User:Mapmaker345



My name is Jamie Gray, I'm a Product Designer ( UX / UI Designer ) in Dallas, Texas. I'd love to help contribute to the MediaWiki Design direction, and perhaps eventually work for Wikimedia Design Team. Open Knowledge is so valuable, and I'd love to help improve the rate of knowledge transfer by improving tools like MediaWiki.

Some ideas for MediaWiki

 * Easy Icon / emoji support for the sidebar elements"change icon" ui in sidebar.png


 * Icon / emoji support for headers (as a separate element, which can be disabled or hidden)


 * Leverage WikiData objects to consolidate information about publishers and sources


 * Use WikiData objects to let users "view page in other wikis"


 * Make it easier to switch themes, show thumbnail previews of the theme colors


 * steal ideas from MediaWiki Alternatives, like Confluence and Notion.so


 * Manage UI components in Storybook.js


 * Tip Jar functionality to be able to send some $ to contributors (a material way of saying "thanks")


 * Add support for VisualEditor, like on Wikipedia (en)

Mobile App

 * While scrolling using the scrollbar, show an overlay of the table of contents so users can quickly scroll to the section they're looking for
 * Add a "link" button to each section header (right-alined to the heading title), tap to copy section link to clipboard

Get UX / UI inspiration from competitors
Here's an ever-growing list of competitors to MediaWiki, which could be used as inspiration for MediaWiki's future development. For example, Notion has absolutely gorgeous UI styles, however it cannot scale to as large a contributor pool as MediaWiki.