Identify small default content area pages
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	ovasileva
	Mar 14 2024, 8:37 AM

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Background

Some table-based pages, such as recent changes and other special and action pages might benefit from a smaller default font size as they do not require readers to do any long-form reading. However, this also introduces inconsistency in the settings themselves as well as from page to page. This ticket will explore these pages and convert the necessary pages to default to the small font size

User story

As an editor, I want to easily be able to scan pages that are table-based, so that I can do my work quicker

Requirements

The following pages must default to small:
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sgQ6lBFB_5jiXJsbsAExpVlctQaooXsFVLA77LWd6-g/edit#gid=0
When on these pages, interacting with the setting will have the following behavior
- See exception handling tickets T361158: Exception handling for appearance settings - Vector

Design

Pages should appear in "small" typography

Acceptance criteria

Test pages with non-paragraph based content and determine which should default to small
Determine what should happen to the settings based on this & document the requirements
Create follow-up tasks for the changes based on requirements

Communication criteria - does this need an announcement or discussion?

Yes, tech news should be sufficient

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	Jdrewniak	T341631 [EPIC] Q1 Main hypothesis: Typographical and palette customizations
Open	Jdrewniak	T313828 [EPIC] Typography: improve typography and allow for variable typography settings
Resolved	ovasileva	T360092 Identify small default content area pages

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ovasileva created this task.Mar 14 2024, 8:37 AM

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ovasileva triaged this task as High priority.Mar 14 2024, 8:37 AM

ovasileva added a parent task: T313828: [EPIC] Typography: improve typography and allow for variable typography settings .

ovasileva added a project: FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations.

ovasileva moved this task from Incoming to Ready for Development on the Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q3 Sprint 6) board.Mar 14 2024, 10:14 AM

Justin just needs list of pages

Justin just needs list of pages

Generally, I'd say that all Special pages fall into to the category of being "table-based". These pages are not all technically tables, but I'd group them into the following categories:

page-list based
change-list based
table based
form based

Any of these types of pages may or may not have filtering UI and I'd say that they are all related to editor/administrative workflows. One of the technical considerations in keeping these pages at a 14px font-size was that the filtering UI's are built with OOUI, which has traditionally only supported a 14px font-size (although tbh I don't see any breakage at 16px).

Sidenote: I'm wondering if font-size handling is appropriate on a page-by-page basis, or if it is also applicable to all table-based content in general

e.g. of special pages:

type
pagelist
changelist
table based
form based

All special pages are linked to from this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages

JScherer-WMF reassigned this task from JScherer-WMF to ovasileva.Thu, Apr 4, 4:47 PM

JScherer-WMF moved this task from Ready for Development to Blocked on Others on the Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q3 Sprint 6) board.

JScherer-WMF subscribed.

+1 on all special pages. Added to list of namespaces here

JScherer-WMF edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 1); removed Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q3 Sprint 6).Mon, Apr 8, 5:18 PM

Thanks @ovasileva ! Moving to design review to check all of these.

ovasileva reassigned this task from ovasileva to JScherer-WMF.Mon, Apr 15, 5:28 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to General on the FY2023-24-WE 2.1 Typography and palette customizations board.Wed, Apr 17, 3:55 PM

Had a look at all of these. I agree that they would benefit from type exceptions that force the small font size on them. Moving to ready for signoff so we can make an implementation ticket next sprint.

Seems most straightforward to re-use this ticket

ovasileva renamed this task from Determine which pages should have a small default content area to Set small default content area pages.Tue, Apr 23, 11:39 AM

ovasileva added a project: User-notice.

ovasileva updated the task description. (Show Details)

ovasileva moved this task from Backlog to Ready for Development on the Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q4 Sprint 2) board.Tue, Apr 23, 4:56 PM

Quiddity moved this task from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.Thu, Apr 25, 10:06 PM

Jdlrobson removed JScherer-WMF as the assignee of this task.Mon, Apr 29, 5:24 PM

@Mabualruz to look at the requirements for this ticket and create an implementation ticket for changing font size on a per page/namespace basis. We should probably be able to reuse the code for limited width configuration.

Mabualruz renamed this task from Set small default content area pages to Identify small default content area pages.Tue, Apr 30, 1:20 PM

Mabualruz mentioned this in T363834: Add Feature Default Values Configuration Options in Vector and Minerva Skins.Tue, Apr 30, 2:08 PM

Mabualruz updated the task description. (Show Details)

Created Task Add Feature Default Values Configuration Options in Vector and Minerva Skins T363834
Once T363834 is done we have to do a configuration patch to apply the needed behaviours

Jdlrobson reassigned this task from Mabualruz to ovasileva.Tue, Apr 30, 5:03 PM

DTorsani-WMF mentioned this in T363845: [EPIC] Typography scale and font sizing.Wed, May 1, 12:11 AM

Oh, I think I saw what happened here - we repurposed the ticket but didn't clear the assignees. New ticket makes sense either way. Resolving this one.

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