Talk:Main Page

From OpenStreetMap Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Note: This page is only for discussing the text on, and layout of the wiki Main Page itself. For main discussion venue for the wiki itself see Talk:Wiki. It is not the right place to discuss broader issues or ideas about how to improve the wiki (for that see WikiProject Cleanup) or to ask general questions (try other Contact channels).

Rendering on mobile device / smartphone

Currently the main page is not really readable on a mobile device because the tables ("Use Openstreetmap" / "Contribute free map data" / "Software Development") and ("Image of the week" / "Event Calendar") are too broad. Would it be possible to rearrange the layout on smaller screens? For example, the "Contribute free map data" could be below "Use Openstreetmap" etc. --Westnordost (talk) 15:04, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Agree it's pretty bad at the moment. I believe it should be possible by replacing the tables with more responsive custom CSS. --Tordanik 11:13, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
@Westnordost: Would you mind creating a draft of an improved version? You could use Main Page/test. --Tigerfell This user is member of the wiki team of OSM (Let's talk) 22:07, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Oh sorry, I missed your message, @Tigerfell:. Sorry, probably not. I am not experienced in wiki editing. Even if it was HTML, I wouldn't know exactly how to CSS it to be responsive. So I can probably not help there --Westnordost (talk) 23:50, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Changelog

How about adding a link to Changelog somewhere? maro21 19:40, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Looks like nobody objected. Should I add this to "Contribute free map data" like "Browse the map feature documentation and the changelog"? --Tigerfell This user is member of the wiki team of OSM (Let's talk) 18:18, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Anywhere, but I think News section would be better (at the top or bottom) :] maro21 23:14, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Well, it does not really fit to "elsewhere" and I think the link should be a bit more descriptive. I would not know what "changelog" means in an OSM context. That's why I did not edit anything yet. @Maro21: You can just edit the news section via Template:News. It is not protected. --Tigerfell This user is member of the wiki team of OSM (Let's talk) 10:14, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Yea, I've already discovered that I can edit News template. This is how I did on the Polish version: the link to Changelog I linked as "Recently voted/approved tags". Hmm, can we change "Elsewhere" to "See also" and add a link [[Changelog|Recently approved tags]] there? maro21 20:44, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Sounds good. --Tigerfell This user is member of the wiki team of OSM (Let's talk) 22:38, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
Uh, it's not so easy. "Elsewhere" has translations in many languages, so I can't simply change it to "see also". But in my opinion these strings in other languages should be removed because News template has its own versions in other languages and the rest of languages are inactive on this Wiki. maro21 20:02, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
Resolved: Done. maro21 16:00, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Make links to Wiki guidelines more prominent

I think that https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki is important but hard to find. The shortest routes by links are 1. via Wiki discussion in the left columns and then going from the discussion to the page. 2. via the tiny link on the bottom of the page. Maybe a box "Improve the Documentation" (like Use OpenStreetMap, Contribute free map data and Software development) on the Main page could link there. --Lkw (talk) 07:07, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Info box on current proposals

What do you think about adding an additional information box on the main page that automatically displays news regarding tagging proposals, as a brief overview? So, for example, current votes and recently discontinued or changed proposals?

My suggestion would be to add the following box below "News":

New features and tags edit


Recently edited proposals:

Recently edited drafts:

--Chris2map (talk) 15:25, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Looks good! I'd be fine with adding. Lectrician1 (talk) 17:38, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! On main page the box would be limited in width and half of the screen size or less (it will flexible fit it) so I've limited the width in the preview above. --Chris2map (talk) 09:38, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
We can add a box about proposals, but this long horizontal scroll bar doesn't look aesthetically pleasing... maro21 12:49, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
@Maro21: Thanks for feedback! On which browser and platform do you display this page? There's no scroll bar to me with Firefox on Windows and Android, Edge, or Chrome on Android. --Chris2map (talk) 16:01, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
https://i.postimg.cc/GdssMhjk/Wiki.png
If you don't see a scroll bar, how all those links fit on your screen? maro21 20:38, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
https://i.postimg.cc/NMBpX1LJ/Screenshot-2023-12-02-214414.jpg - That's what it looks to me and how it should look. The rest is clipped and hidden, like intended. --Chris2map (talk) 20:53, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Template:News_about_proposals shows me all the content of the category. How is it possible that in your case it doesn't show all the elements? Is it possible to set how many elements to show in the category tree? maro21 16:35, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
I think it is a browser issue regarding the support of the CSS style commands for clipping the display. I use the Wiki function "categorytree" for the list. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found an option to limit the output directly to a number so that I don't have to fall back to clipping the display. --Chris2map (talk) 23:43, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
That's why it would be useful to have the DynamicPageList extension, which is just for this purpose. I don't know why adding it is blocked. maro21 23:33, 12 December 2023 (UTC)