On Mar 26, 2015 9:58 AM, "MZMcBride" z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Moushira Elamrawy wrote:
The Extension will keep the name Gather and internally the team was more inclined to name the feature "Stacks". However, a survey study has been carried out by the design research team and Collections, as a name for a feature, scored far better than the other suggested alternatives. Full survey information and results are documented here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension%CB%90Gather/renaming_survey.
Right... in the January 2015 thread you linked, it was quickly pointed out that Extension:Collection already exists. The mobile team, in typical form, decided to ignore any previous work and instead make its own project. At least we were able to shout loudly enough to stop this functionality from being part of the MobileFrontend extension.
Hey, count your blessings its not called "collections" with just an s at the end to distinguish it...
This is a new experiment in content curation, which hopefully helps with learning new users behavior on mobile web. We are looking forward to learning awesome lessons from this beta launch.
As was also previously pointed out, we've had curation support for a long time in the form of categories (another feature that could have been improved rather than making a new extension). Or making a list of pages using wikilinks. Or tagging pages with templates, which auto-generates an index. Perhaps you can explain why this new feature is limited to mobile?
I dont know if this criticism is fair. Many users have been asking for multiple watchlist type functionality for years despite the option of creating a subpage or category and throwing special:recentchangeslinked. Categories dont really have per user namespace, and i think its important to have interfaces that encourage users to do this sort of thing rather then making them figure out that they are physically able to and allowed to.
I do agree that its odd that this isnt developed in core for all users. The faq entry is unconvincing.
--bawolff