One thing that would help tremendously would be encouraging template standardization on the wikis. For example, on en.wiki, we currently have 60 different quotation templates![1] And all of them have completely different inline styling (most of which don't work well on mobile). If there were only 10 quotation templates instead of 60 it would be a more manageable issue. One of these days I'll start an on-wiki RfC about this.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Quotation_templates
Ryan Kaldari
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:
On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in templates. For example: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001
When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is because of a troublesome inline style in the template and then we communicate this on the template talk page [1]
However, rarely do these get replies and rarely does anything get fixed.
Am I doing something wrong? Should I be posting these problems elsewhere? It seems like a lot of templates do not have active maintainers.
There has been an RFC [2] open for ages that when solved I hope will lead to lots of discussions between developers and template maintainers but right now it seems even without the tools we are failing.
How can we get better at making our template styles more mobile friendly?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Quotation#Padding_interferes_wit... [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templat...
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