Hi,

Am Do., 5. Nov. 2020 um 12:00 Uhr schrieb Derk-Jan Hartman <
[email protected]>:

> > 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 ?
>

No, while there is only one option to turn Page and Reference Previews
together on and off in the user settings, the "self disabling feature" is
split up in two: if reftooltips is enabled the Reference Previews of this
extensions will not show up and independently if one of the popular page
preview-gadgets is enabled, the Page Previews won't show up (as the current
status quo). So the behaviour of Page Previews won't change. Also this
mechanism works on a per user level.

Thanks for asking, we will make sure this is more clear in the
upcoming announcement, when we deploy it.

Cheers,
 Michael


>
> 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
>>
>>
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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.
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