- my apologies for cross posting -
Hey all,
today the TwoColConflict extension (= Two Column Edit Conflict View) [1]
got deployed as a beta feature to all wikis.
The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict
resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the
conflicting changes to make it easier to copy and paste pieces of the text
and resolve the conflict. [2] [3] The feature aims to fulfill a request
for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the German-speaking
community's Technical Wishlist. Therefore, the focus of the feature lays on
providing a more user-friendly interface and does not aim to improve the
current diff engine. The concept & implementation of the feature was widely
discussed with many different users onwiki and in real life and got
developed over the past months. [3]
The beta feature has already been available on deWP, meta, heWP, arWP for
more than 2 months and on fiWP for a few weeks.
As much as we don't want anyone to run into an edit conflict, we'd love to
receive feedback on the new interface in case you have one! The feature can
be activated in the beta feature section, and the feedback link provided
there will bring you to: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki
/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View.
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback so far and helped us to further
improve the feature!
Birgit (for WMDE's Technical Wishes team)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TwoColConflict (extension
manual for developers)
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View
(Multilingual help page & central feedback page for all users)
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts
(English-speaking project page with documentation of research, prototype
testing and feedback loops)
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes (Technical Wishes
project page)
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Cross-posting.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:00 PM
Subject: CREDIT videos from April and May 2017 posted
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all - in case you missed them, the demos from CREDIT last month and
today are up.
April 2017
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase/2017-04-05
Neslihan Turan, Wiki_Radio (for Android)
Jan Drewniak, Wiktionary definition widget for search results
May 2017
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase/2017-05-03
Željko Filipin, Selenium tests in Node.js
Enjoy!
-Adam
Crossposting!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lani Goto <lgoto(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:19 AM
Subject: CREDIT showcase, Wednesday, 3-May-2017
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi!
I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week,
Wednesday, 3-May-2017 at 1800 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to see
your demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished production
material, or even just a telling of something you've been studying
recently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordings
of previous events, please visit the following page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
And if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase,
here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks!
*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech
projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
Infrastructure and Technology teams. *
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on May 3rd at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. *
*There’s more info on MediaWiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and
ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom
#wikimedia-office (web-based access here
<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links to
video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.*
*Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
working across the open source tech community: language detection,
numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
things.*
*If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see
you at CREDIT.*
*YOURNAME*
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Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
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Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin