Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/Archive 3

message: See usability-related discussion initiated at Help talk:Footnotes#The bigger picture: use of "H:", "Phh", "Ph" and other related templates in Help namespace --Francis Schonken 12:43, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usability in Help: namespace 

message: A discussion is underway concerning the redesign of the sidebar which is displayed on every page of Wikipedia.  See you at Wikipedia talk:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign --Nexus Seven 00:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidebar redesign discussion 

message: Is a policy on image sizes will be good? I was pushing the use of thumb in an infobox discussion, and I think the flexibility of a size not specified in pixels is better. --Marc Lacoste 09:56, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image size recommandation 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.   B2T2 14:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: :Template:click, which uses a wikitext/HTML/CSS hack to make links unclickable in graphical browsers, but adds confusing links to other browsers, has been proposed for deletion. Poll is at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 December 17#Template:Click. —Michael Z. 2006-12-17 17:03 Z
: Yay! — Omegatron 15:41, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:click is up for deletion 

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Infobox accessibility has a prominent redlink in it. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 20:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redlink in project documentation

message: Hi all,
I'm afraid that I thought I had a solution to this issue, but when I implemented it I broke the main page :-( I am rather sorry that I did that. However, it is possible to convert from tables to divs and apply styles. Given that HTML should be about structuring information, and not really about layout, I would like to see a lot more div tags and a lot less table tags!
Our current main page is actually quite hard to skin. For instance, I wanted to include, in my own css file, line-spacing changes. However, these changes break the main page for me. If the main page had the infoboxes in div tags, then it would be a lot simpler to implement this change. 
A trial is currently at User:Ta bu shi da yu/MainPage2, there are significant problems with my markup, however. If anyone could help, I'd much appreciate this! - Ta bu shi da yu 02:20, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be overjoyed if people could help you with this. (and converting the Community Portal and Help:Contents redesigns into CSS layouts too). -Quiddity 17:36, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

text: The use of tables for layout in templates and whatnot is so rampant it makes me want to cry. Vagary 09:01, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Regular users can't edit the site-wide CSS, so it's all they can do.  It's better than no layout... — Omegatron 13:56, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

text:  I have made a version of the main page using inline CSS. Please view it at User:OliverRigby/CSS Main Page and feel free to make any comments, alterations and suggestions. There is a short discussion at Talk:Main Page#The_main_page_rewritten_in_inline_CSS regarding this at the moment. Many thanks. -OliverRigby (talk) 22:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Converting main page to CSS 

message: There's a thread at Template talk:Navigation bar about the usability of the recently created template:Navigation bar.  Please comment there if you're interested in this.  Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments requested 

message: Moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Infobox accessibility. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox accessibility issue 

message: Template:cquote, which formats block quotations as a table with purple quotation marks linked to image pages, has been proposed for deletion.  Please vote or comment at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 December 12#Template:Cquote. —Michael Z. 2006-12-13 17:20 Z
: And it's already been closed.  I knew as soon as I put the TfD template on it, they'd come running.  — Omegatron 19:26, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Gah. And agreed, that's a ghastly template. Next time... -Quiddity 20:50, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:cquote is up for deletion 

message: Hi! Hopefully this is good forum to ask help for browser testing of one idea I have.
Namely I try to enable blended background image to be used for example in navigation box headers. It's easy to do in (new) non-IE browsers, but IE would need some "hacking". In my commons page ( :commons:User:TarmoK/wikibar ) I have made test page to test the solution for it and it works for IE6, FF and Opera, but I'd be glad to get help with other browsers, especially IE7 and as well Mac-s browsers.
If you have free moment to take little time to do small addition to your monobook.css in commons and then check this test page (and update the table in bottom of page), I'll be greatful. Thank you in advance and all comments are welcome --TarmoK 13:49, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  browser testing of backround transparent image 

message: It would be nice if there was a place where visually impaired people might go to request that an article is turned into a spoken version, assuming that they would really prefer this over their computer's own text-to-speach capability. --Seans Potato Business 20:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See :Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests. --Quiddity 19:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting Spoken Articles - Priority To Those That Need Them 

