Pine, please chill for once. On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:40 PM Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On 12/09/2016 05:25 PM, Pine W wrote:
While I appreciate the attempt to be funny, I am not amused in this case. Surprise UI changes could, for example, result in thousands of dollars' worth of instructional videos becoming instantly out of sync with the real-world user experience. Also, users who may have spent considerable time perfecting their templates may be surprised to find that they need
to
make changes to keep the templates in sync with other changes to the UI. The problem isn't so much that the UI was changed, as that it was changed without notice and consultation. This isn't funny.
Well, I was specifically responding to Strainu's comment that "No change is to small to be disliked by one or more people!" which seemed to be in jest too.
But I think you're significantly over-exaggerating the costs of this UI change, and changes in general. MediaWiki's UI changes literally every day when localization messages are updated, reworded, or added. Special pages are re-organized to be made more intuitive, toolbars re-arranged, etc. If you're making instructional videos, colors *barely* changing seem like the least of your problems in terms of becoming out of date. The VisualEditor project has a script that automatically generates localized screenshots of the user interface so the user manual stays up to date, I don't know if any solution has been worked out for videos yet.
-- Legoktm
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