Denny VrandečićReading the Artemis II article on Wikipedia, I noticed the Wikipedia BabyGlobe spinning in space on the side.
Wonderful!
Amir E. Aharoni@vrandecic Horrible, actually. This animation is completely unrelated to the content of the article, it's awfully distracting (at least to my ADHD brain), and it's very hard to disable. If you think that the "Birthday mode (Baby Globe) settings" label makes it easy to disable, you're wrong—lots of people, including some experienced Wikipedians, don't think so.
@aharoni I love it, and I think it's super cute. But I'm a sucker for cute things like that.
And, as you say, there's a way to switch it off.
@vrandecic The question is not whether it's cute or not. The problem is that it's animated and distracting, and even though there is a way to switch it off, it's more difficult than you think.
I'm all for having more animations in Wikipedia, but they need to be actually relevant to the article, and those, too, should be easy to stop.
Pax Ahimsa GethenFWIW I just figured out that, in Firefox, I can right-click on the animated globe to get a menu that allows me to pause the animation.
@funcrunch @vrandecic Case in point! There is a way to do it more cleanly, but evidently, it was hard for you to find, and IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT.
To be fair, I hadn't tried this before today as I didn't see the globe on most of the pages I visited. If I saw it often I would have probably turned it off completely.
@funcrunch @vrandecic It's an "Easter egg", so it appears on a limited number of pages. I first saw it on [[Mixtape]], where it was shown listening to music, and it's kind of appropriate, but the fact that it's animated makes my ADHD brain explode.
Totally with you on animations being irritating. I have Sensory Processing Disorder, and if I can't easily scroll past or disable an animation I've sometimes taken to going into Firefox's Web Developer Tools to temporarily delete the annoying content from the web page.