NOTE: This task is a resource and not associated with a specific deliverable.
Overview of the WikimediaUI icon collection, which lives in OOUI repository, if, in which products and how they are used.
Status of OOUI v0.43.0 (and slowly Codex).
Based on that, let's open subtasks when icons are
- better moved in other packs/places,
- or removed at all.
| Icon name | in use | location | intentional use/comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Icons – movement | StructuredDiscussions | ||
| arrowLast | in plan | Planned in MinervaNeue | |
| arrowNext | in plan | -- | |
| collapse | OOUI | Toolbar | |
| doubleChevronStart | Vector | Added in v0.39.2; Vector modern | |
| doubleChevronEnd | Vector | Added in v0.39.2; Vector modern | |
| downTriangle | |||
| draggable | in use in OOUI demo for “DraggableGroupWidget with handles (vertical)”, moved from 'layout' and renamed from “stripeSideMenu” | ||
| expand | OOUI, VE | Widgets, Toolbar; Media info, error blocks | |
| first | MW | Added in v0.21.3; First search results page button | |
| last | VE | Added in v0.21.3; Last search results page button | |
| move | Extension:CollaborationKit | CollaborationKit seems to be the only place where it's in use, could be replaced, but might still be a useful part of lib | |
| next | VE | Find and replace 'next' button | |
| previous | VE | Find and replace 'previous' button | |
| sortVertical | Vector, Minerva Neue, MW, Codex | Indicate that a table column is sortable. New version recently added to Codex as part of the design of cdxTable (T359074, T350477) | |
| upTriangle | |||
| Icons – content | MW, Notifications, StructuredDiscussions | ||
| article | RCFilters | FilterTagMultiselectWidget & ViewSwitchWidget | |
| articles | ProofreadPage | ||
| articleAdd | Intended to be used in Advanced Mobile Contributions; added in v0.30.4 | ||
| articleCheck | Not in use yet, remains in lib for future usage | ||
| articleDisambiguation | MW core TitleOptionWidget | Added in v0.31.6 | |
| articleNotFound | MW core TitleOptionWidget | Added in v0.31.6 | |
| articleSearch | VE (Search), CodeEditor | ||
| articlesSearch | MinervaNeue | Added in v0.38.1, see T208184 | |
| articleRedirect | Not in use yet, remains in lib for future usage | ||
| database | Added in v0.42.1 | ||
| die | MinervaNeue | Planned to take WikimediaUI ones | |
| download | Extension:3D | ||
| folderPlaceholder | Nowhere in use currently | ||
| history | Vaguely planned for VE this coming quarter | ||
| info | OOUI, VE | Help layout; template parameter and media file details | |
| infoFilled | MinervaNeue | Added in v0.32.1 | |
| robot | Added in v0.30.0, planned for CX, see T212299 | ||
| share | kaiOS | Added in v0.42.0, kaiOS Sharing functionality (for now), see T277845 | |
| specialPages | MinervaNeue | Added in v0.37.1 | |
| tag | VE | as “Categories” | |
| window | VE | as “Option” | |
| upload | OOUI | SelectFileWidget | |
| Icons – alerts | Notifications, VE | Notifications actually uses a local copy of the icons because of the clutter here | |
| alert | VE | Page notices and alerts | |
| bell | Notifications | Notifications actually uses a local copy of this | |
| bellOutline | MinervaNeue | Minvera header; added in v0.34.1 | |
| error | OOUI | Error messages; added in v0.31.3 | |
| message | Notifications | Notifications actually uses a local copy of this | |
| notice | VE | similar as “Alert (Indicators)”; used as “[HTML] Comment” icon in VE | |
| speechBubble | VE | FeedbackButton, FeedbackLink | |
| speechBubbleAdd | |||
| speechBubbles | Echo, CX, PageTriage | ||
| success | OOUI | Success messages; added in v0.46.2, Codex v0.5 | |
