Thanks a lot for your email, Mathieu. I understand this concern and have changed the description on the project page to "help readers decide more quickly if they want to have a closer look at the article's trustworthiness."
Wishing you a good day, Johanna Am Mi., 3. März 2021 um 23:38 Uhr schrieb Mathieu Lovato Stumpf Guntz < [email protected]>: > Hello Johanna, > > Nice to know, that's a great addition indeed. > > I think it would improve future promotion of the tool to not stigmatize > the level of trustworthiness depending on type of publication. > > What about a wording like "you can have a quick glance at the visiting > card of the reference (type of publication, author, date…), and decide in a > flash if it would be preferable to dig immediately its trustworthiness more > in depth"? > > It seems to me that it would carry the same essential message, while > keeping the responsibility of judging trustworthiness on end users, > whatever their criteria might be. > > (I let only the ambassadors ml in reply, as it's more a communication > feedback, feel free to forward also to wikitech if you think it would be > nonetheless appropriate) > > Cheers > Le 03/03/2021 à 10:43, Johanna Strodt a écrit : > > // apologies for cross-posting > > Hello! > > A new type of preview will soon be part of the MediaWiki software: > Reference Previews.[1] This feature shows you a reference in a small pop-up > when you hover over the reference number in square brackets. This way, you > can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page. > > What’s more is that Reference Previews can offer a quicker way to evaluate > the trustworthiness of the cited source by displaying the reference type > (book, web, news, journal, note) in the pop-up’s header. Thus, they can > help increase trust in the article itself. These types can be applied by > using citation templates, or by manually entering a class into the ref tag. > > Reference Previews will be combined with Page Previews[2], a feature > showing previews for linked articles. Both perform essentially the same > function: previewing content before deciding to dig deeper, and easily > providing more information while reading. Because of their similarities in > design and behavior, both Page Previews and Reference Previews will be > controlled by a single user setting. This means, all users who currently > have Page Previews activated, will also get Reference Previews. Also, all > readers, anonymous contributors and new users will see Reference Previews > per default if they haven’t disabled Page Previews. > > On several wikis, the Navigation-Popups gadget and the Reference Tooltips > gadget already offer previews for references. If you want to use them > instead, you can: If you have one of these gadgets enabled, you’ll see them > instead of Reference Previews. Although these gadgets exist, this feature > was built into a MediaWiki extension in order to make it available for all > Wikipedias, just as Page Previews is. > > The original request for this came from the Technical Wishes survey on > German Wikipedia in 2017, where it was the number 1 wish. The Technical > Wishes team from Wikimedia Germany has been working on it in cooperation > with the WMF’s Reading Web team. Reference Previews have been a beta > feature for several months on all Wikipedias and some other wikis, with > more than 830,000 beta testers. During the beta phase, lots of feedback was > collected, and several changes were made as a result.[3] Now, we plan to > deploy it to a first group of wikis as a default feature on March 17. We’re > still looking for wikis who want to have the default feature early, so if > you’re interested, please let us know! [4] [5] > > More information about this feature, including frequently asked questions, > can be found on its project page on Meta. [1] A big thanks to everyone who > contributed to this development, by voting, testing, giving feedback or > else. Comments and questions are welcome on this talk page. [4] > > Best, > > Johanna > > [1] Reference Previews: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews > [2] Page Previews: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews > [3] Changes during the beta phase: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 > > https://wikimedia.de > > ====== > > Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit > teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > > https://spenden.wikimedia.de > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. 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