User talk:Grey Knight/Notebook

Universal navigation bar to go with unified login

(From VP discussion)

I've searched and searched and can't find this topic so apologize if its already been discussed. Anyway I'm one of those editors who jumps around all Wiki projects to do various things, most commonly being using commons to upload files and linking them with WP (I do voice acting for Spoken Wiki). Since the system already registers my unified login and knows which projects I'm linked to, can you guys develop an icon nav bar that shows each wiki project I'm registered with so i can jump to that wiki right away? I know this is me being lazy but if I'm at a remote computer, then this would be helpful. I think of it akin to GAP and how it owns multiple clothing store sites and its websites are unified by a navigation bar. The best name I can come up for this is Unified navigation bar or Trans-wiki Navigation .:DavuMaya:. 20:33, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

It sounds like a good idea, and I can't think of any draw backs. Leonard^(Bloom) 02:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

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Perhaps a gadget that adds a little drop-down arrow where you can jump to one of a (configurable) set of projects... --_{tiny plastic} Grey Knight ⊖ 12:05, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking of the actual icons themselves lined up in a row before the user name but I realize that would present width issues with smaller browser. A dropdown is ok (for some reason I despise drop downs!) but would it work universally on other browsers or run into conflicts? .:DavuMaya:. 16:30, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

This is a good idea. It could be similar to the Windows Live services where you can link multiple accounts and there is a dropdown menu that can switch between accounts. It seems like it would be easy to do, plus there are many sites that have things similar to dropdown menus. -- Imperator3733 (talk) 16:36, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

It could cause width issues on more than just small browser windows when you consider that Wikipedia alone has about 264 language versions! Of course, what would you even use for the icons, considering the language versions? I'd say a drop-down that lets you select project (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiversity, etc) first, and then a sublist to let you select the language variant for that project. (In simple skins I guess this would just turn into a nested set of unordered-lists at the bottom of the page.) Maybe I should take this as a cue to try creating my first gadget... --_{tiny plastic} Grey Knight ⊖ 16:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)