I really like all of these goals, but I have to say that many of them
seem to be a recurring theme (which to me is understandable, but maybe
not to others). I pose to you an additional challenge.. Don't do this
just to mobilefrontend/minervaneue. Do it to a component of core/an
extension as well (i
Hey,
I am interested in improving the patrolling workflow for mobile users of
Wikidata and I wonder if you only plan to refactor[1] the code or if you
also will improve the user experience?
Thanks,
Jonas
[1] https://dzone.com/articles/what-refactoring-and-what-it-0
2018-04-04 11:05 GMT+02:00 De
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Thanks for the kind words DJ.
I want to clarify that the Readers Web team stopped being the Mobile Web
team years ago, and doesn't only work on the mobile web extension and skin.
We do routinely work on a variety of projects and codebases depending on
our user and maintenance needs.
That said, we
Hey Jonas,
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Jonas Kress
wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am interested in improving the patrolling workflow for mobile users of
> Wikidata and I wonder if you only plan to refactor[1] the code or if you
> also will improve the user experience?
>
This project is technical impr
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I love this change, thank you!
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:33 PM Ariel Glenn WMF wrote:
> Those of you that rely on the abstracts dumps will have noticed that the
> content for wikidata is pretty much useless. It doesn't look like a
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On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Strainu wrote:
> but what I would particularly like to see is how it
> handles navboxes. Traditionally, they have been hidden on the
> Wikipedia mobile site, prompting people to do all kinds of sick
> workarounds that kind of work, but not really. If anyone can com
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2018-04-04 18:40 GMT+03:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) :
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Strainu wrote:
>
>> but what I would particularly like to see is how it
>> handles navboxes. Traditionally, they have been hidden on the
>> Wikipedia mobile site, prompting people to do all kinds of sick
>> workaro
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Strainu wrote:
> Skipping navboxes is a decision that was taken by the WMF team
> responsible for the mobile site (whatever it was called at the time)
> and can be solved cleanly only at the skin level, but I don't expect
> this to happen as long as it will break t
2018-04-04 23:41 GMT+03:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) :
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Strainu wrote:
>
>> Skipping navboxes is a decision that was taken by the WMF team
>> responsible for the mobile site (whatever it was called at the time)
>> and can be solved cleanly only at the skin level, but I
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Showing the navbox (a 1000px table) on a mobile device (320px) is a
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