Hi all,
Today E3 pushed the following two changes of note:
1. With help from Reedy and others, Extension:ClickTracking, the legacy data collection tool now replaced by EventLogging, is officially deprecated and is no longer present on Wikimedia sites. 2. We added a filter to GettingStarted, so that we're not serving biographies of living people to new editors. This was a community request from back in February, and a wise one. There are plenty of interesting pages that need simple clean up which aren't such sensitive biographies, so it was an easy choice to add this check.
On 04/11/2013 03:09 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
- We added a filter to GettingStarted, so that we're not serving biographies of living people to new editors. This was a community request from back in February, and a wise one.
Is this filtering hardcoded or is there any way to configure it e.g. via a Special: wiki page?
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is this filtering hardcoded or is there any way to configure it e.g. via a Special: wiki page?
It's not configurable on-wiki (yet). Obviously not every Wikipedia or every wiki will find a category-based task lists feasible or useful, and certainly not with these exact categories. But the purpose of the extension is still, at this point, to help us learn which kind of tasks to deliver to first time Wikipedia editors in English, and how to do so effectively. Until we get that right, we aren't going to invest a huge amount in making a fully configurable version that would be used for permanent deployment elsewhere.
On 04/11/2013 03:24 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org mailto:qgil@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Is this filtering hardcoded or is there any way to configure it e.g. via a Special: wiki page?It's not configurable on-wiki (yet). Obviously not every Wikipedia or every wiki will find a category-based task lists feasible or useful, and certainly not with these exact categories. But the purpose of the extension is still, at this point, to help us learn which kind of tasks to deliver to first time Wikipedia editors in English, and how to do so effectively. Until we get that right, we aren't going to invest a huge amount in making a fully configurable version that would be used for permanent deployment elsewhere.
Ok, makes sense and good to know. Thank you!
Good point that such configuration will be needed if/when this extension is ready for other Wikimedia projects. Most of the potential cases for a 3rd party MediaWiki will be probably covered with that diversity of needs.
On 04/11/2013 06:30 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
It's not configurable on-wiki (yet). Obviously not every Wikipedia or every wiki will find a category-based task lists feasible or useful, and certainly not with these exact categories. But the purpose of the extension is still, at this point, to help us learn which kind of tasks to deliver to first time Wikipedia editors in English, and how to do so effectively. Until we get that right, we aren't going to invest a huge amount in making a fully configurable version that would be used for permanent deployment elsewhere.
Ok, makes sense and good to know. Thank you!
Good point that such configuration will be needed if/when this extension is ready for other Wikimedia projects. Most of the potential cases for a 3rd party MediaWiki will be probably covered with that diversity of needs.
It is already configurable (both the list of excluded categories, and the tasks shown to new users), but through PHP variables, There are some aspects that may require some more consideration (e.g. the integrated guided tours). But with some work at an appropriate time, we could look at deploying it to other projects.
The configuration is not on-wiki, though.
Matt Flaschen