Pine, please chill for once. On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:40 PM Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 seem like the least of your problems in terms of becoming out of date.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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
