Talk:Main Page development

Design objectives/criteria. We need them to proceed.
There is a bunch of development happening with the view to replace the current Main Page. The catalyst seems to be enabling functionality to support mobile devices via the Extension:MobileFrontend. This has lead to a significant change in the content and layout from the, but no clearly documented rationale for why the changes are being made. It seems very much like trial and error rather than trying to meet a specific set of objectives.

I'm thinking that it might help to step back and ask some questions, with the goal of creating a design criteria for the Main Page. Some history on how the existing Main Page came about might help, see past discussion of the Main Page design.

For me, the key questions are:
 * Who is the intended reader?
 * What needs improvement or changing/removal on the ? Is it a result of enabling support for mobile devices?
 * What is the critical information that needs to be presented?
 * In what layout?

I'm sure others will have other viewpoints and questions. I'm thinking we'll have a better understanding of what to change if we know the answers to the questions. It will also gives us the ability to evaluate the implementation against the design criteria. It will also serve to document the design decisions made so if/when the Main Page is again subject to a redesign, the rationale for existing choices will be known.
 * Sincerely, --Peculiar Investor 04:25, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Requirements
Using this section to document known requirements.


 * Per Alex Frakt, the wording below has to stay on every content page, "No guarantees are made as to the accuracy of the information on this site or the appropriateness of any advice to your particular situation." This applies to both desktop and mobile viewers.

Implementation: Change the system message MediaWiki:Disclaimers (desktop) and MediaWiki:Mobile-frontend-terms-text (mobile). --Peculiar Investor 18:04, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Hiding the table of contents (TOC)
For some reason, the  magic word isn't hiding the TOC in mobile view as it should. work on Sandbox, so I copied this page to and it works there too. I plan to keep tweaking this page to try and figure out a reason and a solution. Others are welcome to help. --Peculiar Investor 15:26, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm starting to suspect there is an interaction issue with the Article Feedback Tool (AFT). The versions that work properly in mobile view don't have AFT displaying on them. --Peculiar Investor 03:14, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Upon further review, it may be device dependent. Since we're only concerned about the main page, I'd keep section headings as formatted text (not using wikitext ==Title== ). --LadyGeek 22:32, 8 December 2015 (UTC)