Hi, just a heads up we have some new Beta Features rolling out soon, and just launched a beta feature recently.
Just launched was the Compact Language list[1]. This is the first version and shows exciting possibilities. Please test it out and give feedback.
Soon to launch beta features include, Hovercards[2], Compact Personal Bar[3], and Winter(fixed header)[4]. The "Flow" part of this announcement is the clarification that future Beta features talk pages will be Flow enabled from day 1[5]. When a Beta feature publicly launches (goes from labs server to mediawiki.org and then other Foundation wikis), or when an existing Beta Feature recives a major update, e.g. Nearby[6], the talk page will be Flow-enabled and any existing talk page content will be archived and linked from the Flow board header.
We hope this allows for easier discussion about Beta Features, as well as additional small scale conversations which the Flow team can use in order to validate, test, and study the use of Flow to make sure it is on track, and they are making the right product and design decisions.
I'm very excited about these upcoming Beta Features, and how they enable us to get richer feedback from people when it comes to upcoming features, tests and experiments though the Beta Features framework.
* [1] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlangu... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links* *[2] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards* *[3] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compact_Personal_Bar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compact_Personal_Bar*
*[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter * *[5] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Rollout https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Rollout* * [6] **https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages*
*Jared Zimmerman * \ Director of User Experience \ Wikimedia Foundation
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