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The Wikipedia Usability Project aims to make Wikipedia easier for everyone to use.

This project aims to promote the application of usability best practices and/or web usability. Many other projects focus on the content of Wikipedia - this project focuses on the presentation of that content.

Issues

The logo of the project by Kooky. Green represents the user, the three branches represent the web of information Wikipedia provides, and the middle path is the clearest, the one the project strives for. The shape recalls a blooming flower and the Wikimedia logo, as well.

This project hopes to make Wikipedia easy and pleasant to use by applying itself to the following areas:

Being intuitive - contents made understandable by everyone; using familiar and affordance interface design for universal usability
Architecture - Organisation of information.
Design - Visual appearance of Wikipedia; making it 'easy on the eyes', and standardized (all things of a certain type should appear in the same form).
Interface - Making editing and other interactions easier.
Compatibility - Cross-browser support; ease of use for everyone on any device and any browser
Standards and accessibility - making use of W3C-recommended XHTML and CSS in a manner that promotes the above and accessibility
Speed - loading time of Wikipedia page (yet to be added area)

Current projects

Past projects

Future projects

See future projects for what we may tackle next!

Queries

Wikipedia talk:Community Portal#Request [୧] - "is there no way to get a better interface? most people have javascript its just that its all so very confusing- maybe that is supposed to put most people off? NO indication where one is supposed to join up/post/ pages and pages....protocols... and all the jargon offputting. you need to attract people who don't necessarily have computer knowledge but subject knowledge you should make it easy for eg. my grandfather, who is an expert on aviation history to contribute to this online resource- its all so very confusing!!!!!"
User:OwenBlacker/Usability — a disagreement between two users (one of whom is me) over matters of accessibility and usability that may be of interest to members of this project. — OwenBlacker 19:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
At Talk:Isotope table (complete) we are debating a proposal by User:Greg L to put the article's full isotope table, and Isotope table (divided)'s table, in a single larger article. Much of the argument is about usability, as well as performance. Input from the Usability project might be useful. --JWB (talk) 16:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Tasks

Tasks/to-dos, current efforts, requests for help, and major notices. (Remove when resolved.)

Spreading the word about this WikiProject!

If you know anyone who may be a valuable addition to this project, leave a comment on their talk page directing them here. You could also leave comments on talk pages that are directly related to this subject.

Discussion

IRC channel - #wikipedia.usability on irc.freenode.org
The talk page

Sub-pages

/Color - use of color in Wikipedia
/Color Tabs - side tabs for browsing (color coded)
/Sizing examples - browser width and image size
/HTML - use of HTML and CSS in Wikipedia
/Images - images in Wikipedia articles
/Notices - notices, boxes, and other "meta" elements
/MediaWiki - key MediaWiki pages/interface parts

Templates

{{WikiProject Usability}} - project banner (mostly for the talk pages of templates that serve usability functions, as well as pages having to do with usability issues)
{{User WikiProject Usability}} - user box to "advertise" your participation in the project.

Participants

If you'd like to join (please do!), add yourself and optionally your areas of interest/expertise to the list below and add this page onto your watch list.

Listing yourself does not obligate you to do anything. This section serves primarily as a gauge of project interest, and to provide links to users who may be contacted in regards to this wikiproject, their interests, or usability in general.

M (talk) — Non-broken, compliant, and proper CSS and HTML code. Setting standards for meta elements (boxes, tables, etc.)
Dodoïste (talk) 21:09, 12 September 2010 (UTC) - Especially to work on navigation architecture, menus, breadcrumb and seven plus or minus two.
— SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. – I am all about usability. Getting proper full HTML support in MediaWiki has been a years-long goal of mine (with some progress actually made against initial developer reluctance to add support for things like <dfn> and <kbd>), along with undoing bad practices on Wikipedia that violate the letter or spirit of the HTML, XMTML or other specs, commonly accepted usability wisdom, or known accessibility maxims.