Apologies for resurrecting an old thread; however, a current discussion
amongst several Wikipedians indicates how very important those external
link symbols are. It's really important for external links to be easily
and visually differentiated from internal links because we have an awful
lot of ex
Brion's email reminds me that we sometimes use an icon resembling
Adobe's A to identify PDF, which is very ugly for an open standard.
FSFE's initiative welcomes design help to make their icons better, their
maintainer told me: http://pdfreaders.org/graphics.en.html
Also, the Internet Archive b
A few background notes:
* The generic external link icon is applied by virtual of existence of the
'external' class, which is a nice simple implementation. I kinda like it. :)
* In contrast, the CSS rules used to mark certain external links with the
PDF, IRC, SSL, etc "specific" icon types are re
+ wikitech
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) <
smazel...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Also see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/23424/
>
> In my opinion, external link icons add a lot of visual noise and not that
> much relevant information.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:2
