Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
May I change the layout of the
homepage of the English Wikipedia
to that of the Esperanto Wikipedia?
I think that layout looks much better.
I would ask this on [[Talk:Main Page]],
but not many people look there that
often, and this would be a huge change.
IMO that is HMTL madness -- WAY too many spurious colors that mean nothing and
whose only purpose is to look "purty" in the eyes of the designer. We have
already worked out a more conservative color scheme for the Main Page but
were waiting for some earth-shattering announcement to make to go with the
upgrade (such as "The Wikimedia Foundation is open for business and is now
accepting donations!" - not that we would say that on the Main Page but we
would have a link to a press release).
See:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/Temp
Which is based on:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
We really should be very conservative with making big noticeably changes to
that page because so many people visit it every day. Making a big change is
going to make people think that something is different and then they will be
more likely to see the link to the press release (we did this for our last
press release and it worked very well).
Color rational: White is for articles (thus the background for the category
links is white/unchanged), Yellow is for community (since all our user, talk,
and wikipedia pages are yellow) and Blue is for hyperlinks. I guess red for
edit links would also be neat (indicating there is always something else to
cover) but that would be too many colors and red is also a bit heavy.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)