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Thu, Feb 12

Quiddity added a comment to T417261: Empty line selections are invisible in VE / 2017WTE.

Notes in case useful: I was surprised by the large visible highlight on that empty line in the <textarea> (2nd screenshot).
If I saw that, I would assume there was a [space] character on that line, and I would try to delete it.

Thu, Feb 12, 7:50 PM · VisualEditor
Quiddity added a comment to T416915: Required email address in contact form is not included in delivered email.

Yes, adding the address to the body would be perfect. Thank you so much for looking into this, both of you!

Thu, Feb 12, 7:28 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-ContactPage

Wed, Feb 11

Quiddity updated the task description for T416940: [Suggestion] Invite people to assess articles.
Wed, Feb 11, 9:57 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity added a comment to T413421: [Suggestion] Detect if an internal link appears >1x in the same section.

@Ryasmeen We're currently configuring it to only recognize duplicates within the same paragraph. We may change that in the future to be within the same [section/sub-section], hence the wording currently used in the user-visible card itself.

Wed, Feb 11, 9:52 PM · Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), Design, OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode, VisualEditor, EditCheck
Quiddity added a comment to T170874: Provide additional Linter statistics about template-generated issues.

Please could someone reply to my questions/notes above (in T170874#11592944) so that we (Sandister this week) can write a good Tech News entry? (Or help us decide whether to postpone the announcement until those questions are addressed?). Thanks.

Wed, Feb 11, 9:45 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.15; 2026-02-10), affects-translatewiki.net, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Essential-Work, User-notice, MediaWiki-extensions-Linter
Quiddity updated subscribers of T416915: Required email address in contact form is not included in delivered email.

@Ammarpad Hiyo. I'm wondering if you might be able to take a look at this? I'm [not a developer but] hopeful it might be an easy bug to resolve, as the other parts of the system are working as expected, just not this single form-field. [I'm pinging you, as you're listed as the extension-maintainer]. Much thanks if you can!

Wed, Feb 11, 9:30 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-ContactPage

Mon, Feb 9

Quiddity triaged T416915: Required email address in contact form is not included in delivered email as High priority.
Mon, Feb 9, 6:54 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-ContactPage
Quiddity created T416915: Required email address in contact form is not included in delivered email.
Mon, Feb 9, 6:53 PM · Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-extensions-ContactPage

Sat, Feb 7

Quiddity updated the task description for T145604: RFC: Future of magic links.
Sat, Feb 7, 8:13 PM · Parsing-Team--ARCHIVED, MediaWiki-Parser, TechCom-RFC

Fri, Feb 6

Quiddity moved T416748: Release improved verification email to all wikis (WE1.1.22 FY2025-26) from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Fri, Feb 6, 9:48 PM · Growth-Team, User-notice, MediaWiki-Email, GrowthExperiments
Quiddity moved T170874: Provide additional Linter statistics about template-generated issues from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Fri, Feb 6, 8:49 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.15; 2026-02-10), affects-translatewiki.net, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Essential-Work, User-notice, MediaWiki-extensions-Linter
Quiddity added a comment to T170874: Provide additional Linter statistics about template-generated issues.

Re: Tech News - Thanks for the draft! I'll postpone including this until next week's edition so that editors can immediately see the content when they read about, as I see it is not yet available on production wikis (e.g. Enwiki's version of that example page) (but is on Beta Cluster's version).

Fri, Feb 6, 8:49 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.15; 2026-02-10), affects-translatewiki.net, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), Essential-Work, User-notice, MediaWiki-extensions-Linter
Quiddity updated the task description for T145604: RFC: Future of magic links.
Fri, Feb 6, 7:44 PM · Parsing-Team--ARCHIVED, MediaWiki-Parser, TechCom-RFC
Quiddity moved T413375: Create new {{#isbn}} parser function from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Fri, Feb 6, 6:09 PM · User-notice, MediaWiki-Parser

Thu, Feb 5

Quiddity moved T415588: Add rate limit class for accounts that are in a local bot group on any wiki from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Thu, Feb 5, 11:50 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.16; 2026-02-17), User-notice, Patch-For-Review, MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Q3 Kanban Board), WMF-General-or-Unknown
Quiddity moved T411169: Improve & better document cirrus debug & explainability APIs from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Thu, Feb 5, 11:44 PM · User-notice, Discovery-Search (2026.01.05 - 2026.01.30), CirrusSearch
Quiddity moved T415293: Shut down the API Portal from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.
Thu, Feb 5, 11:43 PM · User-notice, Wiki-Setup (Close), API-Portal, Tech-Docs-Team
Quiddity created P88717 demo CSS.
Thu, Feb 5, 7:17 PM
Quiddity added a comment to T414742: Display the preview note as a notice instead of a warning.

