The Hovercards Beta Feature [1] is inspired by the Navigation Popups
gadget. The goal of Hovercards is to make the reading experience better
for our readers. When readers hover over links to other articles, they
are provided a short summary and image. They can decide whether they
need to visit that subject more fully before continuing the current subject.
We are looking for local project wikis who are interested in turning on
the Hovercards feature for all readers, ahead of the future Beta Feature
graduation. Please let us know, if your wiki might be interested in this.
We're also looking for additional feedback on all aspects of the
extension.[2]
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[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Beta_Features/Hovercards
Sidenotes:
* The recent flickering-bug (primarily in Firefox) was fixed today.
* There is a gerrit patch which is examining the conflict of Navigation
Popups and Hovercards.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120188/
* We also plan to suggest some potential updates to the styles in the
original Navpopups gadget, so that it has better usability and is
visually consistent with Hovercard and Reference-tooltip styles.
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Quiddity
Community Liaison