**Problem**: Many people are using "colored buttons", **purely** for high-visibility. (example list, below). Many of them use the exact OOUI scheme.
1) This undermines the meaning the colors/buttons are meant to have.
2) It makes any broken or vandalised link, into something that erodes trust in the actual interface. (e.g. "the last time I clicked a big green button it didn't work [or took me somewhere horrible]...")
**Solution** (suggested): We should provide a distinct/different set of styles to the community, to help them achieve this visibility purpose, without their resorting to "buttons" that are 100% ambiguous with site UI.
**Context**: The OOUI color-buttons are //intended// to have specific meanings, per
* https://livingstyleguide.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page#Intention_colors
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Color_usage#Functional_Colors
However, there is also an ongoing discussion about confusion around "progressive" and "constructive" at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.design/1363
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**Sample list of problems** (I.e. these are //**just plain links**//, but are given fancy styling for increased visibility):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/TOC_navbar
* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Monuments
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Social_media_navigation
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_of_the_week/Translation_candidates#New_candidates_.28group_5.29
* https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education and https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Trainings
* https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Forum_des_nouveaux
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki/Homepage_redesign/Preview
* https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report
Semi-relevant usages, but using the wrong color
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Good_articles/GA_Cup/FAQ (green instead of blue)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Redirects/Header (green and white instead of blue)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:T_Gatzby (green instead of blue)
* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Bitte_erst_NACH_dieser_Zeile_schreiben!_%28Begr%C3%BC%C3%9Fungskasten%29 (green instead of blue)
Mixture of appropriate and inappropriate:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Clickable_button (1,141 transclusions)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Clickable_button_2 (434,942 transclusions)
(Close, but not exact copies of OOUI)
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Clickable_button (36,624 transclusions)
* https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Template:Social_accounts
Note: the easiest way to find these examples, is to search the projects for `insource:"mw-ui-progressive"` (and `-constructive` and `-destructive` and `-button`). E.g. https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial:Recherche&search=insource%3A%22mw-ui-progressive%22&fulltext=Rechercher&profile=all
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**Related tasks:**
* {T110727}
* {T110565}
* {T110555}