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[Oliver Keyes]

" in an attempt to impose purely aesthetic choices on the
broader community."
Impose? You know it can be turned off, right?

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Brandon Harris <bharris at wikimedia.org>wrote:

>
>
> On 8/2/2010 6:12 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> > A lot of the complaints I heard regarding the Vector rollout were based
> in
> > the fact that the Wikimedia Usability team has subverted and bastardized
> the
> > term "usability" in an attempt to impose purely aesthetic choices on the
> > broader community.
>
>        This reads to me like you're trying to start a fight with the
> Usability
> team, and I don't rightly cotton to that idea.  The team is comprised of
> many people, all with different opinions to be sure - but they are all
> *dedicated to the mission.*
>
>        So you should assume good faith, even if you disagree.
>
>
> > And in some cases, the Vector skin has demonstrably made
> > the site less usable for "long-term Wikimedia contributors."
>
>        I haven't seen any studies or data that supports this claim but I'd
> be
> very interested in seeing this demonstrated.
>
>        It is possible for long-term or power-users of Wikimedia software to
> change the skin they use if they find serious fault with Vector.
>
>
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