message: Participants here may be interested in the following Wikipedia Manual of Style debate: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Appending a period.  The gist is that the MoS current says to leave the period off of abbreviations of units of measurement, entirely, when this is really only appropriate for some of them, such as mm, km, dB, etc., and is not appropriate for those that are abbreviations of Imperial/American units such as feet, inches, miles, etc., which have traditionally used periods, and do so with the recommendations of the vast majority of style guides.  The usability issue can be illustrated with an example:  "The rod is 40.6 cm (16 in) in length" (or worse yet, "has 40.6 cm (16 in) sides"; screen readers (at least some of them) are going to say "16 in sides" which will sound like "16 insides".  Some of the MoS regulars are strongly resistant to the idea of restoring periods here, and I suspect that only usability/accessibility concerns are going to make a dent with them.  PS: There are several other debates relating to updating this subsection of the dates and numbers section of MoS, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Overhaul "Units of measurement" section which may be of some usability interest. I fear that the main debate I'm mentioning here is rarely raised because it is shouted down with "This is old news! We don't want to talk about it again!" attitudes (a quick review of that talk page shows several blantant examples of this ignoring of WP:CCC already); its going to take more than just me to get this fixed, I believe.  PS: even from a sighted-user usability vs. accessibility issue, the current MoS-recommended practice is terrible, since English speakers parse the string "in" as a preposition not as an abbreviation for "inch(es)". — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 20:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: MoS and accessibility

message: I'm not sure if this is the right forum for discussion, but I wonder if there is any specific project aimed at resolving issues between different browsers showing templates etc. differently.  For example, this template is practically illegible in FF but fine in MSIE.  I want to have a go at resolving it, but wonder if there is a place where I can get assistance? — superbfc [ talk | cont ] — 11:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Check my reply at the template talk page.  I was able to fix one little thing.  I'll see what I can do about the squashy-ness.  ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 16:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I already sorted the squashy-ness (compare it to this) as someone has removed a parameter they thought was superfluous, but was required in Mozilla. — superbfc [ talk | cont ] — 16:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Firefox issues 

message: As someone recently aptly commented, Wikipedia's help pages are a "mind-numbing maze". There is page after page after page of different people explaining different aspects of the same thing in different ways, link after link which one has to follow, seemingly without end, without ever having any clue about where one "is" in this maze. In five minutes I found NINETEEN different pages that explain different aspects of how to create links. After that I lost the will to live.
Is there any ongoing effort to try to clean up these pages? If there is then I may be able to contribute from time to time when I'm feeling enthusiastic. Matt 13:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but it's inactive currently: Wikipedia:Help Project. Believe me, it's even more complicated than you think. Anyone trying to clean up our help pages inevitably realizes that one really has synchronously coordinate a cleanup of meta:help:contents and mw:help:contents too, which is a monumental task. --Quiddity 19:23, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help pages 

message: The current Picture of the day, :Image:Translational motion.gif is extremely distracting; it may well cause problems for users with cognitive disabilities. It appears to breach WAI-WCAG Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. I've proposed that it be replaced ASAP, and that we have an agreement to only use still images for PotD in future? Thank you. Andy Mabbett 23:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animated Picture of the Day 

message: I got a question from a large teaching/research institution intending to introduce Mediawiki: Has Mediawiki been tested against WAI and/or Section 508 standards with regards to disabled users in general and users with impaired vision in particular. Does anyone here know anything about this? Cnyborg 15:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WAI / Section 508

message:  is a usability problem. It's widely used, and in many cases, that use is replaceable with ImageMap. I've been, over a while, converting easily convertible instances of the template to roughly equivalent ImageMap code. Just recently I wrote a program in AppleScript that does the conversion automatically, which has sped up my efforts tremendously. If anyone else in the Usability project is using Mac OS X and wants to help out converting things, the script is at User:Nihiltres/Click-to-ImageMap and is useful for quick copy-paste-script-copy-paste conversions that are much faster than manual conversion. The script warns in the case that the conversion is obviously not valid syntax (i.e. does not contain an image or a link, or uses template or parameter references incompatible with ImageMap). It was a quick write-up once I had the idea to do it, though the code's still a bit messy. If someone finds this useful, let me know. :) Nihiltres{t.l} 15:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eliminating {{[[Template:click|click]]}} 

message: Hi everyone, I was looking to edit the main page of the Anglo-Saxon wiki, and I thought using the Dutch version as a base would be great; the only thing is the width of the right-side is a bit too much.  I'm not very good at programming, but if someone would be able to help out, I'd appreciate it.  --JamesR1701E (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Main Page ANG

message: To prepare for the upcoming Wikipedia usability study, I wrote up a list of usability problems and proposals. Any comments are welcome. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 17:48, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done. Perhaps other editors should look at a long article, a short article, and history/discussion and try to find usability problems. Try not to read other people's lists of problems until you try to come up with your own, in case you introduce some bias. Also, don't try to come up with solutions until you're done finding all the problems. Then just post a link here. Hopefully there are some people actively watching this page. Here is my list of usability problems. –MT 04:08, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal list of usability problems 

message: Should Wikipedia work towards meeting WCAG 2.0 guidelines? At what level? Please join discussion at Wikipedia talk:Accessibility#WCAG 2.0. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 12:24, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  WCAG 2.0 

