https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51260
--- Comment #13 from Krinkle <[email protected]> --- column-count is terrible indeed, especially for liquid layouts like in MediaWiki skins. When viewing it on a narrower window, it becomes unreadable. column-width is a much more sensible approach, though I find it hard to believe either makes sense to be specified on the individual reflist. What I've seen in practice (at least on nl.wikipedia) that there is authors who know about it and explicitly use reflist with 2 columns in all their articles, and others who don't know about it, and others who prefer 3 for whatever reason. The result is a chaos if different column counts per article. When incorporating this back into the Cite extension, we can also provide a better default based on whatever really makes sense to derive it from. Whatever the rational is for needing multiple columns (mostly for readability I presume as the lines become too wide, and the list too long), we can automate that trivially based on rational UX arguments (yes, there shall be a global wiki bikeshed about why 2 is better than 3). Probably deriving it from the number of references in the list. column-width will allow the list to fold back into 1 column on smaller devices and people who just like to narrow their window, and multiply out as the window gets wider. Of course this problem isn't entirely specific to references lists, it's also a long outstanding petpeeve of various designers about the article content itself, a fluid layout makes that content hard to read as well in some cases (though a fixed layout is probably better than multi-column in that case). </brain-dump> -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