@SomeRandomDeveloper I've tweaked the Tech News entry to use this wording, which I believe is both clearer and easier to translate. Please edit that onwiki (within the next 24 hours) if further adjustments are needed. Thanks!

Thu, Feb 5, 6:17 PM · User-notice, MediaWiki-Page-editing

Wed, Feb 4

Quiddity created T416523: Add a link from the Editcheck json page to the Special page.
Wed, Feb 4, 9:46 PM · Editing-team (Planning), EditCheck
Quiddity created T416517: Update the Edit_check/Configuration page.
Wed, Feb 4, 7:48 PM · Editing-team (Editing-16Feb-27Feb-2026), OKR-Work, EditCheck

Mon, Feb 2

Quiddity added a comment to T410338: New Codex UI for pagination / page navigation in Special pages.

As a user, I was confused by the location of the "next" button. I suggest/request moving those buttons so that they are directly next to the page-quantity dropdown menu, near where the former equivalent-links used to be.
I.e. The wide-separation in this screenshot confused me; especially so because I'm a longterm user who expects to find "next" in the usual place, but I believe this would apply to any new user, too:

image.png (600×1 px, 124 KB)

Mon, Feb 2, 10:39 PM · Community-Wishlist, Wikimedia Wishathon, Codex, MediaWiki-Special-pages
Quiddity created T416247: Request for investigating performance issues in long talkpages.
Mon, Feb 2, 9:21 PM · Content-Transform-Team, Accessibility, DiscussionTools, Editing-team (Planning)
Quiddity updated the task description for T414854: Announce availability of Suggestion Mode beta feature (en.wiki).
Mon, Feb 2, 6:57 PM · OKR-Work, Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), VisualEditor Suggestion Mode, Epic, VisualEditor, EditCheck
Quiddity moved T414626: Update mw:Edit check/Deployment Status to include currently available Checks/Suggestions from Ready to Be Worked On to Doing on the Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026) board.
Mon, Feb 2, 6:10 PM · Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.14; 2026-02-03), Goal, OKR-Work, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode

Wed, Jan 28

Quiddity updated the task description for T414627: Implement a volunteer-written wordlist to base the initial Engvar Edit Suggestion on.
Wed, Jan 28, 9:30 PM · Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode

Sun, Jan 25

Quiddity updated the task description for T415472: "You have a new talkpage message" UI bar is no longer yellow in Monobook.
Sun, Jan 25, 10:21 PM · Verified, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.13; 2026-01-27), Regression, MonoBook, Notifications (Echo)
Quiddity created T415472: "You have a new talkpage message" UI bar is no longer yellow in Monobook.
Sun, Jan 25, 9:19 PM · Verified, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.13; 2026-01-27), Regression, MonoBook, Notifications (Echo)

Fri, Jan 23

Quiddity updated the task description for T414805: FY 25/26 WE 5.4.10 Standard Thumbnail Sizes Only.
Fri, Jan 23, 6:42 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.15; 2026-02-10), Data-Persistence, MediaViewer, Traffic, Thumbor, SRE-swift-storage
Quiddity updated the task description for T414805: FY 25/26 WE 5.4.10 Standard Thumbnail Sizes Only.
Fri, Jan 23, 5:40 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.15; 2026-02-10), Data-Persistence, MediaViewer, Traffic, Thumbor, SRE-swift-storage

