https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21911
Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #8 from Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> 2009-12-29 19:16:18 UTC --- A quick look at how the 3 biggest Wikipedias dealt with this message shows that 2 of them have modified it to only show the size of the page (en, de) and one of them (fr) even removed it completely because it is "useless and scares new editors". We have some browser statistics < http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm > and information about problematic browsers ([[Wikipedia:Article size#Web browsers which have problems with long articles]]; it might be worth investigating how many users can be affected by this limit (keeping in mind that these stats are for all users, and afaict the limit is only about text areas in /edit/ mode). Overall I would lean towards removing the message completely. Most users don't care about the size of the page. Even an configurable option to enable it on a per-wiki basis seems overkill; people who really need to know a page's size can still use the {{PAGESIZE}} magic word (see [[mw:Help:Magic_words]]). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
