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I'm an active volunteer at English Wikipedia, occasionally venturing into other Wikimedia projects. To learn more, please visit my English Wikipedia profile. I also have a profile on Meta.

Recent Activity

Tue, Nov 7

Sdkb added a comment to T347756: [L] Redesign choosing Creative Commons license for own work.

I think that the choice to not have a default license for own work is a really bad decision. See discussion here.

Tue, Nov 7, 4:38 AM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.5; 2023-11-14), Patch-For-Review, Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work), UploadWizard

Oct 4 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T338534: Generate a design that accommodates multiple comment- and topic-level actions.

This looks good overall! I was about to make a similar comment to @Tacsipacsi's, though, about "thanks" being a weird option in the topic-level menu. If it is retained there, changing the text to something like "thank topic creator" might clarify a bit.

Oct 4 2023, 7:32 AM · Editing-team (Tracking), Design, DiscussionTools
Sdkb updated subscribers of T304579: Define user experience for when it is ambiguous what page permalink should lead you to.

For comments that have been archived, it may be helpful to look to the find-archived-section gadget from @SD0001 as inspiration. Many experienced editors have this turned on, and it tends to work well.

Oct 4 2023, 7:26 AM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), Design, TPP-Phase1, Goal, DiscussionTools
Sdkb added a comment to T348099: Add a code line count to the AWB edit box.

Welp, that is both a very helpful thing to know, and also points to a severe UI failure of AWB that I've been using it for 18,000 edits and only now just discovered that feature. (I was previously only aware of the double-left-clicking to remove changes to a particular paragraph.)

Oct 4 2023, 7:19 AM · AutoWikiBrowser
Sdkb added a comment to T346849: Introduce a machine-readable format for storing source reliability consensus.

Can you please say a bit more about where/why the support you have for such a system comes from? Asked in another way: what positive impact(s) do you think a more standardized system has potential to deliver?

Oct 4 2023, 7:11 AM · Editing-team, EditCheck, VisualEditor
Sdkb created T348099: Add a code line count to the AWB edit box.
Oct 4 2023, 6:09 AM · AutoWikiBrowser

Sep 20 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T346849: Introduce a machine-readable format for storing source reliability consensus.

This is an interesting, potentially tricky task. The creation of RSP in the first place was controversial, although it's grown more accepted over time. The refrain of opponents is "it's always contextual, and trying to codify it is flattening". Personally, I support a more standardized system, which is what you're going for here, but just be aware that it's a consensus you'll likely have to fight for, and the less expressive the system you propose is, the harder that fight will be.

Sep 20 2023, 11:14 PM · Editing-team, EditCheck, VisualEditor

Aug 20 2023

Sdkb created T344575: Image sizes in VisualEditor do not render accurately.
Aug 20 2023, 7:15 PM · VisualEditor

Aug 15 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T274432: References that are identical in everything but the name are not merged.

@Whatamidoing-WMF, I'd be interested to see those discussions if you can find them. But that doesn't seem like a very coherent objection. We already have the ability to reuse references normally, and that's the standard best practice when wanting to use the same reference twice, creating the same 1-2-1 display. Anyone who dislikes that configuration is out of step with consensus (we could run a poll if anyone doubts this and wants it confirmed) and violating DRY. All this ticket is doing is seeking to patch a hole in what is already established software behavior.

Aug 15 2023, 4:23 PM · Parsoid, VisualEditor, WMDE-References-FocusArea, Cite

Aug 12 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T224533: WD within WP watchlists: Allow hiding changes to descriptions used in other languages.

I am wondering if this and T224532 should be separate preferences or if we can get away with one. Would aprechiate some input from @Charlie_WMDE and people working on the new watchlist.

How about changes to labels?

Aug 12 2023, 12:07 AM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist, Wikidata

Aug 10 2023

Sdkb changed the subtype of T44581: HTML entities inside of nowiki tags won't be escaped from "Task" to "Bug Report".

It's a bug, and is interfering with my ability to communicate e.g. here.

Aug 10 2023, 11:07 PM · MediaWiki-Parser

Aug 9 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T263821: [Intervention] Introduce New Topic Notifications (desktop).

See https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Xnih5bh8hqbseivl, where I've requested a special page that lists a user's subscriptions.

Aug 9 2023, 11:03 PM · User-notice-archive, Verified, Editing-team (Kanban Board), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.1; 2023-03-20), Design, DiscussionTools
Sdkb added a comment to T284795: Introduce ability to subscribe to all of the conversations on a talk page.

