Last modified: 2011-05-21 17:38:16 UTC
Please can someone revert this change (*) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACommon.css&action=historysubmit&diff=404688&oldid=404671 I suggested this change (done by Catrope) [A] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&oldid=404641 which - in my view - got a good result. The colour selection of [B] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&oldid=404688 is convincing and appropriate, as it made colours for status - experimental and - beta very similar. The rationale for the suggested change was: 1. I made the text "Release status" becoming a link to the comment section, so that everyone quickly can get further information what the release status means. This resulted in the text becoming a blue link, which was difficult to read on the (at those time) blue release status colour. In dicsussion with Catrope I dvelolped a new scheme, similar to traffic light: * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_status : - experimental (red) I choose for: orangered - beta (yellow) I choose for i) fuchsia, or ii) gold, or iii) yellow - stable (green) I choose for limegreen - unstable (default = grey) - unknown (default = grey) The choice of i) fuchsia was not convincing, this is why Catrope turned to ii) gold. I suggest you propose a new scheme, if gold is not convincing you as colour. The current brownish orange is not very distinct from orangered, but gold was. This is why I suggest to revert (*), or please propose a better scheme and please check the consequence in respect to the other release status colour.
[CORR] The colour selection of [B] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&oldid=404688 is _not_ convincing and appropriate, as it made colours for status - experimental and - beta very similar.
Sent email to the user who made a change. Hopefully we hear back.
I, as I pointed out to roan (who was the person that changed it to yellow) changed the colour from the yellow to a darker orangey yellowish colour because the yellow was bright and hard to read the white text which was observed by people who contacted me via other other sources. Having beta and experimental closely matching colours isn't that bad, most people from other discussions we have had in the irc channel tend to guard them as close together if not the same but to the point having "clashing" colours like that isn't as bad as having colours as what one person described to me as "eye gouging". I plan to open up discussions about the colour scheme on one of the lists later after I sleep and possibly discuss a idea (after I consult a few others to see if its double/worthwhile) which will mean we won't need this rankings (which no one really care about anyway).
I added the section "Extension release status colour schemes" to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_status Colours look fine now (in my view), bug closed.
