Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration>, about *Map improvements
2018
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Map_improvements_2018>*,
*Notifications
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications>*, *Structured discussions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_discussions>* and *Edit Review
Improvements
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements>*.
Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect
you.
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<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaboration/Newsletter/Issues/2018/03/ar>
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*What's new?*
The Collaboration team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration> has
announced the start of a new project: *In-Context Help and Onboarding
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/In-context_help_and_onboarding>*. The idea
is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials
and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current
activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows
from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences> research. The work
is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas
on the subject
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:In-context_help_and_onboarding>—particularly
if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.
*Map improvements 2018* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Map_improvements_2018>]
- Maps using Maplink <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maplink> and
Mapframe <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mapframe> functions now include
an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer
Improvements
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous/Kartographer_improvements>,
the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey>. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186779>
*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>
]
- Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was
incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183030>
*Notifications* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications> • Help
pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications>
]
*Recent changes*
- You can notify users in edit summaries
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Ping_users_from_the_edit_summary>.
They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page.
That new feature has been documented
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Notifications_types#EditSummary>
. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T32750>
- Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other
elements. This has been fixed. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189428>
*Future changes*
- An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This
is done by the Community Tech team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team>. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60485>
*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*
- Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not
using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a
trial of Structured discussions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions/Request_Structured_Discussions_on_a_page>
. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188812>
*Problems*
- It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on
wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184670>
*Future changes*
- The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to
change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly
bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not
change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97631>
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Benoît Evellin (Trizek)
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Wikimedia Foundation
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