Erik Moeller schreef op 2015/03/17 om 1:39:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Kevin Wayne
Williams
<kwwilliams(a)kwwilliams.com> wrote:
There doesn't seem to be any particular user
demand to adopt Flow,
so there's no reason to believe it will gain any more traction than LQT ever did.
There was significant community interest and momentum behind LQT
including various votes to enable it [1], and there is significant
interest in Flow now [2]. The main thing that prevented LQT from wider
adoption was not lack of community interest, it was our decision to
put the project on hold due to both major architectural concerns and
resource constraints at the time. We've committed to providing an
upgrade path, and this is our follow-through to that commitment.
[snip]
As for inconsistency and fragmentation of
mediawiki.org, if anything,
the conversion of LQT pages on
mediawiki.org will create greater
consistency as we're already using Flow on Beta Features talk pages (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation is a nice
example of a feedback page with lots of continuous and substantive
comments from experienced users).
I'm not arguing that nuking LQT isn't a good idea: that most certainly
is. What I object to is this apparent intent to create two tiers of
users: one tier that knows how to use the software and another tier that
gets accustomed to a partially functional "easy" layer that provides no
experience or training in how to maintain the actual project content,
with no apparent bridge between the two. Between VE and LQT, newbies get
provided with no experience in handling the easy cases of editing until
they hit something that the simple tools can't handle, at which time
they are suddenly faced with a wall of text that they have no experience
in dissecting, parsing, and understanding and are expected to make a
change in one of the hard parts. Much better to get them gradually
accustomed to wikitext by performing small tasks than to just toss them
in the deep end after their crutches break. Yes, there are at least five
mixed metaphors in that last sentence, buy you get the drift.
KWW