[WikiEN-l] Expanded Use of Article Feedback Tool

[geni]

On 9 May 2011 08:19, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2011 04:38, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Given that it is still broken in the classic skin how about no.
>
>
> I suspect that the remaining users of the classic skin do not
> constitute an obvious and overwhelming veto.
>
> I also suspect that anyone that interested in the classic skin is
> going to have to submit patches themselves.

I'm sure somewhere in their $20.4 million budget the WMF can afford an
off switch. I'm an editor. I do not need articles served with what is
from my POV a pointless ratings box. If I'm rating an article I'm
using the tried and tested {{NPOV}},{{Wikify}}
and{{ThisArticleHasWorseFactCheckingThanTheRelatedCrackedArticle}}
(Jasper Maskelyne).

That it keeps the classic skin usable should be viewed as a bonus. And
it is a bonus since having editors on a range of skins means that
certain CSS and social engineering attacks don't work as well they
otherwise might. It also mildly increases the chance of wikipedians
using mediawiki markup code in ways that isn't utterly skin dependent
(although strangely we still get a fair number of consecutive links
which works in classic which underlines links but doesn't work so well
in vector which doesn't).


-- 
geni