Keep in mind also that power users like you have access to power tools: preferences, user scripts, gadgets, and API client applications exist EXACTLY so that you guys can completely customize the entire user experience for your specialized workflows.
-- brion On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Pierre-Selim <[email protected]> wrote: > Well thank you Brion, at least that may explains why things are imposed to > the editors community and that also explains the high rejection rate from > the editors community of the new big features such as VE. For once take > time, think about editors workflow. > > For exemple on french wikipedia we used to have a direct link to Wikimedia > Commons (we technically removed the description page proxy), now we have > totally lost this feature. So yes you may think it's not important, but as > an administrator on Wikimedia Commons it screws my workflow when I see an > obvious copyvio on the French Wikipedia. > > So yes you make software for your users, but I think you're underestimating > part of your users that you should not. > > > 2014-07-10 18:36 GMT+02:00 Isarra Yos <[email protected]>: > > > On 10/07/14 15:53, Brion Vibber wrote: > > > >> Perhaps it's time to stop calling self-selected surveys of a tiny subset > >> of > >> our user base "community consensus". > >> > >> The vast majority of our user base never logs in, never edits, and never > >> even hears about these RfC pages. Those are the people we're making an > >> encyclopedia for. > >> > >> -- brion > >> > > > > And those who do log in, edit, and comment on RfCs generally do so with > > the understanding, on some level, that everything they do, that the > entire > > encyclopedia, is for the readers, because without an audience there would > > be nothing. They know their audience, they interact directly with this > > audience on the talkpages and in email, and indeed they often use the > site > > exactly as this audience would, simply taking things a step further to > edit > > as well. > > > > So when they speak for the users who never log in, never edit, and never > > comment, do not discount them. No more than you discount yourself when > you > > try to speak for the users who never log in, never edit, and never > comment. > > > > -I > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > Pierre-Selim > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
