2016-12-09 10:53 GMT+02:00 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@gmail.com:
But these changes are too small to notice and even smaller to dislike.
Amir, I believe you've been a wikimedian for too long to really believe that. No change is to small to be disliked by one or more people!
It seems to me that Wikimedians should be given plenty of notice that color changes like these are proposed, and should be given ample opportunity to comment on them before they are rolled out, but this is the first that I recall hearing of these changes. I would go so far as to say that there should be an RfC before making changes like this to community wikis.
Totally agree. It's not a question of how small/large such a change is, it's a question of collaboration and mutual respect. Which was lacking, yet again :(
Some communities will miss these changes completely just because they had already overridden the old values in Common.css, most likely for historical reasons. A heads-up would have allowed them to decide on whether to go with the upstream changes or stick with the current layout.
I call again on the staff and volunteers that work on the frontend to be announce changes well ahead of time and as widely as possible.
Strainu