Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On 15 May 2010 02:28, stevertigo wrote: > Casey Brown wrote: > > Actually, there's now a thread on Commons for logo feedback: > > < > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia/2.0#Logo_revisions_need_input > > > > I have tried my hand at tweaking a few things in SVG: > > http://en.wikiped

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On 15 May 2010, at 03:20, Casey Brown wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Carcharoth > wrote: >> Logo stuff can be discussed on the Wikimedia blog here: >> >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/05/13/wikipedia-in-3d/ >> > > Actually, there's now a thread on Commons for logo feedback: >

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

Casey Brown wrote: > Actually, there's now a thread on Commons for logo feedback: > I have tried my hand at tweaking a few things in SVG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-en-alt.svg Notes are in

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:50:04 -0500, Emily Monroe wrote: > Not really. Wheel warring is a serious offense. Worse than top-posting? :-) -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > Logo stuff can be discussed on the Wikimedia blog here: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/05/13/wikipedia-in-3d/ > Actually, there's now a thread on Commons for logo feedback:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > Yes William, > you must remember that "the Wikipedias - SERIOUS BUSINESS!" proof: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_wikipedias_serious.jpg and no sense or > humour or lighthearted banter will be tolerated here. That kind of  behavior > bel

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 14 May 2010 23:40, William Pietri wrote: > On 05/14/2010 03:34 PM, Ian Woollard wrote: > > On 14/05/2010, William Pietri wrote: > > > >> No worries! If I had thought somebody were suggesting wheel warring on > >> enwiki, I'd ask 'em about it too. >

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

Not really. Wheel warring is a serious offense. Emily On May 14, 2010, at 6:47 PM, AGK wrote: >> It's not acceptable *ever*. >> >> I was trying to do a test once and all my test articles disappeared. >> It had taken a while to set up. >> >> At that point you either just leave or wheel war and the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

> It's not acceptable *ever*. > > I was trying to do a test once and all my test articles disappeared. > It had taken a while to set up. > > At that point you either just leave or wheel war and then leave. > > All testing stops. Bit of an over-reaction. AGK __

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

On 05/14/2010 03:34 PM, Ian Woollard wrote: > On 14/05/2010, William Pietri wrote: > >> No worries! If I had thought somebody were suggesting wheel warring on >> enwiki, I'd ask 'em about it too. >> > It's not acceptable *ever*. > Ok. What I have learned here is that joking about ad

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On 14/05/2010, David Gerard wrote: > On 14 May 2010 21:21, Ian Woollard wrote: > >> No, it's a horrible, horrible bug in the search box. >> To be honest, I think this bug should have gated the release; about >> 50% of the page hits go through this one box, and it's rewriting what >> the users typ

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

On 14/05/2010, William Pietri wrote: > No worries! If I had thought somebody were suggesting wheel warring on > enwiki, I'd ask 'em about it too. It's not acceptable *ever*. I was trying to do a test once and all my test articles disappeared. It had taken a while to set up. At that point you ei

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

On 05/14/2010 02:13 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: > Oh, you're talking about the test wiki? > > Wow, never mind. My profound apologies. I have trouble interpreting > inflection even offline. > No worries! If I had thought somebody were suggesting wheel warring on enwiki, I'd ask 'em about it too.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On 14 May 2010 21:19, Casey Brown wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, AGK wrote: > > Ooh, that's nifty. I didn't know it existed either. Will they be > > testing FlaggedRevs on the site, > > > > Most new extensions are tested on their own "labs" site or on > testwiki, the Usability initiat

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On 05/14/2010 02:07 PM, AGK wrote: > On 14 May 2010 22:02, William Pietri wrote: > >> Was there something about their prototype that you wanted to see >> included on flaggedrevs.labs? >> > Really just the vector skin and the other arrangements that have just > been rolled out on enwiki.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, AGK wrote: > Ooh, that's nifty. I didn't know it existed either. Will they be > testing FlaggedRevs on the site, > Most new extensions are tested on their own "labs" site or on testwiki, the Usability initiative is special because it has tons of different improvem

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

Oh, you're talking about the test wiki? Wow, never mind. My profound apologies. I have trouble interpreting inflection even offline. Emily On May 14, 2010, at 4:07 PM, William Pietri wrote: > On 05/14/2010 01:29 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: >>> [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

