On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Help me out here. Why does anyone care that the article was last edited 13 days ago by Omeganian? And even if they do, why is that the very first thing that someone sees?
This is rather off-topic, but to answer the question it was part of a series of design experiments on mobile called Humanizing Wikipedia. The idea was to make the presence of editors and editing more prominent to see if this encourage more readers to try editing. It's largely a moot issue as the UI element is in the process of being moved back to the bottom of the article (as it has been already in the beta mode on MediaWiki 1.25wmf17). Anyway, I don't want to derail the discussion. Just wanted to try to answer your question.
Kaldari