2011/6/12 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > On 11 June 2011 00:27, <birgitte...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> You are third person to respond as if my email was about me personally >> looking for help editing. And the second to snip my writing out of all >> context. Steven seemed to actually get what my concern was. You can hate >> whatever you like, or dislike as the case may be. It is not going to help >> WMF reach all the people who will be using apps despite your opinion. I >> don't need any help, as I have figured out a workable solution. There are >> thousands of people, going by the ratings number, that are consuming >> Wikipedia in way that will make it very difficult to convert them editors >> and possibly even to communicate with them through banners. That is what >> concerns me. > > > +1 > > This is the actual problem. > > What would happen to a Bugzilla entry flagging systemic problems of > the sort Birgitte flags? It would get marked INVALID in short order.
I'm not talking about systemic problems. A particular bug saying "It's hard/impossible to edit Wikipedia using device X, because the Save button is too small" is perfectly valid. Even if it's a bug in the browser of that device - that's what upstream is for. I have at least one example of productive communication between MediaWiki developers and Mozilla developers [1] and i'm sure that there's more. An app may be a temporary solution when all else fails, but submitting to this ecosystem, which causes the proliferation of non-standard, over-customized and often proprietary solutions is not the way to go. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629878 -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
