On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Purodha Blissenbach purodha@blissenbach.org wrote:
On 25.09.2015 23:34, Johan Jönsson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) nwilson@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 25.09.2015 21:59, Purodha Blissenbach wrote:
Hi,
There will be a new beta feature that ...
under the heading 'Changes this week' is a contradiction. Either it is there since this week, or it will be there in the future but not this week.
Hi, I wrote the "new beta feature" line with the future tense, to match the recurring "The new version of MediaWiki will be on [...]" item above. This seemed logical to me, because when the message is delivered on Monday the feature will not yet be available, but will become available during the week (Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday) as the deployments roll out to each group of wikis. I think that is the intended use of that section, but possibly I've misunderstood? Hmmm, I've now looked through the last few issues, and I see a slight mix of present and future tense in the "Changes this week" section (e.g #34 says "You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category"), but mostly present tense. I agree this is worth clarifying/standardizing in future issues. HTH, Quiddity
I've previously mainly been using "now" but changed everything under "changes this week" to the future tense because there has been some confusion: when it's delivered on the Monday, editors have gone looking for a certain feature or change they have been promised in the present tense, only to find it hasn't been deployed yet and won't be until e.g. Thursday.
Strangely enough, I had always silently understood "this week" as the week of my translation, neither the deployment of the newsletter nor the deployment the features. So, yes, it should be future tense on Mondays - although - if people go to try it after reading, they may find features are not yet deployed, get frustrated and hateful :-) So why not have "Changes gone life last week" or so, giving people experienes of success, since we can be sure that tings work at once for them?
(Sorry for the late reply, was travelling over the weekend.)
That's mainly what "recent changes" is meant to cover. The benefit of calling it "recent changes", I think, is that it's mainly things from the week before the newsletter is distributed, but if we add something that's a little bit older, we don't need another section. You think another solution would be better?
//Johan Jönsson --