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[edit] 2006 Original navigation Main page Community portal Featured content Current events Recent changes Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Make a donation Help search toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this article

[edit] Proposed Redesign navigate Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article search interact Help Community portal Questions About Wikipedia Contact us Make a donation toolbox Cite this article Permanent link Printable version Related changes What links here Recent changes Special pages Upload file

[edit] 2008 (current) navigation Main Page Contents Featured content Current events Random article interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Donate to Wikipedia Help search toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this article

[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 — designed as a reader-oriented set of browsing links
  • Contents link added
• Interact box — designed as an admin-oriented set of browsing links
  • Questions link added
• Toolbox — designed as an editor-oriented set of browsing links
  • 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 in different namespaces

Further information: Wikipedia talk:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign/Archive 03#Toolbox

[edit] Article namespace toolbox Cite this article Permanent link Printable version Related changes What links here Recent changes Special pages Upload file

[edit] User namespace toolbox User contributions E-mail this user Permanent link Printable version Related changes What links here Recent changes Special pages Upload file

[edit] Wikipedia namespace toolbox Permanent link Printable version Related changes What links here Recent changes Special pages Upload file

[edit] Image namespace toolbox Printable version What links here Recent changes Special pages Upload file

[edit] Special namespace toolbox Recent changes Special pages Upload file

[edit] History & recentchanges toolbox Related changes What links here RSS · Atom Recent changes Special pages Upload file

...and so on, for the "Block user", and "trackbacklink" links.

Note: The toolboxes for the namespaces "Template", "Category", "Portal", "MediaWiki", "Help" and all forms of "Talk" are identical to that of the Wikipedia namespace.

[edit] Links

• MediaWiki:Sidebar
• meta:Developers