This appears to have been effectively resolved through T263821. If someone really wants both current and future topics, they can just subscribe to future ones and then manually subscribe to all the current ones. I think we can close this as declined/fulfilled elsewhere.

Aug 9 2023, 10:50 PM · DiscussionTools

Aug 3 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T150582: Support two-factor authentication in AutoWikiBrowser.

Why is it a significant issue? There is a clearly documented workaround

Aug 3 2023, 8:28 PM · Bot-Frameworks, AutoWikiBrowser

Aug 2 2023

Restricted Application added a project to T150582: Support two-factor authentication in AutoWikiBrowser: MediaWiki-Platform-Team.

Have there been any updates on this? 2FA usage has risen substantially since this ticket was opened, so this is a quite significant issue.

Aug 2 2023, 12:29 AM · Bot-Frameworks, AutoWikiBrowser

Aug 1 2023

Sdkb created T343186: Page preview not working.
Aug 1 2023, 6:58 AM · Page-Previews

Jul 24 2023

Sdkb updated the task description for T334940: All Graphs broken on Wikimedia wikis (due to security issue T336556).
Jul 24 2023, 5:35 PM · User-zeljkofilipin, Regression, User-notice, Tech Ambassadors & Translators, MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

Jul 22 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T341533: [SPIKE] Decide how/where we'll store reference check decline responses .

Thanks for the update! Looking at the listed drawbacks, the first two seem valid, although given that we're already planning to allow the editor to choose the decline reason, having it be editable in the summary isn't really giving them control over anything they weren't already able to control themselves. Regarding the edit summary limit, that could be seen as a feature rather than a bug. We don't want super long edit summaries in anyone's watchlist, and the automatically added decline reason would count toward the optimal limit just as other info would.

Jul 22 2023, 9:10 PM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), Design, EditCheck, VisualEditor

Jul 21 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T341535: Offer people who decline to add a reference follow-up actions and learning opportunities .

I'd be interested to see what sort of edits fall into the third category, but I'd hazard a guess that many of them are not actually going to be [[WP:BLUESKY]] things. The follow-up action might be a dialogue that raises [[WP:BURDEN]]. Basically, to the new editor, "it's easy enough to Google this" might seem reasonable, but to a vandalism patroller going through hundreds of edits, they don't have time to Google each one — they're just going to revert with the default uncited summary. The person adding an edit is always the one best positioned to add the reference, since they already have it on hand, so pushing them a bit to add it may reduce the burden on others/result in more new content getting preserved.

Jul 21 2023, 2:36 AM · EditCheck, VisualEditor

Jul 20 2023

MusikAnimal awarded T342402: Add an approximate count of a user's non-automated edits to the main XTools edit count page a Love token.
Jul 20 2023, 10:31 PM · XTools
Sdkb created T342402: Add an approximate count of a user's non-automated edits to the main XTools edit count page.
Jul 20 2023, 10:30 PM · XTools

Jul 19 2023

Sdkb added a parent task for T342289: Request increased quota for cyberbot project: T342168: Move IABot Management Interface to Cloud VPS.
Jul 19 2023, 8:22 PM · cloud-services-team, Cloud-VPS (Quota-requests)
Sdkb added a subtask for T342168: Move IABot Management Interface to Cloud VPS: T342289: Request increased quota for cyberbot project.
Jul 19 2023, 8:22 PM · User-Harej, InternetArchiveBot
Sdkb added a comment to T342168: Move IABot Management Interface to Cloud VPS.

This ticket was prompted by this discussion on how IABot is unable to process articles above a certain (relatively low) size limit. Per Harej, it is not possible to increase the size limit without making this transition.

Jul 19 2023, 3:55 PM · User-Harej, InternetArchiveBot

Jul 12 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T341533: [SPIKE] Decide how/where we'll store reference check decline responses .

The edit summary would seem to be the logical place for this to me, since this is ultimately information about the edit they're making, and the edit summary is where we store meta-information about edits.

Jul 12 2023, 3:32 PM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), Design, EditCheck, VisualEditor

Jul 8 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T274432: References that are identical in everything but the name are not merged.

@Novem_Linguae, thanks for taking a look at this. For your first question, I care a lot more about what happens in the published version for the reader than what happens in VisualEditor. If they display as two different independent citations in VE, and then only get merged in the display output once the edit is published, that's fine.

