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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, Mar 7

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.

Tue, Mar 7, 6:34 AM · Growth-Team, Growth-Positive-Reinforcement

Fri, Mar 3

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.

Fri, Mar 3, 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.

Fri, Mar 3, 4:13 AM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), EditCheck, VisualEditor

Thu, Mar 2

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?

Thu, Mar 2, 4:40 PM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), EditCheck, VisualEditor

Mon, Feb 27

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.

Mon, Feb 27, 9:06 PM · DiscussionTools

Sat, Feb 25

Sdkb created T330574: Links to comments on old page revisions go to the current version.
Sat, Feb 25, 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 · 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 · Design, EditCheck, Editing-team, 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, Readers-Web-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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 · Patch-For-Review, 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 · GrowthExperiments-Mentorship, GrowthExperiments-PersonalizedPraise, Growth-Positive-Reinforcement, Growth-Team (Current Sprint), 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 · GrowthExperiments-Mentorship, GrowthExperiments-PersonalizedPraise, Growth-Positive-Reinforcement, Growth-Team (Current Sprint), 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), Patch-For-Review, 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-Tables, VisualEditor

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 · Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 (Current Sprint), 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 · 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 · 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 (Current Sprint), 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, Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 · Readers-Web-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 (Current Sprint), Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
Sdkb added a comment to T269963: [EPIC] Talk Page Frame.

The number of discussions in the archives seems a little useful, although we currently have a pretty good idea just from the number of archive pages. The number of active discussions is already clear just from the table of contents/length of the page. The last time someone contributed might help make it clearer when a page is inactive/unwatched, but there might be better ways to accomplish that.

Jan 22 2022, 8:02 PM · Editing-team (Design Backlog), Editing Design, DiscussionTools

Jan 21 2022

Sdkb created T299736: Language attribute determined based on interface, not content.
Jan 21 2022, 2:22 AM · Language-Team (Language-2022-January-March)

Jan 15 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T260460: Request to add Draft no cat to AutoEdits.

I think it'd make most sense to have this done through software, if possible. See T299286.

Jan 15 2022, 5:20 PM · XTools
Sdkb created T299286: Have software prevent draftspace pages from being placed in article categories.
Jan 15 2022, 5:16 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-ArticleCreationWorkflow

Jan 14 2022

Sdkb awarded T299230: Incorrect attribution in Mediawiki Image viewer a Like token.
Jan 14 2022, 5:23 PM · MediaViewer
Sdkb added a project to T299230: Incorrect attribution in Mediawiki Image viewer: MediaViewer.
Jan 14 2022, 5:19 PM · MediaViewer

Jan 13 2022

Sdkb added a comment to T299115: [SPIKE] Decide whether to show the sticky header in the talk namespace.

From the en-WP community angle, the important things to communicate in talk page headers are encapsulated in Template:Talk header, which we are increasingly moving toward using universally. While I don't think any of these really rise to the level of importance needed to be included in a sticky header, they're worth keeping in mind as the stuff we want editors going to a talk page to know/have access to:

Jan 13 2022, 7:00 PM · Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools
Sdkb added a comment to T298950: Audio pronunciation of IPA transcriptions.

Finding a suitable freely licensed IPA --> speech engine is likely to be a primary hurdle here. If we can do that, then it's just a matter of coding and implementing. There's a clear potential benefit if this is taken up (enough so that it might be worth making a wishlist proposal for it).

Jan 13 2022, 6:47 PM · Technical-Tool-Request

Jan 11 2022

Sdkb awarded T298950: Audio pronunciation of IPA transcriptions a Like token.
Jan 11 2022, 6:20 PM · Technical-Tool-Request

Jan 8 2022

Sdkb updated subscribers of T298837: enable wikilink support to ve-ui-educationPopup messages.
Jan 8 2022, 9:04 PM · Skipped QA, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.20; 2022-01-31), Editing-team (Kanban Board), VisualEditor
Sdkb created T298837: enable wikilink support to ve-ui-educationPopup messages.
Jan 8 2022, 9:03 PM · Skipped QA, MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.20; 2022-01-31), Editing-team (Kanban Board), VisualEditor

Jan 7 2022

Sdkb created T298747: AWB error: Moving a commented out category out of a comment.
Jan 7 2022, 1:35 AM · AutoWikiBrowser

Jan 4 2022

Sdkb updated subscribers of T271968: Upload wizard should automatically update public domain year in mwe-upwiz-license-pd-old-70-1923 and mwe-upwiz-license-pd-us.
Jan 4 2022, 10:30 PM · Commons, UploadWizard

Dec 31 2021

Sdkb updated subscribers of T298406: Update UploadWizard's "1926" messages for so-old-they're-PD-in-the-US to 1927, now that it's 2022.

@Majavah @Zabe, does the uploaded patch resolve the underlying issue, or just push it a year down the road? Per @AntiCompositeNumber's comments at T271968, we have Template:Not-PD-US-expired-min-year and Template:PD-US-expired-max-year, which are made for this exact purpose and should be being used instead.

