User:Isarra/wpx wir

Changes. This is all based on looking at the mainpage, which above all else, should serve as an at-a-glance directory to the rest of it.

Also not all of this may necessarily be technically possible at present.

More compact intro

Intro should be brief and get out the basic stuff so new folks can get their bearings at a glance.
Separate the more in depth explanation out and use a normal font size because while more information is likely needed, once they've seen the first part there is no need to keep it all at the emphasised font size.
Don't use spindly fonts. It doesn't match the overall design, and can be more difficult to read, especially on systems with rubbish font rendering.
Made the following a bit shorter in general just because concise is good for these things. Less stuff there is here, the quicker folks get to the tabs.

Example

Welcome to WikiProject Women in Red (WiR), a WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" of Women into blue ones within the project scope. The project scope includes women -real and fictional- their biographies and their works, broadly construed.

Only 16.08% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. This "content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, which we address by hosting edit-a-thons on various topics, and socializing the scope and objective via social media. We invite you to participate whenever you wish. There is no requirement to participate in everything we do, or to even sign up.

We warmly welcome you.

Get rid of the Announcements section

This is generally redundant with the news and events sections. Announcements here can be useful for projects where events and the like are relatively rare, but WiR is based around such things. Events appearing below the fold as its own section makes a lot more sense; same for news.

Events

Maybe don't show all of them on the mainpage. Just list through a certain time ahead, and keep the full list on the subpage. If we can make it so the displayed list on the mainpage includes a number of how many other upcoming events there are not listed here (but with a link to the full list), that might be very useful.

Tasks

Definitely don't show all of the categories on the mainpage. The entire alphabet is a lot.
If the categories can be categorised into a much shorter list of options (maybe 4-10) (but still taking users right to an actual list of links with one click, perhaps by transcluding the letter pages), this would both take up less space and also narrow down what people are actually after/familiar with. Letter is an arbitrary separator, but listing by 'sciences', 'literature' etc might help.
Listing a couple of random red links directly, or having a button that generates a random one might be interesting to try.
What is 'Redlink rounds'?
Prior months should probably have a note and link(s), not a collapse.

Metrics

Any particular reason to display the archives on-page?
Newly-created article list should probably not just list all of them on-page, as it gets long. The 5-10 most recent and a number of total with a link to all might make more sense.

Showcase

Definitely need to only show some of this on the mainpage. Show the recent ones, show some really big numbers to get across the really big numbers of articles created (because yes, this is impressive), but don't numb visitors (or worse, members) to the entire thing by dumping the entire list on them unless they actually click a link to check it out.

More on this later unless someone tells me it actually is feasible with lua or stuff to pull out those numbers easily.

Press

Hide the old stuff after a certain point. This is just going to keep growing, hopefully.

Add support in the loader module/template to insert this into the intro area, floated right of the wikiproject title.

Does not work. Image is excessive, sidebar layout clashes with both wikiprojectx members sidebar and site navigation sidebar in the skin.

Add as an extra header instead? "This project is an associate of WikiProject Women. ((All projects (dropdown))); see also taskforce."