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Today

Samwilson added a comment to T415977: [wikireplicas] Create views for new wiki urwikisource.

WS Export has also recently started erroring with failures to connect to urwikisource_p.

Sun, Jun 7, 12:15 PM · Data-Services, cloud-services-team

Yesterday

Samwilson removed Due Date on T413556: Add rotate option to OCR tool.
Sat, Jun 6, 2:20 AM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson added a comment to T393674: Extension:RedirectManager: Add redirect templates.

Do the redirect templates need to be given parameters?

Sat, Jun 6, 2:19 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager

Fri, Jun 5

Samwilson added a comment to T413556: Add rotate option to OCR tool.

Thanks! Merged and released in 1.10.1.

Fri, Jun 5, 6:13 AM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR

Wed, Jun 3

Samwilson added a comment to T413556: Add rotate option to OCR tool.

e.g. https://ocr.wmcloud.org/?image=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fa%2Fac%2FNotes_and_collections_relating_to_the_parish_of_Aldridge%252C_Part_2.djvu%2Fpage57-1280px-Notes_and_collections_relating_to_the_parish_of_Aldridge%252C_Part_2.djvu.jpg%3Futm_source%3Den.wikisource.org%26utm_campaign%3Dindex%26utm_content%3Dthumbnail&engine=google&psm=3&line_id=null&rotate=90&crop%5Bx%5D=1081&crop%5By%5D=197&crop%5Bwidth%5D=828&crop%5Bheight%5D=131

Wed, Jun 3, 12:30 PM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson added a comment to T413556: Add rotate option to OCR tool.

@Okerekechinweotito It looks like there might be an issue when an image is rotated and cropped, it works when first requested, but the crop is shown with the wrong offset.

Wed, Jun 3, 12:23 PM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson added a comment to T413556: Add rotate option to OCR tool.

Merged and released in 1.10.0.

Wed, Jun 3, 12:21 PM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson placed T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools up for grabs.
Wed, Jun 3, 9:50 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Wikimedia-production-error

Tue, Jun 2

Samwilson archived Community-Tech (Fox Squad).
Tue, Jun 2, 7:09 AM
Samwilson added a comment to T411157: Success message is shown when there are errors.

@Ssein As r1265449 doesn't pass CI and hasn't been worked on since submission, I'd say it's okay to continue working on your r1252657 patch and to get it sorted out. It sounds like it might be good to break things up into a few different patches, if there are separate unrelated bugs to fix.

Tue, Jun 2, 6:01 AM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson placed T417847: Add labels field to watchstar popup up for grabs.
Tue, Jun 2, 12:41 AM · Moderator-Tools-Team, MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.26; 2026-04-28), User-notice, OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson placed T342726: Remove the $wgEnableEditRecovery feature flag up for grabs.
Tue, Jun 2, 12:40 AM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, Edit Recovery

Mon, Jun 1

Samwilson added a comment to T244135: Publish current version of QRpedia code in a public code repository.

Exactly, that's the question.

Mon, Jun 1, 7:51 AM · QRpedia-General
Samwilson added a comment to T245907: Make QRpedia codes become permanent links.

The Free Knowledge Portal tool is based on using Wikidata IDs in the QR codes.

Mon, Jun 1, 7:13 AM · QRpedia-General

Sat, May 30

Samwilson updated the task description for T427702: Headings are not translated on Special:Version/Credits.
Sat, May 30, 8:51 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Samwilson updated the task description for T427702: Headings are not translated on Special:Version/Credits.
Sat, May 30, 7:09 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Samwilson added a comment to T427702: Headings are not translated on Special:Version/Credits.

It might be best to just pull in the contributors list from that file, and not the headings and link to Translatewiki.net ("Translators on translatewiki.net and others"), then those bits can be added as messages and translated normally.

Sat, May 30, 7:09 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Samwilson created T427702: Headings are not translated on Special:Version/Credits.
Sat, May 30, 6:56 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Thu, May 28

Samwilson moved T383002: Request to enable "Google Cloud Vision OCR" to recognize additional diacritic letters on Wikisource from Backlog to Google on the Wikimedia OCR board.
Thu, May 28, 9:32 AM · Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson updated the task description for T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.
Thu, May 28, 9:32 AM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson closed T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab as Resolved.

