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By EpicPupper

Community Wishlist Survey results

The Wikimedia Foundation established the Community Tech team in 2015 as a product team devoted to building features and making changes that active Wikimedia contributors need the most. Rather than those on the team coming up with their own ideas and proposing them to the community, the team decided to let the community tell us what to work on. To do this, they invited the community to participate in a cross-project survey to set our agenda for the year. This consisted of two weeks for contributors to propose ideas, followed by two weeks of support voting.

325 proposals were submitted to the 2022 survey, with 1578 editors contributing 9554 support votes, producing a ranked list of 270 ideas. Community Tech committed to investigating and addressing the as many as it gets in light of the results of the prioritization process and external factors [they] can't change — designing and building new tools themselves, or collaborating with other teams and volunteers who were working in those areas.

Progress on the 2021 wishlist

The new disambiguation linking warning interface.

Out of the top 10 winning proposals, Community Tech has completed two of them (copy-pasting from diffs, and disambiguation link warnings), and is currently working on one, leaving 7 that are incomplete. Some community members expressed concerns that the 2022 Survey would yield the same result, with wishes having long delays in implementation. Community Tech responded, pointing to their prioritization method and policy of research[ing] projects before committing to them. With the 2021 Survey, the Team picked 4 wishes to implement and publicly declined one. More details are available on Meta.

DiscussionTools from the Editing team

Star with the text "700,000"
The 700,000th use of the Reply tool happened in January 2022. By the first week of February, more than 750,000 comments had been posted with the Reply Tool.

The Editing team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been hard at work developing tools for the talk pages project. As of 18 February, the Reply Tool is available to everyone (logged in and out) on desktop at all Wikimedia wikis except for fi.wiki (T297533), and ru.wiki (T297410). The Reply Tool is planned to be turned on at the English Wikipedia for all editors using the desktop interface on 7 March 2022 (Phabricator task). Registered editors are welcome to opt-in to the final testing period and provide any feedback, ask questions, or report issues to the Talk Pages project team in the discussion at the project talk page. Additionally, the team is working on introducing functionality that will alert you, in real-time, when someone posts a new comment in the discussion you are using the Reply Tool within. Instructions for how to try the prototype and share feedback about it can be found here. You can see the full list of what talk pages project features are available at what wikis by visiting the MediaWiki wiki.

Dark mode arrives – as a gadget

The new dark mode gadget interface on the Minerva skin

After many feature requests for a dark mode gadget, one has been created in December 2021. It is based on the work of Wikimedia Design team members Volker E. and Alex Hollender, supported by volunteer MusikAnimal and others. To enable the gadget, go to your gadget preferences, and enable the gadget "Dark mode toggle: Enable a toggle for using a light text on dark background color scheme". The tool has been criticized for its completely black background color with a white foreground causing eye strain for some. More details can be found here. Happy darkness!

In brief

New user scripts to customise your Wikipedia experience

For further news and updates associated with user scripts, see the Scripts++ Newsletter

Bot tasks

Recently approved tasks

Bots that have been approved for operations after a successful BRFA will be listed here for informational purposes. No other approval action is required for these bots. Recently approved requests can be found here (edit), while old requests can be found in the archives.


