Show important indicators in print styles
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	• Nirzar
	Jul 19 2017, 9:58 PM

Description

Problem

We show indicators by default on print styles. sometimes these indicators are not relevant at all in print medium.
E.g. mw-indicator-spoken-icon

Solution

Identify indicators that could be helpful in print medium and make vectorized print friendly version of it

Useful indicators

Featured article
Semi protected flag

Design

Zeplin spec: https://zpl.io/26T0fw

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Note to engineers, this changes the design for T169826: Add project wordmark to print styles

I will update the zeplin for that

• Nirzar mentioned this in T169826: Add project wordmark to print styles.Jul 20 2017, 1:49 AM

Volker_E subscribed.Jul 20 2017, 12:30 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Needs Prioritization on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jul 20 2017, 5:09 PM

ovasileva raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Jul 21 2017, 10:45 AM

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Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Jul 25 2017, 12:55 PM

A few things we talked about

Are we blacklisting all indicators? How? By classname (mw-indicator-*)?
- Or are we just swapping those two?
Are the vector designs for those two in the description done?
Where does the pointage come from? (it has a 5)

Open questions

what are all the indicators in use?
extension adding indicators?
hide all indicators and only show 2 indicators as strategy?
what happens when the title is long
can we get localized string "semi-protected" "featured"

• Nirzar removed the point value for this task.Aug 2 2017, 4:21 PM

Are we blacklisting all indicators? How? By classname (mw-indicator-*)?

We are hiding them in print styles. In Minerva we do not render them. In Vector they are rendered.

Where does the pointage come from? (it has a 5)

Story points are inherited when you create a subtask. :)

what are all the indicators in use?

I'm not sure if they are audited. Looks like any number of arbitrary indicators can be created.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Page_status_indicators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Featured_article contains featured article indicator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Top_icon seems to be the place where it's called. Looking at the "See also" heading of that page will showyou an idea of which indicators exist.

extension adding indicators?

Not sure what this means. They are provided by core. Any skin can control what to do with them.

hide all indicators and only show 2 indicators as strategy?

I think you are going to struggle here to know which 2 to show. All indicators are created equally.

can we get localized string "semi-protected" "featured"

Indicators are content - so will only be localised per page. A tooltip is provided "This is a featured article. Click here for more information." but nothing short which is what I think you are asking for.

From Discussion with @TheDJ @Jan_Dittrich around the usefulness of indicators at wikimania 2017

There doesn't seem to be a strong usecase for having these indicators in print
The value of having it vs the effort of adding them is not justified

Changing the status to Stalled until further discussion/requests

@bmansurov, @ovasileva can we remove this as a blocker on T169738?

This is not a blocker of T169738, is it? If it is, then yes, we can remove it.

@Niedzielski subtasks are not blockers afaik

I can confirm this is not a blocker

• Jhernandez unsubscribed.Aug 31 2017, 9:11 AM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs Prioritization to Design on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Oct 2 2017, 8:49 PM

Jdlrobson edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog (Design); removed Web-Team-Backlog.

Lowering priority as this hasn't been discussed since August 2017

Volker_E mentioned this in T154965: [EPIC] Print styles - desktop.Dec 19 2019, 7:58 PM

Jdlrobson added a parent task: T241376: [Tracking] Bugs related to desktop (Vector) print styles.Dec 23 2019, 6:02 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs triage to Feature requests on the Vector (legacy skin) board.Jan 15 2020, 6:21 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Feature requests to Design on the Vector (legacy skin) board.

We show indicators by default on print styles

This is not true.

To clarify the current position - indicators are hidden in print mode via a CSS rule in mediawiki core that lives in src/mediawiki.legacy/commonPrint.css

I'm thus declining given it doesn't seem to be a priority.

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