Hi, On Sat, 24 May 2014, at 0:37, Jon Robson wrote: > > Then people would avoid starting a talk page when the number is 0. This is, > > in my view, a bad thing. > This is a valid assumption and one we could test. A zero might even > prompt new discussions. We'll never know unless we explore it. I'm > just curious if there are any plans to test this and other similar > hypotheses.
Then they suffer when the number is in the middle somewhere. They would also have too many discussions when an article is wrong - people would be more likely to forget to check for duplicate thread if they just look at the number. I don't want the activity to suffer in any of such cases - I would prefer it stayed the same. > > This number would have to be generated by MediaWiki or Flow, but surely not > > by MobileFrontEnd. As I said, MobileFrontEnd is only a skin. > > Not true. MobileFrontend has a few more bits of code that make it a > little more than a skin - e.g. special pages like Special:Nearby. It > currently records this number via a hook and is agnostic to Flow and > MediaWiki (although this code could easily be added to MediaWiki core > to be standardised) I feel that these features would go away soon and be put into software which both mobile and desktop people use. Gryllida. _______________________________________________ Design mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