| tray | Notifications | Notifications actually uses a local copy of this | |
| Icons – interactions | |||
| add | OOUI, VE | "Insert paragraph"; insert transclusion component | |
| browser | in use? | ||
| cancel | VE | as “Clear styling” | |
| check | OOUI | Toolbar, Checkbox | |
| clear | in use? | Could probably be merged with indicator clear, scaling might be a problem | |
| clock | VE, StructuredDiscussions | VE: MWMediaDialog; StructuredDiscussions: Reorder topics | |
| close | VE, Kartographer | VE: Debug bar only; Kartographer: close full screen | |
| ellipsis | OOUI | Toolbar | |
| feedback | MW RCFilters | Added in v0.19.4 | |
| funnel | MW RCFilers, MobileFrontend | MobileFrontend: Filter button in NotificationsInputWidget | |
| hand | MinervaNeue | Added in v0.37.1, renamed from 'stopHand' in v0.43.0 | |
| heart | in use? | Even if not in use, should probably stay in a decent icon collection | |
| help | VE | Help item (for VE toolbar use) | |
| helpNotice | RCFilters, RevisionSlider | Help icon on black circle aligning to 'alerts', 'notice' icons; added in OOUI v0.28.2 | |
| home | MinervaNeue | Added in v0.36.5, main menu in MN | |
| key | in use? | Even if not in use, should probably stay in a decent icon collection | |
| keyboard | VE | MWPopupTool | |
| lightbulb | CX | Used for suggestions in CX dashboard, added in OOUI v0.25.0, see T175006 | |
| logIn | MinervaNeue | Added in v0.36.5, main menu in MN | |
| logOut | in use? | Should be used in MobileFrontend, which currently uses a custom icon, visually completely off | |
| network | kaiOS | Added in v0.41.1, kaiOS, see T262549 | |
| networkOff | kaiOS | Added in v0.41.1, kaiOS, see T262549 | |
| newWindow | very similar to LinkExternal (editing-core, below) | ||
| power | in use? | Was included in Codex's Figma library. Needed in Metrics Platform (See T377819) | |
| printer | in use? | Even if not in use, should probably stay in a decent icon collection | |
| reload | MW RCFilters | Added in v0.23.4, also planned for CX 2 | |
| search | MW, VE | All search TextInputWidgets | |
| settings | VE et al | Renamed from “advanced” in v0.28.2. Settings, in VE "Advanced settings" | |
| subtract | OOUI | Added in v0.19.5 | |
| Icons – moderation | Notifications, StructuredDiscussions | ||
| bookmarkOutline | MW RCFilters | Added in v0.21.3, renamed from 'unClip' | |
| bookmark | MW RCFilters | Added in v0.21.3, renamed from 'clip' | |
| block | |||
| unBlock | Renamed from “blockUndo”, see T148269 | ||
| flag | CX | .cx-tools-link-mark-red | |
| unFlag | Renamed from “flagUndo”, T148269 | ||
| lock | |||
| unLock | |||
| ongoingConversation | |||
| star | Planned to be used in Vector | ||
| halfStar | Added in v0.19.1. Plan to be used in VoteNY, T156553 | ||
| unStar | |||
| trash | |||
| restore | Renamed from 'unTrash' in v0.35.0 | ||
| pushPin | Added in v0.21.3 | ||
| Icons – editing-core | |||
| edit | VE | Load editor (mobile site), switch to VE (desktop & mobile) | |
| editLock | |||
| editUndo | |||
| link | VE | Link | |
| unLink | VE | Link card; added in v0.33.0 | |
| linkExternal | VE | External link; very similar to NewWindow (interactions, above) | |
| linkSecure | in use? | ||
| redo | VE | ||
| undo | VE | ||
| Icons – editing-styling | |||
| bigger | VE | <big> styling | |
| smaller | VE | <small> styling | |
| subscript | VE | <sub> styling | |
| superscript | VE | <sup> styling | |
| bold | VE | <b> styling | |
| italic | VE | <i> styling | |
| highlight | MW RCFilters | ||
| strikethrough | VE | <s> styling | |
| underline | VE | <u> styling | |
| textDirLTR | VE | Language annotation | |
| textDirRTL | VE | Language annotation | |
