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Mar 23 2017, 5:56 PM (463 w, 4 d)
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Thu, Feb 5

OwenBlacker added a comment to T375981: Preferences settings for small image size are not being respected for Parsoid Read Views.

@Mr._Starfleet_Command @Jdlrobson-WMF Oh of course, that completely makes sense.

Thu, Feb 5, 10:34 PM · Patch-For-Review, Readers Essential Work 2025 (WE6.3.4 Fix bugs within the reading experience across platforms for Parsoid Read Views), OKR-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid-Read-Views (Small Size Wikipedias), Parsoid
OwenBlacker added a comment to T375981: Preferences settings for small image size are not being respected for Parsoid Read Views.

For what it's worth, I am one of the 53k users who has the pref set to 400px and in my case it is for accessibility.

Thu, Feb 5, 7:22 AM · Patch-For-Review, Readers Essential Work 2025 (WE6.3.4 Fix bugs within the reading experience across platforms for Parsoid Read Views), OKR-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Parsoid-Read-Views (Small Size Wikipedias), Parsoid

Jun 10 2025

OwenBlacker added a comment to T396269: [Epic] Charts should work at least for the use cases graphs had.

Ah, fair enough @Theklan; I found it worked really well with line charts, but I didn't even attempt it with other kinds, as I thought that might be the case 🙁

Jun 10 2025, 8:50 PM · Epic, Charts
OwenBlacker added a comment to T396269: [Epic] Charts should work at least for the use cases graphs had.

Are you mistakenly under the impression that existing uses of the graph extension will magically start working under charts?

Not magically. They should work, that's the point.

They will only work if someone ports them to the new system.

Jun 10 2025, 8:24 PM · Epic, Charts

Jul 29 2024

OwenBlacker added a comment to T365926: Develop or select a dark-friendlier color palette for syntax highlighting.

Playing with Inspector in my browser right now, even just putting in a blanket rule to knock colours down 3 (so #ffc#cca for templates, #eef#bbc for links, #fef#cbc for HTML tags, #eee#bbb for bold and italics, and so on) would be a more-than-adequate stopgap.

This task is about the display of pages with syntax highlighted blocks. You are probably looking for T365311: Syntax highlighter is broken on Dark Mode.

Jul 29 2024, 8:19 AM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.25; 2024-10-01), patch-welcome, dark-mode, Vector 2022 (Tracking), SyntaxHighlight

Jul 28 2024

OwenBlacker added a comment to T365926: Develop or select a dark-friendlier color palette for syntax highlighting.

This is blocked by T285859. We should open up style selection in Special:Preference and provide defaults for light and dark mode.

Jul 28 2024, 8:06 PM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.25; 2024-10-01), patch-welcome, dark-mode, Vector 2022 (Tracking), SyntaxHighlight

Jan 17 2023

OwenBlacker added a comment to T324639: Proposal: Hybrid event production for QueeringWikipedia 2023.

You're right, I used Linux Biolinum, I changed it now. The Wikipedia page of this font redirects to Linux Libertine so I mixed things up. Thank you!

Jan 17 2023, 9:07 PM · Outreachy (Round 25)

Jan 15 2023

OwenBlacker added a comment to T324639: Proposal: Hybrid event production for QueeringWikipedia 2023.

Hey, just looking at the new logo — which looks amazing; good job! — you mention the font Linux Libertine for the text "2023 Conference", but I think that is not the case. Do you mean, perhaps, that that text is in Linux Biolinum? Or maybe that the "QW" is on Linux Libertine?

Jan 15 2023, 9:40 AM · Outreachy (Round 25)

Oct 6 2022

OwenBlacker added a watcher for acl*outreachy-mentors: OwenBlacker.
Oct 6 2022, 8:54 AM

Sep 1 2022

OwenBlacker added a comment to T263908: Article on Carles Puigdemont has inflated pageviews in many projects.

@JArguello-WMF Thank you 💖

Sep 1 2022, 8:55 PM · Analytics-Kanban, Pageviews-Anomaly

Aug 31 2022

OwenBlacker added a comment to T263908: Article on Carles Puigdemont has inflated pageviews in many projects.

Thank you @Pelajanela; I have added screenshots for cywiki (Welsh)

Aug 31 2022, 1:35 PM · Analytics-Kanban, Pageviews-Anomaly
OwenBlacker updated subscribers of T263908: Article on Carles Puigdemont has inflated pageviews in many projects.

@JArguello-WMF : Any chance of an update sometime soon, please? Even an update as simple as “This is on our backlog at priority X and is unlikely to be addressed before January 2024" or something would be more than we currently know 😅

Aug 31 2022, 11:57 AM · Analytics-Kanban, Pageviews-Anomaly

May 5 2022

OwenBlacker added a comment to T304733: View 'centralauth_p.localuser' references invalid table/column/rights to use them.

Looks like stalktoy is working now, as a result — someone should presumably remove the “it’s broken” banner

May 5 2022, 10:32 AM · DBA, cloud-services-team (Kanban), Data-Engineering-Kanban, Data-Engineering, Data-Services

Apr 23 2022

OwenBlacker added a comment to T304733: View 'centralauth_p.localuser' references invalid table/column/rights to use them.

Stalktoy is still down due to this error (see, for example https://meta.toolforge.org/stalktoy/OwenBlacker).

Apr 23 2022, 2:32 PM · DBA, cloud-services-team (Kanban), Data-Engineering-Kanban, Data-Engineering, Data-Services

Jan 27 2022

OwenBlacker added a comment to T263908: Article on Carles Puigdemont has inflated pageviews in many projects.

Even better would be exclude those robots, obviously, but it's really frustrating seeing it every time I use the Android app — currently the top 5 articles on the Welsh Wicipedia are Carles Puigdemont: 4k views, Microsoft 51 views, Katarzyna Kobro 47 views, Wyn Calvin 43 views, Cymraeg (the Welsh language) 40 views.

Jan 27 2022, 10:12 AM · Analytics-Kanban, Pageviews-Anomaly

Apr 27 2019

OwenBlacker created T222020: Add monolingual language code clc (Tsilhqotʹin).
Apr 27 2019, 9:32 PM · Language codes, Wikidata-Campsite (Wikidata-Campsite-Iteration-∞ (On Hold)), Wikidata

Mar 23 2017

OwenBlacker added a comment to T64661: Echo: Emailed Notifications for new usertalkpage messages should include more or all of the message.

I'm the Twitter user in question — the problem I'm complaining about is that User:MediaWiki message delivery fails to provide an excerpt. That might be because there's a bunch of divs confusing matters, but it's only ever those messages that fail to get any useful detail in the Echo email.

Mar 23 2017, 6:00 PM · Regression, MediaWiki-Email, Notifications (Echo)