Global Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2016/10

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team is delighted to publish its first newsletter! Your feedback is welcome.

This quarter the team will focus on improving Special:RecentChanges and create a ReviewStream, a new feed designed to improve the edit-review process. Both are part of the new Edit Review Improvements project.

Notifications [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes

• Documentation concerning Notifications types has been updated. That page is ready for translations. [1]
• For developers, how to create a new Notification type has been updated. [2]
• Tools owners will be notified when OAuth app changes state. [3]
• When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [4]
• Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [5]
• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. Now you can get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This is an opt-in option in your preferences. [6][7]
• On Notifications, the badge is colored if you have some notifications. If you see these notifications, the badge will turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [8]

Problems

• For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. It has been fixed. [9][10]
• When a title was created with some wikitext inside of it, Notifications were not linking that title when they were mentioned. This is now fixed. [11]
• Some Notifications messages were not supporting {{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [12]

Future changes

• On Special:Notifications, pages and counts related to disabled notification types will not be shown anymore. [13]

Flow [ More information · Help pages ]

Recent changes

• Flow is available as a Beta feature on Greek Wikipedia. [14]
• A satisfaction survey was conducted concerning Flow in September 2016. Results will be published in December 2016. [15]
• Wikitext interface for Flow is now using a monospaced font. [16]
• It is now possible to moderate a Flow topic that have been resolved without re-opening it. [17]
• It is now possible to watch and unwatch topics directly from the Notification panel. [18]

Problems

• It is not possible to enable or disable Flow as a Beta feature on wikis where that option is available. This is under investigation. [19]
• Some Flow messages were not supporting {{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [20]

Future changes

• Communities that have Flow enabled manually on user talk pages will be asked to move on to a Beta feature activation to simplify the process. [21]
• Notifications related to Flow will be grouped on your Notifications preferences. It will be easier to choose which Notifications you want to have from Flow. [22]

Edit Review Improvements [ More information ]

Recent changes

• Informations about Edit Review Improvements project have been published. That page is ready for translations. [23]
• ReviewStream feed product description is available. ReviewStream is a machine-readable feed that’s designed to be used by a variety of edit-review tools.

Future changes

• Some improvements will be done to Special:RecentChanges, by adding new filters based on ORES.
  • Some tests are done with users to refine the design of those filters. You can volunteer for such tests. [24]
  • Communities that already have ORES goodfaith and damaging filters enabled will be contacted to try that change as a Beta feature. [25]

Miscellaneous

• On this newsletter, some particular items are highlighted by an icon, to ease reading. The icon highlights items that may interest volunteer translators and the icon highlights items that are relevant for readers with technical knowledge.

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