On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
2014-09-15 23:54 GMT+02:00 James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)gmail.com>om>:
In the recent discussion of editor engagement
effectiveness on
wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext
practice arose. I would like to know whether anyone shares my concern
that
eliminating wikitext talk pages will remove what
has, for the past few
terabytes of edits, served the same purpose as the "sandbox" pages which
we
encourage new editors to practice with.
Is that just enwp? On svwp we do not encourage people to use the talk pages
as sandboxes. Instead we have a default-on gadget with
a link to
[[Special:MyPage/Sandbox]].
62 wikis have that gadget, and 50 of them have it enabled by default
currently, according to
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70499 (which is a bug-ticket
to enable the new Extension, that supercedes the gadget! This will fix the
last-second "jump" that the gadget-version causes, when it nudges the
user/echo/usertalk links to the left/right. :)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SandboxLink
I believe it's still in need of translation work if anyone can help with
that :)
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-sandboxlink