jdlrobson

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by jdlrobson 4y ago
Hey there. As I mention in my blog post, there are still remaining issues that we are aware of and will fix. We got some consultancy on the remaining accessibility issues, and they were graded with priorities. We took care of all the ones t
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by jdlrobson 4y ago
Hey there, developer here and I can confirm that we are still actively maintaining those skins and preserving them. We have around 101 skins that work with MediaWiki and 7 skins deployed in production. You might be interested in the section
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by jdlrobson 6y ago
Using a national flag is a really bad UX pattern given the political ramifications and potentially offensive. Languages are not owned by countries. I am not aware of a multilingual site that provides over 200 languages in such a way that it
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by jdlrobson 6y ago
I have 5 items in that bar on my Samsung Galaxy and I have no space for a label. As the screenshot shows the labels are there, just not visible until a certain breakpoint I agree that the UX could be improved and there is plenty of evidenc
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by jdlrobson 6y ago
Okay but that's an issue with UX and discoverability which is very different from "language editions isn’t there at all". How would you solve this given the limited space? A label saying languages is the mosy obvious but real
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by jdlrobson 6y ago
The language button is right at the top of the page. If anything its more accessible on mobile?
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by jdlrobson 6y ago
Unfortunately certain iPhones do not have MutationObserver support. This is not the case on newer ones. There's an open bug to allow you to opt out of this however we've been a bit stretched to find the time to work on this. http
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by jdlrobson 6y ago
No. This wouldn't be technically feasible at current time even if we wanted to do that.
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by jdlrobson 7y ago
You dont need to be worried about this. Our morales and principles are not changing. I built the Wikipedia mobile site and there's a reason our hamburger menu, lazy loaded images and editor actually work without JS. We are for everyon
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by jdlrobson 8y ago
The sample size for those graphs is 1% so you need to multiple that by 100. I personally checked the access logs to check they are consistent. That was where the confusion came from!
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by jdlrobson 8y ago
:( We miss you! (context: https://ahvalnews.com/freedom-speech/wikipedia-starts-we-mis... )
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by jdlrobson 8y ago
We're quite transparent about what we release and when - spikes can be easily attributed to events on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Release_timeline if you are interested in what caused them
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by jdlrobson 8y ago
That test mode of the desktop theme is actually live but super hidden away. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hacker_News&use... I've been trying to add a preference to allow user's to opt into
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by jdlrobson 8y ago
Number was very very very wrong. Actually it's 0.5 million. I've corrected the post.
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by jdlrobson 8y ago
Hey! (author here) I sincerely regret the use of that statement "people seem to like it" in my post. I've now removed it as I worry this confuses my message so thank you for pointing it out. This really trivializes all the wo
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by jdlrobson 8y ago
<3 message received from //everyone// involved in its creation. Thanks!