Hi everyone:I've recently made some changes to the <charinsert> extension. Thisensures that the extension provides a better user experiance fornon-js users, and that it works properly in certain edge cases. Italso brings the extension inline with current MW coding standards, toensure that it will continue to work well in the future.However, the downside is, it will break scripts that edit theinnerHTML of a div that contains stuff generated by <charinsert>. Someof the versions of the script that generates the drop down forMediaWiki:Edittools to select what types of special characters toinsert, do this.Anyways, I've fixed the instances I'm aware of. In case I've missedsome, If on June 1 (for non-wikipedia) or June 2 (for Wikipedia's),suddenly the insert special chars thingy on edit pages on your wikistops working, please let me (User:Bawolff) know, and I will fix it.Thanks,Bawolff ([[User:Bawolff]] / [[User:BWolff (WMF)]] )p.s. The relevant bugs are:https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T11424https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92781https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88922
Purodha Blissenbach, 21/05/2016 14:13:> On the long run, I think, these portals and their texts should> be translatable. Browser settings determining the target language.> Looking forward to have them ontranslatewiki.net !Adding English-only text to the Wikipedia portal is unacceptable. Special powers on a Wikimedia domain must not be used to contradict and impoverish the Wikimedia mission. The portal seize by a small WMF clique has shown its failure and should immediately be reversed, as the Meta-Wiki administrators have proven to be more competent.Nemo
Hey Purodha,On 21 May 2016 at 05:13, Purodha Blissenbach <purodha(a)blissenbach.org>wrote:> On the long run, I think, these portals and their texts should> be translatable. Browser settings determining the target language.> Looking forward to have them ontranslatewiki.net !>I agree that localising these strings would be helpful and in-line with ourpractices. That's definitely something that we're interested in doing, andwe're going to be doing an investigation on that soon. We're hoping it'llbe fairly straightforward to get this done... but if it's not, we may needto deprioritise the work. We'll see.Thanks!Dan-- Dan GarryLead Product Manager, DiscoveryWikimedia Foundation
Hey DJ,Thanks for the feedback! Responses in-line.On 21 May 2016 at 04:52, Derk-Jan Hartman <d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com>wrote:> I like the addition of the descriptive subtitles. But I would suggest> taking them to meta to settle on what they should be exactly, and also then> documenting them (including arguments) to make sure that they can be used> consistently throughout the projects.>I agree that some standardisation of the phrases used here would be useful.I'll pass that feedback on to Communications, who I believe handles most ofthese kinds of situations. In the mean time, I think Discovery can take aquick pass on the phrases that are being used on the portal to make them abit more consistent.> I was wondering about the colors. Have we considered the MediaWiki/OOjs UI> color theme already. In my opinion the portal feels more cologneblue than> Vector right now..>I can see what you mean. A lot of the styles of the new elements have beenmade to fit the old style of the page. I'm not a designer, so I don't knowspecifically what to recommend to the team here, but I think they can keepthis in mind for the future.Also, I do wonder a bit about the consistency of the portals and the lack> of options for reuse of these improvements by other portals, and I> personally think it would be great to start expanding parts of the> development to other portals now.> I think it would be wonderful if we could create a pipeline of reusable> elements among the portals, that allows for some consistency, but trying to> avoid blandness and uniformity. Simple things like a library of Less> variables usable by all portal pages can mean a lot for these kinds of> efforts and I'd love to see some attention devoted to that, so that other> portal pages can benefit.>As explained in T110070#1653320<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110070#1653320>, Discovery is notactively maintaining the other portals. That said, I agree that trying toget our code to a state where it's easily re-useable for other portals sothat interested people can migrate it over to the other portals would begood to do. I filed T136151 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136151> totrack that work.> For community participation, I also have some ideas:> 1: There is no README.md>Good point. I saw you filed T135902<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135902> and T135903<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135903> for this. Thanks! The licensingquestion is somewhat complicated given the history of the portals; we willneed to consult with Legal on this to make sure we get it right.> 2: Make sure that it's easy to test the master version.The great thing about github for instance is that you can do tricks like:>>https://cdn.rawgit.com/wikimedia/portals/master/prod/wikipedia.org/index.ht…> That's powerful to be able to preview straight from a git repo. If you> have links like that to the readme/meta page.>I'll pass this feedback on to the engineers working on the project.> 3: Updatehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals <>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals>>I wasn't aware of this page. I'll pass it on to Chris Koerner, Discovery'scommunity liaison, so he can look at updating it.Thanks!Dan-- Dan GarryLead Product Manager, DiscoveryWikimedia Foundation
Hello,The Discovery Team recently added descriptive text to theWikipedia.orgpage footer in order to give visitors a better idea of what the sister wikiprojects are really all about. Check it out atwww.wikipedia.org or view amobile screen capture here<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Descriptive-text_sister_projects-wikipe…>.We also wrapped up a quick, one question survey that ran for a week on theportal to determine how visitors arrive at the page. The results showedthat many of the visitors arrive by clicking on a bookmarked link or bytyping in 'wikipedia' in their browser. We had many encouraging anduplifting comments as well - see the full results here<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Portal_Survey_-_May_2016.…>.In the coming weeks and months we'll be reaching out to many of thosesurvey takers who graciously provided their name and email addresses toengage in deeper conversations on how they use the portal and Wikipedia ingeneral.As always, more detailed information is available on wiki for the WikipediaPortal <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal> and A/B testing<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia.org_Portal_A/B_testing>.On behalf of our happy littleWikipedia.org Portal team,Deb--Deb TankersleyProduct Manager, DiscoveryWikimedia Foundation
Hey everyone :)We've rolled out the first version of the ArticlePlaceholder on Esperanto,Haitian-Creole, Neapolitan and Odia Wikipedia. This worked well enough andwe got useful feedback from the first rollout. Thank you!I want to plan the second round now. We'll do that in about 3 weeks. Ifyour Wikipedia would like to have it in the next round please open a ticketon Phabricator with a link to the on-wiki discussion or let me know.There are a number of things we still want to work on in the next 3 weeks.They include:* Fixing some issues with the layout (broken identifier section when theyare too long, issues with qualifiers for images, empty reference sectionthat sometimes appears)* Making the search integration faster* Making language fallbacks work for properties* Adding a button to allow translating of the article in another languagewith the Content Translation toolCheersLydia-- Lydia Pintscher -http://about.me/lydia.pintscherProduct Manager for WikidataWikimedia Deutschland e.V.Tempelhofer Ufer 23-2410963 Berlinwww.wikimedia.deWikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unterder Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt fürKörperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
