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Reference Previews to become the default for previewing references on more wikis
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Description

Reference Previews are now available on the majority of Wikipedias, and some Wikivoyages. But currently, there are still around one hundred wikis, where most people are not seeing Reference Previews. That is because those wikis have a gadget set as the default for previewing references. Using the same feature across wikis will make the user experience more consistent and the software easier to maintain overall.

If your wiki has the Page-Previews Popups extension installed (a prerequisite for Reference Previews) and also has a gadget set as the default for previewing references, we suggest removing that default flag. If your wiki wants to make this change, you can remove the default flag yourself or ask the Technical Wishes team to remove it for you.

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Removal of the default flag on smaller wikis

The default flag will be removed centrally on some wikis. Criteria:

All affected wikis were contacted weeks before this change and were able to voice their concerns on this talk page by February 12. One wiki did.
Exception: nywiki was contacted on Feb 16 and gave their thumbs up.

Status of affected wikis
  • af
  • am
  • as
  • az
  • ba
  • be
  • bh
  • bug
  • ce
  • ckb
  • gom
  • hi
  • hy
  • hyw
  • ilo
  • kk
  • kn
  • ks
  • lez
  • lo
  • mai
  • myv
  • ne
  • ny
  • or
  • pa
  • sa
  • shn
  • tg
  • ti
  • tum
  • udm

Event Timeline

Note for devs:
For changing the project's gadget configuration it probably makes sense to temporarily request global interface admin status for a few days around Feb 14th.

Doing changes without asking the communities purely because they don’t have a lot of intadmins is, frankly, not justified at all. Hopefully wikis listed voice their clear opposition to this planned switch.

Doing changes without asking the communities purely because they don’t have a lot of intadmins is, frankly, not justified at all. Hopefully wikis listed voice their clear opposition to this planned switch.

This topic was also discussed here on Meta. Adding the link for transparency.

I have removed default in most GSwikis, in [[ https://lo.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%BA%A1%E0%BA%B5%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%94%E0%BA%8D%E0%BA%A7%E0%BA%B4%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%B4%3AGadgets-definition&diff=106574&oldid=105014 | LoWiki ]]the gadget was only in the gadget definition, but did not exist, here I have removed all bad gadgets completely.

I have removed default in most GSwikis, in [[ https://lo.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%BA%A1%E0%BA%B5%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%94%E0%BA%8D%E0%BA%A7%E0%BA%B4%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%B4%3AGadgets-definition&diff=106574&oldid=105014 | LoWiki ]]the gadget was only in the gadget definition, but did not exist, here I have removed all bad gadgets completely.

Thanks a lot @WikiBayer! As noted on the discussion we updated the list so that there are only GSwikis included now. So if you find the time it would be great if you could continue helping out by removing the default flag there as well. :-)

I did some more (example) and can do the other ones later. Please note that bswiki is not a GS wiki.

Looks like these are all done now?