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[EPIC] Rework the Wikibase Website
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The Wikibase website needs an overhaul to be a better entry to the world of Wikibase and help people find all the tools and documentation around it.
People need to better understand what Wikibase is, why they'd want to use it and get answers to questions about how to install/use it.

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Addshore created this task.Sep 27 2018, 8:06 AM
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Addshore added a subtask: T205009: Discovery of gadgets/extensions/tools for Wikibase.Sep 27 2018, 8:07 AM
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@johl @Jan_Dittrich If you have time to move this forward while I'm on vacation please do.

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• Greta_Doci_WMDE subscribed.Oct 15 2018, 10:27 AM

I have checked the wikibase recently and I'm writing down some suggestions that have mostly to do with the design and reorganization:

-The front page can be more organized, we can remove some elements. We can add the blue banner as a header banner and put the menu below it, so we remove one logo and keep it only at the banner.

header_menu.png (224×1 px, 196 KB)

The text about the main projects can be designed differently, having them in the same section.
-Why use Wikibase – this could be removed from the front page and be as a menu button.

main_projects.png (523×1 px, 230 KB)

If we click: Application at the menu tab.
Documentation and Download could be one tab since they redirect you to the same page.

For the content below, we should work a bit on the design and reorganization, for example the Submenu: Documentation | Download | Browse source | Review commits | CI status should have more space on that page. They can be as different sections, following the logic of the front page. The information about media wiki such as: Functionality.... Mechanisms to...should be as bullet point and smaller size, so the reader to be able to see first the sections about documentation, download... and then read the info below about media wiki and extensions. The same logic about reorganization of the content can be follow for the next menu tabs.

• Jan_Dittrich added a comment.Oct 18 2018, 9:03 AM

Wikibase and help people find all the tools and documentation around it.
People need to better understand what Wikibase is, why they'd want to use it and get answers to questions about how to install/use it.

What has the highest priority of these? They can't be all done at the same time and they might target different populations (Does my Org need it vs. how do I install it might be something not done by the same person)

Lydia_Pintscher added a comment.Oct 18 2018, 7:49 PM

I think we should lead with why - so telling people what Wikibase is and why they should care. Once they have that the rest is an easier sell.

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Addshore added a comment.Dec 12 2019, 10:34 AM

Some work has been done in https://github.com/wmde/wikiba.se/pull/3

Addshore closed subtask T205023: Add documentation for modifying the theme color in the Wikibase Docker distribution as Declined.Jun 18 2021, 9:03 AM
Addshore added subscribers: • Elisabeth_Giesemann_WMDE, Kris_Litson_WMDE.Nov 9 2021, 8:49 AM

The website recently had a large re work, so perhaps this can be closed.
Though I am not sure if the things detailed in this description or sub tasks were actually done as part of that.
CCing the folks that can likely decide the future of this task

lucamauri subscribed.Nov 14 2021, 10:04 AM
Addshore closed this task as Resolved.Feb 1 2022, 9:28 AM
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This has been reworked

See https://wikiba.se/

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