[Wikitech-l] Coming soon: Reference Previews

2023-11-20 Thread Johanna Strodt
ical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews> . With regards from Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team Johanna Strodt -- Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications for the Technical Wishes project *Community Communications Lead* ___ Wik

[Wikitech-l] Kartographer: New feature for showing nearby articles

2023-04-19 Thread Johanna Strodt
interviewed, reviewed tickets, or contributed in any other way. It is deeply appreciated! Johanna for the Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland -- Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications for the Technical Wishes project ___ Wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Re: Make working with templates easier: Several improvements coming to all wikis soon.

2022-04-29 Thread Johanna Strodt
#Additional_improvements Am Mo., 28. Feb. 2022 um 14:37 Uhr schrieb Johanna Strodt < johanna.str...@wikimedia.de>: > Hi everyone, > > In 2019, the German-speaking wikis selected “Make working with templates > easier” as the focus area of Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes > project. Sin

[Wikitech-l] Make working with templates easier: Several improvements coming to all wikis soon.

2022-02-28 Thread Johanna Strodt
Hi everyone, In 2019, the German-speaking wikis selected “Make working with templates easier” as the focus area of Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes project. Since then, our team has made improvements in different areas, to help template creators as well as users of the wikitext editor and

[Wikitech-l] Re: Line numbering coming soon for syntax highlighting

2021-09-22 Thread Johanna Strodt
Am Mo., 12. Apr. 2021 um 17:57 Uhr schrieb Johanna Strodt < johanna.str...@wikimedia.de>: > // sorry for cross-posting > > > Hello everyone, > > > Here is another change from WMDE’s Technical Wishes team concerning syntax > highlighting: > > > Soon, line nu

Re: [Wikitech-l] Reference Previews will become a default feature on a first group of wikis soon

2021-04-28 Thread Johanna Strodt
: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Opt-out_feature [4] talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews Am Mi., 3. März 2021 um 10:43 Uhr schrieb Johanna Strodt < johanna.str...@wikimedia.de>: > // apologies

[Wikitech-l] Working with templates: Looking for wikis who want early access to several improvements

2021-04-21 Thread Johanna Strodt
/Template_data_editor_improvements [9] talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Johanna_Strodt_(WMDE) -- Johanna Strodt Projektmanagerin Kommunikation Communitys Technische Wunschliste Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de

[Wikitech-l] Line numbering coming soon for syntax highlighting

2021-04-12 Thread Johanna Strodt
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeMirror [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Talk_Technical_Wishes/Line_Numbering -- Johanna Strodt Projektmanagerin Kommunikation Communitys Technische Wunschliste Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bracket matching in wikitext available on first wikis

2021-03-24 Thread Johanna Strodt
team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes> Am Mi., 17. März 2021 um 11:29 Uhr schrieb Johanna Strodt < johanna.str...@wikimedia.de>: > Hello, here's an update on the bracket matching feature. > >

[Wikitech-l] Coming soon: Improved colors for syntax highlighting

2021-03-22 Thread Johanna Strodt
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Improved_Color_Scheme_of_Syntax_Highlighting [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T276346 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Improved_Color_Scheme_of_Syntax_Highlighting -- Johanna Strodt Project manager Community Communications

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Reference Previews will become a default feature on a first group of wikis soon

2021-03-17 Thread Johanna Strodt
Hi Amir, Can you please define the details of what does this mean? My guess is: > * "Reference Previews" will move from the "Beta features" tab in the > preferences to the "Reading preferences" section in the "Appearance" tab. > --> Correct. > * "Enable page previews" and "Enable reference

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bracket matching in wikitext available on first wikis

2021-03-17 Thread Johanna Strodt
will be deployed with Mediawiki version 1.36.0-wmf.35, which will hopefully go live this week. Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback on this project so far. For the Technical Wishes Team at Wikimedia Deutschland Johanna Am Mi., 27. Jan. 2021 um 13:52 Uhr schrieb Johanna Strodt < johanna.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Reference Previews will become a default feature on a first group of wikis soon

2021-03-17 Thread Johanna Strodt
ntages of unifying them, and why do you think they > outweigh the disadvantages? > > What kind of user reaction can make you change your mind—user complaints, > a certain rate of disabling the preference, something else? > > בתאריך יום ה׳, 11 במרץ 2021, 18:51, מאת Johanna Str

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Reference Previews will become a default feature on a first group of wikis soon

2021-03-11 Thread Johanna Strodt
long, you might consider > an option search filter. Actually, given that we have already more options > on several tabs than what can be displayed on a confortable desktop screen, > I think this length limit was already crossed a long time ago. > > Cheers > Le 03/03/2021 à 12:47,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Reference Previews will become a default feature on a first group of wikis soon

