Topic on User talk:Volker E. (WMF)

Hello, I have questions:

• Will you make an update of the Vector skin to remove the awful blue bar between sidebar and page content, the blue of the of the source editor, all non-flat icons, gradients and other ?
• Will the Design team make a graphic chart like the material design of Google ?
• Could the Design team propose new logos for sister projects with the blue red and green (Especially for Wikispecies' logo wich looks so old) ? ( I made some tries but it's missed)

Thanks.

Hi Archi38,

trying to respond as clearly as possible and pointing out the different dependencies, but first of all explain what's the best process to raise those.

You might want to join Phabricator (We manage our projects, tasks and bugs on Phabricator.) and repost your questions as laid out on our site. There it gets more attention and usually the right respondents in comparison to a talk page like this.

Log in to Phabricator with your MediaWiki login credentials to be involved in the design quests. Please tag your tasks with "Design".

Regarding your questions:

• Vector has come quite a way for a few years now, it's addressing a lot of needs collected over time in one place. And besides some of the things are historically “grown”, we try our best (with limited resources) to go with modern best practices for all kinds of users (right-to-left languages, keyboard-only users, users with visual impairments and so on). So some of the things you're mentioning we might be aware of, some of them we might have chosen for a good reason even if the reason might not be fully clear upfront to everybody. Again, Phabricator is a good place to start a conversation on shortcomings from your point of view and why you think that they are not optimal as they are. On the other hand you always have the option as logged-in user to customize your user experience with help of user stylesheets or JavaScript modifications.
• First I need to ask further: What would you expect from such a graphic chart to help your work?
• The Design team could propose new logos, but currently (again: limited resources) we don't have it planned as one of our priorities for the upcoming months. I will forward your logo page to the Communications team, so that they are aware of the critique and the work taken.

Best! V

Thank you,

• I'll use the Phabricator. But it is not written if we can make concensus on it or not.
• For the graphic chart, it would be something really complete about all on-wiki content, pages formatting, template design, Mediawiki: messages design, ect.
• Thank you to show them my (horrible) work ! I think it's really important to bring the 3 colors to all the logos, especially for Wikipedia wich is the most-known project, because people could clearly identify Wikimedia's projects.

@Archi38, re: logo color, this issue has been discussed in the past, for example in the Wiktionary logo votes in ~2006. It was determined then, that having all the logos use the same color schemes, would be confusing; see example at w:de:Benutzer:Julian~dewiki#Test on logos. See also, these discussions (m:Discussion_on_the_logo_votes#The_Color_Complication and m:Talk:Wiktionary/logo/archive-vote-4#Changing_colors), in particular this comment: "the only thing we can do is to ensure that newly chosen logos harmonize [with] the others but don't look all the same". See also m:Logo#Logo_guidelines "It must be substantially different from the other project logos but still harmonize with the others.". HTH.

(Sidenote: There's a not-completely-serious compilation of these types of alternate logos, compiled at m:Red, green, and blue, which might amuse you. My volunteer account has added your designs, there.).

I still think that it would be better ^^. And thank you for adding them in red green and blue, I've already seen the page. Thank you for all !