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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…

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 de…

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…

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 t…

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 …

The language button is right at the top of the page. If anything its more accessible on mobile?

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…

No. This wouldn't be technically feasible at current time even if we wanted to do that.

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 a…

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 fro…

:( We miss you! (context: https://ahvalnews.com/freedom-speech/wikipedia-starts-we-mis... )

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 interes…

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 …

Number was very very very wrong. Actually it's 0.5 million. I've corrected the post.

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 pointi…

<3 message received from //everyone// involved in its creation. Thanks!