Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

> > It seems only fair that people actually try the feature before ripping it > to shreds. Right? In principle, no. People should rip things to shred early and often. After extension is done is the worst time to fix errors in the requirements phase. (Although if you mean this particular case, wher

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

Thanks for the link Jon. It seems only fair that people actually try the feature before ripping it to shreds. Right? We've had extensions to create alternative content curation features in the past, such as books, and this is hardly the first time an experimental feature was launched on mobile fir

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

I should add you can opt into mobile beta using this link: http://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:MobileOptions The design still has kinks and the extension still needs work before. Releasing to mobile beta will get us an audience to identify those issues and fix them. I'd be keen to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

A few notes: * lists are public in the first version but there is APIs to make them private. Public lists is something that will have moderation problems and interesting to explore. * the feature is _launching_ on mobile. It's built to work on desktop and with a tiny bit of work I can turn it on as

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

On 26 mrt. 2015, at 15:19, Brian Wolff wrote: > > Actually after reading the extension page, I'm a little confused. If the > goal is to create private personal lists why are the lists public? I can > understand the use case for private lists (watchlist). I understand the use > case for public lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: > I do agree that its odd that this isnt developed in core for all users. The > faq entry is unconvincing. > +1. Last I had heard the extension was just a UI prototype. Now it's suddenly being deployed to production. The current claim is that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

On Mar 26, 2015 11:04 AM, "Brian Wolff" wrote: > > > On Mar 26, 2015 9:58 AM, "MZMcBride" wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > Moushira Elamrawy wrote: > > >The Extension will keep the name Gather and internally the team was more > > >inclined to name the feature "Stacks". However, a survey study has been

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

On Mar 26, 2015 9:58 AM, "MZMcBride" wrote: > > Hi. > > Moushira Elamrawy wrote: > >The Extension will keep the name Gather and internally the team was more > >inclined to name the feature "Stacks". However, a survey study has been > >carried out by the design research team and Collections, as a n

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

Hi. Moushira Elamrawy wrote: >The Extension will keep the name Gather and internally the team was more >inclined to name the feature "Stacks". However, a survey study has been >carried out by the design research team and Collections, as a name for a >feature, scored far better than the other sugge

[Wikitech-l] Extension:Gather launching on beta for English WP mobile users.

Greetings, This is probably my first time to post on wikitech-l. I am Moushira, a new community liaison for mobile projects, I would like to share an update for a new feature that is ready for deployment. This January, Jon Katz announced a new feature in development