Thu, Jan 22

Quiddity added a member for Editing-team: Quiddity.
Thu, Jan 22, 9:18 PM
Quiddity updated subscribers of T414508: Ensure we have internal Foundation cross-team preparation for launch Abstract Wikipedia.
Thu, Jan 22, 2:01 AM · Abstract Wikipedia team (26Q3 (Jan–Mar)), OKR-Work
Quiddity updated subscribers of T414507: Decide whether we need special documentation pages about restricted editing at launch, and if so, prepare them.
Thu, Jan 22, 2:00 AM · Abstract Wikipedia team (26Q3 (Jan–Mar)), OKR-Work
Quiddity updated subscribers of T414506: Determine what community pages we can adapt/re-use from Meta and Wikifunctions for Abstract Wikipedia.
Thu, Jan 22, 1:58 AM · Abstract Wikipedia team (26Q3 (Jan–Mar)), OKR-Work

Wed, Jan 21

Quiddity claimed T414755: Define and announce plan to deploy Paste Check as a default-on Edit Check at all Wikipedias.
Wed, Jan 21, 7:51 PM · Editing-team (Editing-16Feb-27Feb-2026), Goal, OKR-Work, VisualEditor, EditCheck
Quiddity updated the task description for T413257: [Meta] Define the deployment path for new Edit Checks/Suggestions.
Wed, Jan 21, 7:48 PM · Editing-team (Editing-16Feb-27Feb-2026), OKR-Work, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode, VisualEditor, EditCheck
Quiddity updated the task description for T414231: Allow restricting edit checks to only specific sections.
Wed, Jan 21, 7:22 PM · Skipped QA, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.13; 2026-01-27), OKR-Work, Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026), EditCheck, VisualEditor
Quiddity updated the task description for T415130: Suggestion Mode external link check - exclude Sources section in English.
Wed, Jan 21, 7:20 PM · Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity moved T414627: Implement a volunteer-written wordlist to base the initial Engvar Edit Suggestion on from Ready to Be Worked On to Doing on the Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026) board.
Wed, Jan 21, 5:58 PM · Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity closed T363876: Research Tech News potential improvements as Resolved.

This was done as the 2024 reader survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Reader_survey_2024

Wed, Jan 21, 5:56 PM · MoveComms-Support, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2024

Tue, Jan 20

Quiddity created T415130: Suggestion Mode external link check - exclude Sources section in English.
Tue, Jan 20, 8:41 PM · Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity created P87765 wgUseRCPatrol excerpt from InitialiseSettings.php.
Tue, Jan 20, 1:48 AM

Jan 16 2026

Quiddity added a comment to T362828: Community Configuration edit form should allow section anchoring.
Jan 16 2026, 8:06 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-CommunityConfiguration, Growth-Team

Jan 12 2026

Quiddity closed T396406: Visualdiff in dark mode not showing some content as Invalid.

I cannot reproduce anymore. I assume this was accidentally resolved by subsequent code-changes. I'll mark this as no longer valid.

Jan 12 2026, 11:15 PM · VisualEditor, dark-mode, VisualEditor-VisualDiffs
Quiddity added a comment to T411722: Prepare the abstract.wikipedia.org welcome page, explanatory/community pages, and high-profile direction to the demonstration model content.
  • Talk to @Quiddity to see if there's an existing worklist of stuff to stand up a new community wiki. Esp. "pages that a wiki needs to have".
Jan 12 2026, 6:58 PM · Abstract Wikipedia team (26Q3 (Jan–Mar)), OKR-Work

Jan 7 2026

Quiddity renamed T413279: Convert Reference Suggestion - restrict to references that are just a link from Convert Reference check - Consider how to resolve instances that contain more than just a link to Convert Reference Suggestion - restrict to references that are just a link.
Jan 7 2026, 9:38 PM · Skipped QA, Editing QA, Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026), VisualEditor-MediaWiki-References, VisualEditor, Citoid, OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity created T414027: Convert Reference button - change or expand the user-guidance wording.
Jan 7 2026, 9:34 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor-MediaWiki-References, VisualEditor
Quiddity updated the task description for T413421: [Suggestion] Detect if an internal link appears >1x in the same section.
Jan 7 2026, 7:23 PM · Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), Design, OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode, VisualEditor, EditCheck
Quiddity updated the task description for T413420: [Suggestion] Detect when a variety of English is being used that does not align with article's tag.
Jan 7 2026, 5:41 PM · Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), Design, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode, Goal, OKR-Work

