Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's pretty clear that the objectives of this project are not successfully >> met at this point, and in fact have caused major problems on non-Latin >> script WMF sites, and significant but less critical problems on Latin >> script sites. Several factors for this have been identified in the thread - >> including limited attention to the effects on non-Latin script projects, >> the insertion of philosophical principles (FOSS) without a clear >> understanding of the effects this would have on the outcome, and the >> unwillingness to step back when a major change results in loss of >> functionality.
> [citation needed] > Loss of functionality? The functionality we're talking about here is > reading of Wikimedia content. It's the most core, most basic functionality > we have. In the case of VisualEditor, which picks up read-mode typography > styles, it's also editing. > Did reading suddenly become seriously impaired? No. If these things had > happened, you'd see a hell of a lot more outcry than what we've seen now. > If millions of readers and tens of thousands of editors were functionally > unable to read our content easily and smoothly, you would hear a lot more > complaints. If you didn't hear complaints, you'd probably still see a swift > drop in pageviews.[1] > [...] > 1. Our realtime pageviews data is lacking, but HTTP requests and edit rates > for top wikis via gdash.wikimedia.org don't seem to show unusual drops. Am > I wrong? > [...] What other free encyclopaedia would you expect readers and editors to turn to? Tim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
