One thing that would help tremendously would be encouraging template standardization on the wikis. For example, on en.wiki, we currently have 60 different quotation templates![1] And all of them have completely different inline styling (most of which don't work well on mobile). If there were only 10 quotation templates instead of 60 it would be a more manageable issue. One of these days I'll start an on-wiki RfC about this.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Quotation_templates Ryan Kaldari On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in > templates. For example: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001 > > When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is > because of a troublesome inline style in the template and then we > communicate this on the template talk page [1] > > However, rarely do these get replies and rarely does anything get fixed. > > Am I doing something wrong? Should I be posting these problems > elsewhere? It seems like a lot of templates do not have active > maintainers. > > There has been an RFC [2] open for ages that when solved I hope will > lead to lots of discussions between developers and template > maintainers but right now it seems even without the tools we are > failing. > > How can we get better at making our template styles more mobile friendly? > > [1] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Quotation#Padding_interferes_with_mobile_skin > [2] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templates > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