| textStyle | VE | Styling menu | |
| Icons – editing-functions | |||
| function | AbstractWikipedia | added in v0.47.0 | |
| functionArgument | AbstractWikipedia | added in v0.47.0 | |
| instance | AbstractWikipedia | added in v0.47.0 | |
| literal | AbstractWikipedia | added in v0.47.0 | |
| Icons – editing-list | |||
| indent | VE | Lists | |
| listBullet | VE | Lists | |
| listNumbered | VE | Lists | |
| outdent | VE | Lists | |
| Icons – editing-advanced | |||
| alignCenter | VE | Media dialog | |
| alignLeft | VE | Media dialog | |
| alignRight | VE | Media dialog | |
| attachment | MW core | mw.widgets.StashedFileWidget.js | |
| calendar | UploadWizard | Get details step | |
| code | VE | <code> styling; could move to editing-styling? | |
| copy | Registration Creation Prototype for Campaign Organizers | Added in v0.44.1 | |
| cut | Registration Creation Prototype for Campaign Organizers | Added in v0.44.1 | |
| hieroglyph | VE | Added in v0.28.1 | |
| imageLayoutBasic | VE | Added in v0.30.4 | |
| imageLayoutFrame | VE | Added in v0.30.4 | |
| imageLayoutFrameless | VE | Added in v0.30.4 | |
| imageLayoutThumbnail | VE | Added in v0.30.4 | |
| labFlask | VE: Math extension | Added in v0.28.1, renamed from 'beaker' in v0.34.1 | |
| language | www.wikipedia.org language button, collapsed language links (in beta), VE | and seem different. | |
| layout | in use? | ||
| markup | VE | SyntaxHighlight tool | |
| mathematics | VE | Added in v0.28.1 | |
| mathematicsDisplayBlock | VE | Added in v0.28.1 | |
| mathematicsDisplayDefault | VE | Added in v0.28.1 | |
| mathematicsDisplayInline | VE | Added in v0.28.1 | |
| newline | in use? | ||
| noWikiText | seemingly not in use | ||
| ocr | Wikisource | Added in v0.42.0, Wikisource transcribing books in Proofread editor, see T285727 | |
| outline | |||
| palette | Special:Preferences on mobile web by Moderator Tools team | Added in v0.45.0 | |
| paste | Registration Creation Prototype for Campaign Organizers | Added in v0.44.1 | |
| puzzle | VE | Templates and extensions, since T111041 | |
| quotes | VE | Cite (functionality) & Find and Replace (whole word) | |
| sandbox | Vector 2022 | Added in v0.42.1 | |
| searchCaseSensitive | VE | Search | |
| searchDiacritic | VE | Search, added in v0.19.4 | |
| searchRegularExpression | VE | Search | |
| signature | VE | Moved from 'icons-alerts' in v0.23.0. | |
| specialCharacter | VE | Toolbar | |
| table | VE | Tables | |
| tableAddColumnAfter | VE | Tables | |
| tableAddColumnBefore | VE | Tables | |
| tableAddRowAfter | VE | Tables | |
| tableAddRowBefore | VE | Tables | |
| tableCaption | VE | Tables | |
| tableMergeCells | VE | Tables | |
| templateAdd | seemingly not in use | ||
| wikiText | VE | Toolbar for switching | |
| Icons – editing-citation | Added in v0.27.0 | ||
| book | VE > Cite | ||
| journal | VE > Cite | ||
| newspaper | VE > Cite | ||
| reference | VE > Cite | ||
| referenceExisting | VE > Cite | ||
| references | VE > Cite | ||
| Icons – media | |||
| camera | Added in v0.26.0 | ||
| chart | Added in v0.28.1 | ||
| fullScreen | Kartographer | ||
| image | VE | <gallery> | |
| imageAdd | |||
| imageLock | |||
| imageGallery | VE | <gallery> | |
| musicalScore | VE | Added in v0.28.1 | |
| play | RCFilters: “Live updates” button | ||
| stop | RCFilters: “Live updates” button | ||
| volumeDown | Added in v0.40.4, SDC Media search on Commons, see T259906 | ||
| volumeUp | Added in v0.40.2, SDC Media search on Commons, see T259906 | ||
| volumeOff | Added in v0.40.4, SDC Media search on Commons, see T259906 | ||
| zoomIn | Added in v0.28.1 | ||
| zoomOut | Added in v0.28.1 | ||
