Hi all,
agreed Brooke and all.
There was one formulation in my starting email that should have phrased
slightly differently for more clarity.
'Drop support' should have been 'drop dedicated support'. where users of
Opera continue to be able to browse or edit the wikis in a basic manner.
These chan
I'm assuming any change to drop Opera off basic and modern support relates
to the legacy Opera, not Chromium based Operas, just like how the Chromium
Edge versions still get modern JavaScript and CSS?
Probably worth calling this out explicitly.
-- brooke
On Mon, May 13, 2024, 4:18 PM Volker E.
I suggest we fix https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342267 before making any
decision that is based on browser usage metric, unless we can demonstrate by
other means that Opera isn't used by up to 10% of page views.
By "fix" I mean, ask your respective managers to demand it and create interest
one thing I'm a little unclear on: does this just refer to non-Chromium
Opera, or to Opera as a whole (including the Chromium versions)? if the
latter, I'd reconsider - as much as I have my qualms with them, the
Chromium Opera(s) have a decently sized user base.
no objections to - if anything, act
Morning Design Team,
I've had a quick look at the usage stats from Miraheze for the last 21 days
and I'm seeing around 5.5% of traffic using Opera.
Opera isn't a well used but still fairly popular browser and I'm not sure I
believe it's got less 0.1% of traffic for Wikimedia. Where has this data
I very strongly object to dropping Opera. Opera's market share is a lot more
than 0.1% on other stats services, there must be something wrong with the
detection code. Opera is very popular in Africa and Eastern Europe, and has a
lot of users with the Opera GX gaming browser as well. There are al
On Tue, 14 May 2024 at 16:54, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> When will you drop this stupid "m" in the URLs?
> People now link to these "m" URLs where they should use the correct URLs.
> It's a big shame. It should be a priority.
>
> Example:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch?target=en.m.
On Monday 13 May 2024, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> On 2024-05-14 01:17, Volker E. wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> the Design System Team (DST) is proposing the following changes to
>> MediaWiki browser support [1]:
>>
>
> When will you drop this stupid "m" in the URLs?
> People now link to these "m" URLs