2021-03-03 Thread Johanna Strodt
_ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Johanna Strodt Projektmanagerin Kommunikation Communitys Technische Wunschliste Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 2

[Wikitech-l] Reference Previews will become a default feature on a first group of wikis soon

2021-03-03 Thread Johanna Strodt
/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Beta_phase [4] talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews [5] Phab: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271206 -- Johanna Strodt Project manager community communications Technical Wishes Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer

[Wikitech-l] Technical Wishes: These are the projects that will make working with templates easier

2021-03-01 Thread Johanna Strodt
// sorry for cross-posting Hello! Several improvements are planned for this year to make working with templates easier. [1] All of them are part of the Technical Wishes project at Wikimedia Germany [2]. After a lot of research, feedback on- and off-wiki as well as testing [3], the following

[Wikitech-l] Bracket matching in wikitext available on first wikis

2021-01-27 Thread Johanna Strodt
/ sorry for cross-posting Hi, On a few first wikis[1], you can now highlight pairs of brackets in wikitext. For this to work, you need to turn on the syntax highlighting feature, which is part of the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors. By placing your cursor next to or within a set of brackets,

[Wikitech-l] Technical Advice IRC Meetings will not continue in 2020

2019-12-16 Thread Johanna Strodt
! On behalf of TAIM crew at WMDE Johanna [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting -- Johanna Strodt Project Manager for Community Communication / Technical Wishes Project Wikimedia Deutschland e. V

[Wikitech-l] Coming soon to more wikis: beta feature Reference Previews

2019-10-24 Thread Johanna Strodt
org/wiki/Help_talk:Reference_Previews Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications Technical Wishlist, Wikimedia Deutschland ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

[Wikitech-l] Beta feature Reference Previews coming to first wikis

2019-04-03 Thread Johanna Strodt
// sorry for cross-posting Hello, readers of an article who want to check the article’s citation have to jump down to the reference section – and that is disturbing their reading flow. Hence, it was a top wish[1] from the German Wikipedia community to have previews of references inside the

[Wikitech-l] Coming soon: an option to add a confirmation prompt to your rollback links

2019-03-26 Thread Johanna Strodt
//sorry for cross-posting This week’s train will add a new option to the user preferences: People with rollback rights can add a confirmation prompt to their rollback links, if they want to. While most people with rollback rights want to use them to revert vandalism quickly, some people prefer

[Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2019-03-18 Thread Johanna Strodt
// Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Questions can be asked in English and German! The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time

[Wikitech-l] White paper Technical Wishes 2018: Building tools for diverse users

2019-03-11 Thread Johanna Strodt
, please reach out to us on this talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Approach/Lessons_learned_from_the_Technical_Wishes_project For the Technical Wishes team of Wikimedia Germany Birgit, Michi, Lea and Johanna -- Johanna Strodt Project manager community

[Wikitech-l] Wednesday Feb 27: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

2019-02-26 Thread Johanna Strodt
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **(Wednesday) 4-5 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Uzbek, Korean & German. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to

[Wikitech-l] Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter

2019-01-14 Thread Johanna Strodt
iki/Help_talk:Extension:FileImporter [5] project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications Technical Wishlist, Wikimedia Deutschland ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitec

[Wikitech-l] The Technical Advice IRC Meeting takes a holiday break

2018-12-18 Thread Johanna Strodt
// sorry for cross-posting Hello everyone, the Technical Advice IRC Meeting [1] is taking a 4-week break. The next meeting will take place in 2019, on January 16. Also, please take note that there’ll be only one time slot for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting in 2019: 4 pm UTC. See you in 2019!

[Wikitech-l] Advanced Search is now a default feature on all wikis

2018-11-28 Thread Johanna Strodt
easily. People who prefer to keep the previous search interface can deactivate the new feature in their user preferences. [3] As always, feedback is welcome on the central talk page. [4] Johanna for the Technical Wishes team -- Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications Technical

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coming soon: Find your way back from multi-referenced footnotes

2018-11-27 Thread Johanna Strodt
y it does not seem to be active there for > testing. > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:13 AM Johanna Strodt < > johanna.str...@wikimedia.de> > wrote: > > > // sorry for cross-posting > > > > Hello everyone! I’d like to draw your attention to a software change > comi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coming soon: Find your way back from multi-referenced footnotes

2018-11-27 Thread Johanna Strodt
.wikimedia.org/T194511 Am Di., 27. Nov. 2018 um 11:12 Uhr schrieb Johanna Strodt < johanna.str...@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 footn

[Wikitech-l] Coming soon: Find your way back from multi-referenced footnotes

2018-11-27 Thread Johanna Strodt
// 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