Discussion:
[Design] [UI Standardization] Goal updates
May Tee-Galloway
2015-11-10 17:43:18 UTC
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Hello everyone,

We want to post an update on the progress on UI standardization’s Q2 goals.

Late last week we were able to collect most of your team priorities so
we, the UI Standardization team, can better sync efforts to
collectively achieve UI consistency with other teams. We’ve started
with Reading, Editing and Search/Discovery. Through learnings from
more conversations, we then reached out to several teams across the
foundation that produce front-end user interfaces. These priorities
are documented here:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/163SxJchYcDozOwjkzBszqnW1ai2dzC_HVmMYnZR0X0M/edit?usp=sharing

We are still in the process of gathering feedback from more community
members, Community Resources, and Design Research teams. The timing
hasn’t been ideal, but I am very happy to see this many participation
from relevant parties as a start from the *entire* foundation. We are
learning to better join forces and we are learning fast. Hence, going
forward in the next quarters to come, we want to make it a point to
better integrate teams and community members that do similar work and
care about this matter.

It's well into mid Q2 now, our scope for Q2 will be smaller, but
nonetheless productive and impactful. For the remaining quarter, we
will be prioritizing on these efforts:
1- Basic styles implemented with CSS and accompanying HTML
2- Style Guide - Guide on how and when to use UI components
3- Improve accessibility of our interface (Vector, OOjs UI, MediaWiki UI)

There will be list of FAQ on our MediaWiki page
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface) in the next
couple of days on how we came to prioritize these requests with your
help. We will also be sharing the estimated timelines for these said
top priorities within this week.

We will be posting more on the public design list so our community can
be in the loop and have weight even at goal settings. I hope to see
further design-related topics be brought up in the same channel as
well.

So, stay tuned! More updates to come.

May & Volker
Dan Garry
2015-11-10 19:35:16 UTC
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Thanks for the updates!

From a process perspective, I'd ask that you post your goals to the public
goals page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals>, as
it's the centralised place where we keep all goals.

Thanks,
Dan
Post by May Tee-Galloway
Hello everyone,
We want to post an update on the progress on UI standardization’s Q2 goals.
Late last week we were able to collect most of your team priorities so
we, the UI Standardization team, can better sync efforts to
collectively achieve UI consistency with other teams. We’ve started
with Reading, Editing and Search/Discovery. Through learnings from
more conversations, we then reached out to several teams across the
foundation that produce front-end user interfaces. These priorities
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/163SxJchYcDozOwjkzBszqnW1ai2dzC_HVmMYnZR0X0M/edit?usp=sharing
We are still in the process of gathering feedback from more community
members, Community Resources, and Design Research teams. The timing
hasn’t been ideal, but I am very happy to see this many participation
from relevant parties as a start from the *entire* foundation. We are
learning to better join forces and we are learning fast. Hence, going
forward in the next quarters to come, we want to make it a point to
better integrate teams and community members that do similar work and
care about this matter.
It's well into mid Q2 now, our scope for Q2 will be smaller, but
nonetheless productive and impactful. For the remaining quarter, we
1- Basic styles implemented with CSS and accompanying HTML
2- Style Guide - Guide on how and when to use UI components
3- Improve accessibility of our interface (Vector, OOjs UI, MediaWiki UI)
There will be list of FAQ on our MediaWiki page
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface) in the next
couple of days on how we came to prioritize these requests with your
help. We will also be sharing the estimated timelines for these said
top priorities within this week.
We will be posting more on the public design list so our community can
be in the loop and have weight even at goal settings. I hope to see
further design-related topics be brought up in the same channel as
well.
So, stay tuned! More updates to come.
May & Volker
--
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Toby Negrin
2015-11-10 20:02:19 UTC
Permalink
No public goals yet please. Let's get internal agreement first. Step by
step.

