> The new extension will disable itself if RefTooltips is used. Like completely ? So when this goes live, Page Previews will disable itself completely on English wikipedia, because it has a reftooltips enabled by default ?
DJ On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 10:54 AM Michael Schönitzer < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > A new feature called Reference Previews [1] was introduced as a beta > feature last year. After more than a year of testing, bug fixing and other > improvements it will soon leave the beta state in the first wikis, enabling > it by default for all users including readers. New features like this are > deployed in multiple batches, to ensure everything runs smoothly. > Therefore, we are currently looking for a few small or medium-sized wikis > that are interested in being among the first to gain the new feature. > > If your community is interested, please reach out to me on my discussion > page or via email. > > The feature shows you references in a small popup 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. The feature is part of the > MediaWiki Popups extension [2], which is also used for the Page Previews > feature [3]. Both features can be turned on and off together by the user. > > Several wikis have a gadget called “RefTooltips” to provide the same > functionality [4]. The new extension will disable itself if RefTooltips is > used. This way, it is up to the users and communities to decide if they > want to disable the gadget in favor of the new feature. > > Reference Previews originated from a wish from the German-speaking wiki > community and was developed collaboratively by Wikimedia Deutschland the > Wikimedia Foundation. If you'd like to know more about this feature, please > visit the project page.[1] > > For the Technical Wishes team, > > Michael Schönitzer > > 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews > > 2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Popups > > 3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews > > 4: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234204#6244041 > > > -- > *M. F. Schönitzer* > Community Communication > > 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. Help us to achieve our vision! > > https://spenden.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
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