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 <monteirobr...@gmail.com> > 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 >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