The remaining occurrences of wikimedia-ocr in wikis are historical and look like they don't need to be updated: https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=wikimedia%5C-ocr&regex=1&namespaces=&title=

Thu, May 28, 9:30 AM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson updated the task description for T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.
Thu, May 28, 9:11 AM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson added a comment to T413556: Add rotate option to OCR tool.

The OCR tool Git repo has now moved to GitLab. Sorry to make extra work, but could any still-active PRs above please be pushed to https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/ocr instead of GitHub? Thanks!

Thu, May 28, 9:07 AM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson added a comment to T427132: Provide title 'pattern' suggestions for redirects.

For the {number} pattern we could do it in one query probably, e.g. for A{number}:

Thu, May 28, 5:21 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager

Wed, May 27

Samwilson updated the task description for T427132: Provide title 'pattern' suggestions for redirects.
Wed, May 27, 7:19 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager
Samwilson added a comment to T427330: Two pages refuse to stay labelled.

Could there perhaps be some admin gadget or other, that is modifying these pages and submitting an empty value for the labels (i.e. deleting them all)?

Wed, May 27, 6:26 AM · Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels

Tue, May 26

Samwilson added a comment to T426516: Add edit tag for AutosuggestSitelink edits on Wikidata.

Released as 1.3.4: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AGadget-AutosuggestSitelink.js&diff=30591595&oldid=30521553

Tue, May 26, 3:56 PM · Wikidata, Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson updated the task description for T426516: Add edit tag for AutosuggestSitelink edits on Wikidata.
Tue, May 26, 3:37 PM · Wikidata, Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson renamed T427132: Provide title 'pattern' suggestions for redirects from Provide title 'patterns' for redirect pages to Provide title 'pattern' suggestions for redirects.
Tue, May 26, 9:38 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager

Sun, May 24

Samwilson created T427132: Provide title 'pattern' suggestions for redirects.
Sun, May 24, 7:36 AM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-RedirectManager

Fri, May 22

Samwilson placed T385138: Store generated ebooks up for grabs.
Fri, May 22, 1:24 PM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, WS Export
Samwilson placed T423975: Keyboard navigation is broken for watchstar popover up for grabs.
Fri, May 22, 1:00 PM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), OKR-Work, Watchlist-Labels, MediaWiki-User-Interface (actions), Accessibility, Community-Tech (Fox Squad)
Samwilson placed T419968: Notifications after assigning or removing watchlist labels can be inaccurate up for grabs.
Fri, May 22, 12:52 PM · Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels

Thu, May 21

Samwilson added a comment to T426934: reset(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given.

Good idea.

Thu, May 21, 3:48 PM · Community-Tech, SVG Translate Tool
Samwilson created T426934: reset(): Argument #1 ($array) must be of type array, null given.
Thu, May 21, 7:28 AM · Community-Tech, SVG Translate Tool

Wed, May 20

Samwilson added a comment to T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.

Updated some wikis:

Wed, May 20, 7:36 AM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech

Sun, May 17

Samwilson added a comment to T424818: [Cloud VPS alert][wikisource] Puppet failure on kraken-ocr.wikisource.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud.

Thanks @taavi! Next time we'll destroy and re-create with a clean image.

Sun, May 17, 4:55 PM · cloud-services-team, Cloud-VPS, Wikimedia OCR, Essential-Work, Community-Tech

Sat, May 9

Samwilson updated the task description for T362591: Remove submit button when nothing to submit.
Sat, May 9, 1:04 PM · AutosuggestSitelink, Community-Tech
Samwilson added a comment to T425651: Invalid JSON in ASL message translation.

MR 77 deployed in 1.3.3.

Sat, May 9, 12:38 PM · Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson closed T425117: Dialog has a fixed height resulting in unnecessary empty space as Resolved.

Deployed in 1.3.3.

Sat, May 9, 12:37 PM · Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink

May 8 2026

Samwilson updated subscribers of T425651: Invalid JSON in ASL message translation.

@HakanIST Does the nowrap fix above solve for your MR 77 changes as well?

May 8 2026, 6:00 PM · Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink

May 5 2026

Samwilson updated the task description for T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.
May 5 2026, 9:14 AM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson closed T425209: Update OCR tool's Translatewiki.net config from GitHub to Gitlab as Resolved.

