I have a storng conviction that if a feature had been bitrotting in alpha for a year without anyone even remebering about it yet alone caring about promoting it - it should be put to death. It resurfaced for me yesterday when I discovered that it's taking about a half of page_props table on enwiki which is an atrocitous amount of rows. I vote for promoting or removing it, keeping it in alpha is counter-productive. Considering that we have the Flow team to work on alk pages, I think that making this hack in MobileFrontend makes no sense so it shoud be removed.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jared Zimmerman <jzimmer...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > Displaying the discussion count in a design were investigating with winter > as well. > > Sent while mobile > > > On May 23, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > > Then people would avoid starting a talk page when the number is 0. This > is, in my view, a bad thing. > This is a valid assumption and one we could test. A zero might even > prompt new discussions. We'll never know unless we explore it. I'm > just curious if there are any plans to test this and other similar > hypotheses. > > > This number would have to be generated by MediaWiki or Flow, but surely > not by MobileFrontEnd. As I said, MobileFrontEnd is only a skin. > > Not true. MobileFrontend has a few more bits of code that make it a > little more than a skin - e.g. special pages like Special:Nearby. It > currently records this number via a hook and is agnostic to Flow and > MediaWiki (although this code could easily be added to MediaWiki core > to be standardised) > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > des...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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