Quim Gil wrote:
Sorry, but the behavior in your reply constitutes an
anti-pattern of
collaboration in a friendly space. No bug or feature or difference of
opinions justifies it. Please, let's be friendly, or at the very least
respectful.
There's no indication that the Wikimedia Foundation mobile team is
interested in collaboration. Years of evidence suggest that the team is
only interested in shoving as many features as possible into the
MobileFrontend extension to avoid scrutiny and review. The Wikimedia
Foundation mobile team needs to re-integrate with the rest of the
Wikimedia community. The past behavior of violating core Wikimedia design
principles, such as prohibiting open editing with misleading error
messages and discouraging new article creation by unilaterally removing
red links, has been consistently unacceptable and it needs to stop.
Better than Phabricator tasks, there are Gerrit changesets waiting to be
reviewed, but there's only been obstructionism from the mobile team. It's
pretty tiring and any help you can provide in cleaning up this mess would
definitely be appreciated. As it is, I'm still hoping we can kill the
MobileFrontend extension in 2015, but it's a bit of a long shot.
I've been thinking about some mobile development principles. One easy
principle seems to be, as a general rule, that mobile features are a
strict subset of desktop site features. That is, if this mobile strapline
is so important that it must be shouted at our users, using bold font and
bright colors in a very prominent position, then there should at least be
some parity with the desktop site. And there are, of course, lessons to be
learned from the stripped down mobile interface. For example, if the
sidebar links and paragraph of disclaimer text in the footer really aren't
necessary, why include them on desktop? It's time for reconciliation here.
MZMcBride