Current requests for approval
Bot Name Status Created Last editor Date/Time Last BAG editor Date/Time
WOSlinkerBot 21 (T|C|B|F) Open 2022-02-18, 20:10:24 WOSlinker 2022-02-24, 13:24:16 Never edited by BAG n/a
AssumptionBot (T|C|B|F) On hold 2022-02-16, 11:35:09 AssumeGoodWraith 2022-02-25, 05:09:33 Primefac 2022-02-16, 12:52:58
Gaelan Bot 2 (T|C|B|F) Open 2022-02-07, 12:07:35 Thryduulf 2022-02-23, 10:53:33 Anomie 2022-02-07, 12:48:29
DoggoBot 5 (T|C|B|F) Open 2022-02-03, 18:34:44 Dicklyon 2022-02-26, 03:56:10 Primefac 2022-02-22, 08:26:21
ZabesBot (T|C|B|F) On hold 2022-01-15, 22:43:07 Primefac 2022-02-16, 12:39:30 Primefac 2022-02-16, 12:39:30
ElliBot (T|C|B|F) On hold 2021-01-23, 14:46:12 Heanor 2022-02-08, 18:20:15 ProcrastinatingReader 2021-11-08, 01:07:48
BareRefBot (T|C|B|F) Extended trial 2022-01-20, 21:37:46 Rlink2 2022-02-26, 05:22:06 Primefac 2022-02-13, 14:35:48
Dušan Kreheľ (bot) (T|C|B|F) Trial complete 2021-12-05, 11:52:27 Dušan Kreheľ 2022-02-20, 01:45:03 ProcrastinatingReader 2022-01-30, 23:45:52
Qwerfjkl (bot) 7 (T|C|B|F) Trial complete: BAG assistance requested! 2022-02-11, 10:49:11 Qwerfjkl 2022-02-23, 18:32:05 Primefac 2022-02-16, 12:31:41
BattyBot 65 (T|C|B|F) Trial complete 2022-01-31, 20:57:15 GoingBatty 2022-02-16, 15:55:04 Primefac 2022-02-16, 14:54:36
IndentBot (T|C|B|F) Trial complete: Inconsistent categories/tags! 2021-10-15, 03:20:20 Theleekycauldron 2022-02-13, 10:10:45 Primefac 2022-01-23, 15:11:18

Latest tech news

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community: 2022 #9, #8, & #7. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available on Meta.

Meetings
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Installation code

Further information: Wikipedia:User scripts § How do you install user scripts?
  1. ^ Copy the following code, edit your user JavaScript, then paste:
    {{subst:lusc|1=User:DanCherek/UAABotRemover.js}}
  2. ^ Copy the following code, edit your user JavaScript, then paste:
    {{subst:lusc|1=m:User:Tol/RealSVG.js}}
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    The "10 top wishes" rule is no longer relevant

    • Thank you for the note about the Community Wishlist Survey. As a member of Community Tech responsible for the community relations, I appreciate your help in spreading the word.
    I'd like to point out that the sentences Community Tech committed to investigating and addressing the top 10 wishes and Out of the top 10 winning proposals, Community Tech has completed two of them [...], and is currently working on one, leaving 7 that are incomplete are only in line with our past practices. We write about the current ones in the FAQ and, in detail, on Community Wishlist Survey/Prioritization as well as Diff.
    Last year and this year, we didn't commit to work on 10 or any other given number of proposals. Instead, we are working on as many as it gets in light of the results of the prioritization process and external factors we can't change. (Last year, the latter was namely: COVID and prolonged unavailability of some engineers.)
    I offer help with any texts about the Survey and Desktop Improvements. I think my colleagues will also collaborate if you're interested in other projects of the Product department at the Wikimedia Foundation.
    Thank you for this note again! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 03:38, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello there, I apologize for the inaccuracy in the report. I have clarified that Comm Tech didn't commit to completing all of the top 10 wishes, but I have left the part regarding 7 wishes that are incomplete in, as I feel it is relevant to the community's perspectives. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 17:36, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Perhaps I'm a bit odd, but I like Dark Mode on desktop; for one thing it makes my ENWP watchlist look very different from my various other watchlists. I don't like it so much on Mobile Site. Jim.henderson (talk) 15:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    looks fine to me. it's better than nothing, anyway. 晚安 (トークページ) 14:47, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm sure I shouldn't really be advocating using Dark Mode on a mobile at 2:30am whilst tucked up under the bedsheets next to one's adorable sleeping wife, but I do tend to find the momentary brilliant white flashes experienced when switching between pages and sections does rather detract from the otherwise gently-soporific experience of late-night, horizontal Wikipedia viewing. Nick Moyes (talk) 01:11, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    why are you using wikipedia at 2:30 am? 晚安 (トークページ) 08:26, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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