Following a conversation at it.wp, where code was provided to reduce column width, let's have a conversation to eventually have a global fix - current status quo can change.
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Reduce column width from 35em to 30em | mediawiki/extensions/Cite | master | +3 -3 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T265163 Create a system to encode best practices into editing experiences | |||
| Open | None | T345472 Offer Edit Check(s) within new article creation | |||
| Open | None | T56906 Append a references list to bottom of the page when the first reference is added | |||
| Open | None | T53146 VisualEditor: Parsoid's render of {{reflist}} has no context, so no references appear; similarly, edited templates inside structures, look odd on edit | |||
| Open | None | T95543 Obviate the need for wikis' wrapper and functionality-replacement templates | |||
| Resolved | • Esanders | T53260 Support editing <references /> tags to set multi-column display on/off | |||
| Resolved | Jdforrester-WMF | T161788 Please reduce column width from 35 to 30em |
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If 30em seems too narrow, then let's do 32em. 35em (in English, at least) feels wider than necessary.
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This is what 35em looks like on my computer. My laptop has 1920x1080 resolution but only a 15" screen, so I have to use 125% zoom on Wikipedia to make pages confortable to read. The result is a lot of wasted space where a second column could fit perfectly:
https://s14.postimg.org/9405vvo6n/Wiki_colonne.png
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@Jdlrobson was discussing this; it's not clear what the original design justification for the width at 35ems was, so it's hard to know if dropping to 30 would break those things. I imagine it's OK, though?
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I left a comment at T160497#3135356 about the question of column size, which is probably why Jdlr was looking into it.
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My comment on the original patchset pointed out that you shouldn't guess this kind of thing and should be able to point at why using the fact that there was a difference between mobile and desktop as an example I'm not a designer so I don't know what the right value is. I suggest you get input from a designer rather than guess.
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Change 353369 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/extensions/Cite@master] Reduce column width from 35em to 30em
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Change 353369 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Cite@master] Reduce column width from 35em to 30em