| Icons – location | |||
| globe | Added in v0.28.2 | ||
| map | Kartographer | ||
| mapPin | Special:UploadWizard | ||
| mapPinAdd | |||
| mapTrail | Renamed from “wikitrail” in v0.20.1 | ||
| Icons – user | |||
| userActive | Extension:AdvancedSearch | ||
| userAdd | Flow, talk pages | Added in v0.39.2 | |
| userAnonymous | CX | Used in personal header on Content Translation Stats page, for anonymous users | |
| userAvatar | CX | Used in personal header on Content Translation, for logged in users - T160918 | |
| userAvatarOutline | MinervaNeue | Minerva header. Added in v0.34.1 | |
| userContributions | MinervaNeue | Added in v0.36.4; Minerva main menu in AMC. See T235939 | |
| userGroup | MinervaNeue | Added in v0.34.1 | |
| userRights | OOUI, Codex | Echo, Campaigns team. See T338344 | |
| userTalk | Extension:AdvancedSearch | ||
| userTalk | Vector 2022 | Added in v0.43.0 | |
| userTemporary | OOUI, Codex | Minerva, Vector, Echo notifications. See T338165 | |
| Icons – layout | |||
| Menu | VE | Toolbar menu | |
| recentChanges | Added in v0.36.5 | ||
| textFlow | Flow | Renamed in v0.36.5, from 'stripeFlow' | |
| textSummary | Flow | Renamed in v0.36.5, from 'stripeSummary' | |
| viewCompact | seemingly not in use | ||
| viewDetails | seemingly not in use | ||
| Icons – accessibility | |||
| appearance | OOUI, Codex | For use on web for reading theme/appearance settings when collapsed from the toolbar | |
| bright | |||
| halfBright | |||
| notBright | |||
| eye | in use? | For use in accessibility settings?! Deprecated from 'alerts' in v0.23.0 and moved here. | |
| eyeClosed | in use? | Deprecated from 'alerts' in v0.23.0 and moved here. | |
| moon | |||
| largerText | |||
| smallerText | |||
| visionSimulator | |||
| Icons – wikimedia | |||
| logoCC | |||
| logoWikidata | Added in v0.30.2 | ||
| logoWikimedia | Added in v0.30.2 | ||
| logoWikimediaCommons | Might be used in FileAnnotations | ||
| logoWikimediaDiscovery | Discovery | Discovery team, used for printed t-shirts, was called “betaLaunch” till v0.18.3 | |
| logoWikipedia | Might be used in FileAnnotations | ||
| Indicators | OOUI | ||
| clear | |||
| down | |||
| next | to deprecate? | 1 current usage Extension:SpellingDictionary | |
| previous | to deprecate? | 0 current usage | |
| required | |||
| search | |||
| up | |||
| Textures | |||
| pending | deprecated, replaced by CSS-only solution | OOUI | formerly PendingElement |
| transparency | in use? | ||
Removed icons/indicators over course of time:
| Icon name | intentional use/comment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Removed in v0.22.0, icons here were moved to other packs | |||
| bellOn | Removed in v0.26.0. See T145163 | ||
| comment | Removed in v0.28.0 as it was merged with 'speechBubble' | ||
| caretLast | Removed in v0.23.0, merged with 'previous', 'next', 'collapse', 'expand' | ||
| caretNext | Removed in v0.23.0, merged with 'previous', 'next', 'collapse', 'expand' | ||
| caretDown | Removed in v0.23.0, merged with 'previous', 'next', 'collapse', 'expand' | ||
| caretUp | Removed in v0.23.0, merged with 'previous', 'next', 'collapse', 'expand' | ||
| find | Removed in v0.28.0. Search; merged with 'articleSearch' in 'content'. | ||
| quotesAdd | Removed in v0.26.0 | ||
| web | VE > Cite | Removed in v0.32.0 in favor of 'browser' | |
| Removed in v0.22.0 | |||
| settings | Removed in v0.28.0. Replaced by 'pageSettings'. | ||
| sun | Removed in v0.24.0 | ||
| watchlist | Removed in v0.24.0. | ||
| photoGallery | Removed in v0.18.0, deprecated alias of ImageGallery | ||
| stripeToC | Removed in v0.38.0, for 'listBullet' | ||
| alert | Removed in v0.27.0. See T185158 |