Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

Hi Pine, Any chance to provide information or examples of these documents that would need to be replaced if/when colours are changed? To my knowledge, There is no where in MediaWiki core that relies on colour only to convey information to the clients/end users. The colour is used to enhance

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

Hi Peachy, As an example of a potential high-impact color change that would result in a need to change documentation, I recall a proposal to change all red links to a different color. I don't recall the user's reasoning for the proposed change, but that is one situation where I believe that color

[Wikitech-l] +2 nomination for Fomafix in mediawiki/

Hi, I've filed , nominating Fomafix for +2 in mediawiki/ repositories. -- Legoktm ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

I have delayed responding to this thread until I felt that I could do with some degree of calmness. I view UI changes that affect millions of pages as a big deal. I realize that from a developer's perspective it may seem trivial to change a color setting. Let me try to illustrate a different

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2016: We need your tasks!; 2nd week achievements

Thank you Andre for mentioning Newsletter extension here. For the numbers, we have 15 tasks completed as of 14 days, and we have 1 more left with a student working on it. Andre asked me to share how GCI works for our project, in an attempt to *push* more maintainers in this list to add in and

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

Hi Volker, Thanks very much for your explanation. I hope that I have explained adequately that the difficulty that I see here isn't with the change itself, but rather with communication and consultation. An issue that I'm still trying to wrap my head around is that it's impossible for me (and I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Changes in colors of user interface

Hi Pine, That's a really interesting question you bring up, that people develop associations between colors and exact positions on the screen, so that moving or discoloring a button will jar them out of a pleasant, easy to anticipate experience, and will invalidate some of what they learned,

[Wikitech-l] Notes on creating a RTL-accessible tool in MediaWiki

Hi all! When developing the Revision Slider extension [1] earlier this year, we (at Wikimedia Germany) have learned quite some things about making extensions and gadgets accessible for RTL language users. We have just published the write up [2] summarizing what we've discovered. We hope people

[Wikitech-l] 2016-12-14 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-12-14 = 2016-12-14 = == Product == === Reading === iOS native app * Last Week ** Finished work on 5.3.2, shipped to beta (Dynamic text size, data layer update, performance enhancements)

[Wikitech-l] Final Call for Comments on the Content Model Storage RFC

Hi all! This is a Final Call for Comments on the RFC on Content Model Storage [1][2]. If no new and serious objections are raised within a week, the Architecture Committee will approve this RFC and drive its implementation. The RFC on Content Model Storage was originally approved in 2015, but

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Readership metrics for the timespan until December 4, 2016

Thank you so much for this Zareen! It's really great to see this report -- so much interesting data to think about! -Toby On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Zareen Farooqui wrote: > Hi all, > > This resumes the usual look >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Arbitrary Wikidata querying

Very well put, Stas, thank you! Am 13.12.2016 um 07:23 schrieb Stas Malyshev: > Hi! > >> If I wanted to make a page on the English Wikipedia using wikitext called >> "List of United States presidents" that dynamically embeds information >> from and >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Notes on creating a RTL-accessible tool in MediaWiki

Leszek Manicki wrote: > When developing the Revision Slider extension [1] earlier this year, we (at > Wikimedia Germany) have learned quite some things about making extensions > and gadgets accessible for RTL language users. We have just published the > write up [2]

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Analytics] Readership metrics for the timespan until December 4, 2016

Thanks Zareen, it's great to see so much in-depth data! Also, it answers so many questions and curiosities from the past few months. - Olga On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:15 PM Caitlin Cogdill wrote: > Yes, thanks so much for sharing this! It's fascinating and encouraging

[Wikitech-l] Commons app (Android) update - v1.41

Hi all, We're excited to announce that we've rolled out several updates and bugfixes for the Commons Android app[1] over the past couple of months. Some of the major ones include: - Automatic addition of geocoding template if uploaded image is geotagged - Category suggestions based on the title