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 <ladsgroup(a)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
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