On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Rainer Rillke rainerril...@hotmail.comwrote:
As some people do not care a lot for beta features or new features, do
not read the mailing lists and overlook main discussion forums or are
just unable to understand English, they were surprised and confused and
Hi Ori,
As some people do not care a lot for beta features or new features, do
not read the mailing lists and overlook main discussion forums or are
just unable to understand English, they were surprised and confused and
wondered how they could disable the feature.
Surprised and
I said this during the retrospective about beta features. I think all beta
features should be enabled for all logged in users the month before they
get deployed. Let's not resort to banners please.
Let's instead train people to go to the beta features page and help us
build great products that
On 19 May 2014 03:49, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote:
I said this during the retrospective about beta features. I think all beta
features should be enabled for all logged in users the month before they
get deployed. Let's not resort to banners please.
This is a much better idea than
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 08:22:13PM +0200, Rainer Rillke wrote:
Yeah, that would be cool: I am tool x, I do y and you can disable me
pressing button z. Let button z be a prominent element of the UI for
the time of testing at large scale.
For the record, we did the first part of this - there was
Sun May 18 00:20:10 UTC 2014 Brian Wolff bawolff at gmail.com wrote:
I do think there are probably better ways to handle notification of
new features. Perhaps a pop up the first time new feature is activated
explaining the feature and how to disable it. I'm not really sure.
Yeah, that would
Recently, Media Viewer[1] (MMV) has been switched at Wikimedia Commons
to be default.
As some people do not care a lot for beta features or new features, do
not read the mailing lists and overlook main discussion forums or are
just unable to understand English, they were surprised and confused
I thought we already had this discussion recently:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/412782?do=post_view_threaded#412782
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Rainer Rillke rainerril...@hotmail.comwrote:
Recently, Media Viewer[1] (MMV) has been switched at Wikimedia Commons
to be
Rainer makes a few good points. This is not just another weekly
software update, this is a high profile interface change. The
discussion Max linked to did not have the same scope. And the site
notice is just point A in a set of three sensible suggestions.
I've followed the development of the Media
Here is an interesting deployment idea, roll out but leave as opt-in for a
period of time, after a month or so, set as default for anons and new
accounts, During the whole process keep track of who has enabled it and
then disabled it, vs never enabled it. After a period of time move everyone
who
I actually think that anons should be the last to gget new features if at
all possible: they are the group least informed about projects' internal
workings and thus it's hard for them to report problems.
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 3:37 PM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is an
On 5/17/14, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I actually think that anons should be the last to gget new features if at
all possible: they are the group least informed about projects' internal
workings and thus it's hard for them to report problems.
+1
I'm reminded of a type of issue
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