Wikipedia Redesign Concept

I'm stuggling to put into words how much I dislike designs like this - superheavy javascript sites that work like ass on my netbook, full of empty space and icons instead of text (so I have to hover over the icons to find out what they do - where's the sense in this??) and customized "UI" functionality that make me forever unsure what my clicks will produce.

Wikipedia has a plain but very pleasant interface and this would totally ruin it for me.

Re: Wikipedia Redesign Concept

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Post by bichiliad » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 3:12 PM UTC

I really like this. It would be cool to see this actually implemented.

For the record, it wasn't entirely obvious at first that I could click/drag the individual rows on your site.

Also, for anyone that's curious, there have been several other redesign concepts floating around (one here: http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/), although so far this one seems to be the most thought-out.

Re: Wikipedia Redesign Concept

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Post by alixaxel » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 3:12 PM UTC

Couldn't see everything because of the 503 errors, but seems really interesting, thanks for sharing!

Re: Wikipedia Redesign Concept

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Post by bsilvereagle » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 3:13 PM UTC

keehun wrote: post #3

tsmash wrote: post #2

Put your images on a cdn :)

That went down rather quickly... Didn't even get to see it yet

Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

But the cache isn't very useful since the images don't appear.

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Post by th3iedkid » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 3:16 PM UTC

tsmash wrote: post #2

Put your images on a cdn :)

how does one image survive the rain?

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 3:18 PM UTC

Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world. It hasn’t been changed or redefined during the last 10 years. The web and its technologies has developed further and so have its users.

And why should it be changed? Wikipedia's design is one of the prime examples of "simple, clean, effective", in my mind.

Frankly, the only good idea I see here is an integrated WYSIWYG wiki markup editor. That might work, although MediaWiki markup isn't that hard to get acquainted to, and it's probably a good thing that someone should spend a bit of time to do so before making major edits.

Otherwise, this looks like some misguided attempt to make Wikipedia look more like Medium, as ostensibly Medium is the future of UX. Magpies hopping on to the newest trend, as always. Web design is notorious for this.

The front page is an overly cluttered dashboard that makes Wikipedia look like a blog, more than anything else. Unnecessary, and quite constrained.

Article pages have been turned into trailing, centered sprawls of text. Works for blogs, but not for an online encyclopedia. The present design is more suited to Wikipedia's features as a web project.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Wikipedia's font responsive and dynamic? It adapts to whatever typeface is the default on your browser.

Re: Wikipedia Redesign Concept

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Post by oliv__ » Sun, Apr 27, 2014, 3:23 PM UTC

For those who get 503, you can also check out the concept on behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/16219877/Wikipedia-Redesign-...