This is great news! Two clarifying questions: (1) Is Wikimediafoundation.org part of the service? (2) I am assuming wmflabs.org is explicitly not included as an environment with fewer guarantees; can you confirm?
Thanks, James > On Apr 3, 2019, at 1:43 AM, Johanna Strodt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > // 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 article text. > > That’s what the Reference Previews feature does: When you hover over a > footnote marker or click on it, you’ll see a little pop-up with the content > of the reference. This pop-up is similar to the Page Previews[2] pop-ups, > which show previews of linked articles. Reference Previews are also > influenced by the Reference Tooltips gadget, which is used in several > Wikipedias. Additionally, Reference Previews indicate the type of a > reference, which is meant to help readers assess quickly if they consider the > cited source trustworthy. First tests have confirmed this to be helpful. > > Reference Previews are being developed by Wikimedia Germany’s Technical > Wishes[3] team, with technical support from the Wikimedia Foundation’s > Reading Web[4] team. The design for this feature is being done by the WMF. > > Now, a very first version of Reference Previews will be available as a beta > feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. The deployment is planned for > Thursday, April 4. If you want to test it, please have a look at the > information for activating the beta feature.[5] Feedback is very welcome on > the central talk page![6] > If you want to try Reference Previews at an early stage on your wiki, please > let us know on the central talk page.[6] > > More information about the wish and the feature can be found on the project > page.[7] > > Best, > Johanna for the Technical Wishes team > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web > [5] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Try_the_beta_feature > > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Reference_Previews > [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
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