Hey, If a community dislikes a change they can instantly override it using mediawiki:common.css. In that case, no one would forces them to change it back.
But these changes are too small to notice and even smaller to dislike. For example no one is trying to change blue to red, But we changed a certain shade of blue to another shade that you are more familiar with and seen in other places. That's why for small changes we never got negative feedback. We are doing this to give users better experience by using familiar colors. It's really hard to see any objections overall. Best On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:03 AM Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Amir, > > Were these changes discussed in advance with Wikimedia communities on > mailing lists, village pumps, etc? I am thinking particularly of template > designers and maintainers, who may have coordinated their work with the > previous color scheme. It seems to me that Wikimedians should be given > plenty of notice that color changes like these are proposed, and should be > given ample opportunity to comment on them before they are rolled out, but > this is the first that I recall hearing of these changes. I would go so far > as to say that there should be an RfC before making changes like this to > community wikis. > > Also, it seems to me that there should be a period of a few weeks between > the commitment to make a change like this and the implementation of a > change so that Wikimedians whose work is affected have an opportunity to > prepare for changes. > > I'm not going to push for a rollback of this change unless I hear a lot of > community voices saying that this particular set of changes is a problem, > but I would hope that changes like this would be communicated and discussed > widely in the future and that an RfC would be undertaken before making > these kinds of changes to community wikis. > > Pine > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hey, > > With the deployment of 1.29.0-wmf.5 which just finished on all wikis, > > several changes were made in user interface colors. > > * Gray boxes (TOC, Wikitables, catlinks, thumbnails, elements in history > > etc.) has changed from #f9f9f9 as background to #f8f9fa and #aaa as > border > > to #a2a9b1. [1] This change is almost not noticeable but in order to keep > > consistency between all elements of a wiki page, change such usages in > your > > Mediawiki:Common.css (for example for infoboxes). > > * Search results border and background colors also changed and this one > is > > also not noticeable. [2] > > * "You have new message in your talk page" notification color has changed > > from #f9c557 to #fc3 (yellow). [3] This change is noticeable. > > > > These all are parts of works ongoing by WMF designers and engineers to > have > > a standard UI [4] using standard colors picked from Wikimedia color > > palette. [5] > > > > Using consistent colors helps users have better experience and strengthen > > branding. Also these colors have passed WCAG standard for accessibility > > (for color blind people). Lots have been done already. Such as content > > translation [6] wikipedia.org portal [7] [8], mobile frontend [9], Echo > > email notification [10], Deffered changes [11] ORES review tool [12], > > disambig icon [13] [14], WMF wiki main page [15] and a lot more. > > > > So I recommend you to use the color palette [5] as much as possible. > > > > I must explicitly note that I did a little and I don't think I can talk > on > > behalf of UI-standardization team :) > > > > [1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/324534 > > [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/324549 > > [3]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/324161 > > [4]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ui-standardization > > [5]: Wikimedia color palette: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82 > > [6]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/321609 > > [7]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/322831 > > [8]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/325057 > > [9]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/317746 > > [10]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/323554 > > [11]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/323558 > > [12]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/320341 > > [13]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disambig.svg > > [14]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Disambig_gray.svg > > [15]: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home > > > > Best > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
