(Sorry about the mis-post. Apparently hitting command-return sends a message... who knew.)
James Forrester wrote: >On 17 January 2014 08:24, Amir E. Aharoni ><[email protected]>wrote: >> Put it inside the following HTML tag: >> <div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"> >> Your important notification. >> </div> >> >> Of course, it's not great to have to remember to write it every time, >>so if there is a way to automate in MassMessage or EdwardsBot or >>whatever is used to send these messages, it would be great. > >Filed as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60176 Agreed that it's not great. On the other hand, if you're communicating with a global audience, there's a little expectation that it'll be slightly more work, in my opinion. :-) This same point is true of mass messaging generally, regardless of language or wrapper divs or what-have-you. If you're doing something once or you're doing something ten-thousand times _at_ once, you need to appropriately take the time to make sure you're crossing your Ts and dotting your Is before hitting send. (And for the record, MassMessage will not be implementing that command-return shortcut. Gah.) Not including a timestamp is another pattern of behavior that causes issues: due to the way that archive bots operate, they need an identifiable timestamp. I believe the thinking there was to add some JavaScript to check for the presence of "~~~~~" or equivalent and warn the user if it's not present (just warn, not stop). We could do something similar for dir="" and such perhaps. Or we could add a "my content is in [lang name]" drop-down menu that defaults to the user's language preference, maybe. <div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"> I guess you'd need to map language name to lang="" and then have a dictionary for which are rtl and which are ltr, which could then also control the class? Bleh. Or browsers could just forgive us for our trespasses and not misbehave. Perhaps others have thoughts about how to do this well. It doesn't seem like a very easy problem, but maybe I'm missing the obvious. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
