Hi!
So I'm just going through the latest Wikimedia Foundation quarterly
report, and I stumbled on a short passage that mentions a feature of
the mobile Wikipedia app that I really, really enjoy using.
The ability to view a link preview when clicking on an article link
inside the app is just
Hi!
In a shameless copy of Sumana's August 2012 idea, I'd like to send
public thanks to some people who have helped me get some things done in
the past few weeks/days:
* Guillaume Paumier, for his overall amazingness and his help in
creating and distributing the weekly Tech News bulletin;
*
Hi!
I was surprised to see that Twitter is now the preferred method of
contacting the Wikimedia Foundation, and that it is much more effective
than long disputes and discussions on mailing lists, Bugzilla and wiki
pages.
Indeed, it is so effective that it leads to the WMF clearly preferring
Steven Walling writes:
The
idea that we're just responding to the bug based on one report via Twitter
is untrue and absurd.
You are responding to the bug based on reports that come from outside the
Wikimedia universe — and to say otherwise is untrue and absurd in itself.
You saw the
Steven Walling writes:
On the general point: you and others seem to be simultaneously angry that
we tried a version without a freely-licensed font *and* that we have tried
versions which did have FOSS fonts, but that had unexpected bugs for some
Windows users. Which is it? Or is that you're
Chad writes:
This. Let's go back to what we *know* worked.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124387/ has already been merged, so you're
/just/ late – unless you want to submit yet another patch reverting to sans-
serif.
Tomasz
Jared Zimmerman writes:
I'm tired of fighting over this, I'd like to move on, and moving on does
not mean going on to the status quo.
The status quo has been thoroughly tested by 400 million viewers a month, for
46 months (June 2010-March 2014; ); it is a flexible and elegant solution
that
