New subject: Coming soon: an option to add a confirmation prompt to your rollback links

26 Mar 2019


      //sorry for cross-posting
This week’s train will add a new option to the user preferences: People
with rollback rights can add a confirmation prompt to their rollback links,
if they want to.
While most people with rollback rights want to use them to revert vandalism
quickly, some people prefer a confirmation prompt. Contributors from German
Wikipedia have asked for this, because quite a lot of people on dewiki
accidentally click on the rollback link, e.g. when they want to thank
someone. But there are also people in other wikis who use various methods
to prevent themselves from accidentally rolling back.
Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team[1] has now built a confirmation
prompt that works inline, like the thanks notification.
- On German Wikipedia, the confirmation prompt for rollbacks will be
   activated as a default. Users who want to rollback quickly can turn it off
   individually in their user settings.[2]
   - In most wikis, this confirmation prompt will be switched off by
   default. In these wikis, you can turn it on individually if you want to.
   [3]
The planned deployment date for the confirmation prompt is March 26-28 on
all wikis except dewiki. Please see the project page for more
information.[4] Feedback is always welcome on the central feedback page.[5]
Best,
Johanna
for the Technical Wishes team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes
[2]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Einstellungen#mw-prefsection-rendering
[3] e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Rollback
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Rollback
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