getting a conversation count via flow's API will be much easier, but a
conversion of all talk pages to flow is still some time off, it would be
good to have a working way to do this on non-flow enabled talk pages as
well.
*Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation
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On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have a storng conviction that if a feature had been
bitrotting in alpha
for a year without anyone even remebering about it yet alone caring about
promoting it - it should be put to death. It resurfaced for me yesterday
when I discovered that it's taking about a half of page_props table on
enwiki which is an atrocitous amount of rows. I vote for promoting or
removing it, keeping it in alpha is counter-productive. Considering that we
have the Flow team to work on alk pages, I think that making this hack in
MobileFrontend makes no sense so it shoud be removed.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jared Zimmerman <jzimmerman(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
Displaying the discussion count in a design were
investigating with
winter as well.
Sent while mobile
On May 23, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Jon Robson
<jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Then people would avoid starting a talk page when
the number is 0. This
is, in my view, a bad thing.
This is a valid assumption and one we could test. A zero might even
prompt new discussions. We'll never know unless we explore it. I'm
just curious if there are any plans to test this and other similar
hypotheses.
This number would have to be generated by
MediaWiki or Flow, but surely
not by MobileFrontEnd. As I said, MobileFrontEnd is
only a skin.
Not true. MobileFrontend has a few more bits of code that make it a
little more than a skin - e.g. special pages like Special:Nearby. It
currently records this number via a hook and is agnostic to Flow and
MediaWiki (although this code could easily be added to MediaWiki core
to be standardised)
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