https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67526

Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> ---
I don't know, Violation of expectations established by the desktop interface
seems pretty objective to me (The extent expectations are violated is
subjective, but there is a subjective aspect to how serious a bug is for all
bugs). In a more formal form, Scott's complaint is

Underlying assumption:
*The purpose of a mobile site is to allow users used to the desktop site to be
able to use the Wikipedia they know and love from a mobile device.
*Ensuring consistency and meeting common user expectations is a key part of
good usability

Expected behaviour:
*Design/UI paradigms are consistent between the mobile site and the desktop
site. Otherwise a user used to the desktop site will have trouble with the
mobile site. 

Actual behaviour:
*The watchlist UI in the mobile site default opens to an alphabetical list of
articles [In MF's defense, I believe which one it opens to first is
remembered]. This is a bookmarked-article-for-later-viewing paradigm. The
watchlist in the desktop site gives a list of articles recently changed. The
use case here is articles-I-care-about-deep-in-my-heart that I want to know
when somebody changes. These two usecases mismatch, so its confusing to the
user who expects the underlying purposes of various features to stay the same
between desktop and mobile.
*Arguably one use case is more suited to an editor, the other to a reader. How
serious this mismatch of expectations is, in light of the other option being
available after a click, is probably open to debate.

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