On Tuesday, July 15, 2014, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > The one thing that comes to my mind is that all the stuff at the right of > the screen is what might be called the "bottom matter" from articles. > Giving it primary place in an article, well above the majority of content > is...well, suboptimal.
For me it was instant love. It puts the article in its widest context, inviting users to discover all what the Wikimedia community is offering about that topic. I was even wondering why the categories are not there, assuming that they will be in some form in the real prototype/beta. > It's at the bottom because it's really not all that > important; links to other similar articles and other Wikimedia sites is > (I'm going to be honest here) fluff, not content Depends on what you are looking for. Readers interested precisely in the article at sight and not in its context will not even look at the right column after the initial surprise. Just like any news readers go directly to the news piece ignoring whatever else is around. However, many (most?) users visit Wikipedia with a less precise motivation and a wider curiosity about some topic. These are also the users less likely to hit the bottom of an article, and less likely to know what & who is behind every Wikipedia article. > - especially those massive > templates that take the place of proper categorization. Cause and consequence, perhaps? Maybe those templates became massive as a way to call the attention at the bottom of the page, where proper categories become almost invisible to the non-trained eye. The prototype shows them expanded but they could be minimized by default in the beta version. If we go forth with this design, editors will find solutions to adapt oversize templates to their new privileged position. I'm sure Winter 1.0 can get this part right. While the previous Winter features were evolutionary (and that was good), this one is a real challenger, and this is good too. PS: and yes, thank you very much for prototyping. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
