I have not always been happy in the past with the handling of deprecations, but I really appreciate on how it is done for the PHPUnit upgrade (incl. provision of compat layer and clear instructions on what to do). So here's a big thanks to legoktm and everybody involved. Stephan

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is pushing a fix to a longstanding issue regarding block notices for users on mobile devices. A year ago, if a blocked user attempted to edit a page from their mobile device, a notice popped up for just a few seconds before automatically disappearing, giving most people insufficient time to read it. Moreover, if the reason for a block contained a wikilink or a template, the notice would fail to render the link, instead displaying raw HTML. This led to botched notifications that looked as bad as this: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoblock_of_usernamekiran.png>. I’m happy to see that a fix is almost ready to be deployed which addresses many issues, including rendering links properly. :) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165535> Mz7 > On Apr 15, 2018, at 8:18 PM, Pine W &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > *Conference* > > The 2018 Wikimedia Conference > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018> starts this > week in Germany. The core conference will occur from the 20th through the > 22nd. > > > *WMF Research Showcase* > > On Wednesday, the WMF Research Showcase > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#April_2018> > will include presentations on two subjects that I think will interest a > number of Wikipedians: > > 1. "The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created Wikipedia Content to > Large-Scale Online Communities" > > 2. "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System, a Closer Look" > > > > > *Photography* > As often happens, Wikimedia Commons contributors have selected some great > pictures of the day for this month > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Potd/2018-04>. Here are a few > examples: > > 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lynx_lynx_-_05.jpg > 2. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mezquita_de_Agha_Bozorg,_Kashan,_Ir… > 3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz_TMA-13_Edit.jpg > 4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rho_Ophiucus_Widefield.jpg > 5. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indosylvirana_urbis-Kadavoor-2017-0… > 6. > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castillo_de_Zafra,_Campillo_de_Due%… > 7 > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cirrus_front_over_Austnesfjorden,_A… > 8 > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChlingsallee_Tulpenbl%C3%BCt… > > > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>