Jul 8 2023, 9:23 PM · Parsoid, VisualEditor, WMDE-References-FocusArea, Cite

Jun 7 2023

Sdkb created T338390: Discussion Tools should create automatic edit summaries from substituted templates containing headers.
Jun 7 2023, 9:03 PM · Verified, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.18; 2023-07-18), Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools
Sdkb created T338385: Can require two key presses to move the cursor / navigate in source mode.
Jun 7 2023, 8:41 PM · Editing-team, DiscussionTools

May 24 2023

Sdkb updated the task description for T337360: The new discussion tool should provide guidance to discourage talk forks.
May 24 2023, 6:18 AM · DiscussionTools
Sdkb created T337360: The new discussion tool should provide guidance to discourage talk forks.
May 24 2023, 6:12 AM · DiscussionTools

May 19 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T6469: Provide per-namespace site notices.

@SD0001, just circling back to check in on this, as we were previously discussing notices for draftspace. Is what's currently needed someone to review the patch?

May 19 2023, 5:00 AM · Patch-Needs-Improvement, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.19; 2022-01-24), MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture, MediaWiki-Interface

May 15 2023

Sdkb created T336708: Improve target when users click on the license in the MediaViewer lightbox.
May 15 2023, 10:18 PM · Wikimedia-Hackathon-2023, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.10; 2023-05-23), MediaViewer

Apr 4 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T301787: [Design spike] Explore options for one-click language switching.

Our goal should be to get people the best information on the content. It's not surprising that some are going to be confused by a suggestion to switch to a language they don't speak, since most don't understand that different language versions are not just translations of the same content. But that doesn't mean we should give up and just have them read the inferior version. It means that the interface needs to do a better job of teaching them that the different language versions will differ in quality, and that a particular language is being suggested because it appears to be higher-quality.

Apr 4 2023, 5:03 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Apr 3 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T301787: [Design spike] Explore options for one-click language switching.

When will we show the links (e.g. only after you've switched languages once, etc.)?
Which links will we show? (this might already be handled by the existing compact language links logic?)

Apr 3 2023, 11:34 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Mar 30 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T275729: Comment permalinks: design and implement user experience.

Approach #2, embedding within timestamps, seems reasonable to me.

Mar 30 2023, 7:01 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.29; 2023-10-03), Editing-team (Kanban Board), Goal, TPP-Phase1, Design, DiscussionTools

Mar 7 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T324134: Communication: connecting Thanks to a specific edit .

As some initial community input, I'm glad to see this being taken up, as I've been wanting T51087 to be addressed for a while.

Mar 7 2023, 6:34 AM · CommRel-Specialists-Support, Growth-Team, Growth-Positive-Reinforcement

Mar 3 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T51087: Specify which edit was thanked in Special:Log/thanks, both for private and public records' sake, if configured to do so.

This task relates to T248330, in that when a mentee potentially worthy of praise is surfaced to me, this feature would help me to be able to review the edits for which they were thanked when determined whether/how to praise them.

Mar 3 2023, 10:55 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, Thanks
Sdkb added a comment to T324730: Create the heuristic that will [initially] trigger the reference check.

Very good point, @Xaosflux. The draft and user namespaces are very often where newcomers write articles, and we'll absolutely want the edit checks to come up when that's happening. Userspace may present a challenge, since sometimes it's just used to create one's userpage or to keep track of tasks, which are not scenarios where we want to prompt people to add references.

Mar 3 2023, 4:13 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.3; 2023-04-03), Editing-team (Kanban Board), EditCheck, VisualEditor

Mar 2 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T324730: Create the heuristic that will [initially] trigger the reference check.

Description
This task involves the work of defining initially trigger the reference check to be activated and presented to people.

I don't understand this description. Defining what?

Mar 2 2023, 4:40 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.3; 2023-04-03), Editing-team (Kanban Board), EditCheck, VisualEditor

Feb 27 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T330574: Links to comments on old page revisions go to the current version.

@Aklapper , sorry if there was any miscategorization. My understanding was that @Esanders' script represents the prototype version of a feature that will be rolled out as part of the talk pages project, which is why I categorized it here. Ed, feel free to forward/adjust the task so that it reaches wherever it needs to.

Feb 27 2023, 9:06 PM · DiscussionTools

Feb 25 2023

Sdkb created T330574: Links to comments on old page revisions go to the current version.
Feb 25 2023, 4:28 PM · DiscussionTools

Feb 22 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T327330: Invite Senior Contributors to share input about initial Edit Check approach.

Do you think a page like Edit check/Ideas mediawiki.org would work?

