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Nov 3 2023

Matthiasb added a comment to T350445: not possible to edit in the german language wikipedia.

Maybe it is a related issue that the "Beantworten" tool on talk pages does not work when reacting to newer contributions. Contributions older than, say, three hours or so, you can answer normally with the "Beantworten" tool.

Nov 3 2023, 12:47 AM · User-notice-archive, DBA

Jul 14 2023

Matthiasb added a comment to T191156: Convert FlaggedRevisions to Codex.

And I wouldn't call FlaggedRevs particularly a winning game TBH

Jul 14 2023, 10:11 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.20; 2023-08-01), User-notice, Growth-Team-Filtering, MinervaNeue (Tracking), Mobile, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-FlaggedRevs

Jul 12 2023

Matthiasb added a comment to T191156: Convert FlaggedRevisions to Codex.

In sports we have an old wisdom: never change a winning game. So was there a real reason to begin meddling with that? I mean a true real reason?

Jul 12 2023, 2:17 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.20; 2023-08-01), User-notice, Growth-Team-Filtering, MinervaNeue (Tracking), Mobile, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-FlaggedRevs

Mar 1 2023

Matthiasb added a comment to T148274: Implement a convenient way to link to ISBNs without magic links.

As I had proposed somewhere at the community wishes survey each reference Wikimedia projects are using should be referenced to Wikidata. That would make users capable to use the references metadata input users in an other language version or project in any other Wikimedia project. That would reduce work to maintain references. The information might be entered into Wikidata once and not entered and/or maintained in each and every language version or sister project on its own. Each language version would use the references metadata by something like cite q (in engl. WP) or maybe something smarter in future.

Mar 1 2023, 12:23 AM · MediaWiki-Parser

Feb 17 2022

Matthiasb added a comment to T287380: Decide on the future of DPL.

I urge to investigate wether the Russian issue can be minimized if DPL is not used on category pages, but on index pages only (most likely PORTAL pages, like in [[:n:de:Portal:Berlin]] what (as I am understanding it) would render the DPL only when a specific portal page would be accessed (purged) and not every time an article is added to a category.

Feb 17 2022, 12:26 AM · Thai-Sites, MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.16; 2021-07-26), Sustainability (Incident Followup), DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)

Jul 30 2021

Matthiasb added a comment to T287380: Decide on the future of DPL.

As German Wikinews editor (+admin) I consider removing DPL as a ba solution.. In most perhaps all of the language versions I know we use them to generate different newsfeeds used in what we call news portals which are using the portal namespace. Some languages use or used DPL on the homepage but those are all wikis with a couple of articles a day.

Jul 30 2021, 10:06 PM · Thai-Sites, MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.16; 2021-07-26), Sustainability (Incident Followup), DynamicPageList (Wikimedia)

Mar 16 2018

Matthiasb added a comment to T189819: Revert to last revision by user should not mention.

<s>Sorry, no. It is correct that people are notified if their contribution was reverted.

Mar 16 2018, 9:48 AM · Community-Tech, MW-1.31-release-notes (WMF-deploy-2018-03-20 (1.31.0-wmf.26)), Collaboration-Team-Triage, Notifications

Feb 25 2018

Matthiasb added a comment to T148274: Implement a convenient way to link to ISBNs without magic links.

German Wikipedia:

  • TL;DR Use template for ISBN, use interwiki format for both RFC and PMID by default.
Feb 25 2018, 9:09 AM · MediaWiki-Parser

Feb 12 2018

Matthiasb created T187020: Categorycount is broken.
Feb 12 2018, 7:33 AM · Tool-Erwin's-tools

Feb 4 2018

Matthiasb added a comment to T185672: Content translation tool: won't load formerly saved drafts.

I tried to investigate further. Translation drafts recently created are reloaded properly but the issue occurs for all my drafts created more than about three months ago.

Feb 4 2018, 5:03 AM · ContentTranslation

Jan 25 2018

Matthiasb added a comment to T185672: Content translation tool: won't load formerly saved drafts.

This might be the same issue reported in T184042.

Jan 25 2018, 3:12 AM · ContentTranslation
Matthiasb created T185672: Content translation tool: won't load formerly saved drafts.
Jan 25 2018, 3:05 AM · ContentTranslation

Jun 28 2017

Matthiasb added a comment to T145604: RFC: Future of magic links.

The explanation is needed because otherwise the feature is unused or people make bad markup for things that don't have the feature.

Jun 28 2017, 8:00 PM · Parsing-Team--ARCHIVED, MediaWiki-Parser, TechCom-RFC

Jun 23 2017

Matthiasb added a comment to T145604: RFC: Future of magic links.

In T145604#3290707, @MZMcBride wrote:

Jun 23 2017, 8:59 PM · Parsing-Team--ARCHIVED, MediaWiki-Parser, TechCom-RFC

May 24 2017

Matthiasb added a comment to T145604: RFC: Future of magic links.

