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Investigate if other Wikipedias would like to try the new Wikivoyage banner
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About:
After a community initiated discussion and development, Wikivoyage has a different lead image banner,

Extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikidataPageBanner (this name is confusing though!)
How it looks like: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Egypt

desktop-20.png (831×1 px, 754 KB)

Design:
Minimum 200 px height, width variable

Target:
Lets find out if other wikis are interested in obtaining some banner along those lines, or a different media display in general.

Action:
Target specific Wikis
Coordinate with @Jdlrobson accordingly

Progress:

Will be activated for userspace and Wikiproect namespaces. Patch submitted: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/242942 !
First trial https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Monuments

No response yet

Still discussing, not welcomed.

Will be activated for Wikiprojects

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So far it's enabled on English and Russian Wikivoyages.

Chinese just requested it:
T114334

Would be great to get all the voyages using it and if not understand why :)

@KHammerstein and @Moushira, The reluctance we saw with Catalan, seemed to be rooted in it being perceived as a wikivoyage thing. The primary argument made was "Sure, this is a wikivoyage thing, but we are a wikipedia so its irrelevant". Similarly, if you asked a carpenter if they needed a dentists' tool, they would say "no", but if you asked them if they wanted a high-precision drill, they would likely say "yes". With that in mind, I propose for other wikis that:

  1. we mock up a version of the page banner on desktop, but with a really sharp image to show how effective it can be.
  2. when we present to the community, we start with the value proposition of how it is awesome/popular on apps (Screenshots) and THEN we say, we have a better implementation using code that the wikivoyage community created.

Thanks a lot @JKatzWMF! This makes more sense to be how we move forward. Am sure it is a typo, but Spanish WP is where the suggestion was found irrelevant, Catalan Wikipedia wants to activate and try it for Wikiprojects and userspace namespaces.

@Moushira Thanks for the clarification (I did have it mixed up in my
head--very bad timing given the recent election)

Qgil subscribed.

Seems to be Done.