Thread:RR3 Michael P/@comment-4522253-20170802164858

Thank you so much for attending the Mercury Town Hall! I heard you had some feedback, and I wanted to be able to respond to you.

I would like to follow up on the rowspan and colspan change to scope= “col” and scope=“row”, are there any blog posts? Or help on how to use the scope method? This code sample might help. I believe this is closer to what Siribel is looking for. The full File: syntax is not necessary for images, as how they are displayed is dependent on the PI parser (for optimal basic dimensions) and CSS.  Showcase .jpg As a note, it's actually not a great idea to have ONLY images in the data labels. The result in most cases in Mercury is a white figure on a very light grey background and no text to tell what the image represents (and as there is no fine-pointing device like a mouse, an alt-description does not help when there is no mouseover). Additionally, I don't think it would have a text label in VisualEditor to help your new editors add information to the infobox. It looks beautiful on desktop, to be sure; it's just not terribly accessible. We have gone to the extreme on the RR3 Wiki and data that has to be entered is normally done so without any parser names! Obviously, with no parser name, editors have to read the comment text. I think that's something you can definitely work on fixing if you feel inclined. The parameter names are there to help, and they would no doubt make things easier for your users. 🙂 The server reads the article page, renders the page back end, and only outputs the rendered Mercury formatted article. Does desktop (Oasis) open the article page server side, and then output the Oasis rendered page too? Yes. 👍 You basically just described how MediaWiki works and how templates enter articles. Out of interest do the comments (inside ) slow the load time? And/Or affect the output render size? Not significantly to the former. (We're talking about 0.01ms or so.) Not at all to the latter. I remember looking at a special page on rendered time for our my Wikia, over a year ago. Something like pages with highest load time. I can’t find that page now, is it still available? We disabled that Special page within the last few months. It was very useful, but not very often used / viewed and ultimately was causing some performance issues; so, ultimately we retired it. I have the daily and weekly stats, under Admin Dashboard, for views to my Wikia, is there a further breakdown for mobile view and desktop view? Not at this time, but that's a great suggestion I can pass on to the appropriate team.

Is there a way to test the load time on desktop and mobile? I know I can preview edits, but it doesn’t display any stats. The best way for you to be able to do that is using the tools in your browser, like Chrome Inspector. Ultimately, though, you shouldn't need to worry about that. If there are major issues slowing down performance on a high traffic page, we'll come to you with the issue and a way to fix it. But in terms of minor performance, fine-tuning it is our engineering responsibility. Your pit crew has got you covered!

Thanks for letting me respond to your excellent feedback. If you have any other questions, feel free to find me! 