I think between all bad ideas which were discussed the MediaWiki development, removing magic links and especially ISBN is one of the worst. I do not consent with MZMcBride when he talks about confusion under editors because of the ISBN is suddenly linked. Editors and especially new editors are happy that this happens.

May 24 2017, 7:09 PM · Parsing-Team--ARCHIVED, MediaWiki-Parser, TechCom-RFC

Aug 11 2016

Matthiasb created T142704: Increase number of sub-categories and/or entries shown on a category page.
Aug 11 2016, 11:57 AM · MediaWiki-Categories
Matthiasb added a comment to T131132: Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action.

But save could also be something in the bank, or a thing that must do after earthquake/flood/tsunami...

Aug 11 2016, 11:40 AM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.37; 2020-06-16), User-Ryasmeen, MW-1.28-release-notes, MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-30_(1.28.0-wmf.17)), Community-Relations-Support, MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-05-03_(1.27.0-wmf.23)), MW-1.27-release-notes, Patch-For-Review, WikiEditor, VisualEditor, Contributors-Team, MediaWiki-Internationalization, MediaWiki-Page-editing

Aug 10 2016

Matthiasb added a comment to T139033: Re-label the "Save" (or "Publish") button to use "Publish page" when creating and "Publish changes" when modifying an existing page.

As a user and sysop on Wikinews I am protesting against this change as in most if not all that language versions the term "publish" (or its equivalents in other languages) is used for the one special edit when an article is considered ready, well after it was proofread, doublechecked and reviewed, when it usually get halfprotected and is added to the main page and declared to never again modified anymore. The change would add confusion to the redaction processes in Wikinews.

Aug 10 2016, 6:13 PM · User-notice-archive, User-Ryasmeen, MW-1.28-release-notes, MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-30_(1.28.0-wmf.17)), Patch-For-Review, WikiEditor, VisualEditor, Contributors-Team, MediaWiki-Internationalization, MediaWiki-Page-editing
Matthiasb added a comment to T131132: Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action.

As a user and sysop on Wikinews I am protesting against this change as in most if not all that language versions the term "publish" (or its equivalents in other languages) is used for the one special edit when an article is considered ready, well after it was proofread, doublechecked and reviewed, when it usually get halfprotected and is added to the main page and declared to never again modified anymore. The change would add confusion to the redaction processes in Wikinews.

Aug 10 2016, 6:00 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.37; 2020-06-16), User-Ryasmeen, MW-1.28-release-notes, MW-1.28-release (WMF-deploy-2016-08-30_(1.28.0-wmf.17)), Community-Relations-Support, MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-05-03_(1.27.0-wmf.23)), MW-1.27-release-notes, Patch-For-Review, WikiEditor, VisualEditor, Contributors-Team, MediaWiki-Internationalization, MediaWiki-Page-editing

Jul 11 2016

Matthiasb created T139929: Blocked users cannot send "thank you" notifications.
Jul 11 2016, 11:41 AM · Thanks

Feb 14 2016

Matthiasb added a comment to T94906: [EPIC] Read more related articles after end of current article.

That's nonsense. Speaking as one of the authors of the page that you quote, it does not apply to this situation at all.

Feb 14 2016, 11:22 AM · Reading Web Sprint 62 - DJ-Jazzy-Jeff-and-the-Fresh-Sprints, Epic, RelatedArticles, Reading-Admin, Readers-Community-Engagement, Reading-Web-Planning, Mobile-Web-Design
Matthiasb added a comment to T122260: [GOAL] Promote related pages to production (on for everyone) on all wikis.

Please read :w:de:Wikipedia:Themenring. This extension must be deactivated for DE:WP ASAP.

Feb 14 2016, 12:59 AM · Goal, Phlogiston-Category, Epic, Reading-Web-Planning, RelatedArticles, Readers-Community-Engagement, Reading-Admin
Matthiasb added a comment to T94906: [EPIC] Read more related articles after end of current article.

This has to be deactivated for the German Wikipedia ASAP (and never should have been activated) since the German WP does have editoral rules with which this tool does not comply, namely w:de:Wikipedia:Themenring. Why you never ask before you invent such a tool (which in measures of sense does not deliver any useful content as well)

Feb 14 2016, 12:57 AM · Reading Web Sprint 62 - DJ-Jazzy-Jeff-and-the-Fresh-Sprints, Epic, RelatedArticles, Reading-Admin, Readers-Community-Engagement, Reading-Web-Planning, Mobile-Web-Design

Jan 21 2016

Matthiasb added a comment to T64338: TemplateData: Be able to specify templates that go with this template (e.g. "openedBy", "closedBy") for multi-part templates.

Deprecating this won't do good. Such templates are state of the art in list article editing, are used in most English Wikipedia articles in the references in which <references/> or <references>... </references> is replaced by templates for a couple of years.

Jan 21 2016, 9:49 AM · VisualEditor-MediaWiki, VisualEditor, TemplateData