On 07/10/14 22:02, Jon Robson 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
In a lot of cases, it's likely nobody's actively watching the page, or
necessarily has the skill to actually enact the change. Normally for
these things the best bet is to either change it yourself if you have
the rights, or put in an edit request.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_requests for the
long-winded explanation on enwp, but basically it boils down to slapping
{{request edit}} on the talkpage with an explanation. That way people
actually see the request.
-I
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