On Mar 26, 2015 9:58 AM, "MZMcBride" <z(a)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