https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53107
MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX |--- --- Comment #3 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #2) > Certainly anonymous editing is important to the community and to wikipedia, > but as stated in bug 52442 we are making a choice currently to not allow > anonymous editing on mobile. I'm not sure who "we" is or why they feel empowered to make this decision. Disabling anonymous editing is a temporary setting (cf. bug 53069). > "You must be logged in to edit pages on mobile" is the current copy. That > seems to capture the critical information for the user namely that: > > 1) They currently are not logged in > 2) In order to edit on mobile they need to log in I agree. The current message certainly captures the two points you highlight, but we should probably (also) try to indicate that this message: (a) isn't true right now (users can still edit anonymously via the desktop interface); and (b) won't be true in the future (the decision to intentionally disable anonymous editing was made by a small team and it should be reversed, as soon as any blockers are resolved). > However, the topic of anonymous editing is an important one that will be > revisited as mobile editing becomes more and more mature. In order to get to > that point of maturity we need to first nail down the core workflows: in this > case taking an editor through account login or account creation and making an > edit. No disrespect intended, but before you can start effectively designing for Wikimedia, I think there has to be an acknowledgement and acceptance of Wikimedia's [[m:founding principles]]. I agree that this was an intentional design decision. My point is that this design decision is not sustainable. As a temporary measure, we should consider tweaking the language of this message, given that it's misleading. In the longer term, we need to fix whatever issues are blocking users from being able to edit anonymously (bug 53069). If you want to talk about "nailing down" workflow, I think we can safely say that being required to register pretty massively disrupts the quick edit workflow. Consider, of course, the "I just want to fix a typo" crowd. And even worse, this is an active regression in functionality: MediaWiki has supported anonymous editing since the dawn of time. Re-opening this bug for further consideration. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