Yes, that would be great! Really, the potential domain for this is everything that goes against best practice but isn't so universally guaranteed bad that we block it with an edit filter or fix it with a bot. That's a huge domain that encompasses a good portion of how experienced editors spend our time, and while not everything in it is potentially machine-readable, a sizeable portion of it is.

Feb 22 2023, 12:34 AM · Goal, Editing-team (Tracking), EditCheck, VisualEditor
Sdkb added a comment to T329593: Prompt people to contextualize why they are declining to reference new content they are adding.

Ah, that makes sense!

Feb 22 2023, 12:23 AM · Verified, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.26; 2023-09-12), Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Design, EditCheck, VisualEditor

Feb 21 2023

Sdkb awarded T330108: Various gadgets and extensions cause scroll position to shift after page load on Vector 2022 when linking to section a Yellow Medal token.
Feb 21 2023, 3:47 AM · Editing-team (Tracking), Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Web-Team-Backlog (Web Team FY2022-23 Q3 Sprint 3), MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.25; 2023-02-27), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Feb 6 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T327330: Invite Senior Contributors to share input about initial Edit Check approach.

if someone is trying to add references to the lead, they should probably be informed of LEADCITE and told they should probably place them in the body instead.

This isn't true. That guideline says things like "Any statements about living persons that are challenged or likely to be challenged must have an inline citation every time they are mentioned, including within the lead" and "The presence of citations in the introduction is neither required in every article nor prohibited in any article."

Feb 6 2023, 9:13 AM · Goal, Editing-team (Tracking), EditCheck, VisualEditor

Feb 2 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T327330: Invite Senior Contributors to share input about initial Edit Check approach.

What rules ought to determine whether a change someone is making warrants the reference check being triggered?

I think the ideal situation here is one where there's a medium-importance issue — one not so dire that it warrants an abuse filter, but also not one so minor it can easily just be fixed up later. There are also some issues that are easier to fix when they're introduced rather than later on — citations is the big one here, since it's so much easier for someone to just add the source they used than for someone later to try to find it.

Feb 2 2023, 5:10 AM · Goal, Editing-team (Tracking), EditCheck, VisualEditor
Sdkb added a comment to T327330: Invite Senior Contributors to share input about initial Edit Check approach.

Thinking ahead, what other kinds of checks can you imagine being useful/valuable?

Oh, so many! I'd look through the editnotices to find a bunch of examples, as well as the abuse filters, maintenance tags, and guidance pages. Here are some (some for more specific situations than others):

  • Adds a redlinked entry to a dynamic list
  • Adds an image lacking alt text to an article related to accessibility, e.g. Blindness
  • Links to a projectspace page from the mainspace body of an article
  • Links to a disambiguation page from an article body (already implemented)
  • Uses a word from a variety of English different from the one the article is tagged as having
  • Uses a word that is likely a typo
  • Adds a section titled "criticism" or "controversy"
  • Adds a link to an article that is already linked in that section (very likely a WP:DUPLINK violation)
  • Adds a reference with the same URL as an existing reference (likely a duplicate)
  • Uses a relative time word like "recently" in an article body
  • Use a word or phrase indicating a likely personal attack on a talk page
  • Adds a reference containing only a bare URL
  • Adds an external link in an article body
  • Adds many entries to an external links section (likely a violation of WP:ELNO)
  • Uses a phrase indicative of likely promotional language (e.g. "mission statement", "award-winning")
  • Expands a section titled "Plot" beyond, say, 1400 words (recommend max length is 700)
  • Uses a word or phrase listed at MOS:Words to Watch
  • Adds a link to a word that is likely an overlink (e.g. a year, or a major country/language/ethnicity/etc.)
  • Adds an image gallery to an article on an ethnicity (likely a violation of MOS:PEOPLEGALLERY)
  • Adds a short description longer than 40 characters (see WP:SDSHORT)
  • Adds a very long quote (likely a summary style violation, if not also a copyright one)
  • Adds an article to a category when the article is already in a subcategory

You'd find many more examples talking to other editors. The potential extent of the applications is staggering, which is one reason I hope that once this feature is more fully developed it'll be possible for the community to create our own ones without developer assistance, just as we currently do for e.g. edit filters.

