Hello,
A new feature called Reference Previews [1] was introduced as a beta feature last year. After more than a year of testing, bug fixing and other improvements it will soon leave the beta state in the first wikis, enabling it by default for all users including readers. New features like this are deployed in multiple batches, to ensure everything runs smoothly. Therefore, we are currently looking for a few small or medium-sized wikis that are interested in being among the first to gain the new feature.
If your community is interested, please reach out to me on my discussion page or via email.
The feature shows you references in a small popup when you hover over the reference number in square brackets. This way you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page. The feature is part of the MediaWiki Popups extension [2], which is also used for the Page Previews feature [3]. Both features can be turned on and off together by the user.
Several wikis have a gadget called “RefTooltips” to provide the same functionality [4]. The new extension will disable itself if RefTooltips is used. This way, it is up to the users and communities to decide if they want to disable the gadget in favor of the new feature.
Reference Previews originated from a wish from the German-speaking wiki community and was developed collaboratively by Wikimedia Deutschland the Wikimedia Foundation. If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project page.[1]
For the Technical Wishes team,
Michael Schönitzer
1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Popups
3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
4: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234204#6244041
Hi Michael,
I would like to volunteer gu.wikipedia for the early deployment. We are medium sized in page counts and small in number of daily edits.
Please do let me know if you need anything else than this email for deploying it.
Thanks, Dhaval Vyas User: dsvyas (sysop)
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, 09:54 Michael Schönitzer, < michael.schoenitzer@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hello,
A new feature called Reference Previews [1] was introduced as a beta feature last year. After more than a year of testing, bug fixing and other improvements it will soon leave the beta state in the first wikis, enabling it by default for all users including readers. New features like this are deployed in multiple batches, to ensure everything runs smoothly. Therefore, we are currently looking for a few small or medium-sized wikis that are interested in being among the first to gain the new feature.
If your community is interested, please reach out to me on my discussion page or via email.
The feature shows you references in a small popup when you hover over the reference number in square brackets. This way you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page. The feature is part of the MediaWiki Popups extension [2], which is also used for the Page Previews feature [3]. Both features can be turned on and off together by the user.
Several wikis have a gadget called “RefTooltips” to provide the same functionality [4]. The new extension will disable itself if RefTooltips is used. This way, it is up to the users and communities to decide if they want to disable the gadget in favor of the new feature.
Reference Previews originated from a wish from the German-speaking wiki community and was developed collaboratively by Wikimedia Deutschland the Wikimedia Foundation. If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project page.[1]
For the Technical Wishes team,
Michael Schönitzer
1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Popups
3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
4: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234204#6244041
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Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Hi Dhaval,
thanks for getting in touch – we're gladly putting gu.wikipedia on the list for the deployment. There is nothing for you to do at this time. I will write to you, when the deployment date is fixed. Probably in 2-3 weeks but in engineering you never know for sure. It would be great if you then put the announcement out on the right place in your wiki and ideally translate it to your wikis language. I will send you the announcement so soon as possible. If you have any questions let me know.
Cheers, M
Am Mi., 4. Nov. 2020 um 11:26 Uhr schrieb Dhaval S. Vyas dsvyas@gmail.com:
Hi Michael,
I would like to volunteer gu.wikipedia for the early deployment. We are medium sized in page counts and small in number of daily edits.
Please do let me know if you need anything else than this email for deploying it.
Thanks, Dhaval Vyas User: dsvyas (sysop)
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020, 09:54 Michael Schönitzer, < michael.schoenitzer@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hello,
A new feature called Reference Previews [1] was introduced as a beta feature last year. After more than a year of testing, bug fixing and other improvements it will soon leave the beta state in the first wikis, enabling it by default for all users including readers. New features like this are deployed in multiple batches, to ensure everything runs smoothly. Therefore, we are currently looking for a few small or medium-sized wikis that are interested in being among the first to gain the new feature.
If your community is interested, please reach out to me on my discussion page or via email.
The feature shows you references in a small popup when you hover over the reference number in square brackets. This way you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page. The feature is part of the MediaWiki Popups extension [2], which is also used for the Page Previews feature [3]. Both features can be turned on and off together by the user.
Several wikis have a gadget called “RefTooltips” to provide the same functionality [4]. The new extension will disable itself if RefTooltips is used. This way, it is up to the users and communities to decide if they want to disable the gadget in favor of the new feature.
Reference Previews originated from a wish from the German-speaking wiki community and was developed collaboratively by Wikimedia Deutschland the Wikimedia Foundation. If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project page.[1]
For the Technical Wishes team,
Michael Schönitzer
1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Popups
3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
4: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234204#6244041
-- *M. F. Schönitzer* Community Communication
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!
Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
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Michael Schönitzer, 04/11/20 11:53:
A new feature called Reference Previews [1] was introduced as a beta feature last year. After more than a year of testing, bug fixing and other improvements it will soon leave the beta state in the first wikis, enabling it by default for all users including readers.
Good to see that the process of "graduation" from beta is still active, although I wish that we didn't end up with yet another preference for every single new feature going this route.
Federico
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