// sorry for cross-posting
Hello everyone! I’d like to draw your attention to a software change coming to wikis this week:
When you click on a footnote which is referenced multiple times in an article, it can be hard to find your way back to your reading position in the text.
This will soon become easier: If you have jumped to a multi-referenced footnote and want to go back to your previous reading position,
1) you can now click on the *jump mark* at the beginning of the footnote (in most wikis it's an arrow, in some, like enwiki, it's a caret ^). The tooltip says "Jump back up".
2) or you can click on the *superscript jump mark* in the footnote. The one leading you back to your original position is now highlighted *bold*.
This second part of the change doesn’t work for wikis where these superscript jump marks are bold by default, e.g. enwiki. If those wikis want this highlighting as well, they would need to change their default style for these superscript jump marks to regular.
Deployment of this change is scheduled for this week’s train [1]. Originating from the German community’s Technical Wishlist, it was made by Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team [2].
Feedback is always appreciated. The best place for it is the project talk page [3]. More information is available on the project page [4] and on Phabricator [5].
Best,
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team
And now with LINKS! (◕‿-)
// sorry for cross-posting … & re-posting here!
Hello everyone! I’d like to draw your attention to a software change coming to wikis this week:
When you click on a footnote which is referenced multiple times in an article, it can be hard to find your way back to your reading position in the text.
This will soon become easier: If you have jumped to a multi-referenced footnote and want to go back to your previous reading position,
1) you can now click on the *jump mark* at the beginning of the footnote (in most wikis it's an arrow, in some, like enwiki, it's a caret ^). The tooltip says "Jump back up".
2) or you can click on the *superscript jump mark* in the footnote. The one leading you back to your original position is now highlighted *bold*.
This second part of the change doesn’t work for wikis where these superscript jump marks are bold by default, e.g. enwiki. If those wikis want this highlighting as well, they would need to change their default style for these superscript jump marks to regular.
Deployment of this change is scheduled for this week’s train [1]. Originating from the German community’s Technical Wishlist, it was made by Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team [2].
Feedback is always appreciated. The best place for it is the project talk page [3]. More information is available on the project page [4] and on Phabricator [5].
Best,
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Footnote_highlighting#... [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Footnote_highligh...
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Footnote_highlighting [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194511
Am Di., 27. Nov. 2018 um 11:12 Uhr schrieb Johanna Strodt < johanna.strodt@wikimedia.de>:
// sorry for cross-posting
Hello everyone! I’d like to draw your attention to a software change coming to wikis this week:
When you click on a footnote which is referenced multiple times in an article, it can be hard to find your way back to your reading position in the text.
This will soon become easier: If you have jumped to a multi-referenced footnote and want to go back to your previous reading position,
- you can now click on the *jump mark* at the beginning of the footnote
(in most wikis it's an arrow, in some, like enwiki, it's a caret ^). The tooltip says "Jump back up".
- or you can click on the *superscript jump mark* in the footnote. The
one leading you back to your original position is now highlighted *bold*.
This second part of the change doesn’t work for wikis where these superscript jump marks are bold by default, e.g. enwiki. If those wikis want this highlighting as well, they would need to change their default style for these superscript jump marks to regular.
Deployment of this change is scheduled for this week’s train [1]. Originating from the German community’s Technical Wishlist, it was made by Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team [2].
Feedback is always appreciated. The best place for it is the project talk page [3]. More information is available on the project page [4] and on Phabricator [5].
Best,
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team
I went to https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Barack_Obama to try this out, but unfortunately it does not seem to be active there for testing.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:13 AM Johanna Strodt johanna.strodt@wikimedia.de wrote:
// sorry for cross-posting
Hello everyone! I’d like to draw your attention to a software change coming to wikis this week:
When you click on a footnote which is referenced multiple times in an article, it can be hard to find your way back to your reading position in the text.
This will soon become easier: If you have jumped to a multi-referenced footnote and want to go back to your previous reading position,
- you can now click on the *jump mark* at the beginning of the footnote
(in most wikis it's an arrow, in some, like enwiki, it's a caret ^). The tooltip says "Jump back up".
- or you can click on the *superscript jump mark* in the footnote. The one
leading you back to your original position is now highlighted *bold*.
This second part of the change doesn’t work for wikis where these superscript jump marks are bold by default, e.g. enwiki. If those wikis want this highlighting as well, they would need to change their default style for these superscript jump marks to regular.
Deployment of this change is scheduled for this week’s train [1]. Originating from the German community’s Technical Wishlist, it was made by Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team [2].
Feedback is always appreciated. The best place for it is the project talk page [3]. More information is available on the project page [4] and on Phabricator [5].
Best,
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Thank you for testing! You're right, it doesn't work on https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Barack_Obama. Apparently, wikis that have changed the default reference link format and removed the CSS class mw-cite-backlink don't show these changes. Progress on this issue will be tracked in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210508
Am Di., 27. Nov. 2018 um 15:24 Uhr schrieb Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < bjorsch@wikimedia.org>:
I went to https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Barack_Obama to try this out, but unfortunately it does not seem to be active there for testing.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:13 AM Johanna Strodt < johanna.strodt@wikimedia.de> wrote:
// sorry for cross-posting
Hello everyone! I’d like to draw your attention to a software change
coming
to wikis this week:
When you click on a footnote which is referenced multiple times in an article, it can be hard to find your way back to your reading position in the text.
This will soon become easier: If you have jumped to a multi-referenced footnote and want to go back to your previous reading position,
- you can now click on the *jump mark* at the beginning of the footnote
(in most wikis it's an arrow, in some, like enwiki, it's a caret ^). The tooltip says "Jump back up".
- or you can click on the *superscript jump mark* in the footnote. The
one
leading you back to your original position is now highlighted *bold*.
This second part of the change doesn’t work for wikis where these superscript jump marks are bold by default, e.g. enwiki. If those wikis want this highlighting as well, they would need to change their default style for these superscript jump marks to regular.
Deployment of this change is scheduled for this week’s train [1]. Originating from the German community’s Technical Wishlist, it was made
by
Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team [2].
Feedback is always appreciated. The best place for it is the project talk page [3]. More information is available on the project page [4] and on Phabricator [5].
Best,
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
-- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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