Confirmed that a commit has been added to the new repo: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/toolforge-repos/ocr/-/commit/2709e8fc3379a1709212cf4c14d8e3f61773a353

May 5 2026, 9:13 AM · Patch-For-Review, translatewiki.net, GitLab (Project Migration), Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson closed T425209: Update OCR tool's Translatewiki.net config from GitHub to Gitlab, a subtask of T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab, as Resolved.
May 5 2026, 9:13 AM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech

May 4 2026

Samwilson added a comment to T417359: Remove $wgEnableWatchlistLabels feature flag.

Yes, the plan is that at some point it'll be unconditionally available on all wikis. We talked about leaving the feature flag in place, but the feeling is that MediaWiki already has so many config options and that each one adds a cost that isn't worth it in this case (similarly for watchlist expiry).

May 4 2026, 11:21 AM · Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson added a comment to T424818: [Cloud VPS alert][wikisource] Puppet failure on kraken-ocr.wikisource.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud.

I also can't log in. I guess SSH keys aren't being copied on to the server.

May 4 2026, 6:58 AM · cloud-services-team, Cloud-VPS, Wikimedia OCR, Essential-Work, Community-Tech
Samwilson added a comment to T425277: SVG Translate tool.

Thanks for these notes @Tohaomg. Adding a random image feature sounds interesting, could you create a separate task for that?

May 4 2026, 6:51 AM · SVG Translate Tool, Community-Tech

May 3 2026

Samwilson added a comment to T409263: AutoSuggest for disambiguations.

Released in 1.3.1.

May 3 2026, 9:16 AM · AutosuggestSitelink, Community-Tech
Samwilson closed T360187: Limit searches to only applicable item types (e.g. humans for Wikisource author pages) as Resolved.

Released in 1.3.1.

May 3 2026, 9:16 AM · Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson closed T362758: Support Template namespace as Resolved.
May 3 2026, 5:04 AM · Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson closed T425226: Separate API requests are made for each search result as Resolved.
May 3 2026, 5:04 AM · Community-Tech (Fox Squad), AutosuggestSitelink

May 2 2026

Samwilson reassigned T409263: AutoSuggest for disambiguations from Samwilson to HakanIST.
May 2 2026, 7:02 PM · AutosuggestSitelink, Community-Tech
Samwilson claimed T425226: Separate API requests are made for each search result.
May 2 2026, 6:56 PM · Community-Tech (Fox Squad), AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson created T425226: Separate API requests are made for each search result.
May 2 2026, 6:55 PM · Community-Tech (Fox Squad), AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson added a member for Trusted-Contributors: sweil.
May 2 2026, 5:53 PM
Samwilson added a comment to T415479: ZipArchive::addFile(): Argument #1 ($filepath) cannot be empty.

It looks like this has now turned into errors such as:

May 2 2026, 4:47 PM · Community-Tech, WS Export
Samwilson added a comment to T425081: Improve Watchlist title search functionality.

Does this sound okay (for now)?

image.png (80×684 px, 8 KB)

