This task should clarify about social and technical process of icon usage, creation and maintenance within WMF Design:
- Should we write everything from scratch or use something like Material Icon set or continue with our own (in which scope)? See T135080.
Our own resources so far:
- Dropbox under Design > + Assets > Icons (> 4 Current for agreed ones)
- https://github.com/munmay/WikiFont/ for font and SVGs and
- OOUI icons https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/#icons-mediawiki-ltr (partly incomplete)
- Lingo
Requirements:
# Include all icons (from desktop, mobile, apps…)
# Easy to find (it should be clear how to get the repo), have //1 main location//, probably mirrors
# Welcoming to the community (open tools, easy to access…). Also includes responding to [[ https://github.com/munmay/WikiFont/issues | community requests ]] in a timely manner
# Clear instructions for icon creation (size, whitespace padding, style conventions, etc.)
# Allow fast merge process when integrating new icons/reviewing changes and go for quick iterations rather than long addition process in the beginning
# Easy to integrate in various technical implementations
@Pginer-WMF has started an exemplified [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134752 | icon addition task ]].