Hello Johanna,
Nice to know, that's a great addition indeed.
I think it would improve future promotion of the tool to not stigmatize
the level of trustworthiness depending on type of publication.
What about a wording like "you can have a quick glance at the visiting
card of the reference (type of publication, author, date…), and decide
in a flash if it would be preferable to dig immediately its
trustworthiness more in depth"?
It seems to me that it would carry the same essential message, while
keeping the responsibility of judging trustworthiness on end users,
whatever their criteria might be.
(I let only the ambassadors ml in reply, as it's more a communication
feedback, feel free to forward also to wikitech if you think it would be
nonetheless appropriate)
Cheers
Le 03/03/2021 à 10:43, Johanna Strodt a écrit :
// apologies for cross-posting
Hello!
A new type of preview will soon be part of the MediaWiki software:
Reference Previews.[1] This feature shows you a reference in a small
pop-up when you hover over the reference number in square brackets.
This way, you can look up a reference without jumping down to the
bottom of the page.
What’s more is that Reference Previews can offer a quicker way to
evaluate the trustworthiness of the cited source by displaying the
reference type (book, web, news, journal, note) in the pop-up’s
header. Thus, they can help increase trust in the article itself.
These types can be applied by using citation templates, or by manually
entering a class into the ref tag.
Reference Previews will be combined with Page Previews[2], a feature
showing previews for linked articles. Both perform essentially the
same function: previewing content before deciding to dig deeper, and
easily providing more information while reading. Because of their
similarities in design and behavior, both Page Previews and Reference
Previews will be controlled by a single user setting. This means, all
users who currently have Page Previews activated, will also get
Reference Previews. Also, all readers, anonymous contributors and new
users will see Reference Previews per default if they haven’t disabled
Page Previews.
On several wikis, the Navigation-Popups gadget and the Reference
Tooltips gadget already offer previews for references. If you want to
use them instead, you can: If you have one of these gadgets enabled,
you’ll see them instead of Reference Previews. Although these gadgets
exist, this feature was built into a MediaWiki extension in order to
make it available for allWikipedias, just as Page Previews is.
The original request for this came from the Technical Wishes survey on
German Wikipedia in 2017, where it was the number 1 wish. The
Technical Wishes team from Wikimedia Germany has been working on it in
cooperation with the WMF’s Reading Web team. Reference Previews have
been a beta feature for several months on all Wikipedias and some
other wikis, with more than 830,000 beta testers. During the beta
phase, lots of feedback was collected, and several changes were made
as a result.[3] Now, we plan to deploy it to a first group of wikis as
a default feature on March 17. We’re still looking for wikis who want
to have the default feature early, so if you’re interested, please let
us know! [4] [5]
More information about this feature, including frequently asked
questions, can be found on its project page on Meta. [1] A big thanks
to everyone who contributed to this development, by voting, testing,
giving feedback or else. Comments and questions are welcome on this
talk page. [4]
Best,
Johanna
[1] Reference Previews:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>
[2] Page Previews:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews>
[3] Changes during the beta phase:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Bet…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Beta_phase>
[4] talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews>
[5] Phab:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206>
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