[Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/6/12 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> On 11 June 2011 00:27,  <Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> You are third person to respond as if my email was about me personally looking for help editing. And the second to snip my writing out of all context.  Steven seemed to actually get what my concern was.  You can hate whatever you like, or dislike as the case may be.  It is not going to help WMF reach all the people who will be using apps despite your opinion.  I don't need any help, as I have figured out a workable solution. There are thousands of people, going by the ratings number, that are consuming Wikipedia in way that will make it very difficult to convert them editors and possibly even to communicate with them through banners. That is what concerns me.
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> +1
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> This is the actual problem.
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> What would happen to a Bugzilla entry flagging systemic problems of
> the sort Birgitte flags? It would get marked INVALID in short order.

I'm not talking about systemic problems. A particular bug saying "It's
hard/impossible to edit Wikipedia using device X, because the Save
button is too small" is perfectly valid. Even if it's a bug in the
browser of that device - that's what upstream is for. I have at least
one example of productive communication between MediaWiki developers
and Mozilla developers [1] and i'm sure that there's more.

An app may be a temporary solution when all else fails, but submitting
to this ecosystem, which causes the proliferation of non-standard,
over-customized and often proprietary solutions is not the way to go.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629878

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