+ 10000 to what Trevor just said.
Isarra, developers make a _decision_ to forget some users exist. This is why Wikipedia doesn't support IE5. I am suggesting a decision that we forget that users of Cologne blue exist. Although it might seem harsh to the 98,541 readers but justified. It's just not getting any attention by users or developers.
Based on the numbers on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins/stats - my personal view is if a skin isn't used by more than a million people we shouldn't be supporting it on Wikimedia wikis. This would actually mean just keeping Vector and Monobook. I for one would actually give more attention to Monobook in my testing if this happened.
Can someone who is able to please run the stats for https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Turning_off_outdated_skins/stats again?
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
By making all skins extensions it would also force us to make a few new APIs which are needed to no longer have skin extensions be second-class citizens.
This should happen.
- Trevor
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/03/14 21:21, Jon Robson wrote:
If people forget they exist I would say that equates to no one cares about them and no one maintains them. If this is true, we are doing a disservice to our users by providing these skins to our users.
Developers forget some users exist. They forget use cases exist. It happens. It does not invalidate them. We should not be alienating our users, whoever they may be, for lack of consideration.
We should instead consider things first and THEN alienate them, of course.
-I
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