Style Main Page subsections

[cl8n]

idk why we kept these group/subsection things in parenthesis, they look terrible and get split across lines

[ghost]

#2731 Feel free to edit anything here.

[sr229]

I'm more in favor of #2730 than #2731.

[TicClick]

I guess this is not resolved yet, and the main page blocks need further improvements, although they definitely look better without braces (context)

[TicClick]

the main page update for #2606 is in progress, marking this as blocked

[cl8n]

been a long time but I think I was trying to say inline styling for these sections isn't the way to go. parenthesis or not, the sub-section-titles have no significance compared to the articles within, and titles wrap unnecessarily, and extra separator dots appear at end of line sometimes, ...

as far as wiki is concerned these should probably just be lists contained in a styling block, and web can take care of how it looks. I was looking into rewriting the main page renderer anyway cuz the setup is really odd web-side. syntax would be something like this for each panel. headers and lists would have custom styling under Panel instead of the classes applied via HTML currently

?

{{{ Panel

## People

*some description from #5506*

{{{ Panel Section

### [The Team](/wiki/People/The_Team)

- [Developers](/wiki/People/The_Team/Developers)
- [Global Moderation Team](/wiki/People/The_Team/Global_Moderation_Team)
- ...

}}}

...

}}}

also I'm not really following how this is blocked by your other updates

[TicClick]

thought it was wiki only and the changes would be more drastic, which is tough to do at the same time as updating the page

[TicClick]

rewrite done. reposting important stuff from the pull:

• Extend the main page with new links and details #5506 (comment) LiquidPL's thoughts
• Extend the main page with new links and details #5506 (comment) GPR's design experiment
• Extend the main page with new links and details #5506 (comment) cl8n's thoughts

also, infobox example: #5440

[Walavouchey]

is this still tracking anything?

[TicClick]

yes, it still looks poor and the subsections are not styled at all (this needs someone to experiment with the design and find something similar to #5506 (comment) which didn't happen)

[Walavouchey]

the preview in the comment you linked looks exactly like how the main page looks now, so i'm not sure on what you mean there. but i agree that the uh... design of the main page is quite dull

[RockRoller01]

Two things that personally bother me:

• some, but only some, group headers also function as a link to their index page. This should be either none or all imo
• sometimes different groups of articles are seperated by a gap between the groups, while others will have a label (and sometimes both types are mixed)
  first
  
  second
  

Both of these things contribute to the visual mess and non uniformity, with varying length group introductions not helping. Like developers is barely over one line, while others like mapping feature a full paragraph