Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-03-12/Technology report


 * Readers of the "Technology report", I'm pleased to announce a trial of a voting mechanism, with the result of one week's vote relayed via a pretty doughnut diagram in the next. So for next week, the question is:
 * What do you think of the proposed new default diff colour scheme?
 * And you can vote on that with two clicks here (no personally identifiable information required, just a vote :) ) Thanks! - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 16:03, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I really like the new color scheme - makes it much easier to see. MathewTownsend (talk) 16:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Heh, you'll need to vote there to make sure your vote counts though! - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 16:34, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I did vote. But I wanted to tell you how much better the new color scheme is. I'm wondering if I'm unusual or do others feel the same. I haven't read reactions anywhere. MathewTownsend (talk) 16:43, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Fascinating, as always. I appreciate your ability to write clearly about this technical stuff. MathewTownsend (talk) 20:08, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
 * :) - Jarry1250 [Deliberation needed] 16:03, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * "Departure from GoDaddy": kudos to WMF for walking the walk after talking the talk; to be imitated by other like-minded individuals and organisations. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:19, 16 March 2012 (UTC)


 * The switch seems a waste of money that could go to improving the wiki. And I don't want to hear "oh, we'll actually save money", if it was not worth swiching before Jimbo's SOPA lockout, it isn't worth doing now.  Doing business on the basis of politics is always a bad idea.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:46, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * agree with this. Politics is a pretty shaky basis for business decision making. Only good for making a point. MathewTownsend (talk) 13:53, 19 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I changed the link to the release notes to http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_19_0beta1/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES-1.19?view=markup as the previous link was linking to 1.9 instead of 1.19. But this new link is for the beta, right now, there isn't a 1.19 tag available so I don't know if there's a better link available than this one, which will be outdated in some times. Symac (talk) 17:19, 19 March 2012 (UTC)