Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-11-08/Technology report


 * Yet another reason to hate the vector skin! Who's gonna notice another cool boring skyblue box in a sea of boring cool sky blue? -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  17:08, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * If you don't like the color change, please comment on the bug. Thanks. Kaldari (talk) 17:49, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Meh, I'll be changing it back for me, certainly. But I support it for new users who are less... nostalgic. - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 17:59, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed, especially for vandalizing IPs. Is there a link to a discussion about this change? —Ost (talk) 18:20, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * This is what the developers are spending their time on? Really?? ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:17, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No, this would take about five seconds to implement. The whole story at the top is that developers are spending their time on :) - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 22:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Cf. color of the bikeshed ... Regards, HaeB (talk) 06:15, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

RIP - Hideous orange colour. As ugly as it is, I'm going to miss it. On a related note, I like the new powered by mediawiki button. Bawolff (talk) 18:20, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The signpost kinda missed that, huh? You can thank Kevin Ingersoll for submitting that (into the public domain) via OTRS. See File:Poweredby mediawiki 88x31.png and File:Wikimedia-button-for-homepage.png. Killiondude (talk) 18:50, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

I think we'll have to think about ways to make new messages more visible for new users irrespective of the background color. Over the years I've seen lots of anecdotal evidence (individual users saying they didn't notice the bar for months) that it's not an intuitive mechanism.--Eloquence* 19:04, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * That's kind of surprising, I can't imagine people going around for months without noticing what's this giant ugly yellow bar taking up all my screen real estate. Bawolff (talk) 04:37, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Many people have very good visual filters for stuff that doesn't appear to be relevant to them. It's how we manage to survive horrible, cluttered websites. :-) --Eloquence* 18:54, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

I personally like orange (and vector, for vector haters) rather than blue. If they can't have orange, do lime, but please, sky blue is way not eye-catching. WikiCopter (radio • sorties • images • lost • defense • attack) 23:07, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the graph :)  -- hashar  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.227.209.14 (talk) 16:12, 11 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't understand why a color change is even needed? Is it necessary? There's nothing wrong with the current message bar. -- &oelig; &trade; 01:17, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It makes them feel like they're doing something. Gurch (talk) 20:23, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * That's why I never switched over to Vector skin. I just like the "retro" feel of using monobook and also because I'm familiar with the sidebars, layouts, and the buttons. OhanaUnitedTalk page 04:26, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I often feel that people incorrectly assume that Vector was supposed to help established editors. It wasn't, and it's no wonder some people decided to switch back, which is totally understandable (personally, I prefer Vector, but there you go). Gurch probably has a point (see recent discussions on code deployment times, for example). - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 13:29, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I prefer Vector too but I just don't see the need for changing the color of the new message bar.. why now?? If they wanted it to mesh with the rest of Vector's color scheme why didn't they do it then? -- &oelig; &trade; 19:31, 14 November 2010 (UTC)