Feb 2 2023, 5:02 AM · Goal, Editing-team (Tracking), EditCheck, VisualEditor
Sdkb created T328629: Improve VisualEditor category suggestions to better handle capitalization.
Feb 2 2023, 3:57 AM · VisualEditor

Jan 28 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T327330: Invite Senior Contributors to share input about initial Edit Check approach.
  • What patterns have you noticed in the newcomers/edits you feel compelled to assist with (e.g. write a personalized message on their talk page, add a reference to a content addition that lacked one)?
  • What patterns have you noticed in the newcomers/edits you do not feel compelled to assist with (e.g. revert the edits they made, post a templated warning message on their talk page)
Jan 28 2023, 6:42 AM · Goal, Editing-team (Tracking), EditCheck, VisualEditor
Sdkb added a comment to T327330: Invite Senior Contributors to share input about initial Edit Check approach.

What additional information/context might you find helpful in assessing the quality of an edit and the intentions of the person making it so that you can decide how best to respond to it/them?

Jan 28 2023, 6:30 AM · Goal, Editing-team (Tracking), EditCheck, VisualEditor
Sdkb added a comment to T327330: Invite Senior Contributors to share input about initial Edit Check approach.
  • What edits that involve people adding net new content do NOT require an accompanying reference?

Bad edits.

Jan 28 2023, 5:52 AM · Goal, Editing-team (Tracking), EditCheck, VisualEditor

Jan 19 2023

Sdkb added a comment to T293470: Easier language switching from Main page.

@Jdlrobson I'm not quite sure what you mean. Is it this? I continue to think that this is the best design option we have with the current en-WP homepage:

Concept of Wikipedia Main Page with no portals and language link.png (480×1 px, 202 KB)

Jan 19 2023, 7:37 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.13; 2021-12-13), User-notice, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)
Sdkb added a comment to T293470: Easier language switching from Main page.

Personally, that does not look at all good to me. It creates a blank space, pushing the actual content of the main page down.

Jan 19 2023, 4:05 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.13; 2021-12-13), User-notice, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Jan 9 2023

Sdkb created T326599: Add ability to create Wikidata constraint violations based on rank.
Jan 9 2023, 11:17 PM · Wikibase-Quality-Constraints, Wikidata

Jan 1 2023

Sdkb assigned T271968: Upload wizard should automatically update public domain year in mwe-upwiz-license-pd-old-70-1923 and mwe-upwiz-license-pd-us to MarkTraceur.
Jan 1 2023, 7:23 PM · Commons, UploadWizard
Sdkb added a comment to T271968: Upload wizard should automatically update public domain year in mwe-upwiz-license-pd-old-70-1923 and mwe-upwiz-license-pd-us.

@MarkTraceur, you are listed as the contact person for the UploadWizard. Could you look into addressing this?

Jan 1 2023, 7:23 PM · Commons, UploadWizard
Sdkb added a comment to T326045: Update UploadWizard's "1927" messages for so-old-they're-PD-in-the-US to 1928, now that it's 2023.

Thanks for making the request, @Koavf. We're in the ridiculous situation where we have to request this every year because T271968 has not been handled.

Jan 1 2023, 7:01 PM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.17; 2023-01-02), UploadWizard

Dec 8 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T305424: Tell editors that syntax highlighting option exists.

Agreed with MusikAnimal.

Dec 8 2022, 11:41 PM · Design, VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor, WikiEditor, MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror
Sdkb added a comment to T288161: Enable CodeMirror's Syntax Highlighting on English Wikipedia by default.

As can be seen from previous comments, the community asked for something , discussion ensued, a solution was not yet found.

Dec 8 2022, 11:37 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Sdkb added a comment to T317817: [EPIC] Positive Reinforcement: Personalized Praise.

(unsubscribing to reduce my notifications, but feel free to ping me in replies)

Dec 8 2022, 11:18 PM · Growth-Team, GrowthExperiments-Mentorship, GrowthExperiments-PersonalizedPraise, Growth-Positive-Reinforcement, Epic
Sdkb added a comment to T317817: [EPIC] Positive Reinforcement: Personalized Praise.

Overall, this seems like it'd be a nice feature to have!

Dec 8 2022, 11:17 PM · Growth-Team, GrowthExperiments-Mentorship, GrowthExperiments-PersonalizedPraise, Growth-Positive-Reinforcement, Epic

Nov 16 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T51904: Support "substituting" templates in transclusion dialog.

@matmarex , the unsubst module can be used in most cases to prevent inexperienced editors from accidentally using substitution erroneously. Beyond that, a better version of TemplateData would allow for instruction about substitution for each template.

Nov 16 2022, 1:55 AM · MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.10; 2022-11-14), VisualEditor, VisualEditor-EditingTools

Nov 4 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T296795: Table sorting arrow recoloring.