Dec 31 2021, 10:51 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), UploadWizard, Commons

Dec 23 2021

Sdkb created T298220: Improve New Vector handling of good/featured articles in other languages.
Dec 23 2021, 12:29 AM · wdwb-tech, Wikidata, Technical-Debt, UniversalLanguageSelector, Wikidata-Campsite

Dec 21 2021

Sdkb created T298170: Provide NUMBEROFVIEWS magic word (to directly give pageviews).
Dec 21 2021, 11:13 PM · PageViewInfo, MediaWiki-General

Dec 20 2021

Sdkb awarded T229169: Support inline links to audio with ability to play it in situ a Heartbreak token.
Dec 20 2021, 8:02 PM · Community-Wishlist-Survey-2022, TimedMediaHandler

Dec 16 2021

Sdkb added a comment to T297854: Improve VisualEditor workflow for updating Wikidata values on Wikipedia articles that use {{Wikidata}}.

@Lydia_Pintscher, I added a TemplateData description after creating this ticket, but it's impossible to do more than that until T54582 is resolved (and even that might not be enough—it's a very complicated template). And even if the TemplateData was perfect, there'd still be no link that'd allow someone who clicks on a value to actually update it, which is what they're presumably trying to do.

Dec 16 2021, 9:16 PM · VisualEditor, Wikidata
Sdkb created T297854: Improve VisualEditor workflow for updating Wikidata values on Wikipedia articles that use {{Wikidata}}.
Dec 16 2021, 1:36 AM · VisualEditor, Wikidata

Dec 7 2021

Sdkb added a comment to T211117: Help panel: provide ability to vary links by context.

I mentioned this here at en-WP VPT. It'd be very nice if this could be implemented in a way that'd apply beyond just the help panel, since there are situations where we want to differentiate between e.g. source editor and VE beyond there. There are some presently existing templates like {{If mobile}} that might work.

Dec 7 2021, 5:17 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Wikimania-Hackathon-2019, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2019, GrowthExperiments, Growth-Team

Dec 2 2021

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

It's done for various reasons. Sometimes articles on schools do it to theme with the school's colors. Sometimes TV shows do it to help differentiate different seasons. Etc.

Dec 2 2021, 8:28 AM · Accessibility, MediaWiki-Interface (Tables)

Nov 30 2021

Sdkb created T296795: Table sorting arrow recoloring.
Nov 30 2021, 11:47 PM · Accessibility, MediaWiki-Interface (Tables)

Nov 27 2021

Sdkb updated the task description for T274432: References that are identical in everything but the name are not merged.
Nov 27 2021, 7:25 PM · WMDE-References-FocusArea, Cite

Nov 11 2021

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.

FYI, this was brought up here, demonstrating continued interest in the feature from newcomers.

Nov 11 2021, 9:46 PM · Editing-team, Patch-For-Review, VisualEditor-Tables, VisualEditor

Nov 10 2021

Sdkb awarded T252342: Using "New Section", when Syntax highlighter is enabled, wiki markup inserted via CharInsert ends up in the "Subject/headline" instead of the body a Like token.
Nov 10 2021, 3:39 PM · CharInsert

Nov 8 2021

Sdkb added a comment to T291889: Syntax highlighter does not display properly for file captions.

If CodeMirror 6 is a whole new system, hopefully that'll resolve the issue. It's not the most annoying thing in the world, but wikilinks within captions are an extremely common occurrence, so it's very widespread.

Nov 8 2021, 7:02 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CodeMirror

Nov 5 2021

Sdkb awarded T4700: Pre-save transform skips extensions using wikitext (gallery, references, footnotes, Cite, status indicators, pipe trick, subst, signatures) a Heartbreak token.
Nov 5 2021, 7:34 PM · Patch-Needs-Improvement, Cite, Epic, MediaWiki-Parser

Nov 4 2021

Sdkb created T295074: TemplateData adds empty autovalue.
Nov 4 2021, 7:01 PM · MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.16; 2022-01-03), WMDE-TechWish-XMAS-Sprint-2021-12-15, VisualEditor, TemplateData
Sdkb updated subscribers of T145165: Investigation: Copyvio tools for Commons.

FYI, there has been continued interest in this feature at this thread. Cc'ing related tickets T31793, T123517, T121797, T167947, T230561, T251026, and T120453, and @Quiddity who helped point to them.

Nov 4 2021, 6:42 AM · Community-Tech, Commons

Nov 1 2021

Sdkb added a comment to T294598: Mapframe boundaries no longer able to be drawn as lines.

@Pikne, thanks; it's helpful to know what's happening here. Which OSM relation types are currently supported?

Nov 1 2021, 6:46 PM · Maps, Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated

Oct 31 2021

Sdkb awarded T285168: [M] MediaSearch should include a redlink when no results are found a Like token.
Oct 31 2021, 11:51 PM · Structured-Data-Backlog, SDAW-MediaSearch

Oct 29 2021

Sdkb added a comment to T294620: Create ability to add markers in Mapframe caption legends.

Yeah, I'm not too surprised to hear that. It seems there are other higher-priority tasks for Mapframe, but I just wanted to create this ticket so that this idea will be on the radar as a possible improvement down the road.

Oct 29 2021, 6:12 PM · Maps (Kartographer)
Sdkb created T294620: Create ability to add markers in Mapframe caption legends.
Oct 29 2021, 3:45 AM · Maps (Kartographer)

Oct 28 2021

Sdkb created T294598: Mapframe boundaries no longer able to be drawn as lines.
Oct 28 2021, 9:07 PM · Maps, Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated

Oct 26 2021

Sdkb added a comment to T290447: [medium] Implement article matching algorithm for Wikipedia.

One potentially similar thing that occurs to me is the related articles extension. Are you familiar with that, and if so, what is the connection/difference?

Oct 26 2021, 1:00 AM · Research ideas