message: Wikipedia and its policies regarding the creation of articles and the limitations of content that is allowed(i.e. original research) negatively impact Wikipedia's friendliness towards editors and image uploaders. It should be this Wiki Projects responsibility to campaign to improve the usability for editors in Wikipedia.Spitfire19 (Talk) 20:55, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia and its condition of Editorial Friendliness 

message: There is a proposal here to make an alteration in the position of the [edit] button. Input to the discussion is welcome. Mjroots (talk) 13:08, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The [edit] button

message: The current prefeence options do not conform to the needs of dyslexic visitors of WIKI, infact WIKI could be described as an alien environment for dyslexics
The are many cause of the dyslexic symptom, the two main categories are visual and auditory neurologogical information processing  problems. Most dyalexia freindly werb sites follow a standard convention of providing at least six different background options for the whole web page such as the UK British Dyslexia Accossaition web site http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/ they also offer font choice and font colour choice but that may be too technicla for WIKI at this time. The research basis for all of this can be viewed at 
http://www.dyslexiaservices.com.au/Six-Year_Follow-Up.htm 
Those who have the auditory problems that can cause the dyslexic symptom prefer text to be presnted with more spacing and using multi coloured fonts, which again many be not too tewchnically possible just now but have a look at 
http://www.apduk.org/ 
and the prefer listed infoirmation which appears in the guide indexes to be presented something like this 
http://capdlinks.homestead.com/Dyslexia.html 
another issue on my skins page I found the following
________________________
*Chick (Preview) (Custom CSS) (Custom JS)
*Classic (Preview) (Custom CSS) (Custom JS)
*Cologne Blue (Preview) (Custom CSS) (Custom JS)
*Modern (Preview) (Custom CSS) (Custom JS)
*MonoBook (default) (Preview) (Custom CSS) (Custom JS)
*MySkin (Preview) (Custom CSS) (Custom JS)
*Nostalgia (Preview) (Custom CSS) (Custom JS)
*Simple (Preview) (Custom CSS) (Custom JS)
__________________________
all of the CSS and JS options are dead RED links which lead to a blank page could this be remedied.
My concern is that the options I am asking for should be standard options for Visual dyslexics to choose from just like say the Monobook option which many non dyslexic may prefer.
So I ma asking fro SIX more skin options which would comply with the standards i mentioned above so that these dyslexics can set the background for all of their wikipedia experiences.
I hope this is in the right place to make these observations, i have Auditory Processing Disorder as the cause of my dyalexia and i find working in WIKI a stressful nightmare
dolfrog (talk) 16:59, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Making WIKI more Dyslexia Frinedly

message: Does this project have some userpage icon? I'm usually not into those, but for this project, it'd really be worth it. You know, the kind of "this user uses Firefox, this user is an atheist" etc. It'd be a good way to spread the word. --Anime Addict AA (talk) 13:34, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icon 

message: Comments on the usability of  (the page listing mapping services found by clicking on coordinates in articles) are invited, at Template talk:GeoTemplate#Usability redux. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:31, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usability of GeoTemplate 

message: Copied from this thread at Jimbo's talk page.
On all pages that are not protected/semi-protected, the tagline should read: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. You can edit this page." followed by a button marked "edit" linking to a very short, simple few sentences about how to, and a link to the Talk and Edit pages of the article. That, alone, would double the editor activity overnight. I think that would be a good thing. Anthony (talk) 18:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Call me an elitist, but I don't know if we really want to generate an income of editors which are still unable to understand that anyone can edit Wikipedia after so many years of its existence and the subtitle in the main page. --Cyclopiatalk 19:22, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If we make it easy and obvious, stupid people might start editing? Interesting hypothesis. Only one way to find out, and it could be undone. Anthony (talk) 20:15, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is all quite interesting and should be raised with the usability team.  Based on my non-Wikipedia experiences (at Wikia), encouraging more people to edit does not result in a reduction in quality, so I disagree with Cyclopedia's view.  But, in the end, it is, as Anthonyhcole says, an empirical question.  Most things are. :-) --Jimbo Wales (talk) 22:59, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

text: I don't think this is the appropriate page to ask. Try WP:VPT for the technical end, and MediaWiki talk:Tagline + WP:VPR for consensus to change. HTH. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:58, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed change to the tag line

message: Given WP:CONLIMITED, to what extent and under what circumstances can individual WikiProjects and users customize article appearance with individual styles that deviate from site-wide style guidelines? Interested contributors are invited to participate there. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:19, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC on [[Consensus]] 

message: See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Add projectwide css to highlight different posts in a discussion.
As this concerns a proposed usability change, I invite any interested parties to provide input at the above thread. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 03:36, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for post-highlighting CSS feature 

message: We're discussing the use of colours in succession boxes over at WT:SBS. Some input in regard to Usability and Accessibility would be appreciated. Thanks. Bazj (talk) 12:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Succession boxes 

