Memory Alpha:Projects/Layout committee

The layout of any given Memory Alpha article is controlled by a variety of pages: An internal CSS file, modified by another CSS file that can be edited by administrators, potentially again modified by a third file in your user space (User:USERNAME/monobook.css). On top of that, pages in the Mediawiki namespace are used to specify text and other content of the page interface, while various Templates and style guidelines exist to standardize Memory Alpha's "look&feel".

This project page is supposed to be a place where you can suggest and discuss possible changes or additions to the layout of this site. If you have an idea, whether it is a small correction or some seemingly absurd suggestion to change major parts of the page layout, feel free to add it to the "Brainstorming area" below.

If a relevant subsection for your idea already exists, add it to that section - otherwise use the "Random thoughts" subsection. Ideas here might be reordered, grouped, moved to other subsections, but try to keep necessary discussions in that section to a minimum. However, once a certain group of ideas reaches a "critical mass", they can be moved to the section for "Current discussions" to get more opinions.

Note: This is not supposed to circumvent consensus decisions for major changes. If a discussion here results in such change, it might be a good idea to summarize the outcome of that discussion on another page for voting. -- Cid Highwind 17:28, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Current discussions

Special:Allmessages

I never used Special:Allmessages for anything, but the colors are... urgh. Make it black! --Memory 21:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Done by copying parts of the MA/de CSS, where this was already fixed. -- Cid Highwind 22:14, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Brainstorming area

Random thoughts

• The table on Special:Allmessages needs to be checked, remove background color. -- Cid Highwind
• Change most border styles to "solid" - inset/outset often looks ugly. -- Cid Highwind
• Use a slightly darker color for the page background - should increase readability. -- Cid Highwind
• Apparently it is possible to use different background colors for pages in different namespaces - should we make use of this? -- Cid Highwind
• Change the arrow on Special:Recentchanges ([1]) to something that better fits the MA theme. -- Cid Highwind
• External and Interwiki links could be colored differently from standard wiki links. -- Cid Highwind 21:34, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Remove the Wikicities logo from the internal search field. The IE can't show it properly (transparency didn't work and if it works [with Opera], it's not readable because of the black background) and we have the same link at the bottom with a better logo. --Memory
  • The Wikicities logo is all but invisible in Firefox or Opera because of the transparency, but the Google logo looks horrible. --Vedek Dukat ^{Talk | Duty Roster} 22:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Strange, the Google logo is now gone without replacement, and the WC logo is not available (red x with IE)... --Memory 20:59, 20 January 2006 (UTC)