You're welcome to have a purist view of styling on Wikipedia, but until consensus develops otherwise, such styling exists, and even if it were banned on Wikipedia, there are plenty of other MediaWiki projects that use it. Unless we plan to disable the ability to recolor table backgrounds, we should work to make them accessible.

Nov 4 2022, 4:14 AM · Accessibility, MediaWiki-Interface (Tables)

Oct 27 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T296795: Table sorting arrow recoloring.

That's not a viable solution. Currently, the only available arrow color is black, so the only background colors that would sufficiently contrast with it would be light ones. But there are plenty of MediaWiki applications that use darker backgrounds with lighter text, which is a perfectly valid and accessible design choice — except for the current arrows. This task should be taken up to resolve that issue.

Oct 27 2022, 4:22 AM · Accessibility, MediaWiki-Interface (Tables)

Sep 12 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T314973: Improve Topic Subscription support for discussions that are merged, moved, or deleted.

I have some concerns about the notifications that were just introduced for topic archiving. Quoting myself from here:

Sep 12 2022, 12:36 AM · DiscussionTools

Sep 9 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T244818: Add width (e.g. 500px or 80%) and alignment (Left/Center/Right) parameters to "Table properties" dialog in VisualEditor.

@Whatamidoing-WMF appears to be the community relations person for that team; could you point us to the right person to ask about this?

Sep 9 2022, 4:36 AM · Editing-team, Patch-For-Review, VisualEditor, VisualEditor-Tables

Aug 21 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T4700: Pre-save transform skips extensions using wikitext (gallery, references, footnotes, Cite, status indicators, pipe trick, subst, signatures).

Here's another possible use case that is blocked by this bug.

Aug 21 2022, 11:28 PM · Patch-Needs-Improvement, Cite, Epic, MediaWiki-Parser

Aug 19 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T315705: Improve how DiscussionTools search handles capitalization.

@DLynch, it was here. Thanks for looking into this!

Aug 19 2022, 11:12 PM · DiscussionTools
Sdkb created T315705: Improve how DiscussionTools search handles capitalization.
Aug 19 2022, 10:29 PM · DiscussionTools

Aug 13 2022

Sdkb updated subscribers of T300942: Add notice to Visual Editor that unsourced edits may be reverted.

I've previously raised a similar thing here. @Whatamidoing-WMF pointed out that there's already a notice of sorts for new editors trying out VisualEditor. We made some adjustments to the wording, stored here (see the talk page), so I'm not sure there's all that much else to do.

Aug 13 2022, 10:42 PM · Community-Wishlist-Survey-2023, EditCheck, VisualEditor
Sdkb updated subscribers of T314867: Find appropriate name for "beginning" section of ToC .

I'd like to see this ticket (or another related one) include an exploration of design options, not just name options. I'm not sure you'll ever find a word that's completely unambiguous, but there are lots of other ways to set it off to make it clear it's not a section. Brainstorming some of those:

Aug 13 2022, 9:50 PM · Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-2022-23-Q1)

Jul 29 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T281974: Fix alignment of coordinates and page indicators (Vector 2022).

I'm fully with @Xaosflux here — the major distinction is things about the page vs. things about the topic, and coordinates are clearly about the topic, compared to protection icons/GA and FA stars/etc. which are about the page. One way to conceptualize it: If Wikipedia didn't exist, would this thing still be relevant? If so, it's about the topic, not the page.

Jul 29 2022, 4:19 AM · Web-Team-Backlog, Reading-Web-Local-Wiki-Issues, Vector (legacy skin), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Jul 28 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T281974: Fix alignment of coordinates and page indicators (Vector 2022).

@Xaosflux, I really like your thought of separating content from meta things.

Regarding the meta things, I think for protection, that should be associated with the edit button, since the main question for most people related to protection is "can I, with my current permissions, edit this page"? Minerva Neue handles this quite well, where if you can edit the page, you get an edit button, and if not, it's grayed out or locked or something and explains why. There's a bit of value also for just letting readers know the protection level so that they can understand how vulnerable the article they're reading may be to vandalism, but that's secondary and I don't think requires a very prominent notifier.

For good/featured indicators, I've been advocating for a while that they should be moved to the end of the article title to make them more prominent. I touch on that a bit here with links to prior discussion.

Jul 28 2022, 3:49 AM · Web-Team-Backlog, Reading-Web-Local-Wiki-Issues, Vector (legacy skin), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Jul 21 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T281974: Fix alignment of coordinates and page indicators (Vector 2022).

