Hi,
On Fri, 23 May 2014, at 23:54, Jon Robson wrote:
"Unless you find a use-case which you're addressing, don't code this please." We coding this over a year ago on this basis but nothing has been done with it. My question that I am wondering if we should explore the answer to is: "Does showing the number of talk topics on an article increase engagement in discussions?" (Note evidence from many user tests that have been run in the past 2 years give me the impression that many non-editors are not aware there is a discussion side to Wikipedia)
Then people would avoid starting a talk page when the number is 0. This is, in my view, a bad thing.
"It is. There is no need to code things twice - as mobile interface is merely a skin."
I'm not sure what you mean here. The mobile team has been thinking about doing this, this doesn't mean Flow has been. I'm not sure what skins have to do with anything here. Yes Flow could easily surface such a number but the number would have to be generated and surfaced somewhere since Flow is implemented completely differently.
This number would have to be generated by MediaWiki or Flow, but surely not by MobileFrontEnd. As I said, MobileFrontEnd is only a skin.
Gryllida.