> Was there something about their prototype that you wanted to see > included on flaggedrevs.labs? I'm also wondering if we will have a keyboard shortcut for pages that have changes awaiting review? At the moment, if I open a page and want to delete it, I can press ctrl+alt+d to bring up the delet

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

On 05/14/2010 01:29 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: >> [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have >> > a whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war >> > if you want and we won't tell a soul. >> > Should you really encourage behavior such as wheel warr

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On 14 May 2010 22:02, William Pietri wrote: > Was there something about their prototype that you wanted to see > included on flaggedrevs.labs? Really just the vector skin and the other arrangements that have just been rolled out on enwiki. I guess vector doesn't make much of a difference to how t

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On 05/14/2010 01:52 PM, AGK wrote: > Ooh, that's nifty. I didn't know it existed either. Will they be > testing FlaggedRevs on the site, now that it's not needed for vector? > We do have our very own playpen here: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page The long-term plan is to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

On 14 May 2010 21:17, David Gerard wrote: > FYI. BTW, I didn't know the prototype wiki existed! Ooh, that's nifty. I didn't know it existed either. Will they be testing FlaggedRevs on the site, now that it's not needed for vector? AGK ___ WikiEN-l mai

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

On 14 May 2010 21:29, Emily Monroe wrote: >> [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have >> a whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war >> if you want and we won't tell a soul. > Should you really encourage behavior such as wheel warring? Even as a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

[snip] > [2] Except those of you who already have them. But for you, we have > a whole wiki that you can go wild on. You can even have a wheel war > if you want and we won't tell a soul. Should you really encourage behavior such as wheel warring? Even as a joke? Emily On May 14, 2010, at 12

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On 14 May 2010 21:21, Ian Woollard wrote: > No, it's a horrible, horrible bug in the search box. > To be honest, I think this bug should have gated the release; about > 50% of the page hits go through this one box, and it's rewriting what > the users type. Has it been reported to Bugzilla/the t

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On 13/05/2010, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ian Woollard > wrote: >> Under firefox, the new search box is quite buggy actually. I just >> tried typing really quickly into it on a slow machine, and ended up >> with only half the information appearing; the third time th

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

FYI. BTW, I didn't know the prototype wiki existed! Also: Please try your weird, cheap and bad browsers on en:wp and the prototype wiki as an anonymous user. There's been a string of problem reports about older BlackBerrys and the PS3 browser, for example. The more good bug reports, the better.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

On 05/14/2010 04:23 AM, AGK wrote: > Thanks for the update William. It seems like we're getting very close > to release now, which is great to hear. We're very excited, too. > On 14 May 2010 06:25, William Pietri wrote: > >> we will be getting >> together with Rob H. and the rest of the ops

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Protection update for May 13

Thanks for the update William. It seems like we're getting very close to release now, which is great to hear. On 14 May 2010 06:25, William Pietri wrote: > we will be getting > together with Rob H. and the rest of the ops ninjas to discuss release > dates. Are you referring to the developers? Su

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Carcharoth > wrote: >> >> >> I'm used to typing the term for a page I know is there and hitting >> "search" (instead of "go") because I want the results of a search >> rather than being take to the page

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:01 PM, William Beutler wrote: > > Despite my concerns about the search box location, I was resigned to the > Vector changeover until just this moment. And while I'm glad to see the > Japanese fixed (and possibly some of the other languages) the new *look* is > not an impr

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Ian Woollard wrote: >> On 13/05/2010, AGK wrote: >>> I prefer the old location for the search box, yes. But I think that's >>> because I'm _used_ to it being on the left. I think the usability team >>> gave a r

Re: [WikiEN-l] The new look to Wikipedia

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Amory Meltzer wrote: >> Delete and protect are in the dropdown arrow next to the star on the >> upper-right.  Block is where it always was, on the toolbar on the >> left, but you have to click the arrow to d

Re: [WikiEN-l] The New Look

Despite my concerns about the search box location, I was resigned to the Vector changeover until just this moment. And while I'm glad to see the Japanese fixed (and possibly some of the other languages) the new *look* is not an improvement. Too dark, too small. If there is a discussion about thos