Jc86035

Why

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I don't truly know why the devs created multiple parsers. However, I assume that their reasons include the old parser being due for a re-write anyway, plus the opportunity to debug a "replacement"[1] without screwing up all the wiki pages in the meantime. I could be wrong.

[1] NB that I am not saying that Parsoid itself (rather than, for example, some other parser that is partially derived from Parsoid and partially derived from the old parser) will actually replace the old parser. I don't know exactly how they plan to handle that detail. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 05:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Thanks Jc86035 (talk) 10:06, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

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@MattLongCT, DannyS712, and Cygnis insignis: Since you expressed interest in closing the discussion, what do you think would be the best way to notify users? I don't really know if I would want to do all of this myself. Carrying out the request could fall afoul of the canvassing guideline, although I think it's probably appropriate in this case because the WMF specifically wants feedback from more new users.

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Jc86035 (talk) 15:06, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I can help, but only on certain days and at certain times. Please let me know how I can help! Majesticpuzzlemaster (talk) 15:03, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

I am not a mass message sender. I therefore do not know if I would even be able to message all those people for you. I could apply to get it, though. ~ –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:06, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Welp, I signed the message like a chump lol –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:07, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

It could be possible to do it manually using JWB – i.e. by holding down the keys for the "save page" keyboard shortcut. This would probably be faster than requesting mass message rights.

My main concern is whether it would be acceptable for me to notify so many users, particularly such a skewed group (edited an article talk page in the last four days + autoconfirmed but not extended-confirmed). This also has the negative site-effect of filtering out users with more than 500 edits, and it might also be appropriate to notify a similar group of extended confirmed users who edited article talk pages in the same time period, as well as users who commented within certain community processes.

I'm also concerned about whether those editors will find the discussion daunting, given its size. It might be appropriate to ask them to comment on the talk page of the discussion if they don't know where to put their comments.

@Trizek (WMF): Around how many users should be notified? There are probably several thousand English Wikipedia contributors who could be sent this notice, using your criteria. Jc86035 (talk) 17:40, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Don't use AWB/JWB for these ventures. I used AWB in informing about 76 of those who participated at

en:WT:FLOW

and it was a boring experience. Mass-Message-Right(s) are easily disbursed with, provided you have some solid rationale and the tool's incredibly easy and fast to use.

FWIW, I was thinking of writing a query that generates all users having 20-500 edits who have at-least made 2/3 edits to the t/p in the past 4 months and are currently unblocked. And, then mass-message...... Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 11:11, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

I agree, a query would probably be better than abusing Special:RecentChanges. I think the threshold could be increased to 1,000 edits (or even 10,000), since most of the editors who have commented have several tens of thousands of edits. Maybe the query could also search for Teahouse and AFD participants, or something like that? Jc86035 (talk) 11:52, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

This is an important question, yeah.. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 18:35, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

I already have mass message rights, so I can help send the message. DannyS712 (talk) 20:51, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

@Jc86035

Around how many users should be notified? There are probably several thousand English Wikipedia contributors who could be sent this notice, using your criteria.

Good question. From my experience, the reply ratio for experienced users on a wiki like yours is between 1/20 to 1/50. The key element here is to have a good call to action. Insisting on how their experience as newcomers is important. It will give them more confidence on participating.

Ping me if you need any help. Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 08:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Inviting new users

In re this, I'm not sure that not being able to contact new users would have made much difference at Commons. The un-reachability of newbies there is a very frequent complaint. I don't know whether the new folks at Wikidata have the same pattern. Thanks for making a note about the situation. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:28, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

German Wikipedia

Hello Jc86035. Regarding [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report&oldid=prev&diff=3234002 German Wikipedia], you underestimate the senstivities of Austrian and Swiss Wikipedians. This is a discussion that is going on for more than a decade. Most Austrians and Swiss feel hurt when de.wikipedia is seen as the "German" Wikipedia. So everytime de.wikipedia is mentioned it is refered to as "German language Wikipedia" instead of "German Wikipedia". Gereon Kalkuhl (WMF) (talk) 17:03, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

I understand why you would do this in German, but is this normal in English-language usage? I'm not familiar with this issue [in my defense, language is arbitrary, I'm fairly familiar with how the words are used in English, grammatical rules don't automatically carry over from German to English, and the word "German" can obviously refer to both the language and the country], but presumably there's a fairly good reason that w:en:German Wikipedia has had its current title since the article's creation (and has been move-protected since 2009).

