As someone who likes LQT (autosigning and visible threading are excellent features) and wishes Flow was basically "that, but better", I personally would hope Flow would attempt to incorporate as many advantages of LQT and provide a way to convert LQT threads to Flow format as smoothly as possible if Flow is to be a true successor to LQT.
Personally, I'm not as crazy about VisualEditor (I find the classic WikiEditor more comfortable for some reason), but I too see its appeal. > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 20:48:03 +0100 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it? > > On 6 June 2014 20:12, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:27 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> YMMV. Wikipedia is pretty much enculturated, but RationalWiki gets > >> n00bs *all the time* who object to something on a page. You know what > >> the most frequent reply involves? "Please learn to sign your > >> comments." > > > If auto signatures are the best thing LQT/Flow brings, I have a bad feeling > > about it. > > > That would be a distortion of my point :-) I have mostly found LQT > annoying as a user, but I can see the attraction of a discussion where > the threading is clearly visible, and I'm presuming extensive user > testing will be done - typical mind fallacy is a serious hazard, and > not one Wikimedia can afford.[1] This is why software changes on WMF > wikis are ultimately up to WMF, not the wiki communities. > > (Of course, debacles like the introduction of VE show why caution is > still sensible. And I say that as a huge fan and advocate of VE.) > > > - d. > > > [1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Typical_mind_fallacy What works for > you or me cannot be presumed to work for the world. Geeks are > regularly *shocked* at what ordinary people make of things. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
