Caesar Schinas
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« on: June 09, 2009, 11:32:27 AM » |
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I should like to solicit opinions on my initial draft of a new, improved(?), simplified upload wizard, here. (It doesn't actually do anything yet, it's just an idea...) It probably looks best with Pinkwich5 at present; I haven't bothered optimising it for Monobook yet. |
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Daniel Mietchen
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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2009, 11:43:44 AM » |
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Looks better to me than the existing one.
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Milton Beychok
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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2009, 12:25:03 PM » |
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I think it is an improvement and I like it.
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David E. Volk
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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2009, 12:48:59 PM » |
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Short, sweet, simple, at-a-glance page. What's not to love?
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Caesar Schinas
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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2009, 01:47:13 AM » |
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Good! I'll carry on working on it then.
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Caesar Schinas
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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 05:04:38 AM » |
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Please also see a possible alternative (even simpler) first step here, after receiving comments from Paul Wormer. |
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Howard C. Berkowitz
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« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2009, 03:18:59 PM » |
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I successfully uploaded a gizzard with the wizard. Not terribly tasty, though; avian influenza and all that. |
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http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Howard_C._BerkowitzPrime Minister, you can't take the bull by the horns if you're grasping the nettle. I mean, if you grasped the nettle with one hand, you could take the bull by one horn with the other hand, but not by both horns because your hand wouldn't be big enough, and if you took a bull by only one horn it would be rather dangerous because...' (Yes Prime Minister II, pp. 221-2)
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Milton Beychok
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« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2009, 07:08:59 PM » |
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Caesar, the alternative certainly is simpler. I assume the next step will provide more options for the user??
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Caesar Schinas
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2009, 12:51:06 AM » |
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Yes, it would. But I think it might be overly simplified, since more steps means the process will take longer... I'll think about the design a bit more and possibly come up with something between the two.
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Daniel Mietchen
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2009, 02:42:11 AM » |
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I prefer the first simplification, not the really stripped-down one - precisely because loading a new page takes longer than skimming over the options available at the two uppermost hierarchical decision levels.
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Caesar Schinas
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« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2009, 11:01:39 AM » |
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Yes, I agree in principle, Daniel - though it may be that just one extra step is OK. But anyway, everyone, please look at the second one again and try clicking on the "I am the copyright holder" option, and let me know what you think... |
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Roger Lohmann
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« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2009, 12:01:08 PM » |
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I definitely like the second one better.
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Daniel Mietchen
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« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2009, 01:06:29 PM » |
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Yes, I agree in principle, Daniel - though it may be that just one extra step is OK. But anyway, everyone, please look at the second one again and try clicking on the "I am the copyright holder" option, and let me know what you think... If CZ pages would load as fast as those on other wikis (including the big one), I wouldn't mind additional clicks but here, I would really try to avoid them. Alas, I do not upload images all too often , so I will not insist. And if the process is streamlined, perhaps I can prepare all the files offline and let a bot do the upload... |
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Milton Beychok
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« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2009, 02:14:54 PM » |
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Daniel is sure right when he says that CZ pages load slowly. They take so long to load that it becomes very frustrating at times. Can anyone explain why the slowness?
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Caesar Schinas
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« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2009, 12:52:32 AM » |
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I would guess that the subpages system slows down the loading of articles a lot, but I don't know why simple pages like the upload wizard should be slow unless it's due to a problem with the server(s).
Actually, I haven't been having much of a problem with pages loading slowly.
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