https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51912
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Bug ID: 51912
Summary: Make Wikipedia distinct by styling of a prominent UI
feature differently than the default
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: design
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: o...@wikimedia.org
CC: b...@mzmcbride.com, jrob...@wikimedia.org,
swall...@wikimedia.org, tpars...@wikimedia.org
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
(Usage of 'Wikipedia' below should be understood as referring all the different
language editions.)
The default appearance of MediaWiki is remarkably close to Wikipedia. For
better or worse, many people intuitively associate the Vector skin with
Wikipedia content and values. This makes the experience of viewing
non-Wikipedia wikis slightly disorienting, especially when the content policy
and editorial standards are dramatically different from Wikipedia's. It's not
unreasonable to suspect that this hurts Wikipedia's reputation and credibility.
Traditionally the visual identity of individual projects has been asserted via
the logo, but the logo is not prominently visible on the mobile site (and space
constraints preclude it from being so) and it is not always visible on the
desktop site (if you scroll past the top of the page, for example).
Wikipedia's visual identity should be distinct. It need not be obnoxiously and
loudly distinct. It is probably sufficient to apply a subtle, non-default
styling to a prominent UI element, like changing the color of the Vector
sidebar to a slightly different shade of grey.
It is important for the software to remain free and freely reusable for third
parties, and this includes the design. We don't need to withhold or conceal the
CSS code; it'd be sufficient to make it non-default.
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