Hey folks :)
The in other projects sidebar is a feature that adds links to articles on other projects to the sidebar. So for example on the Wikivoyage article about Berlin it links to the respective content on Wikipedia, Commons and so on.This works similar to the language links that you already have in the sidebar of an article. It is intended to make more content available to our users and bring our projects closer together.
The in other projects sidebar has been around for many months now. It has been a beta feature on all wikis and default on a handful. It can't stay a beta feature forever and we should decide on its faith now. I am happy with the reactions we have been getting about it and believe it adds significant value for our readers and editors on smaller projects. I therefor want to enable it on all projects. This will happen in January. The exact date is still being decided.
If for some reason your project decides it does not want this feature please let me know and we'll disable it for you.
The ticket for tracking this is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102
Cheers Lydia
Oh and one thing I forgot: A big thank you to Tpt who did most of the development for this feature.
Cheers Lydia
Optional would be my preference. I utilise my sidebar for other components especially with Pathoschild's TemplateScript. So it pushes those components down to far when editing. Also, the English Wikisource already has predominant, overt linking so it becomes a duplication, and at this stage the community has not considered that they desire a change. So at this stage letting users operate their views would be preferable.
Regards, Billinghurst
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hey folks :)
The in other projects sidebar is a feature that adds links to articles on other projects to the sidebar. So for example on the Wikivoyage article about Berlin it links to the respective content on Wikipedia, Commons and so on.This works similar to the language links that you already have in the sidebar of an article. It is intended to make more content available to our users and bring our projects closer together.
The in other projects sidebar has been around for many months now. It has been a beta feature on all wikis and default on a handful. It can't stay a beta feature forever and we should decide on its faith now. I am happy with the reactions we have been getting about it and believe it adds significant value for our readers and editors on smaller projects. I therefor want to enable it on all projects. This will happen in January. The exact date is still being decided.
If for some reason your project decides it does not want this feature please let me know and we'll disable it for you.
The ticket for tracking this is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102
Cheers Lydia
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 1:52 PM, billinghurst billinghurstwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Optional would be my preference. I utilise my sidebar for other components especially with Pathoschild's TemplateScript. So it pushes those components down to far when editing. Also, the English Wikisource already has predominant, overt linking so it becomes a duplication, and at this stage the community has not considered that they desire a change. So at this stage letting users operate their views would be preferable.
The beta-phase was for this. There anyone could opt-in and try/decide. I don't want to add another option for it really as that adds just yet another thing to the preferences for arguably little gain.
Cheers Lydia
On 2015-12-20 13:52, billinghurst wrote:
Optional would be my preference. I utilise my sidebar for other components especially with Pathoschild's TemplateScript. So it pushes those components down to far when editing.
Sounds like a better solution would be to add these additional components above the "Other projects" section. They're presumably already displayed above the "Languages" section, which can get much longer? If so, it should be an easy change; I could probably help if you point me to the problematic script :)
Sadly the order depends on the (rather nasty) MediaWiki:Sidebar which makes it impossible for us to put our section at a specific place (even per default).
The sidebar can be altered via JS, though (although that's not really nice, especially performance wise).
Cheers,
Marius
On 20.12.2015 15:13, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
On 2015-12-20 13:52, billinghurst wrote:
Optional would be my preference. I utilise my sidebar for other components especially with Pathoschild's TemplateScript. So it pushes those components down to far when editing.
Sounds like a better solution would be to add these additional components above the "Other projects" section. They're presumably already displayed above the "Languages" section, which can get much longer? If so, it should be an easy change; I could probably help if you point me to the problematic script :)
Well at least I took Madam by surprise. And got born in turfboat..
________________________________________ Van: Wikitech-ambassadors wikitech-ambassadors-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org namens Marius Hoch hoo@online.de Verzonden: zondag 20 december 2015 17:13 Aan: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] enabling in other projects sidebar on all wikis in January
Sadly the order depends on the (rather nasty) MediaWiki:Sidebar which makes it impossible for us to put our section at a specific place (even per default).
The sidebar can be altered via JS, though (although that's not really nice, especially performance wise).
Cheers,
Marius
On 20.12.2015 15:13, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
On 2015-12-20 13:52, billinghurst wrote:
Optional would be my preference. I utilise my sidebar for other components especially with Pathoschild's TemplateScript. So it pushes those components down to far when editing.
Sounds like a better solution would be to add these additional components above the "Other projects" section. They're presumably already displayed above the "Languages" section, which can get much longer? If so, it should be an easy change; I could probably help if you point me to the problematic script :)
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On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:38 PM Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hey folks :)
The in other projects sidebar is a feature that adds links to articles on other projects to the sidebar. So for example on the Wikivoyage article about Berlin it links to the respective content on Wikipedia, Commons and so on.This works similar to the language links that you already have in the sidebar of an article. It is intended to make more content available to our users and bring our projects closer together.
The in other projects sidebar has been around for many months now. It has been a beta feature on all wikis and default on a handful. It can't stay a beta feature forever and we should decide on its faith now. I am happy with the reactions we have been getting about it and believe it adds significant value for our readers and editors on smaller projects. I therefor want to enable it on all projects. This will happen in January. The exact date is still being decided.
If for some reason your project decides it does not want this feature please let me know and we'll disable it for you.
The ticket for tracking this is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102
Hi everyone,
A few blockers turned up that we have now solved. We have scheduled it for the 16th. If your project would like to opt-out please add a note to the ticket above.
Cheers Lydia
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