MediaWiki/Homepage redesign

MediaWiki Homepage Redesign

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Name and contact information
Name: Brena Monteiro Email: monteirobrena@undefinedgmail.com IRC or IM networks/handle(s): monteirobrena Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil Time zone: UTC−3 Typical working hours: 9 AM - 5 PM

Synopsis
The mediawiki.org Main page needs a redesign to reflect better our project an the activities done by our community. There have been some proposals to improve it, but not much progress has been done. This project requires to analyze the current problems, propose a solution and implement it, being all these steps done with the participation of the community.

Information courtesy: Quim Gil

The MediaWiki Homepage Redesign project aims to redesign the homepage MediaWiki to express for community the full potential of MediaWiki. The homepage is the first contact that community has with the tool, is in this moment that we need awakening the interest to know and use the it.

Deliverables

 * 1) Identify the main problems at current homepage.
 * 2) Propose and discuss the solutions for this problems.
 * 3) Investigate good lessons and inspirations in another references sites.
 * 4) Discuss and define which existing ideias will be implemented.
 * 5) Document what will be implemented.
 * 6) Make prototype with the new ideias.
 * 7) Discuss and validate final prototype.
 * 8) Develop the prototype.
 * 9) Discuss and validate the main page.
 * 10) Define improvements and final adjustments.
 * 11) Document the improvements and justifications.
 * 12) Develop improvements to finalize main page.
 * 13) Validate and deploy the new main page.
 * 14) Document the final version of main page.