-Toby
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Reading
Post by Dan Garry
Thanks for the updates!
From a process perspective, I'd ask that you post your goals to the public
goals page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals>,
as it's the centralised place where we keep all goals.
Thanks,
Dan
Post by May Tee-Galloway
Hello everyone,
We want to post an update on the progress on UI standardization’s Q2 goals.
Late last week we were able to collect most of your team priorities so
we, the UI Standardization team, can better sync efforts to
collectively achieve UI consistency with other teams. We’ve started
with Reading, Editing and Search/Discovery. Through learnings from
more conversations, we then reached out to several teams across the
foundation that produce front-end user interfaces. These priorities
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/163SxJchYcDozOwjkzBszqnW1ai2dzC_HVmMYnZR0X0M/edit?usp=sharing
We are still in the process of gathering feedback from more community
members, Community Resources, and Design Research teams. The timing
hasn’t been ideal, but I am very happy to see this many participation
from relevant parties as a start from the *entire* foundation. We are
learning to better join forces and we are learning fast. Hence, going
forward in the next quarters to come, we want to make it a point to
better integrate teams and community members that do similar work and
care about this matter.
It's well into mid Q2 now, our scope for Q2 will be smaller, but
nonetheless productive and impactful. For the remaining quarter, we
1- Basic styles implemented with CSS and accompanying HTML
2- Style Guide - Guide on how and when to use UI components
3- Improve accessibility of our interface (Vector, OOjs UI, MediaWiki UI)
There will be list of FAQ on our MediaWiki page
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface) in the next
couple of days on how we came to prioritize these requests with your
help. We will also be sharing the estimated timelines for these said
top priorities within this week.
We will be posting more on the public design list so our community can
be in the loop and have weight even at goal settings. I hope to see
further design-related topics be brought up in the same channel as
well.
So, stay tuned! More updates to come.
May & Volker
--
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Abbey Ripstra
2015-11-10 20:03:29 UTC
Permalink
I will be adding my team's vote before the end of the day. Thanks for this!
Post by Toby Negrin
No public goals yet please. Let's get internal agreement first. Step by
step.
-Toby
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Reading
Post by Dan Garry
Thanks for the updates!
From a process perspective, I'd ask that you post your goals to the public
goals page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals>,
as it's the centralised place where we keep all goals.
Thanks,
Dan
Post by May Tee-Galloway
Hello everyone,
We want to post an update on the progress on UI standardization’s Q2 goals.
Late last week we were able to collect most of your team priorities so
we, the UI Standardization team, can better sync efforts to
collectively achieve UI consistency with other teams. We’ve started
with Reading, Editing and Search/Discovery. Through learnings from
more conversations, we then reached out to several teams across the
foundation that produce front-end user interfaces. These priorities
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/163SxJchYcDozOwjkzBszqnW1ai2dzC_HVmMYnZR0X0M/edit?usp=sharing
We are still in the process of gathering feedback from more community
members, Community Resources, and Design Research teams. The timing
hasn’t been ideal, but I am very happy to see this many participation
from relevant parties as a start from the *entire* foundation. We are
learning to better join forces and we are learning fast. Hence, going
forward in the next quarters to come, we want to make it a point to
better integrate teams and community members that do similar work and
care about this matter.
It's well into mid Q2 now, our scope for Q2 will be smaller, but
nonetheless productive and impactful. For the remaining quarter, we
1- Basic styles implemented with CSS and accompanying HTML
2- Style Guide - Guide on how and when to use UI components
3- Improve accessibility of our interface (Vector, OOjs UI, MediaWiki UI)
There will be list of FAQ on our MediaWiki page
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface) in the next
couple of days on how we came to prioritize these requests with your
help. We will also be sharing the estimated timelines for these said
top priorities within this week.
We will be posting more on the public design list so our community can
be in the loop and have weight even at goal settings. I hope to see
further design-related topics be brought up in the same channel as
well.
So, stay tuned! More updates to come.
May & Volker
--
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
--
*Abbey Ripstra*
Lead Design Researcher \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M +1 773 412 7463

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Volker Eckl
2015-11-10 20:53:55 UTC
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Hi Dan,

The email we sent out to you this morning targets to bring all the parties
involved so far up-to-date with the goals syncing process.

Along with other things mentioned, we will post our synced goals on the
public page as soon as we have gathered final feedback and defined goals’
timelines.

Best,
Volker
Post by Abbey Ripstra
I will be adding my team's vote before the end of the day. Thanks for this!
Post by Toby Negrin
No public goals yet please. Let's get internal agreement first. Step by
step.
-Toby
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Reading
Post by Dan Garry
Thanks for the updates!
From a process perspective, I'd ask that you post your goals to the public
goals page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals>,
as it's the centralised place where we keep all goals.
Thanks,
Dan
Post by May Tee-Galloway
Hello everyone,
We want to post an update on the progress on UI standardization’s Q2 goals.
Late last week we were able to collect most of your team priorities so
we, the UI Standardization team, can better sync efforts to
collectively achieve UI consistency with other teams. We’ve started
with Reading, Editing and Search/Discovery. Through learnings from
more conversations, we then reached out to several teams across the
foundation that produce front-end user interfaces. These priorities
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/163SxJchYcDozOwjkzBszqnW1ai2dzC_HVmMYnZR0X0M/edit?usp=sharing
We are still in the process of gathering feedback from more community
members, Community Resources, and Design Research teams. The timing
hasn’t been ideal, but I am very happy to see this many participation
from relevant parties as a start from the *entire* foundation. We are
learning to better join forces and we are learning fast. Hence, going
forward in the next quarters to come, we want to make it a point to
better integrate teams and community members that do similar work and
care about this matter.
It's well into mid Q2 now, our scope for Q2 will be smaller, but
nonetheless productive and impactful. For the remaining quarter, we
1- Basic styles implemented with CSS and accompanying HTML
2- Style Guide - Guide on how and when to use UI components
3- Improve accessibility of our interface (Vector, OOjs UI, MediaWiki UI)
There will be list of FAQ on our MediaWiki page
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface) in the next
couple of days on how we came to prioritize these requests with your
help. We will also be sharing the estimated timelines for these said
top priorities within this week.
We will be posting more on the public design list so our community can
be in the loop and have weight even at goal settings. I hope to see
further design-related topics be brought up in the same channel as
well.
So, stay tuned! More updates to come.
May & Volker
--
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
--
*Abbey Ripstra*
Lead Design Researcher \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M +1 773 412 7463
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
Dan Garry
2015-11-10 21:23:01 UTC
Permalink
Volker,

Makes perfect sense to me. Thank you!

Dan
Post by Volker Eckl
Hi Dan,
The email we sent out to you this morning targets to bring all the parties
involved so far up-to-date with the goals syncing process.
Along with other things mentioned, we will post our synced goals on the
public page as soon as we have gathered final feedback and defined goals’
timelines.
Best,
Volker
Post by Abbey Ripstra
I will be adding my team's vote before the end of the day. Thanks for this!
Post by Toby Negrin
No public goals yet please. Let's get internal agreement first. Step by
step.
-Toby
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Reading
Post by Dan Garry
Thanks for the updates!
From a process perspective, I'd ask that you post your goals to the public
goals page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals>,
as it's the centralised place where we keep all goals.
Thanks,
Dan
On 10 November 2015 at 09:43, May Tee-Galloway <
Post by May Tee-Galloway
Hello everyone,
We want to post an update on the progress on UI standardization’s Q2 goals.
Late last week we were able to collect most of your team priorities so
we, the UI Standardization team, can better sync efforts to
collectively achieve UI consistency with other teams. We’ve started
with Reading, Editing and Search/Discovery. Through learnings from
more conversations, we then reached out to several teams across the
foundation that produce front-end user interfaces. These priorities
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/163SxJchYcDozOwjkzBszqnW1ai2dzC_HVmMYnZR0X0M/edit?usp=sharing
We are still in the process of gathering feedback from more community
members, Community Resources, and Design Research teams. The timing
hasn’t been ideal, but I am very happy to see this many participation
from relevant parties as a start from the *entire* foundation. We are
learning to better join forces and we are learning fast. Hence, going
forward in the next quarters to come, we want to make it a point to
better integrate teams and community members that do similar work and
care about this matter.
It's well into mid Q2 now, our scope for Q2 will be smaller, but
nonetheless productive and impactful. For the remaining quarter, we
1- Basic styles implemented with CSS and accompanying HTML
2- Style Guide - Guide on how and when to use UI components
3- Improve accessibility of our interface (Vector, OOjs UI, MediaWiki UI)
There will be list of FAQ on our MediaWiki page
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface) in the next
couple of days on how we came to prioritize these requests with your
help. We will also be sharing the estimated timelines for these said
top priorities within this week.
We will be posting more on the public design list so our community can
be in the loop and have weight even at goal settings. I hope to see
further design-related topics be brought up in the same channel as
well.
So, stay tuned! More updates to come.
May & Volker
--
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
--
*Abbey Ripstra*
Lead Design Researcher \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M +1 773 412 7463
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
--
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
May Tee-Galloway
2015-11-19 01:52:26 UTC
Permalink
This update is past due and there's 10% more to get done, but I want to
share and give you guys time to look at what we've prepared.

FAQ <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Goals_FAQ> on
goal setting process
​ (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface/Goals_FAQ)​


--

Timelines for our top 3 goals
​ --​


Goal 1: Basic styles implemented with base CSS & accompanying HTML (
http://bit.ly/1lvBZjj)

☐ T118918 Extracting Less css from May’s github repo and understand current
implementations at OOjs UI, Minerva (Q2)
☐ Evaluate approaches and come up with compounded initial Less file in a
central Gerrit repo (Q2)
☐ Review with WMF designers and developers on the Less approach and revise
the Less file (Q2)
☐ Double check to make sure that Less file is working with other frameworks
with users including community members, and follow-up with WMF designers
and devs (Q2)
☐ T118920 Document on MediaWiki on how to use (Q2)




Goal 2: Enhance accessibility of MediaWiki UI library / OOjs UI / LSG to
screen readers and color-deficient users (http://bit.ly/1MCJE6h)

☐ Triage accessibility bugs on Phabricator (Q2)
☐ T109915 Finalize color palette (grays, blues, reds, greens, yellows,
orange) that meets WCAG 2.0 guidelines (Q2)
☐ Recruit color-deficient users (Q3)
☐ Test with color-deficient users on color palette (Q3)
☐ Document on style guide and MediaWiki on how to use with community
members (Q3)
☐ Make sure OOjs UI and MediaWiki UI meets reasonable WAI-ARIA standards
☐ Recruit screen reader users
☐ Test with screen reader users
☐ Document on style guide on how to use
☐ Revise and improve our current methods of communications with community
members and foundation employees to raise accessibility concerns (Q3)




Goal 3: Style Guide - Guide on how/when to use components (
http://bit.ly/1lvC4DD)

☐ Understand what non-technical contributors need in their work (Q2)
☐ Understand what non-technical volunteer contributors need in their work
(Q3)
☐ Understand what technical volunteer contributors need in their work (Q3)
☐ Understand what developers need in their work (Q3)
☐ Understand what designers need in their work (Q3)
☐ Synthesize and develop ideas on how to best document the guide to answer
use cases from developers, volunteer contributors and designers (Q3)



​If you're interested in the progress of these goals, click "subscribe" to
these goals on Phabricator to be in the loop. We track our work there and
make updates regularly.


​mm​
The timing should be fine, we'll respond with clarifications on the sheet.
If you find that your team has a different need that's not listed, you
etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/uistdztn-teams
mm
Thanks for the definitions, May. There were a few blank spots I asked for
clarification in (see comments in the second tab in spreadsheet). DR
team is
working on our vote, and will be able to submit our vote before end of
week.
Is that timing OK?
Post by Dan Garry
Volker,
Makes perfect sense to me. Thank you!
Dan
Post by Volker Eckl
Hi Dan,
The email we sent out to you this morning targets to bring all the
parties involved so far up-to-date with the goals syncing process.
Along with other things mentioned, we will post our synced goals on the
public page as soon as we have gathered final feedback and defined
goals’
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
timelines.
Best,
Volker
Post by Abbey Ripstra
I will be adding my team's vote before the end of the day. Thanks for this!
Post by Toby Negrin
No public goals yet please. Let's get internal agreement first. Step
by
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
step.
-Toby
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Reading
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Thanks for the updates!
From a process perspective, I'd ask that you post your goals to the
public goals page, as it's the centralised place where we keep all
goals.
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Thanks,
Dan
On 10 November 2015 at 09:43, May Tee-Galloway
Post by May Tee-Galloway
Hello everyone,
We want to post an update on the progress on UI standardization’s
Q2
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
goals.
Late last week we were able to collect most of your team
priorities
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
so
we, the UI Standardization team, can better sync efforts to
collectively achieve UI consistency with other teams. We’ve
started
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
with Reading, Editing and Search/Discovery. Through learnings from
more conversations, we then reached out to several teams across
the
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
foundation that produce front-end user interfaces. These
priorities
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/163SxJchYcDozOwjkzBszqnW1ai2dzC_HVmMYnZR0X0M/edit?usp=sharing
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
We are still in the process of gathering feedback from more community
members, Community Resources, and Design Research teams. The
timing
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
hasn’t been ideal, but I am very happy to see this many
participation
from relevant parties as a start from the *entire* foundation. We are
learning to better join forces and we are learning fast. Hence, going
forward in the next quarters to come, we want to make it a point
to
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
better integrate teams and community members that do similar work and
care about this matter.
It's well into mid Q2 now, our scope for Q2 will be smaller, but
nonetheless productive and impactful. For the remaining quarter,
we
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
1- Basic styles implemented with CSS and accompanying HTML
2- Style Guide - Guide on how and when to use UI components
3- Improve accessibility of our interface (Vector, OOjs UI, MediaWiki UI)
There will be list of FAQ on our MediaWiki page
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Interface) in the next
couple of days on how we came to prioritize these requests with
your
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
help. We will also be sharing the estimated timelines for these
said
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
top priorities within this week.
We will be posting more on the public design list so our community can
be in the loop and have weight even at goal settings. I hope to
see
Post by Dan Garry
Post by Volker Eckl
Post by Abbey Ripstra
Post by Toby Negrin
Post by Dan Garry
Post by May Tee-Galloway
further design-related topics be brought up in the same channel as
well.
So, stay tuned! More updates to come.
May & Volker
--
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
--
Abbey Ripstra
Lead Design Researcher \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M +1 773 412 7463
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
--
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
--
Abbey Ripstra
Lead Design Researcher \\ Wikimedia Foundation
M +1 773 412 7463
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
--
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