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Templates
Latest DesignOlder Design
Motivation
Reduce the confusion factor that infoboxes and templates have on new users.
Provide access to article contents that doesn't require navigating through large volumes of template text.
Provide an editing interface for template information, contents, and fields that is suitable for advanced and new editors.
Approach
Collapse templates within the editor to allow easier access to an articles contents.
Maintain current method of editing templates (by expansion) while also introducing an easier method for templates that can afford such an interface (by GUI, dialog).
Create new apis for template authors to be able to control how their template editing interface works.
Left Navigation
Motivation
Learn how the left navigation is used quantitatively.
Use this information to simplify and reorganize the left navigation bar.
Approach
Nimish's click tracking data is available [here | here]
Make highest used links always visible
Categorize and collapse less frequently visited links.
Babaco Fixes
Colors (W3C)
Closed Tabs
Simple Search
Dialogs
Publish/Cancel Button Styling
Below the Editor
Motivation
Clean up all of the stuff below the editor that everyone has hard time with.
Make user flow more explicit
Approach
Organize and group links, messages intuitively
Consolidate redundant links, messages
Remove duplicate links and messages where applicable
Collapse information that is advanced and visually overhelming
Repeat "Publish" and "Cancel" buttons on the top and bottom of the editor.