Jan 5 2026

Quiddity updated the task description for T413282: Suggestion Mode: Add Citation should offer a 3rd option to add a {{citation needed}}.
Jan 5 2026, 8:36 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor Suggestion Mode

Dec 19 2025

Quiddity created T413285: Suggestion Mode - Improve layout issues on narrow windows.
Dec 19 2025, 9:37 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity updated the task description for T413284: Consider revising icon used to act on a check/suggestion in mobile web.
Dec 19 2025, 9:28 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity created T413284: Consider revising icon used to act on a check/suggestion in mobile web.
Dec 19 2025, 9:27 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity created T413282: Suggestion Mode: Add Citation should offer a 3rd option to add a {{citation needed}}.
Dec 19 2025, 9:23 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity created T413280: Suggestion mode - Don't expand any cards until clicked.
Dec 19 2025, 9:17 PM · MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.15; 2026-02-10), Verified, Editing-team (Editing-2Feb-13Feb-2026), OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity created T413279: Convert Reference Suggestion - restrict to references that are just a link.
Dec 19 2025, 9:12 PM · Skipped QA, Editing QA, Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026), VisualEditor-MediaWiki-References, VisualEditor, Citoid, OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity created T413277: External link check should ignore links to Sister Projects.
Dec 19 2025, 9:02 PM · Verified, Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode
Quiddity created T413276: External link check should not be shown within subsections of the excluded sections.
Dec 19 2025, 8:56 PM · Verified, Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026), OKR-Work, Goal, VisualEditor Suggestion Mode

Dec 17 2025

Quiddity updated the task description for T327959: Create ways for volunteers to audit, configure, and evalute Edit Check.
Dec 17 2025, 7:26 PM · EditCheck, Editing-team, VisualEditor

Dec 15 2025

Quiddity created T412744: Enable uploading a .RIS file to generate citations.
Dec 15 2025, 6:41 PM · Outreach-Programs-Projects, Citoid

Dec 12 2025

Quiddity created T412494: Suggestion mode: Add a citation should not be shown on Disambiguation pages.
Dec 12 2025, 3:53 AM · Skipped QA, Editing QA, Editing-team (Editing-19Jan-30Jan-2026), MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), EditCheck

Dec 11 2025

Quiddity created T412462: Provide a way for Tools that post messages to talkpages to avoid auto-subscribing the poster.
Dec 11 2025, 9:44 PM · Skipped QA, Editing QA, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Editing-team (Kanban Board), DiscussionTools

Dec 5 2025

Quiddity moved T405005: Implement mechanism to exclude a domain from externallinks database (LinkSearch) from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.
Dec 5 2025, 10:23 PM · User-notice-archive, DBA, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), Proposal, MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), MediaWiki-Page-derived-data
Quiddity moved T411238: Unexpected wikitext changes & whitespace removals by VisualEditor edits from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.
Dec 5 2025, 10:18 PM · VisualEditor, Essential-Work, Content-Transform-Team (Work In Progress), User-notice, Cite, WMDE-TechWish-Sprint-2025-11-25-Spekulatius, Parsoid, Regression
Quiddity updated the task description for T128405: Support linked RIS file.
Dec 5 2025, 7:27 PM · Citoid
Quiddity updated the task description for T128405: Support linked RIS file.
Dec 5 2025, 7:23 PM · Citoid

Dec 4 2025

Quiddity closed T410937: Publish documentation to MW about new mobile edit full page button that can be linked in Tech/News, a subtask of T409990: [Mobile] Offer button that enables people to edit an entire article from section editing, as Resolved.
Dec 4 2025, 6:55 PM · VisualEditor, Editing-team (Kanban Board), VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Mobile, Goal, OKR-Work
Quiddity closed T410937: Publish documentation to MW about new mobile edit full page button that can be linked in Tech/News as Resolved.

This is simple/intuitive enough that it doesn't seem to need separate documentation. I've updated the Tech News draft accordingly, to put the main details within.

Dec 4 2025, 6:55 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Mobile, Goal, OKR-Work
Quiddity updated the task description for T409112: [MILESTONE] Run a controlled experiment to address section editing dead-end (mobile web).
Dec 4 2025, 6:53 PM · Editing-team (Editing-16Feb-27Feb-2026), OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), Product-Analytics, Goal

Dec 3 2025

Quiddity added a project to T411561: Words in wrong order on lines with RTL page titles temporarily on Special:Watchlist: RTL.
Dec 3 2025, 11:47 PM · I18n, RTL, Expiring-Watchlist-Items, Community-Tech

Dec 2 2025

Quiddity attached a referenced file: F70826028: image.png.
Dec 2 2025, 11:09 PM · Community-Tech, Expiring-Watchlist-Items
Quiddity merged T411562: RTL article titles in a LTR wiki's EditWatchlist page cause mis-ordered entry into T411561: Words in wrong order on lines with RTL page titles temporarily on Special:Watchlist.
Dec 2 2025, 11:09 PM · I18n, RTL, Expiring-Watchlist-Items, Community-Tech
Quiddity merged task T411562: RTL article titles in a LTR wiki's EditWatchlist page cause mis-ordered entry into T411561: Words in wrong order on lines with RTL page titles temporarily on Special:Watchlist.
Dec 2 2025, 11:09 PM · Community-Tech, Expiring-Watchlist-Items
Quiddity attached a referenced file: F70826028: image.png.
Dec 2 2025, 11:09 PM · I18n, RTL, Expiring-Watchlist-Items, Community-Tech
Quiddity added a project to T411561: Words in wrong order on lines with RTL page titles temporarily on Special:Watchlist: Expiring-Watchlist-Items.
Dec 2 2025, 11:08 PM · I18n, RTL, Expiring-Watchlist-Items, Community-Tech
Quiddity created T411562: RTL article titles in a LTR wiki's EditWatchlist page cause mis-ordered entry.
Dec 2 2025, 11:07 PM · Community-Tech, Expiring-Watchlist-Items
Quiddity added a comment to T410950: Define Codex tokens for text-highlight and target text.

In case helpful, I noticed that my Firefox and Chromium (both latest, on Linux Mint) are displaying different colors from your screenshots above. So I'd guess these are partially OS-defined/overriden colors? (However, I have previously selected a "dark grey" theme for my Mint OS configuration, so I'm likely not seeing the 'defaults')

image.png (353×892 px, 130 KB)
image.png (289×1 px, 131 KB)

Dec 2 2025, 9:03 PM · Codex

Nov 27 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T409112: [MILESTONE] Run a controlled experiment to address section editing dead-end (mobile web).

Tech News draft slightly adjusted/simplified, and added to Description. It will be ready for announcement in the 8th December edition.
We still need to get the correct link for the "100 Wikipedias", and potentially find a place onwiki to document the screenshot and a sentence explaining it. [I'll work on those aspects]

Nov 27 2025, 12:11 AM · Editing-team (Editing-16Feb-27Feb-2026), OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), Product-Analytics, Goal
Quiddity updated the task description for T409112: [MILESTONE] Run a controlled experiment to address section editing dead-end (mobile web).
Nov 27 2025, 12:09 AM · Editing-team (Editing-16Feb-27Feb-2026), OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), Product-Analytics, Goal

Nov 26 2025

Quiddity updated the task description for T290778: [Config change] Enable automatic topic subscriptions in all editing interfaces.
Nov 26 2025, 9:03 PM · User-notice-archive, Skipped QA, Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Design, TPP-Scaling, DiscussionTools
Quiddity claimed T409297: Phase 6: Offer Usability Improvements as default-on feature at English Wikipedia.
Nov 26 2025, 8:01 PM · Patch-For-Review, Editing-team (Planning), Goal, TPP-Scaling, DiscussionTools
Quiddity added a comment to T409112: [MILESTONE] Run a controlled experiment to address section editing dead-end (mobile web).

Tech News draft (WIP):

Later this week, some [Wikipedia? all?] editors using the mobile visualeditor who are editing a section in Visual editor will be shown a button that can expand their editing session to the whole page. This A/B test should enable editors to more easily access the rest of the article mid-edit and lower the edit-abandonment rate. [1]

Nov 26 2025, 6:20 PM · Editing-team (Editing-16Feb-27Feb-2026), OKR-Work (WE1 FY2025-26), Product-Analytics, Goal

Nov 25 2025

Quiddity placed T337887: Consult Dumps users and other community members about the future of Dumps up for grabs.

