I haven't been involved here for quite a while, but I've been wanting to do something creative and technical, and I thought about finally implementing the thing where page descriptions (i.e. "Laconic") shows up in the search bar suggestions. And by the search bar, I meant like the search bar in Vector2022, not the classic Vector. See, I've really not been around enough -- not around enough to not bother with changing my skin for ATT.
If you want to know what it would look like, head over to mediawiki.org and type a single letter into search, like 'c'.
But then I got to thinking, gosh, Vector2022 is ugly. All of the website controls seem more emphasized than before, distracting you from the page content. Because there's only a little white space between the left-hand table of contents and the article content, my eye gets consistently drawn into the TOC at the end of a line. And combined with the {{trope}} menus (and the page-top translation lists on mediawiki.org), the top of the content area of a page looks really messy with another level of menus. I asked on the Miraheze discord about getting new search behavior in old Vector, which isn't an option yet but doesn't seem too hard to implement.
But how about another skin? Something of a rebrand, with a new default skin? I found I really liked Skin:Citizen, which you can see in action over on the Star Citizen Wiki. Is anyone interested in playing around with that skin? It does the search thing; it displays the page description right where I'd want it to be displayed. The only bit of workflow it breaks for me is not autofilling the search bar for copy/pasting page names, which could be generally fixed with a page autofill extension. I'd probably make the left-hand bar (bottom-hand on mobile) be a different color, but otherwise I rather like.
I'm also considering category pages that automatically fill in the short description, so we'd have category pages with more context. Oh, and the short descriptions are made with Extension:ShortDescription so we don't have to rely on Wikidata.
Oh just as a vote that probably doesn't matter: I never liked having a moderation queue. Having a wiki that doesn't give instant feedback on your edits just feels wrong, and contrary to the plain language meaning of wiki (in Hawaiian). That said I am not doing any moderation work so it's really not fair for me to impose on the people who are doing it. (Honestly what I'd like is a bot that automatically bans every new user until they posted "I am not a spambot" on a Talk page.)
If you want to know what it would look like, head over to mediawiki.org and type a single letter into search, like 'c'.
But then I got to thinking, gosh, Vector2022 is ugly. All of the website controls seem more emphasized than before, distracting you from the page content. Because there's only a little white space between the left-hand table of contents and the article content, my eye gets consistently drawn into the TOC at the end of a line. And combined with the {{trope}} menus (and the page-top translation lists on mediawiki.org), the top of the content area of a page looks really messy with another level of menus. I asked on the Miraheze discord about getting new search behavior in old Vector, which isn't an option yet but doesn't seem too hard to implement.
But how about another skin? Something of a rebrand, with a new default skin? I found I really liked Skin:Citizen, which you can see in action over on the Star Citizen Wiki. Is anyone interested in playing around with that skin? It does the search thing; it displays the page description right where I'd want it to be displayed. The only bit of workflow it breaks for me is not autofilling the search bar for copy/pasting page names, which could be generally fixed with a page autofill extension. I'd probably make the left-hand bar (bottom-hand on mobile) be a different color, but otherwise I rather like.
I'm also considering category pages that automatically fill in the short description, so we'd have category pages with more context. Oh, and the short descriptions are made with Extension:ShortDescription so we don't have to rely on Wikidata.
Oh just as a vote that probably doesn't matter: I never liked having a moderation queue. Having a wiki that doesn't give instant feedback on your edits just feels wrong, and contrary to the plain language meaning of wiki (in Hawaiian). That said I am not doing any moderation work so it's really not fair for me to impose on the people who are doing it. (Honestly what I'd like is a bot that automatically bans every new user until they posted "I am not a spambot" on a Talk page.)
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto