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 >> >> >> -- >> *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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- *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.
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