Talk:Main Page

2015 Discussions

August

I've just added the "7/15/25/35 Items/Page" options as a bit of a quick and dirty stop gap. I tried 40 or more and that was too much for Mediawiki to deal with:-(

• For those pages with descriptions, a tooltip would be good, but I don't know whether that is possible within Mediawiki.
• The 'Twitter' tab still has a lot of whitespace.
• Tab choice: Data on which tabs were the most popular could be useful, but since that is a clientside decision, that's not available.

--Robin (talk) 10:56, 15 August 2015 (IST)

July

It improved since last year, but I'm still not entirely happy with it... I just reduced the number of results returned for each tab from 15 down to 12, primarily to decrease loading time. I'm pretty happy with the format, but I'd value thoughts on how to improve it. I'm thinking about the following changes:

• Larger images - since they are not really identifiable at the moment. I just upped them from 26 to 30px.
• (Re)moving the class icons - since they look odd next to the images.
• Rethinking which tabs are needed, since they all slow loading time.
• Removing at least one of the strips above the tabstrip
• Using some of the semantic data (e.g. Property:Description) to provide some information either as a tool tip, or on the page itself

I still almost never use the front page (too bandwidth heavy, too slow). As last year, ideas welcome. Robin (talk) 19:35, 23 June 2015 (IST)

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Reduction of the number of results will have negligible impact on the page load time. That said, 12 does look more 'in proportion' on the current page geometry/layout - IMO.

• Larger images do look better
• I'm agnostic about the class icons
• If simple(ish) to do, a useful interim measure which would greatly reduce page load time, would be to execute only the 'Latest Edits' query on initial page load; then execute any others as, when and if selected. I still intend to install an html reverse proxy which will dramatically impact on the current page load time, but there are some tricky technical issues involved so an interim measure would be useful. It would also be useful to have a Further results link at the bottom of each Main page list.
• I agree the info-box strips above do need a re-think
• Over to you on the last idea, which again would be a solid useability enhancement.

--Peter P (talk) 11:03, 24 June 2015 (IST)