Hi, On Fri, 23 May 2014, at 23:54, Jon Robson wrote: > "Unless you find a use-case which you're addressing, don't code this please." > We coding this over a year ago on this basis but nothing has been done with > it. > My question that I am wondering if we should explore the answer to is: > "Does showing the number of talk topics on an article increase > engagement in discussions?" (Note evidence from many user tests that > have been run in the past 2 years give me the impression that many > non-editors are not aware there is a discussion side to Wikipedia)
Then people would avoid starting a talk page when the number is 0. This is, in my view, a bad thing. > > "It is. There is no need to code things twice - as mobile interface is > merely a skin." > > I'm not sure what you mean here. The mobile team has been thinking > about doing this, this doesn't mean Flow has been. I'm not sure what > skins have to do with anything here. Yes Flow could easily surface > such a number but the number would have to be generated and surfaced > somewhere since Flow is implemented completely differently. This number would have to be generated by MediaWiki or Flow, but surely not by MobileFrontEnd. As I said, MobileFrontEnd is only a skin. Gryllida. _______________________________________________ Design mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
