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
>
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