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A portal for Language projects

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Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

Looking good! Thank you for the good work.

You could give more prominence to the projects, and even to other Language activities e.g. Localization and Project:Language policy, and put the team section at the end. We are missing a good Language landing page for the whole community and this one is so close to be the one. But the emphasis (opening paragraph and bold fonts) on "The Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team consists of 7 opensource community members, developers and designers" just alienates the rest.

What do you think?

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Runab WMF (talkcontribs)

Thanks Quim. I am still reorganising the page and agree with your suggestions. The content is mostly old (including the formatting) and also deprecated in some sections. We also need a couple of new icons for the new sections on the sidebar, if the older design has to be maintained. I am hoping that I can complete the updates to the content (especially the project section) in a few more days. Do please let me know if there are any important bits you'd like to see addressed on this page. which we are currently missing.

Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

Thanks for the quick feedback. About icons, just be aware of the young Project:Visual_identity and feel free contributing to it while you scratch your own itch.

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Runab WMF (talkcontribs)

Thanks for the link. This is helpful. I'll also be consulting with the design expert with our team - Pau, before making the final changes.

Qgil-WMF (talkcontribs)

I still think that opening with "The Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team consists of 7..." and having your team picture at the top doesn't do a good favor to a "Language portal". It could be THE page for everybody interested in i18n / L10n but only with this opening gives a strong perception US vs YOU. Please think of it. All the rest is looking better and better.

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Runab WMF (talkcontribs)

I agree about the opening line in particular. It is a legacy from an earlier version and I was pondering over it sometime back. We may also drop most of the text in favour of a less cluttered layout. It is still work-in-progress and I am hoping we'll have much more changes pushed in by the end of the week. Thanks for the feedback. It really helped flag a big issue that may have impacted our larger goal.

John Vandenberg (talkcontribs)

The top of the page that Qgil mentioned hasnt changed yet.

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