Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Redesign

message: This is the place for discussion of ongoing tasks in this project, which include:
# Develop the structure, decide what content to include on the Community Portal, and how.
# Decide on the design aesthetics/style for the page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 21:48, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

message: ===Community Bulletin Board===
The CBB needs to be more compact, and get rid of the white space there now.  I see a few options:
# Get rid of the "Signpost" box, and move the new WikiProjects and Portals there.
# Move the WikiProjects and Portals to a different section of the Community Portal, separate from the CBB.
# On the current Community Portal, there's a section for "New Featured Content".  We could move that to the top, right column and put the CBB in the top left column.  These two sections could complement each other nicely.
Any thoughts regarding these options, or other suggestions on making the CBB more compact and concise? --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 3. - copied from above - maybe we could be fixing up the Wikipedia:Featured content portal, so we can convince the-powers-that-be to link that in the navigation-sidebar box, instead of the "Featured articles" link that got added this week. --Quiddity 04:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

text: 1 + 2. - Yeah. But move the CBB to occupy the top right column. (I really think "Jobs to do" should remain at the top of the page. They would also complement each other, and the CBB would be above the Collaborations.) (The "News" section should also be above the "jobs to do", it got cut out accidentally when the CBB was moved up in the last edit.) --Quiddity 05:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Community Portal content

message: The CBB needs to be more compact, and get rid of the white space there now.  I see a few options:
# Get rid of the "Signpost" box, and move the new WikiProjects and Portals there.
# Move the WikiProjects and Portals to a different section of the Community Portal, separate from the CBB.
# On the current Community Portal, there's a section for "New Featured Content".  We could move that to the top, right column and put the CBB in the top left column.  These two sections could complement each other nicely.
Any thoughts regarding these options, or other suggestions on making the CBB more compact and concise? --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 3. - copied from above - maybe we could be fixing up the Wikipedia:Featured content portal, so we can convince the-powers-that-be to link that in the navigation-sidebar box, instead of the "Featured articles" link that got added this week. --Quiddity 04:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

text: 1 + 2. - Yeah. But move the CBB to occupy the top right column. (I really think "Jobs to do" should remain at the top of the page. They would also complement each other, and the CBB would be above the Collaborations.) (The "News" section should also be above the "jobs to do", it got cut out accidentally when the CBB was moved up in the last edit.) --Quiddity 05:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Community Bulletin Board

message: ==== Header box ====
problem(s) with the header box:
*The within-page links in the top right, are actual page-links in the Main Page's header box. That is confusingly inconsistent.
I suggest we try making the title box 50% width, and leave a normal ToC floating in the top right. (as on the current CP) --Quiddity 05:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The title box looks good with a 300px width. Then if we have 2 columns of content, it would be good to have 2 matching columns of intra-links (as on the help:contents/sitemap). I can't manage to code a box that floats top-right though. --Quiddity 09:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Main page style

message: problem(s) with the header box:
*The within-page links in the top right, are actual page-links in the Main Page's header box. That is confusingly inconsistent.
I suggest we try making the title box 50% width, and leave a normal ToC floating in the top right. (as on the current CP) --Quiddity 05:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The title box looks good with a 300px width. Then if we have 2 columns of content, it would be good to have 2 matching columns of intra-links (as on the help:contents/sitemap). I can't manage to code a box that floats top-right though. --Quiddity 09:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Header box 

message: Yesterday and today, I have made some progress with indexing Wikipedia (probably will do Help namespace too) pages at User:Kmf164/Index.  This helps get a sense of what's out there and think about how to organize it, and help inform decisions as to what to include in the Community Portal structure.  Much of these topics belong on the Help pages, some might belong in the new "Featured articles" page now linked in the navigation bar, others might go in Wikipedia:About, etc. --Aude (talk | contribs) 21:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good job.  We still don't have a section under departments with administrative links.  --Go for it! 18:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Indexing WP namespace

message: Can you possibly make the signpost easier to find on the community page? The new changes meant I knew it was there somewhere but it took me a while to locate it.Sabine's Sunbird  talk 16:36, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Responded on Wikipedia talk:Community Portal. --Aude (talk | contribs) 16:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia Signpost

message: Why not move related communities in a box under "toolbar" on the side page frame? it will save space. –Tutmøsis · (Msg Me) 01:24, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related wiki  communities