I went to https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Barack_Obama to try this out, but unfortunately it does not seem to be active there for testing.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:13 AM Johanna Strodt <[email protected]> wrote: > // sorry for cross-posting > > Hello everyone! I’d like to draw your attention to a software change coming > to wikis this week: > > When you click on a footnote which is referenced multiple times in an > article, it can be hard to find your way back to your reading position in > the text. > > This will soon become easier: If you have jumped to a multi-referenced > footnote and want to go back to your previous reading position, > > 1) you can now click on the *jump mark* at the beginning of the footnote > (in most wikis it's an arrow, in some, like enwiki, it's a caret ^). The > tooltip says "Jump back up". > > 2) or you can click on the *superscript jump mark* in the footnote. The one > leading you back to your original position is now highlighted *bold*. > > This second part of the change doesn’t work for wikis where these > superscript jump marks are bold by default, e.g. enwiki. If those wikis > want this highlighting as well, they would need to change their default > style for these superscript jump marks to regular. > > Deployment of this change is scheduled for this week’s train [1]. > Originating from the German community’s Technical Wishlist, it was made by > Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team [2]. > > Feedback is always appreciated. The best place for it is the project talk > page [3]. More information is available on the project page [4] and on > Phabricator [5]. > > Best, > > Johanna for the Technical Wishes team > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
