Design/Archive/Wikimedia Foundation Design/Agora Control Library
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The Agora Control Library is a series of styles and behaviors for common controls that are reused across projects within MediaWiki.
Current state edit
There is a mediawiki.ui library (documentation) in core, written in Less. You can see it working in the MediaWiki desktop living style guide.
Each team who will be using controls from the Agora Library is writing their controls in LESS within their own project; some of these are entirely new controls, and some override or enhance the mediawiki.ui ones. The next step is to move these new or modified controls into core so they are available to all developers. For example, the Flow discussion software implemented revised button design, and Gerrit change 103494 updates core to these designs.
The initial look and feel of Agora Controls was outlined in Agora_specs.pdf in August 2013; however, this is an iterative process and controls will change during implementation.
Existing & planned controls edit
Buttons edit
Buttons come in 4 basic types, Neutral, Progressive, Destructive, and Constructive
Quiet action edit
Button without a border and background. Same 4 types Neutral null state and Progressive/Destructive/Constructive
See and use the buttons in the living style guide with commentary.
Progress bar buttons edit
Segmented control edit
Toolbars edit
Toolbar button edit
Toolbar button icon only edit
e.g. VE tool buttons; also a Flow board's Full-Collapsed-Small view icon trio?
Toolbar button with icon and label edit
e.g. VE page settings
Sub-toolbar "drawer" edit
e.g. VE toolbar for advanced text styling
Toolbar flyout edit
e.g. VE toolbar junk drawer (more v)
Input fields edit
Text input fields come in many styles, with special behaviors, such as search, validation, and content obscuring in the case of passwords.
Single-line input edit
Multi-line input edit
Search input edit
Validated input edit
Password input edit
Special cases edit
ULS language selector control
Date picker control
Flyout edit
e.g. Flow "action menu" in topic bar.
e.g. Flow post moderation actions (Hide/Suppress/Delete)
Actionable edit
Dual action or collapsible (top, left, bottom, right anchoring)
Informational edit
Anchored to element and triggered by focus state (top, left, bottom, right anchoring)
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vertical list of actions in a stacked menu]
Guide/Hint edit
Control edit
Radio button edit
Dropdown edit
Combo box edit
Multi-select edit
Field edit
Requested by Fundraising tech
Dropdown edit
Check box edit
Number stepper edit
Sliders edit
Precise edit
Imprecise edit
Action rail edit
Notifications/toasters edit
Alerts edit
Saves edit
Connection issues edit
Progress indicators edit
Full page edit
Determinate/percentage edit
Indeterminate edit
Requested controls edit
Button with image edit
Requestor: Growth Team (WMF)
Use: Getting started (also [☺ Thank] button in Flow, Reply button in Flow with icon)
Status : Not designed
Button with status indicator edit
Requestor: Core Features (WMF)
Use: Flow/submit
Bug :
Status : Not designed
Multi-line text button edit
Requestor: Growth Team (WMF)
Use: Getting started
Status : Not designed
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Extended actions edit
Requestor: Core Features (WMF)
Use: Flow Action menu
Status : Designed
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Requestor: Core Features (WMF)
Use: Flow Flag actions
Status : Designed
Rich controls edit
Language selector edit
Requestor: Language Engineering (WMF)
Use: ULS
Bug :
Status : Not designed
Date picker edit
Requestor: Wikidata
Use: Data Input
Bug :
Status : Not designed
See also edit
- /Behavior - Q&A guide to using these controls
- Category:Design audit - its subcategories are a visual taxonomy of UX features
- Tracking bug 53733 - Use the same icons to represent the same things
- Wikimedia Foundation Design/Patterns and components - the same thing before it was called Agora?