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The Agora Control Library is a series of styles and behaviors for common controls that are reused across projects within MediaWiki.

Current state

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There is a mediawiki.ui library (documentation) in core, written in Less. You can see it working in the MediaWiki desktop living style guide.

Each team who will be using controls from the Agora Library is writing their controls in LESS within their own project; some of these are entirely new controls, and some override or enhance the mediawiki.ui ones. The next step is to move these new or modified controls into core so they are available to all developers. For example, the Flow discussion software implemented revised button design, and Gerrit change 103494 updates core to these designs.

The initial look and feel of Agora Controls was outlined in Agora_specs.pdf in August 2013; however, this is an iterative process and controls will change during implementation.

Existing & planned controls

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Buttons

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Buttons come in 4 basic types, Neutral, Progressive, Destructive, and Constructive

Quiet action

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Button without a border and background. Same 4 types Neutral null state and Progressive/Destructive/Constructive

See and use the buttons in the living style guide with commentary.

Progress bar buttons

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Segmented control

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Toolbars

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Toolbar button

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Toolbar button icon only
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e.g. VE tool buttons; also a Flow board's Full-Collapsed-Small view icon trio?

Toolbar button with icon and label
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e.g. VE page settings

Sub-toolbar "drawer"
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e.g. VE toolbar for advanced text styling

Toolbar flyout

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e.g. VE toolbar junk drawer (more v)

Input fields

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Text input fields come in many styles, with special behaviors, such as search, validation, and content obscuring in the case of passwords.

Single-line input

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Multi-line input

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Search input

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Validated input

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Password input

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Special cases

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ULS language selector control

Date picker control

Flyout

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e.g. Flow "action menu" in topic bar.

e.g. Flow post moderation actions (Hide/Suppress/Delete)

Actionable
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Dual action or collapsible (top, left, bottom, right anchoring)

Informational
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Anchored to element and triggered by focus state (top, left, bottom, right anchoring)

Flyout menu
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Flow topic actions

vertical list of actions in a stacked menu]

Guide/Hint

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Control

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Radio button

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Combo box

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Multi-select

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Field

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Requested by Fundraising tech

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Check box

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Number stepper

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Sliders

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Precise

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Imprecise

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Action rail

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Notifications/toasters

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Alerts

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Saves

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Connection issues

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Progress indicators

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Full page

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Determinate/percentage

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Indeterminate

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Requested controls

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Button with image

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Requestor: Growth Team (WMF)

Use: Getting started (also [☺ Thank] button in Flow, Reply button in Flow with icon)

bug 55535

Status : Not designed

Button with status indicator

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Requestor: Core Features (WMF)

Use: Flow/submit

Bug :

Status : Not designed

Multi-line text button

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Requestor: Growth Team (WMF)

Use: Getting started

bug 55535

Status : Not designed

Flyout menus

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Extended actions

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Requestor: Core Features (WMF)

Use: Flow Action menu

bug 55535

Status : Designed

Horizontal action menu

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Requestor: Core Features (WMF)

Use: Flow Flag actions

bug 55535

Status : Designed

Rich controls

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Language selector

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Requestor: Language Engineering (WMF)

Use: ULS

Bug :

Status : Not designed

Date picker

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Requestor: Wikidata

Use: Data Input

Bug :

Status : Not designed

See also

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