Hello Mz7, The Anti-Harassment Tools team who is doing this work really appreciates your comment. We're happy, too, to address this issue. I'll be sure to let the team's developers, David and Daylann know about your comment.
Sydney Poore Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Mz7 <[email protected]> wrote: > > What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any > > language > > > 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 <[email protected]> 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%C3%A1n,_2016-09-19,_DD_81.jpg > > 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-2017-05-05-001.jpg > > 6. > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castillo_de_Zafra,_ > Campillo_de_Due%C3%B1as,_Guadalajara,_Espa%C3%B1a,_ > 2017-01-04,_DD_41-46_PAN.jpg > > 7 > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cirrus_front_over_ > Austnesfjorden,_Austv%C3%A5g%C3%B8ya,_Lofoten,_Norway,_2015_April.jpg > > 8 > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChlingsallee_ > Tulpenbl%C3%BCte_2010_(1).jpg > > > > > > What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any > > language > > > > Pine > > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Sydney Poore Trust and Safety Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety team; Anti-harassment tools team _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
