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Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
- The Global Collaboration report for December is now available (in English).
- Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
- Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Bug fixes
- When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters. [1]
- On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names. [2]
- Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL. [3]
- Filter menu was opening upwards. [4]
- ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized. [5]
- Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [6]
Work in progress
Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance: [7]
- The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at.
- It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page.
- You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.
Content translation [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [8]
- Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made: [9]
- Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability.
- Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation.
- Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
- Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
- Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes. [10]
- The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research. [11]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. [12][13]
The documentation has been updated and needs translations updates.
- Prométhée, from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets to customise Structured discussions interface.
- The documentation is ready to be translated.
Future changes
- Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [14]
- Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [15]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Bug fixes
- User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed. [16]
- "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated. [17]
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00:56, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
- Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
- Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
- The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
- The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
- It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" Beta feature). [18][19][20][21]
Problems
- The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [22][23]
- On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed. [24]
- Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed. [25]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of
YesorNoit saysThankandCancel. It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public. [26] - A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts. [27]
Problems
- Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [28]
- Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed. [29]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message. [30]
- It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed. [31]
Problems
- On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.
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11:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.
Map improvements 2018 [More information]
- Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey. [32]
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
- Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [33]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented. [34]
- Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed. [35]
Future changes
- An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team. [36]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions. [37]
Problems
- It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [38]
Future changes
- The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [39]
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12:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Latest message for Collaboration team newsletter; Growth team's newsletter invite
Hello
Sorry to use English if that's not your favorite language.
You are receiving this message because you were reading the Collaboration team newsletter.
The Collaboration team doesn't longer exists. That team was working on building features that encourage collaboration. This is the latest message for that newsletter.
The Growth Team, formed in July 2018, supports some former Collaboration projects. The Growth Team's main objective is to ease new editors' first steps on wikis, through software changes. You can discover all objectives and missions of the Growth team on its page.
If you wish to be informed about Growth team's updates about easing new users first steps, you can subscribe to the new list to get updates. The first message from Growth –with a call for feedback on a new project– will be posted in a few days!
If you have questions or you want to share experiences made on your wiki about new users' first steps, please post them on the team talk page, in any language.
On behalf of the Growth team, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 10:29, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
The Community Wishlist Survey
Hi,
You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.
You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF) 11:25, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Cohaf Vandalisme
Halo Cohaf Vandalisme 3 Hari diblok Vandal oli dne m yuni seni -revi Cunk udi asd global :( dan im, Manda 1993 Media yjin --Atyun (talk) 06:48, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Please contact stewards using this form or by email. Do not create new accounts to evade blocks. Tropicalkitty (talk) 07:08, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Advice
I'm quite new here, so may not be that familiar with the procedures. Is it necessary to blank a spam page as you did here, Enhance The Value Of Your Home By Installing Home Lifts. I thought generally blanking is for attack pages , I.e. in enwp term a G10 page. Thanks a lot.--Cohaf (talk) 06:43, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah it’s mainly blanked on an attack page, at least at enwiki. I just have a tendency of blanking pages with advertising / promotional links that are clearly under a promotional topic. Tropicalkitty (talk) 06:51, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- Noted, thanks for explaining. I also hate spam.--Cohaf (talk) 06:57, 18 December 2018 (UTC)