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The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is pushing a fix to a longstanding
issue regarding block notices for users on mobile devices. A year ago, if a blocked user
attempted to edit a page from their mobile device, a notice popped up for just a few
seconds before automatically disappearing, giving most people insufficient time to read
it. Moreover, if the reason for a block contained a wikilink or a template, the notice
would fail to render the link, instead displaying raw HTML. This led to botched
notifications that looked as bad as this:
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoblock_of_usernamekiran.png>.
I’m happy to see that a fix is almost ready to be deployed which addresses many issues,
including rendering links properly. :) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165535>
Mz7
> On Apr 15, 2018, at 8:18 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *Conference*
>
> The 2018 Wikimedia Conference
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018> starts this
> week in Germany. The core conference will occur from the 20th through the
> 22nd.
>
>
> *WMF Research Showcase*
>
> On Wednesday, the WMF Research Showcase
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#April_2018>
> will include presentations on two subjects that I think will interest a
> number of Wikipedians:
>
> 1. "The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created Wikipedia Content to
> Large-Scale Online Communities"
>
> 2. "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System, a Closer Look"
>
>
>
>
> *Photography*
> As often happens, Wikimedia Commons contributors have selected some great
> pictures of the day for this month
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Potd/2018-04>. Here are a few
> examples:
>
> 1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lynx_lynx_-_05.jpg
> 2.
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mezquita_de_Agha_Bozorg,_Kashan,_Ir…
> 3.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz_TMA-13_Edit.jpg
> 4.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rho_Ophiucus_Widefield.jpg
> 5.
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indosylvirana_urbis-Kadavoor-2017-0…
> 6.
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castillo_de_Zafra,_Campillo_de_Due%…
> 7
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cirrus_front_over_Austnesfjorden,_A…
> 8
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChlingsallee_Tulpenbl%C3%BCt…
>
>
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>
> Pine
> (
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