Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Finally!/reply (3)

I'm a bit nervous about having this designed specifically for mobiles, especially before we find out the proportions of mobile and PC users among the patrollers.

Many of the opportunities to improve the process rely on using the screens and keyboards of PCs. If everything has to be mobile compatible then we risk losing some opportunities to really improve the process.

By all means make sure there is a mobile version, but please don't constrain the PC version to the same limitations. For example with a mobile version I would expect that rather than have a mix of patrolled unpatrolled and if we implement it other colours on the screen you would choose the colour stream and just surf through that.

Also I'm very worried that mobile editing might exacerbate the trend from improving articles to templating them, presumably it would be easier to look at an article on a mobile and choose the relevant template than it would be to actually improve the article?

I'm one of those who suspects that the rise of templating since 2007 is a cause of the decline in the community and the increase in snarkiness that has happened in the same period (though I appreciate there are some who see the two simultaneous phenomena as unrelated and coincidental). So I would be concerned about a new page patroller tool for mobiles that exacerbated the templating trend.