May 2 2026, 4:31 PM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Samwilson claimed T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.
May 2 2026, 4:23 PM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson moved T424818: [Cloud VPS alert][wikisource] Puppet failure on kraken-ocr.wikisource.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud from Backlog to Kraken on the Wikimedia OCR board.
May 2 2026, 4:10 PM · cloud-services-team, Cloud-VPS, Wikimedia OCR, Essential-Work, Community-Tech
Samwilson moved T403346: Add Arabic model to kraken OCR from Backlog to Kraken on the Wikimedia OCR board.
May 2 2026, 4:10 PM · Arabic-Sites, Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson updated the task description for T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.
May 2 2026, 2:12 PM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson created T425209: Update OCR tool's Translatewiki.net config from GitHub to Gitlab.
May 2 2026, 2:12 PM · Patch-For-Review, translatewiki.net, GitLab (Project Migration), Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson updated the task description for T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.
May 2 2026, 1:46 PM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson updated the task description for T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.
May 2 2026, 1:01 PM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson updated the task description for T420317: Migrate wikimedia/wikimedia-ocr from GitHub to GitLab.
May 2 2026, 11:30 AM · GitLab (Project Migration), Wikimedia OCR, Community-Tech
Samwilson moved T425185: Revert changes to watchlist star from Backlog to Assign labels while reading on the Watchlist-Labels board.
May 2 2026, 10:33 AM · Community-Tech (Fox Squad), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.26; 2026-04-28), MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson merged T425187: Page adds itself to a watchlist into T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools.
May 2 2026, 10:21 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Wikimedia-production-error
Samwilson merged task T425187: Page adds itself to a watchlist into T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools.
May 2 2026, 10:21 AM · Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson merged T425182: Dismissed Watch dialog unexpectedly reappears when scrolling page into T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools.
May 2 2026, 9:36 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Wikimedia-production-error
Samwilson merged task T425182: Dismissed Watch dialog unexpectedly reappears when scrolling page into T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools.
May 2 2026, 9:36 AM · Codex, Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson moved T425182: Dismissed Watch dialog unexpectedly reappears when scrolling page from Backlog to Assign labels while reading on the Watchlist-Labels board.
May 2 2026, 9:35 AM · Codex, Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson moved T425116: Watchstar popup "Organize watchlist" should close when pressing the Escape key from Backlog to Assign labels while reading on the Watchlist-Labels board.
May 2 2026, 8:40 AM · Accessibility, Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson moved T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools from Backlog to Assign labels while reading on the Watchlist-Labels board.
May 2 2026, 8:40 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Wikimedia-production-error
Samwilson moved T425072: When changing a page to be temporarily watched, the watchstar is not changed to a half-star from Backlog to Assign labels while reading on the Watchlist-Labels board.
May 2 2026, 8:40 AM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Regression, Expiring-Watchlist-Items, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson closed T362907: Autosuggest dialogue box to include Wikidata item for already linked articles as Resolved.

Released in 1.3.0.

May 2 2026, 7:10 AM · Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson closed T409263: AutoSuggest for disambiguations as Resolved.

Released in 1.3.0.

May 2 2026, 7:09 AM · AutosuggestSitelink, Community-Tech
Samwilson closed T409263: AutoSuggest for disambiguations, a subtask of T360187: Limit searches to only applicable item types (e.g. humans for Wikisource author pages), as Resolved.
May 2 2026, 7:09 AM · Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink
Samwilson added a comment to T425161: Watchlisting something, closing the panel, scrolling down, then pressing the "Home" key incorrectly re-opens the panel.

The scroll behaviour was (when it was a popover rather than a dialog) supposed to be that it'd close if you scrolled it off screen while it was open, and then re-open if you scrolled back.

May 2 2026, 4:35 AM · Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson merged T425161: Watchlisting something, closing the panel, scrolling down, then pressing the "Home" key incorrectly re-opens the panel into T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools.
May 2 2026, 4:33 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Wikimedia-production-error
Samwilson merged task T425161: Watchlisting something, closing the panel, scrolling down, then pressing the "Home" key incorrectly re-opens the panel into T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools.
May 2 2026, 4:33 AM · Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson claimed T425143: Watchstar causes ResizeObserver error; cannot unwatch page; breaks page tools.
May 2 2026, 4:31 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Wikimedia-production-error

May 1 2026

Samwilson added a comment to T425081: Improve Watchlist title search functionality.

The current search is also case-sensitive, including the initial character (which is always uppercase (for scripts that have uppercase)).

May 1 2026, 10:24 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Samwilson updated the task description for T425081: Improve Watchlist title search functionality.
May 1 2026, 10:24 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Samwilson added a comment to T417847: Add labels field to watchstar popup.

when clicking on Unwatch, the dialog should disappear

May 1 2026, 10:07 AM · Moderator-Tools-Team, MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.26; 2026-04-28), User-notice, OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson removed a watcher for Wikimedia-Hackathon-2026: Samwilson.
May 1 2026, 9:48 AM
Samwilson added a comment to T417847: Add labels field to watchstar popup.

A few people have said that one-click unwatching would be good, but I'm still not sure how that should work now that we've got watchlist labels — is unwatching more useful than being able to change the labels (or expiry) for a page? Because if you click to unwatch, then you also discard your labels. We thought about adding a second button next to the watchstar, but that's a lot more complicated (especially now that the watch link is also more likely to appear in the tools menu, if Reading Lists is enabled).

