I vehemently disagree with almost every line you just wrote. Just to get that out there...
DJ > On 29 mrt. 2015, at 23:02, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > Quim Gil wrote: >> Sorry, but the behavior in your reply constitutes an anti-pattern of >> collaboration in a friendly space. No bug or feature or difference of >> opinions justifies it. Please, let's be friendly, or at the very least >> respectful. > > There's no indication that the Wikimedia Foundation mobile team is > interested in collaboration. Years of evidence suggest that the team is > only interested in shoving as many features as possible into the > MobileFrontend extension to avoid scrutiny and review. The Wikimedia > Foundation mobile team needs to re-integrate with the rest of the > Wikimedia community. The past behavior of violating core Wikimedia design > principles, such as prohibiting open editing with misleading error > messages and discouraging new article creation by unilaterally removing > red links, has been consistently unacceptable and it needs to stop. > > Better than Phabricator tasks, there are Gerrit changesets waiting to be > reviewed, but there's only been obstructionism from the mobile team. It's > pretty tiring and any help you can provide in cleaning up this mess would > definitely be appreciated. As it is, I'm still hoping we can kill the > MobileFrontend extension in 2015, but it's a bit of a long shot. > > I've been thinking about some mobile development principles. One easy > principle seems to be, as a general rule, that mobile features are a > strict subset of desktop site features. That is, if this mobile strapline > is so important that it must be shouted at our users, using bold font and > bright colors in a very prominent position, then there should at least be > some parity with the desktop site. And there are, of course, lessons to be > learned from the stripped down mobile interface. For example, if the > sidebar links and paragraph of disclaimer text in the footer really aren't > necessary, why include them on desktop? It's time for reconciliation here. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
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