Design System Team/Resources
Welcome to our collection of helpful resources about the Wikimedia Design System, the Design System Team (DST), Codex, and front-end technology. These resources may be useful to you if you are onboarding, or just need a refresher.
This page is NOT for individual pieces without context (e.g., single Phabricator tasks, notes, discussion threads).
Please contribute to this page as you discover more!
🌠 = good overviews if you don't have time for all of it
General resources
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Codex demo site:
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doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/ | Guide | Public |
DST MediaWiki page:
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Design System Team | Guide | Public |
DST Phabricator workboard | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5858/ | Task tracking | Public |
DST release timeline | Design System Team/Release Timeline | History | Public |
DST norms | Design System Team/Norms | Guide | Public |
DST processes | Design System Team/Team Processes | Guide | Public |
Design System Governance Model | Design System Team/Design System Governance Model | Guide | Public |
Vue and Codex for non-Developers | Design System Team/Vue and Codex for non-Developers | ||
History of user-interface libraries and frameworks in MediaWiki
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Design System Team/History of user-interface libraries and frameworks in MediaWiki | History | Public |
Front-end standards group | Front-end standards group | Guide | Public |
Codex Manual Testing Guidelines | Manual testing guidelines | Guide | Public |
DST testing environments | Design System Team/Test environments | Guide | Public |
For designers
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Codex design library in Figma | https://www.figma.com/file/KoDuJMadWBXtsOtzGS4134/%E2%9D%96-Codex-components?node-id=1891%3A4420&t=OosUjj5MSFfqIu8w-0 | Guide | Public |
Wikimedia Design Style Guide | https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide/ | Guide | Public |
For developers
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Codex codebase | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/admin/repos/design/codex | Repo | Public |
Using Codex in MediaWiki | Codex | Guide | Public |
Compatibility | Compatibility | Guide | Public |
Using Vue.js in MediaWiki | Vue.js | Guide | Public |
Vue.js official documentation | https://vuejs.org/guide/introduction.html | Guide | Public |
Vue Mastery tutorials | https://www.vuemastery.com/ | Training | Public |
Articles
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Diff post 2022 - Creating the Wikimedia Design System | https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/12/22/creating-the-wikimedia-design-system/ | History | Public |
Tech blog Sept 2021: Summit on present & future Vue.js user-interface library and the design system at the Wikimedia Foundation | https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/09/23/summit-on-present-future-vue-js-user-interface-library-and-the-design-system-at-the-wikimedia-foundation/ | History | Public |
Tech blog Jan 2021: 2020: The Year in Vue | https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/01/22/2020-the-year-in-vue/ | History | Public |