https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57939
--- Comment #4 from Caitlin Cogdill <[email protected]> --- Hi Ori — thanks for bringing this up. For the time being, I believe the GeoIP is in the best interest of the shop and potentially international customers. We are working out ways to make international shipping more affordable and reliable, but until we do so, we think it's best to keep the shop's scope relatively limited. This is related to other bugs I've looked into recently such as bug #37797. If we are going to be exposing the shop on a global level, we'll want to be able to support multiple languages, currencies, *and* have a shipping option that is sustainable. Our goal is to perfect the shop in English, then expand our reach. We are looking into global shipping as the first step in this process, but the earliest we will move on this will be mid-2014. I'm sorry I can't give much more detail at the moment, but please feel free to ask questions if there is anything I can clarify. (In reply to comment #0) > Visual elements that appear out-of-sequence prolong the interval of time that > users perceive as latency. It's also very distracting to have things blink in > and out of existence when you've already started reading the article. > > Let's add the shop link via PHP, instead. This could be done by removing the > JavaScript module and replacing it with the following hook handler: > > $wgHooks['SkinBuildSidebar'][] = function ( $skin, &$sidebar ) { > global $wgWikimediaShopLinkTarget, $wgWikimediaShopEnableLink; > > if ( !$wgWikimediaShopEnableLink ) { > return; > } > > $sidebar['navigation'][] = array( > 'text' => $skin->msg( 'wikimediashoplink-linktext' ), > 'href' => $wgWikimediaShopLinkTarget, > 'title' => $skin->msg( 'wikimediashoplink-link-tooltip' ), > 'id' => 'n-shoplink', > ); > }; > > > The only thing missing from this implementation is the use of GeoIP > information > to control the display of the link, but using GeoIP on every page load is > problematic for a host of reasons anyway. In my opinion, we could live > without > it; it doesn't seem like the end of the world if the shop says "Sorry! the > Wikimedia Shop is not available in your country", and tracking such visits > might help us identify countries to which service could be profitable > expanded. -- 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
