On Sep 3, 2017 13:02, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 September 2017 at 02:09, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
This is possibly the most annoying feature of the Wikimedia projects at
the moment. You access a page. Then you start reading or editing it. And then suddenly the page jumps when a fundraising banner / central notice / gadget / beta feature loads. So you have to start reading the page again, or you have to find where you were editing again, or you have to undo the change you just made since you made it in the wrong part of the page.
Or you click "edit" and it hits the banner that suddenly popped up under your click. AAAAAAAAAAAA
One possible solution would be to exempt anyone who edits an article from being shown a banner by means of a cookie with a suitable expiry. Since only a tiny fraction of visitors edit, I would expect the impact on the WMF's bottom line to be negligible.