[Foundation-l] Usability: page weight

2010-06-15 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
Forwarded. -- Forwarded message -- From: Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:57 AM Subject: Usability: page weight To: foundation-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello, While we are talking about usability issues, I would like to mention an issue which was not

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: page weight

2010-06-15 Thread Magnus Manske
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarded. -- Forwarded message -- From: Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:57 AM Subject: Usability: page weight To: foundation-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello, While

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: page weight

2010-06-15 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, 2010/6/15 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: I am now surfing most of time with a 3G key with a bandwidth of 16 KB/s maximum, and often less. My experience of Wikimedia sites compared with the other websites I am using regularly, GMail and Facebook, shows that these load much

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: page weight

2010-06-15 Thread Roan Kattouw
Ryan Lomonaco wiki.ral...@... writes: Page weight is a major hurdle for working on any Wikimedia sites affecting users who do not enjoy a broadband connection. And I believe that small wikis with non-European languages are more affected than others (a study would be interesting here). For