@Xaosflux, I really like your thought of separating content from meta things.

Jul 21 2022, 1:23 AM · Web-Team-Backlog, Reading-Web-Local-Wiki-Issues, Vector (legacy skin), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Jul 20 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T282494: Create field for username assistance at the Special:CreateAccount page.

I'm not sure about the technical aspects, but once the field is created, just lmk and we'll be able to implement the behavior we want (as shown in the mockup) on-wiki.

Jul 20 2022, 8:05 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.18; 2022-06-27), Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)), Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup

Jul 17 2022

Sdkb updated subscribers of T302011: [Release Ticket] Introduce permalinks on wikitext talk pages.

Thanks, @ppelberg! Trying it out, I like it. The main areas for improvement are things around the edges.

Jul 17 2022, 10:07 PM · Editing-team, TPP-Scaling, DiscussionTools

Jul 15 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T302011: [Release Ticket] Introduce permalinks on wikitext talk pages.

Thanks for merging the task, @Esanders! I thought I'd seen something about this before, so glad to know it's being actively considered. I'll unsubscribe from here to avoid a notification blizzard, but feel free to reach out here/on-wiki if you'd like feedback about the feature as you develop it.

Jul 15 2022, 9:21 PM · Editing-team, TPP-Scaling, DiscussionTools
Sdkb added a comment to T299286: Have software prevent draftspace pages from being placed in article categories.

@Xaosflux I'd guess the programmatic definition of an article category is one that's not tagged with the maintenance category template. But for our purposes here, I think we can consider any category that's not Category:Wikipedia drafts or one of its subcategories to be something suppressible in draft space.

Jul 15 2022, 8:44 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-ArticleCreationWorkflow
Sdkb added projects to T312257: Create easier way to link to talk page sections and comments: OWC2020, DiscussionTools, Editing-team.
Jul 15 2022, 8:37 PM · Editing-team, DiscussionTools, OWC2020, Talk Pages

Jul 9 2022

Sdkb added a project to T298170: Provide NUMBEROFVIEWS magic word (to directly give pageviews): PageViewInfo.
Jul 9 2022, 5:34 PM · PageViewInfo, MediaWiki-General

Jul 6 2022

Sdkb created T312257: Create easier way to link to talk page sections and comments.
Jul 6 2022, 5:40 PM · Editing-team, DiscussionTools, OWC2020, Talk Pages

May 28 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T282494: Create field for username assistance at the Special:CreateAccount page.

Thanks; that's exactly what I have in mind!

May 28 2022, 11:54 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.18; 2022-06-27), Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)), Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup

Apr 23 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T306246: PageImages ignores MediaWiki:Bad image list, (uses MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist instead) displaying search results that are inappropriate for some readers.

I fully concur with AlexisJazz and Ahecht here. This has a clear issue to resolve: make the search results ignore the bad image list. The possible bad outcomes are really bad—@Jdlrobson, can we note that this is a blocking issue for the deployment of New Vector?

Apr 23 2022, 9:19 PM · Foundational Technology Requests, Beta-Cluster-reproducible, Vector (legacy skin), MinervaNeue (Tracking), Reading-Web-Local-Wiki-Issues, Web-Team-Backlog, PageImages, MediaWiki-Search

Apr 19 2022

Sdkb updated subscribers of T293470: Easier language switching from Main page.

@Jdlrobson, per the prototype image that I referred you to, and that I'm attaching below for good measure, the approval is for the language switcher button within the Main Page top banner. There is no approval for placing it above the banner, as in your options above; that would require us to run a brand new RfC, which I predict would fail.

Apr 19 2022, 7:28 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.13; 2021-12-13), User-notice, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Apr 15 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T293470: Easier language switching from Main page.

English Wikipedia has just approved placing the language switcher button near the upper right corner of the Main Page (at the right end of the top banner, as depicted in the prototype image) as part of a suite of changes to reduce the prominence of portals. Would you all be able to handle the technical end of development to make this possible?

Apr 15 2022, 10:42 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.13; 2021-12-13), User-notice, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Mar 11 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T303658: Remove reply link in archive pages.

Thanks, @ppelberg; glad to see it's already on the radar!

Mar 11 2022, 11:41 PM · DiscussionTools
Sdkb created T303658: Remove reply link in archive pages.
Mar 11 2022, 11:36 PM · DiscussionTools

Mar 1 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T102280: Hovercard could show an extract from the id downward when #IDname links are used.

FYI, this task was independently raised as a suggestion at the English Wikipedia Village Pump.

