Displaying the discussion count in a design were investigating with winter as well.
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On May 23, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Jon Robson jrobson@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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