// sorry for cross-posting
Hello,
A lot of heated discussion occur on talk pages – thus, edit conflicts
happen on talk pages a lot. To be able to solve these more effectively, the
Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional user
interface for this situation. This interface is shown to you when you write
on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the
same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict
interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment.
If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project
page [1].
This interface is created as a result of the Technical Wishes survey [2] in
2015, in which the German Wikipedia community wished for a simpler way to
resolve edit conflicts. For regular edit conflicts on article pages, the two
column conflict user interface was created, which has been available as a
beta feature since November 2018. The plan is to make this additional
interface for talk pages available in a few months.
We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature and let us
know what you think on our central feedback page [3]! -- For the Technical
Wishes Team: Max Klemm
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_c…
[2]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_20…
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View
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Hi all.
A number of Wikipedias have either already created, or are discussing, a
more visible section on their Main Page to their local information about
COVID-19. Some have chosen to highlight a section in their existing "In The
News" equivalent or related ideas, some have chosen a sitenotice banner.
A few existing examples:
* https://da.wikipedia.org
* https://de.wikipedia.org/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/
* https://it.wikipedia.org/
* https://ko.wikipedia.org/
* https://nl.wikipedia.org/
Readers often turn to Wikipedia for neutral information in times of stress,
and I think it's great that some communities are actively assisting like
this. E.g. Enwiki is getting 900,000+ pageviews each day for their main
article this week.[1][2]
1) Question: Does your language community do something else/unique that is
worth sharing?
2) Suggestion: If not, you might like to start a discussion with your
community about adapting one of these ideas above, yourselves.
3) Reminder: Please let people know if there's anything we can do to
help, *particularly
if your community is small* and doesn't have anyone available who can
easily change things like Main Page design aspects. You can contact other
editors for help at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech, or can contact
the WMF Web team at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web.
Best wishes to you all,
--Quiddity
P.s. There are also some interesting notes being collated at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coronation
and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
[1] [This should be all one link. It's just 10 examples out of the many
related articles.]
<
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-…
|Coronavirus_disease_2019|Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2|Social_distancing|Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|COVID-19_testing|Coronavirus|2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_by_country_and_territory|Misinformation_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic|Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-…>
>
[2] See also
https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-…
for just one example article, across many languages, out of the
dozens-to-hundreds of related articles that many wikis already have.
Hello Ambassadors - This technical question may be relevant to multiple
(particularly CJK) language communities so I'm asking it here.
What is the advice for writing a Lua script that needs to look up data from
a big table (~10k rows at first deployment, potentially increasing in the
future)? Does one hard-code the data into a Lua script, or is there a
recommended data structure for storing those?
The design problem at hand is that the Cantonese Wikipedia wants to re-sort
articles by Jyutping rather than Unicode. This will probably involve
automating the generation of Jyutping phonetic guides by looking up the
Jyutping transcription of common Chinese characters using a Lua module.
Where do we store the data?
If another wiki has done similar things, we'd be interested in sharing the
infrastructure.
Deryck
On behalf of the Cantonese Wikipedia community
Hi,
There is a minor issue in the current Tech News <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/11>, because the push
notifications link is not linked (aka red link).
[image: Captura de pantalla de 2020-03-09 09-33-08.png]
Kindly,
--
Dennis Tobar Calderón
Ingeniero en Informática UTEM