Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign

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The following is a proposed Wikipedia policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. References or links to this page should not describe it as "policy".

A proposal's acceptance or rejection is not determined simply by counting votes.

[edit] Original

navigation

toolbox

[edit] Redesign

navigate

interact

toolbox

[edit] Reasons behind the changes

Logo
- old logo (Wikipedia-logo-en.png) replaced with new logo (Wikipedia-logo-en-fixed-bg.png), to eliminate white-matte artifacts. See #Logo changes on the talk page.
Navigate box — designed as a reader-oriented set of browsing links
- Contents link added
Interact box — designed as an admin-oriented set of browsing links
- Questions link added
Toolbox — designed as an editor-oriented set of browsing links
- separated the contextual/local links (top) from the fixed/global links (bottom)
- moved the Recent changes link to here, from the navigation box, as contextually appropriate.
- reorganised to place "Cite this article" and other reader-oriented links at the top. (a straight reversal of current ordering)

There are a number of links that could have been included (in both the navigation box, and the interaction box), but were left out of this redesign draft. Primarily, to keep the initial redesign simple, and agreeable-to by all, but also because many of them are not currently at a suitably high-standard. We envision some/many of them being added at a future time (it's easier to add links later, than to re-argue them at each draft stage).

[edit] Toolbox variants in different namespaces

Further information: Wikipedia talk:Village pump (proposals)/Sidebar redesign/Archive 03#Toolbox

[edit] Article namespace

toolbox

[edit] User namespace

toolbox

[edit] Wikipedia namespace

toolbox

[edit] Image namespace

toolbox

[edit] Special namespace

toolbox

[edit] History & recentchanges

toolbox

...and so on, for the "Block user", and "trackbacklink" links.

Note: The toolboxes for the namespaces "Template", "Category", "Portal", "MediaWiki", "Help" and all forms of "Talk" are identical to that of the Wikipedia namespace.