Talk:Design/Archive/Wikimedia Foundation Design/Patterns and components

Interactive elements at English Wikipedia
I asked at [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29&oldid=567907120#What_interactive_elements_do_we_provide_in_Wikipedia.3F WP:Village pump (miscellaneous)]: What are the current interactive elements that readers use in Wikipedia articles? (ie. excluding editing, and for all users (IP and logged-in)). Here's the compiled results:


 * Basic
 * Clicking text links


 * Images
 * Clicking thumbnails of images to expand
 * Clicking videos to expand and play. E.g. Caprice No. 24 (Paganini)
 * mw:Extension:ImageMap - E.g. Moon landing


 * Audio
 * Playing audio files - music samples, historic recordings, etc. E.g. L'Orfeo
 * IPA pronunciation recordings. E.g. Urdu
 * w:Help:score with music playing


 * Scrolling
 * Scrolling sideways for oversize data-tables and panorama images. E.g. Nuuk


 * Hover
 * Tooltips - extensively uses the  attribute, for link-targets, affordance clues, etc)
 * Reference Tooltips


 * Hidden elements
 * Clicking [Show] - to un-hide the collapsed elements in navigation-boxes (and occasionally elsewhere, E.g. w:Help:Collapsing tables)


 * Tables
 * w:Help:Sorting - click the arrow-image Sort both.svg to sort data-tables. E.g. 1896 Summer Olympics medal table


 * Maps
 * WikiMiniAtlas in coords - Click WMA button2b.png to expand, and then drag/zoom/click the image. E.g. Koror
 * OpenStreetMap gadget - Click OpenStreetMapLogo.png to expand, and then drag/zoom/click. (Annotations, layers, mousewheel-zoom). E.g. Koror (Palau) - activated on almost every Wikipedia except English?


 * Other
 * Universal Language Selector - select font (default or OpenDyslexic)


 * Logged-in users only
 * w:WP:Navigation popups


 * On Commons
 * Commons:Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator (see prior discussion list about enabling it on En.WP)
 * Commons:Help:Gadget-GallerySlideshow

(See also: Multimedia for details on planned changes/development work regarding image/gallery viewers)

I thought this might be helpful to place here. Feel free to add to the list, or move it elsewhere. Quiddity (talk) 20:13, 10 August 2013 (UTC)