On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:59:53PM +0200, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) wrote:
This is for the daring, intrepid early adopters who
want to see every
single experimental feature as it rolls out. Your account will
automatically get the latest features when they come out. You can always
come back to this page to disable the ones you decide not to use, but this
will give you the most bleeding-edge experience on the site.
... consider thinking some more. Does this say about the same, and conveys
the same concept requiring less time of the user?
[checkbox] Automatically use all experimental features.
This was your suggestion on the patchset, when it first surfaced, IIRC.
But I'm not sure that the explanations are both the same - your suggestion
gives the impression that the user would have every feature enabled by
this one, which isn't the case. *Future* features will all be enabled
by default, but existing ones will stay disabled if they were before.
In any case, I feel I may not have been terribly clear - I *want* there
to be long-form descriptions of these features. People are working on
them and want to "sell" them to users, and this is their chance. We have,
comparatively to old preference fields, a much larger amount of space to
use for descriptions of features, which (I believe) is part of what the
design team intended - see this screenshot[0] of the extension's tab, for
example.
I'll get in touch with them to see if I can push back on that part of it,
but if we end up with longer descriptions, what would your suggestion be?
[0]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BetaFeatures_2013-09-04.png
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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
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