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 you.
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*What's new?*
- The Global Collaboration report for December is now available https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Reports/2017-December (in English). - Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below). - Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).
*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 ]
*Bug fixes*
- When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178540 - On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183484 - Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181032 - Filter menu was opening upwards. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182711 - ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180866 - Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177626
*Work in progress*
- [image: Octicons-star.svg] Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance: [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172161 - The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at. - It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page. - You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.
*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 ]
*Recent changes*
- Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179148 - Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made: [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181701 - Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability. - Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation. - Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes. - Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes. - Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182947 - The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research. [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181457
*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 ]
*Recent changes*
- [image: Octicons-star.svg] Structured discussions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155861[13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178719 - [image: Translation icon cropped.svg] The documentation has been updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Structured_Discussions/Quick_tour#basics and needs translations updates. - Prométhée https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Prom%C3%A9th%C3%A9e, from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_Discussions/FlowDeluxe to customise Structured discussions interface. - [image: Translation icon cropped.svg] The documentation is ready to be translated.
*Future changes*
- Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [14] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122119 - Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184185
*Notifications* [More information https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications • Help pages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications ]
*Bug fixes*
- User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed. [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172636 - "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated. [17] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182167
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