Here are the latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration>, about *Notifications
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications>*, *Structured discussions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_discussions>*, *Edit Review
Improvements
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements> *
and *Content translation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation>*.
Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect
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*What's new?*
- The last Global collaboration details report is now available
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Reports/2017-November>
(in
English).
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*Edit Review Improvements [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements>
• Help
pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_Review_Improvements>]*
- [image: Octicons-star.svg] The filters are now deployed as a default
feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
- The filters are still available as a Beta feature on all wikis on
Watchlists. Please try them!
- LiveUpdates
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Live_updates>
have
been deployed as a default feature for all wikis.
- On wikis using Extension:Translate
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/extension:translate>,
translated messages can now be filtered. System messages can be filtered as
well, on all wikis. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159795>
- "View newest changes" link is now more prominent, to invite users to
use that native feature to update the list of results. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177926>
- Pagination and time period selectors are now combined and located on
the right on left-to-right wikis. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177926>
- When a user wanted to click outside of the filter menu to close it, it
was possible to click on "revert" link by accident. It is not possible
anymore. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177626>
- It is now possible to filter the following events using the Tags menu:
Making a page a redirect, Changing redirect target, Changing an existing
redirect into a non-redirect, Blanking of the page, Removing more than 90%
of a page content, Rolling back an edit. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73236>
- Some design improvements have been done to Related Changes page to
integrate the new filters. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172161>
- "Save current filter settings" menu and legend overlapped the results.
This is now fixed. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182269>
- Some small design improvements have been done. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179825>
*Content translation* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> • Help
pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Content_translation>
]
- Now Content Translation prevents source and target language to be set
to same language. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178126>
- The dialog for selecting article to translate is standardized. It
introduces a new component that is used for the selected page on both the
"New translation" dialog and the "Suggested pages" list. [10]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178866>
- More space is given to the language filter, to increase responsiveness
and show more language names without truncation. [11]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178866>
- While searching for a new page to translate, duplicates are not shown
anymore for user search input. [12]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181002>
- Various PHP warnings and JavaScript errors have been fixed. [13]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181533>[14]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179517>
*Structured discussions* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_discussions>
• Help pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_discussions>
]
- It is now possible to use Special:Nuke on hidden Structured discussion
topics. [15] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180607>
- The Reply button is not active anymore until something is typed. [16]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181063>
*Miscellaneous*
- For wikis that use ORES
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES>, preferences
for ORES have been rationalized in Special:Preferences, on Recent
Changes tab
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc>
and Watchlist tab
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist>
. [17] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180866>
- ORES will be deployed on Simple English Wikipedia. That wiki will be
able to use the Prediction filters
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quality_and_Intent_Filters>
. [18] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182012>
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Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
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