Hi, On 12/09/2016 05:25 PM, Pine W wrote: > While I appreciate the attempt to be funny, I am not amused in this case. > Surprise UI changes could, for example, result in thousands of dollars' > worth of instructional videos becoming instantly out of sync with the > real-world user experience. Also, users who may have spent considerable > time perfecting their templates may be surprised to find that they need to > make changes to keep the templates in sync with other changes to the UI. > The problem isn't so much that the UI was changed, as that it was changed > without notice and consultation. This isn't funny.
Well, I was specifically responding to Strainu's comment that "No change is to small to be disliked by one or more people!" which seemed to be in jest too. But I think you're significantly over-exaggerating the costs of this UI change, and changes in general. MediaWiki's UI changes literally every day when localization messages are updated, reworded, or added. Special pages are re-organized to be made more intuitive, toolbars re-arranged, etc. If you're making instructional videos, colors *barely* changing seem like the least of your problems in terms of becoming out of date. The VisualEditor project has a script that automatically generates localized screenshots of the user interface so the user manual stays up to date, I don't know if any solution has been worked out for videos yet. -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
