Last modified: 2014-04-04 15:48:51 UTC
1) Go to an ULS wiki 2) Click the trigger I. Observed: empty space on the right side. II. Observed after some seconds: a map appears. III. Expected: no expectations. I propose to remove the map. I rarely see it, probably because I don't regularly click the trigger (so I don't have it cached) and it takes some time to load, so by the time it appears I'm already done with the panel or my attention has moved away from the top of it anyway. The result is that when MatmaRex mentioned we had a huge SVG map I didn't even remember where exactly it was used (I believe months ago it was different, perhaps centred).
This should not be happening after the svg optimizations. The map is now inlined in CSS and no longer downloaded separately.
Created attachment 14818 [details] Screenshot after clicking the trigger
(In reply to Niklas Laxström from comment #1) > This should not be happening after the svg optimizations. Well, it does.
I also confirm on http://dev.translatewiki.net/ with Firefox 27.0.1, but I can't find the map in ctrl-I media (no such SVG or data:image resource) nor inspect.
From what we have observed with users (and seems to be backed by usage numbers), the flexible search for languages works quite well to the point that the map is very marginally used as an entry point for language selection in practice. So, I support removing the map for simplicity, and to clearly communicate that search is our main entry point. More details and the updated designs were captured in this card: https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/language_engineering/cards/4017
Created attachment 14819 [details] data:image I was confused because all the resources have a base64 hash with identical beginning. I see in Ctrl-I: SVG+XML Image, size: "Unknown (not cached)", "226px × 110px"
Created attachment 14820 [details] div class=uls-worldmap Found the rule in question, had to scroll more.
No objection in over two weeks, it seems we're ready to go. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2014-March/000827.html
