Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign

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[edit] Original navigation Main Page Community Portal Featured articles Current events Recent changes Random article Help Contact us Donations search toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this article

[edit] Redesign navigate Main page Featured content Current events Portals Categories Random article search interact Help Community portal Questions Contact us Donations toolbox Cite this article Permanent link Printable version Related changes What links here Recent changes Special pages Upload file

[edit] Reasons behind the changes

• Logo
  • old logo (Wikipedia-logo-en.png) replaced with new logo (Wikipedia-logo-en-fixed-bg.png), to eliminate white-matte artifacts. See #Logo changes on the talk page.
• Navigate box -- repurposed as a reader-oriented set of browsing links
  • Featured articles replaced by Featured content
  • Portals and Categories links added
• Interact box -- created, to seperate the non-encyclopedic sidebar links
  • Questions link added
  • changed "Donations" link target from WikiMedia:Fundraising#Donation methods to WikiMedia:Fundraising. (allowing people to read a bit about why and how to make a donation, before being confronted with credit card details.)
• Toolbox --
  • separated the contextual/local links (top) from the fixed/global links (bottom)
  • moved the Recent changes link to here, from the navigation box, as contextually appropriate.
  • reorganised to place "Cite this article" and other reader-oriented links at the top. (a straight reversal of current ordering)

There are a number of links that could have been included (in both the navigation box, and the interaction box), but were left out of this redesign draft. Primarily, to keep the initial redesign simple, and agreeable-to by all, but also because many of them are not currently at a suitably high-standard. We envision some/many of them being added at a future time (it's easier to add links later, than to re-argue them at each draft stage).

[edit] Toolbox variants - for user pages, and other instances

On user pages ("Cite this article" is replaced by "User contributions" and "E-mail this user")

On special pages

and so on, for the "Block user", "rss atom", and "trackbacklink" links.
See talk:Archive 03#Toolbox