On 13 March 2015 at 01:07, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
tl;dr: We'll be stripping all content contained
inside brackets from the
first sentence of articles in the Wikipedia app.
Having enjoyed meeting and breaking bread with members of the mobile
team at Wikimania last year, I'm saddened to once again be taking
issue with yet another of your plans.
You will recall my concern at the removal and continued absence of the
map-based "nearby" feature.
The problems I highlighted with your cropping of header images are unresolved.
I recently highlighted accessibility problems created by the new
feature for posting images of text:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/share-a-fact-with-friends-on-android-…
And now this; others have already explained the problems inherent in
it. I'll add the use case of works with parenthetical titles, such as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amerykah_Part_One_(4th_World_War)
In each case, it seems that an announcement is made: "we are going to
do this". Lila has recently written (I paraphrase) of the need to
bring the WMF's actions, regarding technical changes, and the wishes
of the community closer together.
I'd like to see that evidenced in changes to the way modifications to
the mobile app (and mobile website) are proposed, considered and
implemented.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk