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Wording of some error messages on Special:AboutTopic is too technical
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I don't think many people would quite understand stuff like "serialization" and "configured id builders".

also the error is not differentiated, style-wise, from the other stuff on the special page. I think we have ways in a special page to format an error.

The serialization "Italy" is not recognized by the configured id builders

This special page generates a content page about a certain topic with Wikidata information

Enter an entity id to get an auto-generated article placeholder.

e.g. https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AboutTopic/Italy

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Wording of messages on special page less technicalmediawiki/extensions/ArticlePlaceholdermaster+2 -2
Use a better message when not serializable id is enteredmediawiki/extensions/ArticlePlaceholdermaster+3 -2
Customize query in gerrit

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aude created this task.Feb 9 2016, 9:33 PM
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Lydia_Pintscher triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 18 2016, 12:52 PM
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Lucie moved this task from Incoming to To Do Next on the ArticlePlaceholder board.Apr 1 2016, 12:00 PM
Lucie subscribed.Apr 2 2016, 6:34 AM

The first message in question

The serialization "Italy" is not recognized by the configured id builders

is part of Wikibase, not the ArticlePlaceholder. But I do agree that it's too technical anyway.
https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/src/Entity/DispatchingEntityIdParser.php
It should be differentiated though.

matej_suchanek added a project: I18n.Apr 2 2016, 6:43 AM
gerritbot subscribed.Apr 2 2016, 12:21 PM

Change 281143 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lucie Kaffee):
Use a better message when not serializable id is entered

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/281143

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 2 2016, 12:21 PM
Lucie moved this task from To Do Next to Review on the ArticlePlaceholder board.Apr 2 2016, 12:56 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Apr 6 2016, 5:20 PM

Change 281143 merged by jenkins-bot:
Use a better message when not serializable id is entered

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/281143

Lydia_Pintscher removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 21 2016, 1:24 PM
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First part is done but the message is still too technical.

Lucie moved this task from Review to Doing on the ArticlePlaceholder board.May 3 2016, 12:48 PM
gerritbot added a comment.May 3 2016, 12:55 PM

Change 286639 had a related patch set uploaded (by Lucie Kaffee):
Wording of messages on special page less technical

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/286639

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 3 2016, 12:55 PM
Lucie closed this task as Resolved.May 3 2016, 1:18 PM
Lucie moved this task from Doing to Done on the ArticlePlaceholder board.
gerritbot added a comment.May 3 2016, 1:19 PM

Change 286639 merged by jenkins-bot:
Wording of messages on special page less technical

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/286639

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