message: We are having a discussion at TfD about Template:Imperial election TOC, which is a single-purpose table of contents template. In particular, another user and I are disagreeing over whether this specific ToC template improves or impedes the usability of the article.
I would very much appreciate comments and constructive criticism from anyone who has a strong feeling on the accessibility and usability of the article, particularly around the use or deletion of this template. It's worth reading the whole discussion, but the three main suggestions so far have been as follows:
# : The status quo, with a two-dimensional ToC provided by a bespoke template
# : A standard hierarchical ToC, separated by centuries
# : A standard hierarchical ToC, with no H3 separation
Any opinions on how best to handle the ToC in order to optimise the usability of the article — not necessarily limited to these three suggestions — would be gratefully appreciated. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:19, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two-dimensional tables of content 

message: Hello,
See this discussion.
--Nnemo (talk) 00:09, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New template requested — Discreet abbreviation 

message: A patch has been merged into mediawiki which removes the preference for enabling/disabling the WikiEditor and enables it for all by default. A discussion regarding this is ongoing at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Disabling_of_preference_for_wikieditor. All users are requested to comment.--Siddhartha Ghai (talk) 08:24, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disabling of preference for wikieditor 

message: The RFC at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories#Image_categorisation is of some interest to this WikiProject. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 13:31, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFC on image categorisation 

message: The usability of some category pages id under discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Categorization#Text on category pages. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 01:01, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text on category pages 

message: I've removed the  tag from Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Color, per the archived discussion. I don't remember what perspective I was bringing to that original decision to tag it as such (in 2006). I'm sure my intentions were great! Probably related to other pages duplicating the information, in a more high-traffic (more visible, and likely to be used) location?
Anyway, these appear to be the current guidelines regarding color. Any efforts should be towards aligning them, and minimizing redundancies. -- Quiddity (talk) 23:25, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Color

message: Gauging interest I am posting the same message to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Images and Media, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility to see if there is interest in a collaboration regarding adding subtitles to audio. Recently, the TimedText namespace became active and I decided to test it out with two subtitles: TimedText:Sufjan_Stevens_-_Casimir_Pulaski_Day.ogg.en.srt for :File:Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day.ogg and TimedText:They_Are_Night_Zombies!!_-_Sufjan_Stevens_-_clip.ogg.en.srt for :File:They Are Night Zombies!! - Sufjan Stevens - clip.ogg (someone else has created TimedText:Björk_-_Mutual_Core_sample.ogg.en.srt for :File:Björk - Mutual Core sample.ogg as well.) I also worked with  to create  and categorize audio files with subtitles. This leaves 7,087 audio and video files which lack subtitles (note that not all need them as some have no spoken audio.) Does anyone want to help me? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:18, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential collaboration/taskforce/WikiProject 

message: Folks watching this page may be interested in the Wikipedia:User Advocacy effort. --RA (✍) 22:20, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:User Advocacy 

message: Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on the WikiProject X proposal 

message: Hi, There are currently some job openings in the WMF's UX team, that I thought might be of interest to someone here, or you might know someone to nudge. Hope that helps. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 01:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  UX job openings at WMF 

message: Hello everyone!
You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.
Harej (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject X is live! 

message: Please see: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Accessibility versus convenience in indentation
While primarily framed in terms of accessibility and the avoidance of WP:POLICYFORKs, this also has usability angles (from both directions: editorial convenience versus WP:REUSE and other circumstances in which semantically correct code is important).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  13:41, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accessibility versus convenience in indentation (RfC at VPPOL) 

message: The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template .
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass.  Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
=== Background ===
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace.  On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you.     — The Transhumanist    11:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject collaboration notice from the [[WP:WPPORT|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace.  On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you.     — The Transhumanist    11:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: Hi all! I've been taking on a number of usability-related initiatives recently, such as redesigning the main welcome template to streamline it. I'm thinking about taking on a pretty major task next — trying to build a consensus to revamp the links in the sidebar that appears at the left of every page to improve usability and ease of navigation. I posted about it (including a bit of historical context) to test the waters at the Village Pump Idea Lab, but to take it further, it'd be nice to have collaborators to help craft a solid initiative. Would there be anyone here who might be interested in joining me for that? Or, if this project is as quiet as it seems, is there anywhere else I ought to turn? Sdkb (talk) 06:27, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to revamp the left sidebar 

message: Following a half-month incubation period at the Village Pump Idea Lab, a major RfC has been launched consisting of a series of independent proposals to modify the sidebar located on the left side of every page in the desktop default skin view of Wikipedia, aimed at improving usability and ease of navigation. You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2020 left sidebar update.   talk 21:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: RfC: 2020 left sidebar update