Hello everyone,
The second edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter
(January 2024) is available at this link: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/20…
>.
This newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Language team. It provides
updates from October–December 2023 quarter on new feature development,
improvements in various language-related technical projects and support
efforts, details about community meetings, and contributions ideas to get
involved in projects.
To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page. If
you have any feedback or ideas for topics to feature in the newsletter,
please share them on the discussion page, accessible here: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_enginee…
>.
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the WMF Language team
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello
Starting on Monday, a change will be visible on talk pages or pages where
discussions happen: the Editing team will deploy talk page permalinks.
In short, any comment posted on a talk page will get a unique
identifier, the permalink, stored in a database. It will make it possible
to find a comment, even if it was moved elsewhere.
The main visible changes are:
- The timestamp becomes a link. You get the permalink by clicking or
taping on the timestamp attached to the comment.
- If you click on any link to a comment, and this comment was moved
elsewhere (for instance for achieving), you get a message with a link to
the comment
- When you are directed to a given comment, this cimment is highlighted,
and the URL contains the unique ID for this message.
You can learn more about how this feature works at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:DiscussionTools#Talk_pages_permalinking
.
Translations for the documentation are welcomed:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Gr…
All comments, even the older ones, will get a permalink, as far as they
have a proper signature.
This change will not be available on English Wikipedia for the moment, as
the database is not filled yet.
It is available on Desktop and Mobile view, but not on the iOS and Android
apps.
It will not affect talk pages using StructuredDiscussions/Flow and
LiquidThreads.
This change will be publicized in Tech News and on the Diff. Please share
it with your community!
All the best,
Benoît
--
Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Apologies for writing in English.
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to make reusing
references easier
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Reusing_references>. For
our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how
they are interacting with references.
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The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your
screen. More information can be found here
<https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/User-research-into-Reusing-References-Sign-u…>
:
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Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
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Compensation is available
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_Engineering/Participate_in_UX_Activitie…>
:
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Sessions will be held in January and February.
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Sign up if you are interested
<https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/User-research-into-Reusing-References-Sign-u…>
:
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Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with
everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good
balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech
experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a
fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
We’re looking forward to seeing you,
Thereza for Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes
--
Thereza Mengs
Werkstudentin Community-Kommunikation Technische Wünsche
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23–24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0https://wikimedia.de
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