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Tidy up tabs and add links #865

Open jrosindell opened 1 month ago

jrosindell commented 1 month ago

We want to give users a richer experience with more information / pointers for each species once they drill down to that level

Note issues #863 and #864

At the same time, the tabs appearing on each leaf are expanding and potentially getting messy.

The IUCN Red List tab already only contains a link because the page we wanted in the tab doesn't allow iframing.

I would propose that we tidy up the tabs interface and include only the most essential ones as tabs whilst at the same time have a new tab which contains a collection of external links.

An alternative paradigm that could be adopted would be to generate a single scrollable page that we generate and which has sections of information about the species derived from our database / wikipedia page / GBIF / sponsorship and then had links underneath.

hyanwong commented 1 month ago

For IUCN we could use their API to construct a page, like we do for wikipedia.

hyanwong commented 1 month ago

I think the tab interface is more appealing, and doesn't get us into trouble re combining our data with that from other sources. E.g. IUCN will probably be OK with having all their data in one tab, but may not like it if it appears that we are "augmenting" one of our own pages with their data.

lentinj commented 1 month ago

I'm not sure there's much middle ground IMO, we either have tabs as we do today or we switch to a summary page with links as was floating about with the Tours UI redesign. We could have more tabs in the expert mode I guess, but I don't think they'll be discoverable enough to be worthwhile.

I think I prefer the idea of a summary page with links meself, even if it does run the risk of basically re-implementing the wikipedia pages with OneZoom theming, I think keeping the site in a consistent OneZoom theme is still important. And it'll be a lot simpler to implement than the current tabs. However, it's certainly not the case that no-tabs is categorically better than tabs.

IUCN will probably be OK with having all their data in one tab, but may not like it if it appears that we are "augmenting" one of our own pages with their data.

I suspect I've asked this before, but wikipedia infoboxes seem to have IUCN embedded with remarkably little branding at that. Is this just because they're Wikipedia?

hyanwong commented 1 month ago

It's not really the IUCN status, it's more if we use their API to get textual summaries, I think.

My guess is it would be hard to have both wikipedia (no links) and OneZoom, etc. I do still prefer tabs, FWIW.

davidebbo commented 1 month ago

FWIW, I've never been a fan of the embedded wikipedia page. I almost always end up opening in a new tab. I guess it just looks cleaner and makes use of the full screen size. Maybe it's just me!

BTW, the link at the bottom states "This is a summary", but it seems to me it's the full page that's embedded, no?

hyanwong commented 1 month ago

The embedded page allows us to remove links etc if need be (e.g. for museums). It doesn't have the surrounding wikipedia titlebars / sidebars but I think is otherwise identical. Personally, I like it, but I can see why you might want to go straight to wikipedia instead.

davidebbo commented 1 month ago

The embedded page allows us to remove links etc if need be (e.g. for museums)

Of, so we're prefetching/storing all the wikipedia pages for museums? That's a ton of data!

hyanwong commented 1 month ago

No, there's a REST API which funnels the data from wikipedia straight to the client (I seem to remember: I don't think it comes via us first, but it might do and we just relay it on after removing links)

So museums would have to be online for it tow work, but are assured that there are no non-wikipedia links in the pop-up screens.

lentinj commented 1 month ago

I don't think it comes via us first, but it might do and we just relay it on after removing links

We don't proxy the wikipedia calls, this all happens clientside. Your browser fetches the page via the Wikipedia API, optionally filters links and pops the result in the iframe.

Of, so we're prefetching/storing all the wikipedia pages for museums? That's a ton of data!

It's not something OneZoom uses, but it'd be easy to arrange with Kiwix: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

lentinj commented 1 month ago

Here's my suggestion to unpick this:

  1. A new summary page that has:
    • The first paragraph from the Wikipedia page (like your favourite search engine)
    • The image for that species, along with the copyright information
    • Sponsorship information, current sponsor name and story or the QR-code / link to sponsor (which then opens a new tab)
    • Available tours from that leaf/node
    • Any potentially embeddable content, à la https://www.gbif.org/species/2477459
  2. Include the summary page...
    • ...as the first & default tab for onezoom.org, supplanting Wikipedia
    • ...as the only tab for Museum displays, so there's no way to leave the onezoom sandbox
  3. Remove the now redundant:
    • Image copyright popup
    • Sponsorship tab
    • Tours tab
    • Image / sponsorship active areas (A leaf/node should be only one link IMO)
    • The link-less version of Wikipedia (We have 2 options, only the summary page, or tabs with full-fat versions of pages)

The final point is possibly over-reaching, but I think it's worth considering. The link-less Wikipedia pages bug me a bit, both editorially (the content is going to be expecting links that aren't there) and technically (we're hosting Wikipedia HTML under a onezoom.org origin, which isn't ideal). If it's something museums specifically request then fair enough, but I'm guessing the tours are more interesting nowadays.

How we get that first paragraph of Wikipedia content I'm not sure, I don't know the available APIs well enough atop my head. Depends if we want to offer a truly offline version or not really.

jrosindell commented 1 month ago

Current idea is to have a summary page which opens by default and replaces the sponsorship tab. It should include a range of basic overview data.

The tabs should be scrollable to allow more

At the Bottom of the summary page there should be a further reading section which distinguishes between tabs and links

In the middle of the page, tabs which associate with content can be flagged where they appear e.g. read more on wikipedia.

jrosindell commented 1 month ago

We may also have the ability to configure the prominent tabs- by URL

lentinj commented 1 month ago

Things we mentioned that could go into the summary page:

A museum display wouldn't include any other tabs, and the tab bar would then hide as a result.