Mar 1 2022, 7:22 PM · Design, Page-Previews

Feb 16 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T293470: Easier language switching from Main page.

As a heads up, there is discussion taking place at English Wikipedia on removing the portal links from the top of the Main Page, which would open up a convenient place to put the language switcher, perhaps like this:

Concept of Wikipedia Main Page with no portals and language link.png (480×1 px, 202 KB)

Feb 16 2022, 6:09 PM · Web-Team-Backlog, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.13; 2021-12-13), User-notice, Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Feb 15 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T299246: [SPIKE] Decide how and if to show the table of contents in the talk namespace.
  1. I'd see myself using it most on large talk pages with a lot of threads. That could be talk pages of controversial topics, e.g. Donald Trump, or user talk pages of active editors. It could also be pages used for discussion that aren't technically talk pages, like the village pumps or Administrators Noticeboard.
Feb 15 2022, 3:06 AM · Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2021-22), DiscussionTools, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Feb 8 2022

Sdkb awarded T298617: Unable to subscribe when there is no signature in section but a signature present in subsection a Like token.
Feb 8 2022, 10:13 PM · Verified, Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools

Feb 3 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T299246: [SPIKE] Decide how and if to show the table of contents in the talk namespace.

One thing I'd like a good talk table of contents to do is to note how many different editors have participated in each discussion. This is because, often, when glancing at a large talk page, I'm looking for the discussions that involve a significant change with a realistic likelihood of passing (things like RfCs or major structural changes), and I'm looking to filter out discussions that are just straightforward edit requests, nonstarter ideas, and other cruft. The threads in the former group will often have many participants, whereas those in the latter will have few.

Feb 3 2022, 6:14 AM · Web-Team-Backlog (Kanbanana-FY-2021-22), DiscussionTools, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Desktop Improvements (Vector 2022)

Jan 31 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T299736: Language attribute determined based on interface, not content.

Thanks for the explanation, Santhosh! I'll just hope it's something Chrome developers eventually fix, then.

Jan 31 2022, 5:56 PM · Language-Team (Language-2022-January-March)

Jan 28 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T300326: Help editors understand why red links exist.

Thanks for opening this, Whatamidoing! As background, see this discussion.

Jan 28 2022, 2:53 AM · EditCheck, VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Links

Jan 26 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T250295: Notify people when new comment(s) is posted in a discussion while they are composing a reply, and offer to show it.

@DLynch, someone else replying to the comment would be something I'd want to know, but so would someone else replying at the same level as the comment I'm replying to. In other words, sometimes replies happen by indenting a level further, but sometimes they happen by just making another comment at the same indentation level.

Jan 26 2022, 10:17 PM · User-Ryasmeen, Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools
Sdkb added a comment to T250295: Notify people when new comment(s) is posted in a discussion while they are composing a reply, and offer to show it.

The "polling every X seconds for new changes" approach, if it's not too resource-greedy, appeals, since the sooner I know someone else has commented, the sooner I can start adapting mine to whatever they said. It'd be even better if there's an easy way to load their comment without feeling like the software is going to discard mine.

Jan 26 2022, 5:05 AM · User-Ryasmeen, Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools

Jan 25 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T298837: enable wikilink support to ve-ui-educationPopup messages.

Awesome; thanks so much!

Jan 25 2022, 10:42 PM · Skipped QA, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.20; 2022-01-31), Editing-team (Kanban Board), VisualEditor
Sdkb added a comment to T269963: [EPIC] Talk Page Frame.

For the first one, it's normally because I'm looking for a discussion I've contributed to to check if there are updates (less frequent now that I can subscribe) or to link to it from another discussion. (Now that I think about it, having a link icon that would copy the wikilink to a discussion would be super useful.) I currently do that by ctrl+f and typing in my username, but a box would make that easier.

Jan 25 2022, 12:30 AM · Editing-team (Design Backlog), Editing Design, DiscussionTools

Jan 22 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T284869: Improve tooltips of "cur" and "prev" links on revision history page.

@Aklapper is there anyone at WMF currently working on the page history interface who I could ping about this? It seems like it ought to be a very simple tweak.

Jan 22 2022, 10:23 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.19; 2022-01-24), MediaWiki-Page-history
Sdkb added a comment to T282494: Create field for username assistance at the Special:CreateAccount page.

@Aklapper, this seems like it should be a very straightforward task. Who at WMF can I ping to get this unstuck?

Jan 22 2022, 10:19 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.18; 2022-06-27), Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)), Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup