Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability

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thread_title: Wikimedia Movement Strategy Recommendations include some usability aspects

message: Sharing a request for feedback made by  of the WMF Growth team, who is working on features to increase new editor retention: 
Cheers,  talk 21:06, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI: New WMF Growth Team features 

message: One of the least user-friendly areas of Wikipedia is the page histories. I assume that this is controlled to a large extent by more global interface stuff. Does anyone know where we might be able to go to discuss improving it?  talk 22:48, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's part of the MW core software, though it can be customised lightly via user scripts. What would you want changed in there? – SD0001 (talk) 08:03, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , it really needs a top-to-bottom overhaul. The whole using the circular buttons to find revisions to compare thing is not intuitive at all, nor is "prev" and "cur".  talk 02:21, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Late but have you tried out User:Yair_rand/HistoryView.js? IMO it's overkill as it changes literally everything, but something to think about. – SD0001 (talk) 11:45, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , hmm, that's interesting; thanks for the link! Thinking about this, it's really something that'd probably best be handled by the WMF, so maybe the route to go is asking for it from them.  talk 21:51, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page histories 

message: For anyone who would like to join in, here's a discussion / whiteboard for sketching out a simple, accessible 'Request an article' wizard. -- BessieMaelstrom (talk) 11:14, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Request an article' wizard 

message: Hello all! The WMF has a new blog post that may be of interest. Cheers,  talk 00:00, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  WMF blog post of interest 

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thread_title: RfC on flat design at VPR

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message: Hello, there is a discussion at Talk:Central Business District, Los Angeles (1880s-1890s) regarding an unusual content layout that could use some input regarding accessibility. Thanks for everyone that might have suggestions.   // Timothy :: talk  19:58, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article discussion needing input regarding layout and accessibility  

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message: Does anyone else feel constrained by the limited number of skin choices available here?  I just counted five, six if you count both Vector and Legacy Vector.  All of them are traditional black text on white background.  I'm a fan of Mediawikiwiki:Skin:DarkVector and have helped develop it a little.  Is there some reason we can't have access to ten or fifteen skins?  What would it hurt? Flounder ceo (talk) 16:44, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The more skins there are, the more complexity there is and the more work it is to maintain everything. What I'd like to see is not more skins but just better skins—the old ones imo are truly awful and it'd be much nicer to see options like Dark Vector or others based around Vector with some minor style or color tweaks.  talk 18:48, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't miss Modern if it went away but I've met some people who like it.  Except for Vector and MinervaNeue, I think most skins are maintained by volunteers. Flounder ceo (talk) 19:07, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Limited number of skin choices

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thread_title: Community wishlist proposal to make editnotices visible on mobile

message: This RfC concerns MediaWiki:Newarticletext, the default edit notice shown when someone is creating a new page. Should it be changed as shown?  talk 09:03, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I should clarify, I have no opposition to the message or text, just the obnoxious color that makes new page creation distracting. GRINCHIDICAE🎄 20:51, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , I'd be fine with limiting the more noticeable coloring/icon to non-extended confirmed editors. To do that, we'd need to add a bit of code to a back-end CSS page, which would allow us to hide wikitext from non-EC editors. That missing bit of code actually came up a week ago in an entirely different circumstance, and a request to interface admins to add it is pending here.  talk 23:13, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

text: Not that anyone ever reads that far..but would be best to link a personal sand box instead of a sandbox title that is associated with this dead project that has not reviewed an article in 8 years.--Moxy 🍁 13:18, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , if you're referring to "Special:Mypage/WikiProject Usability", the part after the slash is the name of the uncreated page. So if you go to ssdfsdkfjshdfsdfs, it'll suggest Special:Mypage/Ssdfsdkfjshdfsdfs.  talk 14:12, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Direct them to a normal tilted draft page User:Moxy/Draft....not User:Moxy/WikiProject Usability that  seems to imply it's related to this project that does not review articles.--Moxy 🍁 14:33, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't teach you what you're unwilling to learn. There's no linking to WikiProject Usability going on.  talk 15:10, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, part of that might make sense: infixing "Draft:", so the entire prefix would be "Special:Mypage/Draft:...".  That would make moving the page into Draft namespace a little more intuitive later.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:54, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC: Visual changes to the new article editnotice 

