On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 16:30, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
and the
inserted strings?
2) How/where could a wiki customize the special character insert menu,
The entire
toolbar can be customized using site JS. There are examples
at
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolbar_customization ; these
currently don't mention how to add/modify special characters entries,
I'll add examples for that as well.
Whatever they mention, i couldn't understand a word of it, and i do know
some HTML and JS.
There are several buttons which are essential to me and which disappeared
from the new default toolbar, such as nowiki, strikeout and some others. If
i had a convenient way to add them, i wouldn't complain, but that [[Toolbar
customization]] page is completely unreadable to anyone but the dedicated
developers.
And the embed file (picture) button inserts
this: "[[Example.jpg]]", without any
"File:" or "Image:"!
That's a bug, thanks for reporting
it.
I reported this bug some time ago via "beta feedback". It seems completely
trivial, but it's still not fixed. I rarely insert images, so i can live
with it, but many other editors do and i have no idea how they live with it.
Not too early
for live deployment?
Your list consists of a trivial bug (missing File: prefix), a feature
(protecting Opera users from text corruption) and the disabling of an
unrelated feature that's not slated to go live in April, so I wouldn't
say it's too early.
I'm sorry, but it is too early to force this on editors. On the technical
Village Pump in the Hebrew Wikipedia, for example, the attitude towards the
beta ranges from indifferent to negative, and not because of RTL problems,
but simply because for people who only read Wikipedia this is inessential
and for editors it is rather harmful.
True, some people may have enabled the beta and stuck to it, but what about
all those that didn't enable it at all or enabled it and returned to
Monobook? Do you have any numbers about people who use the beta and actually
edit Wikipedia and not just read it?
You should ask for more feedback from the community via sitenotice or
watchlist notice before enabling it for everyone.
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