Talk:Design/Archive/Wikimedia Foundation Design/Patterns and components

Interactive elements at English Wikipedia

I asked at WP:Village pump (miscellaneous): What are the current interactive elements that readers use in Wikipedia articles? (ie. excluding editing, and for all users (IP and logged-in)). Here's the compiled results:

Basic

• Clicking text links

Images

• Clicking thumbnails of images to expand
• Clicking videos to expand and play. E.g. w:Caprice No. 24 (Paganini)
• mw:Extension:ImageMap - E.g. w:Moon landing

Audio

• Playing audio files - music samples, historic recordings, etc. E.g. w:L'Orfeo#Music
• IPA pronunciation recordings. E.g. w:Urdu
• w:Help:score with music playing

Scrolling

• Scrolling sideways for oversize data-tables and panorama images. E.g. w:Nuuk#Cityscape

Hover

• Tooltips - extensively uses the title= attribute, for link-targets, affordance clues, etc)
• mw:Reference Tooltips

Hidden elements

• Clicking [Show] - to un-hide the collapsed elements in navigation-boxes (and occasionally elsewhere, E.g. w:Help:Collapsing tables)

Tables

• w:Help:Sorting - click the arrow-image to sort data-tables. E.g. w:1896 Summer Olympics medal table#Medal count

Maps

• m:WikiMiniAtlas in coords - Click to expand, and then drag/zoom/click the image. E.g. w:Koror
• OpenStreetMap gadget - Click to expand, and then drag/zoom/click. (Annotations, layers, mousewheel-zoom). E.g. de:Koror (Palau) - activated on almost every Wikipedia except English?

Other

• mw:Universal Language Selector - select font (default or OpenDyslexic)

Logged-in users only

• w:WP:Navigation popups

On Commons

• Commons:Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator (see prior discussion list about enabling it on En.WP)
• Commons:Help:Gadget-GallerySlideshow

(See also: Multimedia for details on planned changes/development work regarding image/gallery viewers)

I thought this might be helpful to place here. Feel free to add to the list, or move it elsewhere. Quiddity (talk) 20:13, 10 August 2013 (UTC)