message: *Support as nom. This notice is quite important and something we very much want editors to read, but its current plain white format doesn't draw any attention to it. Both the color change and restoring the icon will help make it more noticeable. I chose green because, to the extent Wikipedia has a style system, it seems to be the color used for friendly information and instructions, as at  or .  talk 20:44, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I should clarify, I have no opposition to the message or text, just the obnoxious color that makes new page creation distracting. GRINCHIDICAE🎄 20:51, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , I'd be fine with limiting the more noticeable coloring/icon to non-extended confirmed editors. To do that, we'd need to add a bit of code to a back-end CSS page, which would allow us to hide wikitext from non-EC editors. That missing bit of code actually came up a week ago in an entirely different circumstance, and a request to interface admins to add it is pending here.  talk 23:13, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: I anticipate that, seeing this RfC, some editors may have other ideas about changes to make to the notice. These are welcome, but I'd prefer that they not get in the way of the discussion above, so I am carving out a space for them here.
As a basic usability best practices reminder, it is vital that we keep this notice as short and concise as possible. Yes, there are lots of things we'd like people to have in mind when creating a new page, but every line we add to this notice makes it less likely people will actually read it and thus less likely they'll click through to Help:Your first article.  talk 20:44, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that anyone ever reads that far..but would be best to link a personal sand box instead of a sandbox title that is associated with this dead project that has not reviewed an article in 8 years.--Moxy 🍁 13:18, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , if you're referring to "Special:Mypage/WikiProject Usability", the part after the slash is the name of the uncreated page. So if you go to ssdfsdkfjshdfsdfs, it'll suggest Special:Mypage/Ssdfsdkfjshdfsdfs.  talk 14:12, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Direct them to a normal tilted draft page User:Moxy/Draft....not User:Moxy/WikiProject Usability that  seems to imply it's related to this project that does not review articles.--Moxy 🍁 14:33, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't teach you what you're unwilling to learn. There's no linking to WikiProject Usability going on.  talk 15:10, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, part of that might make sense: infixing "Draft:", so the entire prefix would be "Special:Mypage/Draft:...".  That would make moving the page into Draft namespace a little more intuitive later.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:54, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Other design ideas

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message: I'm not sure if this is to specific but it has absolutely to do with usability.
As I do graphic work I always try as hard as possible to pick colors so they work for many people with color deficiency. So to be able to mark the "images" information pages I have created a template Color_deficiency_ok to show this and to add the images to Category:Color_deficiency_ok. I hope this can be useful. --always ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 14:30, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Goran tek-en, I'd definitely bring this up at commons:Commons:Village pump to assess community consensus, as there are a lot of potential files where this could be used. See also MOS:COLOR.  talk 15:13, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  color deficiency 

message: I meant to share an invite earlier, but just plopping here for the record since it's relevant: Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal: Turn on syntax highlighting by default for new accounts.  talk 07:52, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turning on syntax highlighting by default 

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message: Hi, I am going through some of the talk pages for a usability case study and I am noticing some difficulty in navigation and understanding of the pages. I was wondering if editors can share your thoughts and flows as they go through the talk pages? Just looking to understand some of the pain points for people who are both new and experienced when it comes to Wikipedia talk pages/editing. If this is not the right place to ask, do let me know where I can look towards! Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jncwtopac (talk • contribs) 
:Hi ! When I go to a talk page, I'm normally looking either to see what past discussions have been held there or to start a new discussion (sometimes after I've been reverted). There are a whole bunch of pain points. For newcomers, WP:NOTFORUM is commonly not known. For everyone, indenting is a pain, as is the lack of automatic signatures (you should sign your posts with ) and the inability to subscribe to individual sections. The Talk pages project currently being undertaken by the Wikimedia Foundation aims to address many of these issues and has released beta features; I would definitely check that out.  talk 07:28, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks  for your comment and the links! I will definitely check out Talk pages project. Hope you don't mind a few questions! Was it difficult when you first started going through talk pages? And how has it been from when you first started to now?  Also, aside from the issues, are there things you enjoy about the talk pages as you use it? Jncwtopac (talk) 08:11, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't clearly remember my earliest talk page interactions. The main thing I enjoy about talk pages is just seeing the Wikipedia community at work—some talk page posts are junk, but many reflect a remarkable level of care about even minute aspects of the topic.  talk 08:19, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice! Thank you for sharing! Jncwtopac (talk) 14:02, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usability of talk pages 

message: I've created a Barnstar for this project, see Template:The Usability Barnstar. Jerm (talk) 22:03, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barnstar 

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message: A discussion was started at Module talk:RoundN § Medal colors for gold/silver/bronze, aiming to change the module's background colors in favor of more accessible ones. Please, join us in it, as we lack experience in the subject. CLalgo (talk) 13:23, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @CLalgo, I'd suggest posting an invite at WT:Accessibility as well.  talk 18:53, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:   Thank you. Done. CLalgo (talk) 19:31, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
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