getting a conversation count via flow's API will be much easier, but a conversion of all talk pages to flow is still some time off, it would be good to have a working way to do this on non-flow enabled talk pages as well.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Max Semenik <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a storng conviction that if a feature had been bitrotting in alpha > for a year without anyone even remebering about it yet alone caring about > promoting it - it should be put to death. It resurfaced for me yesterday > when I discovered that it's taking about a half of page_props table on > enwiki which is an atrocitous amount of rows. I vote for promoting or > removing it, keeping it in alpha is counter-productive. Considering that we > have the Flow team to work on alk pages, I think that making this hack in > MobileFrontend makes no sense so it shoud be removed. > > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jared Zimmerman <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Displaying the discussion count in a design were investigating with >> winter as well. >> >> Sent while mobile >> >> > On May 23, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> 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. >> >> > 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) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) >
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