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Other languages: العربي <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2018/01/ar>• Deutsch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2018/01/de> • français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2018/01/fr>• polski <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2018/01/pl> *What's new?* - The Global Collaboration report for December is now available <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Reports/2017-December> (in English). - Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below). - Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below). *Edit Review Improvements* [More information <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements> • Help pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_Review_Improvements> ] *Bug fixes* - When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178540> - On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183484> - Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181032> - Filter menu was opening upwards. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182711> - ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180866> - Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177626> *Work in progress* - [image: Octicons-star.svg] Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance: [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172161> - The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at. - It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page. - You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion. *Content translation* [More information <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> • Help pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Content_translation> ] *Recent changes* - Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179148> - Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made: [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181701> - Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability. - Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation. - Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes. - Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes. - Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182947> - The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181457> *Structured discussions* [More information <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_discussions> • Help pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_discussions> ] *Recent changes* - [image: Octicons-star.svg] Structured discussions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions> now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155861>[13] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178719> - [image: Translation icon cropped.svg] The documentation has been updated <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Structured_Discussions/Quick_tour#basics> and needs translations updates. - Prométhée <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Prom%C3%A9th%C3%A9e>, from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_Discussions/FlowDeluxe> to customise Structured discussions interface. - [image: Translation icon cropped.svg] The documentation is ready to be translated. *Future changes* - Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [14] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122119> - Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [15] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184185> *Notifications* [More information <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications> • Help pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications> ] *Bug fixes* - User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed. [16] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172636> - "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated. [17] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182167> *Collaboration team's newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_Collaboration/Newsletter> prepared by the Global Collaboration team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_Collaboration/Newsletter> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Newsletter/Subscribe>.* -- Benoît Evellin (Trizek) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation
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