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Bug 53733 - Use the same icons to represent the same things (tracking)
Use the same icons to represent the same things (tracking)
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: design, easy, tracking
Depends on: 48067 50843 54307 53732
Blocks: tracking
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Reported: 2013-09-04 03:00 UTC by Steven Walling
Modified: 2014-04-11 08:27 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

See Also:
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments
watch icon on desktop (112.03 KB, image/png)
2013-09-05 19:14 UTC, Jared Zimmerman (WMF)
Details
watch icon on mobile (107.71 KB, image/png)
2013-09-05 19:15 UTC, Jared Zimmerman (WMF)
Details

Description Steven Walling 2013-09-04 03:00:38 UTC
Friends, we're making awesome progress adding and revising icons in MediaWiki to enhance usability of the site on desktop and mobile. What we're not doing is a great job of avoiding replicating work. I can think of several instances where we're using very similar but slightly different icons to represent the same concepts. Let's use this bug to track down that wasted duplicate effort, and standardize on one icon for each concept, where we can.
Comment 1 MZMcBride 2013-09-04 03:04:52 UTC
I think gear icon (for settings) is different between various extensions (UniversalLanguageSelector and ArticleFeedbackv5 come to mind, off-hand).
Comment 2 MZMcBride 2013-09-04 03:06:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I think gear icon (for settings) is different between various extensions
> (UniversalLanguageSelector and ArticleFeedbackv5 come to mind, off-hand).

Heh, right: this is bug 50843.
Comment 3 Steven Walling 2013-09-04 03:08:18 UTC
Related to this is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_audit which S Page can help with. Part of what will prevent duplicate or divergent icons is a catalog of which icons we use for what, eventually as part of a style guide.
Comment 4 Steven Walling 2013-09-04 03:42:46 UTC
This also needs updating: 

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Agora_Icon_Set
Comment 5 Nemo 2013-09-04 06:22:57 UTC
Adding Pau to cc because I recall he already wrote something about inconsistent icons some time ago. IIRC, Translate and ULS consistently use the Agora icons listed at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Agora_Icon_Set#Existing_icons> while other extensions or icons are quite messy.
Comment 6 Jared Zimmerman (WMF) 2013-09-05 19:14:04 UTC
Just wanted to add the Watchlist icon to this list of icon consistency issues.
Comment 7 Jared Zimmerman (WMF) 2013-09-05 19:14:43 UTC
Created attachment 13247 [details]
watch icon on desktop
Comment 8 Jared Zimmerman (WMF) 2013-09-05 19:15:02 UTC
Created attachment 13248 [details]
watch icon on mobile
Comment 9 Andre Klapper 2013-12-11 15:56:28 UTC
[Removing gci2013 whiteboard entry. Should be placed on specific tasks instead]

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