If dewiki has to be the "German-language Wikipedia" then I would be fine with the same being done for all of the other wikis, but probably not just dewiki. Jc86035 (talk) 17:16, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

One on hand you write that you are not familiar with this issue, on the other hand you revert me. It is not so important for me though. Gereon Kalkuhl (WMF) (talk) 17:50, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Getting ahead of ourselves

Yikes – good catch. Thank you! PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 02:10, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Usability test: Version 1.0 prototype

We appreciate you trying the prototype and sharing this clear and thorough feedback.

So you're aware: we expect to engage with these comments the week of 6-January-2020...many members of the team will be on holiday until then. PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 20:25, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Phabricator

Hey, I don't know if you keep track of replies in Phabricator and it has been a couple of weeks since you filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244672 but I just wanted to let you know that I've replied and that we appreciated the time going into filing this report. We do indeed see it also as a technical problem, and are investigating the technical feasibility of the suggestions. Johan (WMF) (talk) 16:17, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Do me a favor?

Could you please look at Talk pages project/replying/prototype testing#Reply tool version 2.0, try it out, and let me know what happens? I want to make sure that the directions work before sharing this link more widely, and of course I want to know what you think about the tool anyway. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:41, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Proofreader

Would you take a look at User:PPelberg (WMF)/sandbox and let me know if it makes sense? If it's confusing to someone like you, then I need to re-write it entirely. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure if I would be the right person to ask. Am I really representative of the target audience? If the text contains jargon that would only be understood by a subset of editors, I might not notice, but someone else might.

My open questions that weren't answered by the page:

• Who is the target audience?
• Who gets to modify the content of the RFC? Would non-staff members only be able to make changes to some sections, or would we be unable to make any changes at all?
• How concrete are the proposals? Primarily, for proposals B and C, is it likely that a different set of characters would eventually be used during implementation?
• If I don't like ‎<dl> or ‎<dd> tags (or some other part of the output HTML, as opposed to the wikitext) being used on talk pages, would that affect the RFC at all? In other words, is the scope of the RFC limited solely to the proposed changes to the grammar of wikitext? Jc86035 (talk) 18:35, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

The target audience is people with qualities that you combine: experienced editors who use wikitext and people who know something about wiki-related tech stuff (any level of technical skill). The one important quality that you don't have is using a non-English keyboard (because if typing certain characters is really difficult in some languages, they really need to know that).

"The RFC" happens in multiple places, several of which (e.g., e-mail) don't have any method for changing what other people wrote. Alternative proposals are welcome, and should be proposed in discussion (e.g., a reply e-mail message, a section on the talk page). There could be an option "E", or "C.2", etc.

The syntax for A and B is set in stone, because A and B connect to other work (e.g., T114432 for A). Deciding that you wanted mostly A but to use %% instead of <<< would amount to a (partly) new proposal. Proposal C is not set in stone; it's just a copy of a conventional approach used in e-mail, with no history in MediaWiki. Some e-mail systems turn that into an indentation (like a forwarded message). Changing the characters typed wouldn't change the nature of that proposal.

If you don't like HTML tags, then you should vote against option D. This won't affect only talk pages; any wikitext that works on talk pages will work in articles, and vice versa. I'm not certain that I understand the last question. The scope of the RFC is about expanding wikitext (unless you vote for option D, in which case they'll use the existing methods, which means scattering raw HTML across talk pages). Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Essentially, the content of the last point was just about the concern that has been raised in previous discussions about how ‎<dl> and ‎<dd> have specific semantic meanings that don't really fit on talk pages. As an example, if option A were to be implemented without any additional changes, the project might well conclude without the replacement of the ‎<dl> and ‎<dd> tags, and either a parser change to interpret definition lists without any ‎<dt> tags differently (T6521) or new syntax (the addition of option C) would be necessary to avoid that outcome. The presentation of the options sort of implies that at most one of the options will be chosen even though they aren't mutually exclusive. Jc86035 (talk) 18:10, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

I agree with you that ‎<dl> and ‎<dd> have specific semantic meanings that don't really fit on talk pages, but ‎<dl> and ‎<dd> are actually appearing in the HTML on talk pages, and there is no current plan to change that.

In this RFC, options A, B, and C would improve the current HTML (in which the ‎<dl> is broken if you put a thumbnailed image in the middle of an "indented" thread) via the addition of a new wikitext "code"; option D would improve the current HTML via the addition of ‎<dl> tags in the middle of the wikitext. All options would produce (approximately) the same HTML for the reader. The difference for editors is primarily in what you'd see in the diff. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:24, 30 September 2020 (UTC)