1653320 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110070#1653320>, Discovery is not actively maintaining the other portals. That said, I agree that trying to get our code to a state where it's easily re-useable for other portals so that interested people can migrate it over to the other portals would be good to do. I filed T136151 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136151> to track that work. > For community participation, I also have some ideas: > 1: There is no README.md > Good point. I saw you filed T135902 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135902> and T135903 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135903> for this. Thanks! The licensing question is somewhat complicated given the history of the portals; we will need to consult with Legal on this to make sure we get it right. > 2: Make sure that it's easy to test the master version. The great thing about github for instance is that you can do tricks like: > > https://cdn.rawgit.com/wikimedia/portals/master/prod/wikipedia.org/index.html > That's powerful to be able to preview straight from a git repo. If you > have links like that to the readme/meta page. > I'll pass this feedback on to the engineers working on the project. > 3: Update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals> > I wasn't aware of this page. I'll pass it on to Chris Koerner, Discovery's community liaison, so he can look at updating it. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
