Let's improve the desktop interface! Come help us think about and discuss how we can do this. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Wikimania_-_desktop_improvements_session.pdf Link to slides].
'''Context:''' our movement has committed to expanding and allowing “anyone who shares our vision” to participate. We believe our projects should reflect this goal by being familiar and intuitive, welcoming, and easily recognizable to readers and editors around the globe. While the WMF has invested a significant amount of work into reaching these goals on the mobile web as well as the mobile apps, it has been a long time since we’ve updated our desktop experience.
'''Plan:''' starting in the fall of 2019, the Readers web team at the WMF will begin improving the desktop experience to better fit the expectations of our movement strategy. We would like to revisit the changes the desktop interface has experienced over the years and begin a discussion on what a modern and welcoming desktop experience could be. What are the needs of our readers? What are the needs of our current and future commun
ities? What might it look like for the desktop experience to be more inclusive? How do we welcome change while retaining our identity? How do we achieve consistency between our experiences on desktop and mobile? We would like to discuss these questions and evaluate ideas for the future direction of this project.
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