May 1 2026, 7:48 AM · Moderator-Tools-Team, MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.26; 2026-04-28), User-notice, OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson added a comment to T417847: Add labels field to watchstar popup.

Sorry about the bugs!

May 1 2026, 7:37 AM · Moderator-Tools-Team, MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.26; 2026-04-28), User-notice, OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson added a comment to T425033: Warning message persists after subsequent search returns results.

Thanks for this!

May 1 2026, 4:25 AM · Community-Tech, AutosuggestSitelink

Apr 30 2026

Samwilson added a comment to T206436: Add machine translation suggestions in the SVG translate tool.

I've tagged version 2.1.0 and deployed it. Thanks for all your work on this @Booksmurf! It's great.

Apr 30 2026, 1:03 PM · Patch-For-Review, Community-Tech, SVG Translate Tool

Apr 28 2026

Samwilson added a comment to T415479: ZipArchive::addFile(): Argument #1 ($filepath) cannot be empty.

MR 8 released and deployed in version 3.1.4.

Apr 28 2026, 11:56 PM · Community-Tech, WS Export
Samwilson closed T424543: Request new model to be added for Transkribus: "dabbasscript" as Resolved.

Merged and deployed in 1.9.4.

Apr 28 2026, 11:35 PM · Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson added a comment to T423013: visual regression: margin-top between dropdown options has increased.

I wasn't thinking right! :) Of course. No, it can stay closed, I just thought that perhaps someone had applied a local workaround in common.css or something.

Apr 28 2026, 3:29 AM · OKR-Work, Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Regression
Samwilson added a comment to T423013: visual regression: margin-top between dropdown options has increased.

Where are you seeing it fixed? The new code hasn't been deployed yet! :)

Apr 28 2026, 2:23 AM · OKR-Work, Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Regression
Samwilson moved T423975: Keyboard navigation is broken for watchstar popover from Feedback and Review to QA on the Community-Tech (Fox Squad) board.
Apr 28 2026, 12:59 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), OKR-Work, Watchlist-Labels, MediaWiki-User-Interface (actions), Accessibility, Community-Tech (Fox Squad)

Apr 27 2026

Samwilson added a comment to T416944: Add a page action to manage labels on a given page.

I think this task might be covered by T417847. Should we close as duplicate? Or is this also about the non-JS interface at ?action=watch? Which could certainly be improved! (Because it was never meant as a 'change watch' form.)

Apr 27 2026, 6:37 AM · Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson removed a project from T412304: Empty state message is incorrectly aligned: Community-Tech (Fox Squad).
Apr 27 2026, 6:31 AM · Community-Tech, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Watchlist-Labels
Samwilson moved T423975: Keyboard navigation is broken for watchstar popover from In Development to Feedback and Review on the Community-Tech (Fox Squad) board.

@TheresNoTime This is ready for review. I went with the idea that while the popover is open you should be able to tab through all of its focussable elements, returning to the watchstar (and shift-tabbing goes the other way around). Then, to get back to the normal tab flow, clicking enter on the watchstar closes the popover (which was raised in T423013). See what you think.

Apr 27 2026, 5:34 AM · MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.1; 2026-05-05), OKR-Work, Watchlist-Labels, MediaWiki-User-Interface (actions), Accessibility, Community-Tech (Fox Squad)
Samwilson added a comment to T423013: visual regression: margin-top between dropdown options has increased.

Clicking a not filled in star with the panel open, I'd expect it to perform a watch action (previous behavior). Instead it doesn't do anything.

Apr 27 2026, 5:32 AM · OKR-Work, Community-Tech (Fox Squad), Watchlist-Labels, Regression

Apr 25 2026

Samwilson added a comment to T383002: Request to enable "Google Cloud Vision OCR" to recognize additional diacritic letters on Wikisource.

That's all true, but I don't think there's much we can we do about it, unfortunately. We just send images to the Google API and get text back. We don't have any say in their algorithm.

Apr 25 2026, 11:46 PM · Community-Tech, Wikimedia OCR
Samwilson created T424433: Watchstar doesn't spin while loading on Vector-2022.
Apr 25 2026, 11:34 PM · Community-Tech, Watchlist-Labels