Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured Discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

• This newsletter is the first for the Global Collaboration team!
  • Global Collaboration team formed in July by merging the Language and Collaboration teams of the Wikimedia Foundation. The team is part of the Contributors department.
  • The newsletter now includes updates about Content translation. The Global Collaboration team now have an extended report (in English), with more information and data about the different projects we take care of.
• Due to vacations and Wikimania, no newsletter has been written in August.
• Major changes, with possibly an important impact on the wikis, are now marked with the star icon in the newsletter. Let us know if you like it.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Filters for Recent Changes will be deployed by default on all wikis. [1]
  • Some features for Recent Changes remain on Beta. See the list.
  • The initial deployment was scheduled for September 26. It has been postponed after October 3 for performance issues. [2]
• The filters for Watchlists, as a Beta feature, have been deployed as a Beta feature on Sept. 19. [3]
• "User registration" and "experience level" groups have been unified. It is now possible to select only actions from logged-out users or from logged-in users. [4]

Content translation [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Delete action on the list of translations is now more reachable. Now it's possible to open it on click, and easier as well, because active area is bigger. [5]
• Content Translation language selector is restyled to be more compact. [6]

Future changes

• The translation editor of Content Translation will be replaced by the visual editor. Work is ongoing. [7]

Notifications [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• For users who don't use JavaScript, a button has been added to Special:Notifications to mark all their notifications as read. [8]
• It is now possible to restrict who can send you notifications. [9]

Structured Discussions [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [10]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. [11]
• Structured Discussions' help pages have been updated. Translations may require updates as well.

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Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

• The Global collaboration report for October is now available.
• All wikis now have the Filters for edit review as the default system on Recent Changes page.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages]

Most recent changes

• Filters for Watchlists are still on Beta. Please try them and give feedback before we release it for all users!
• Shortcuts to filter Namespaces and Tags are now more visible. [12]
• Discovery of the search bar has been improved. [13]
• If the Recent Changes page or the Watchlist fails to load or is time-outed, a message is now displayed. [14] [15]
• The bookmark icon for creating a "Saved filter" is now grayed when it is not possible to save. Before it was not visible. Bookmarking is unavailable when, for example, the current filter set is already saved. [16]

Future changes

• Live updates on Recent changes will be moved out of beta and into the standard feature set by the end of the year. [17]
• Extension:Translate filters for RecentChanges are going to be integrated to the new filters. [18]
• Automatic edit summaries will be filtered as tags. [19]

Content translation [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• List items (suggested items and in-progress/published translations) layout restyled to prevent overflows on small screen sizes.
• Search results for new translation dialog are now embedded, instead of being displayed in floating menu. Search results remain displayed when tabbed out and can be closed using ESC key.
• Missing pages are no longer shown when there is no match for search query. Message informing that there are no results is displayed instead.
• Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language.
• Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis.
• Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. Months that went without translation are now displayed in chart as well.
• A loading indicator is shown while suggestions are loading.
• Button to discard dialog is now shown through the whole process of selecting article to translate.

Notifications [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Edit-user-talk notifications are now expandable. [20]

Structured Discussions [ More information • Help pages]

Future changes

• Some work is ongoing to store Structured Discussions contents from HTML to wikitext. That change will allow some specific templates and magic words to work properly on Structured Discussions. [21]
• Some tests are conducted in order to prepare the rewriting of Structured Discussions' interface. That rewriting will have no visible impact on users but it will ease future changes.

Other projects

• Compact Language Links has been deployed on German Wikipedia. [22]

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Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

• The last Global collaboration details report is now available (in English).

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages]

• The filters are now deployed as a default feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
• The filters are still available as a Beta feature on all wikis on Watchlists. Please try them!
• LiveUpdates have been deployed as a default feature for all wikis.
• On wikis using Extension:Translate, translated messages can now be filtered. System messages can be filtered as well, on all wikis. [23]
• "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent, to invite users to use that native feature to update the list of results. [24]
• Pagination and time period selectors are now combined and located on the right on left-to-right wikis. [25]
• When a user wanted to click outside of the filter menu to close it, it was possible to click on "revert" link by accident. It is not possible anymore. [26]
• It is now possible to filter the following events using the Tags menu: Making a page a redirect, Changing redirect target, Changing an existing redirect into a non-redirect, Blanking of the page, Removing more than 90% of a page content, Rolling back an edit. [27]
• Some design improvements have been done to Related Changes page to integrate the new filters. [28]
• "Save current filter settings" menu and legend overlapped the results. This is now fixed. [29]
• Some small design improvements have been done. [30]

Content translation [ More information • Help pages]

• Now Content Translation prevents source and target language to be set to same language. [31]
• The dialog for selecting article to translate is standardized. It introduces a new component that is used for the selected page on both the "New translation" dialog and the "Suggested pages" list. [32]
• More space is given to the language filter, to increase responsiveness and show more language names without truncation. [33]
• While searching for a new page to translate, duplicates are not shown anymore for user search input. [34]
• Various PHP warnings and JavaScript errors have been fixed. [35] [36]

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages]

• It is now possible to use Special:Nuke on hidden Structured discussion topics. [37]
• The Reply button is not active anymore until something is typed. [38]

Miscellaneous

• For wikis that use ORES, preferences for ORES have been rationalized in Special:Preferences, on Recent Changes tab and Watchlist tab. [39]
• ORES will be deployed on Simple English Wikipedia. That wiki will be able to use the Prediction filters. [40]

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Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Notifications, Structured discussions, Edit Review Improvements and Content translation. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

• The Global Collaboration report for December is now available (in English).
• Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
• Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages]

Bug fixes

• When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters. [41]
• On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the entirety of long page names. [42]
• Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected parameters to the URL. [43]
• Filter menu was opening upwards. [44]
• ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages have been rationalized. [45]
• Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [46]

Work in progress

• Filters on Related Changes page are better integrated and get new features, for instance: [47]
  • The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search for a page to look at.
  • It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target page or to the target page.
  • You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.

Content translation [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [48]
• Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page for translation have been made: [49]
  • Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some space has been added around to increase readability.
  • Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation.
  • Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
  • Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
• Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language codes. [50]
• The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful research. [51]

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. [52] [53]
  • The documentation has been updated and needs translations updates.
• Prométhée, from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets to customise Structured discussions interface.
  • The documentation is ready to be translated.

Future changes

• Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [54]
• Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [55]

Notifications [ More information • Help pages]

Bug fixes

• User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This is now fixed. [56]
• "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have JavaScript activated. [57]

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Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

• Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
• Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
  • The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
  • The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
  • It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" Beta feature). [58] [59] [60] [61]

Problems

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [62] [63]
• On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed. [64]
• Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed. [65]

Notifications [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of Yes or No it says Thank and Cancel. It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public. [66]
• A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts. [67]

Problems

• Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [68]
• Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed. [69]

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message. [70]
• It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed. [71]

Problems

• On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.

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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.

Map improvements 2018 [ More information]

• Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey. [72]

Edit Review Improvements [ More information • Help pages]

• Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [73]

Notifications [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented. [74]
• Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed. [75]

Future changes

• An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team. [76]

Structured discussions [ More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

• Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions. [77]

Problems

• It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [78]

Future changes

• The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [79]

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