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 <pierre-selim(a)huard.info>
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 <zhorishna(a)gmail.com>om>:
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
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