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*What's new?*
- The Global Collaboration report for December is now available
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Reports/2017-December>
(in
English).
- Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
- Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).
*Edit Review Improvements* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements>
• Help pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_Review_Improvements>
]
*Bug fixes*
- When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178540>
- On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the
entirety of long page names. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183484>
- Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected
parameters to the URL. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181032>
- Filter menu was opening upwards. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182711>
- ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages
have been rationalized. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180866>
- Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click
outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177626>
*Work in progress*
- [image: Octicons-star.svg] Filters on Related Changes page are better
integrated and get new features, for instance: [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172161>
- The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search
for a page to look at.
- It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target
page or to the target page.
- You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates
automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.
*Content translation* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> • Help
pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Content_translation>
]
*Recent changes*
- Further enhancement are made for list
(Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no
longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179148>
- Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page
for translation have been made: [9]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181701>
- Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some
space has been added around to increase readability.
- Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full,
autonym language names are subject to truncation.
- Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been
revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
- Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
- Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language
codes. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182947>
- The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't
display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful
research. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181457>
*Structured discussions* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_discussions>
• Help pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_discussions>
]
*Recent changes*
- [image: Octicons-star.svg] Structured discussions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions>
now
uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works
with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. [12]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155861>[13]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178719>
- [image: Translation icon cropped.svg] The documentation has been
updated
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Structured_Discussions/Quick_tour#basics>
and
needs translations updates.
- Prométhée <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Prom%C3%A9th%C3%A9e>,
from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_Discussions/FlowDeluxe>
to
customise Structured discussions interface.
- [image: Translation icon cropped.svg] The documentation is ready to
be translated.
*Future changes*
- Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations
concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [14]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122119>
- Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [15]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184185>
*Notifications* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications> • Help
pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications>
]
*Bug fixes*
- User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This
is now fixed. [16] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172636>
- "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have
JavaScript activated. [17] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182167>
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