Removing myself as assignee. I believe this task was handed off to folks with more topical expertise, and possibly also resolved in the time since? Let me/us know if CRS help is still needed.

Nov 25 2025, 8:17 PM · Data-Engineering, DPE-Mediawiki-Content

Nov 24 2025

Quiddity created T410967: Reference check should not suggest references in headings.
Nov 24 2025, 11:48 PM · Verified, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.7; 2025-12-16), VisualEditor Suggestion Mode, OKR-Work, Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), VisualEditor, EditCheck
Quiddity renamed T410937: Publish documentation to MW about new mobile edit full page button that can be linked in Tech/News from Publish documentation to about new edit full page button that can be linked in Tech/News to Publish documentation to MW about new mobile edit full page button that can be linked in Tech/News.
Nov 24 2025, 7:12 PM · Editing-team (Planning), VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Mobile, Goal, OKR-Work

Nov 21 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T2156: Allow editing the lead section of a page.

+1 Iniquity. The string in the edit summary should be localizable. Or...
Or, perhaps it should be left out entirely, if localizing it is much harder?
Or if there are concerns about the UX being confusing? (I.e. When *normally* the /* string */ results in a link to a relevant section (from History/Diff/Feed pages) but in these cases it won't.)
Personal context: I usually just delete that "/* top */" placeholder, when I'm editing with the gadget on Enwiki, as the "top" doesn't really provide any useful context beyond the edit summary I manually write; it's just clutter in my opinion/experience.

Nov 21 2025, 10:26 PM · User-notice, Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia Wishathon, VisualEditor, MediaWiki-Page-editing, Design, MediaWiki-User-Interface

Nov 9 2025

Quiddity added a comment to F70028637: cite-highlighter-css-overrides.png.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Apodaca#References

Nov 9 2025, 1:18 AM

Nov 7 2025

Quiddity placed T295771: Increase $wgMaximumMovedPages for eo.wikisource up for grabs.

I believe the older comments are still accurate. In summary:

  • From a community decision perspective, IMO it would be fine to raise the limit for moved subpages from 100→500 at any/all wikis, because only admins can do it, so this change would merely simplify their lives for the current edge-cases. (I.e. No consultation is needed. We'd only want to provide a Tech News (or local) announcement at the same time as the change)
    • It would especially make things easier at Meta-wiki and MediaWiki-wiki, where we often have to move hundreds of translation-chunk-subpages, plus making things easier at content-projects that heavily utilize the subpage feature in the content namespace(s) [like all Wikisources].
    • [@Pppery please chime in if you disagree with any of this, or have more context that needs to be considered]
  • From a technical perspective, I think we're just waiting on Performance/Platform team to give a go-ahead to either/both of: (A) Raise the limit at individual wikis when they request it, as here, (B) Raise the limit globally.
    • The latter is (perhaps, I'd guess) dependent on "Does it scale well, if multiple wikis/admins start using this increased limit simultaneously?"
    • @Krinkle Should we re-tag this task with MediaWiki-Platform-Team (or another tag) for you/team to do the technical evaluation/decision? (Cf. your comment above)
Nov 7 2025, 10:11 PM · MoveComms-Support, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Oct 29 2025

Quiddity updated the task description for T408167: Selecting both "Unseen changes" and "Seen changes" filters shows nothing at all.
Oct 29 2025, 9:53 PM · MW-1.45-notes, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.1; 2025-11-05), Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban), MediaWiki-Recent-changes, Edit-Review-Improvements-Integrated-Filters

Oct 24 2025

Quiddity moved T405861: Add support for generating non-interactive SVG images via Scribunto from Announce in next Tech/News to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.

I think this feature sounds exciting, per your comments and linked-experiments above, and I worry the current draft-entry, and the documentation it links to, doesn't communicate that clearly to newcomers to this feature. In particular, the documentation doesn't seem to contain any specific examples of how this can be used. We don't usually link to user-sandboxes, especially English-language-only ones, so that's not a great option.
How could we improve the announcement, and the linked documentation, so that the powerful possibilities are more obvious to readers?

Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files.

Oct 24 2025, 5:23 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.23; 2025-10-14), SVG, Scribunto
Quiddity added a comment to T378352: JsonConfig tracking category.

Is this definitely ready to go, and is there anything else we can add about how the category will automatically-empty itself? I.e. I see the Welsh Wikipedia's category (https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categori:Pages_using_the_JsonConfig_extension) still has ~7000 entries; however if I look at articles within that category there is no reference to the category on the page (i.e. it's not even listed in the Hidden Categories). I tried a Null Edit, and that removed the example article from the category, so I think I understand this to be a caching issue. Therefore, I think we should add a sentence to the entry explaining this, to avoid confusion.
I suggest we add the sentence

"It is ok if there still pages listed in the category, as that is a caching issue, and they will automatically be cleared out the next time each page is edited."

But if anyone has a clearer/shorter way to describe this, please do suggest something!

Oct 24 2025, 4:24 PM · User-notice-archive, MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09), JsonConfig

Oct 23 2025

Quiddity created T408167: Selecting both "Unseen changes" and "Seen changes" filters shows nothing at all.
Oct 23 2025, 10:12 PM · MW-1.45-notes, MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.1; 2025-11-05), Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban), MediaWiki-Recent-changes, Edit-Review-Improvements-Integrated-Filters
Quiddity added a comment to T41510: Opening Special:EditWatchlist with a large watchlist hits server timeout (Create watchlist pager).

There's a comment (at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech#Editing_Watchlists_on_different_Wikimedia_projects) that I believe is related to this task. The editor there (Sabelöga) notes that: On some wikis [I see Group0 & Group1 wikis] in the Special:EditWatchlist page there is no longer a TableOfContents shown for the different sections [regression?], and Temporarily-watchlisted pages are no longer grouped at the top of each section [which Dom mentioned in the last bulletpoint above]. I will reply there, pointing them here.

Oct 23 2025, 5:46 PM · User-notice-archive, Community-Tech, Patch-For-Review, Moderator-Tools-Team, affects-translatewiki.net, User-kostajh, Wikimedia-production-error, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Oct 22 2025

Quiddity updated subscribers of T290778: [Config change] Enable automatic topic subscriptions in all editing interfaces.

+1 to including that second paragraph as useful context.
P.s. Note for @STei-WMF : In Tech News, we can replace the plain 'name' of the preference (and buttons), with the actual interface string's name (discussiontools-preference-autotopicsub - found via the QQX trick), so that readers in more languages (beyond those which are manually translated by volunteers for Tech News itself) can get a hint about the context. -- That also benefits Tech News translators, as they won't have to look-up the exact wording that is used in their language, in order to write it accurately in Tech News. -- I.e. Final draft suggestion (also with an added link for the DiscussionTools feature help-page):

For users with "{{int:discussiontools-preference-autotopicsub}}" [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing|enabled in their preferences]], starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic with the source editor will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "{{int:Skin-action-addsection}}" or "{{int:Discussiontools-replybutton}}" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted-in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time.

Timing: Not this edition, but the following week's (#45).

Oct 22 2025, 7:53 PM · User-notice-archive, Skipped QA, Editing QA, Editing-team (Kanban Board), Design, TPP-Scaling, DiscussionTools

Oct 21 2025

Quiddity updated the task description for T407908: Re-enable browsing by headings via rotor on VoiceOver (headings not found).
Oct 21 2025, 10:16 PM · Reader Experience Team, Reader Growth Team, Patch-For-Review, Regression, MobileFrontend (MobileFormatter), Accessibility
Quiddity updated the task description for T407908: Re-enable browsing by headings via rotor on VoiceOver (headings not found).
Oct 21 2025, 9:13 PM · Reader Experience Team, Reader Growth Team, Patch-For-Review, Regression, MobileFrontend (MobileFormatter), Accessibility

Oct 16 2025

Quiddity added a comment to T407567: Citoid cannot fetch data for cbc.ca articles due to upstream WMF specific block ( 504 gateway timeout ).

Thanks for testing PrimeHunter. "cite web" in the wiktext editor did work for me initially, just before I filed this task (i.e. I entered the URL and clicked the Autofill button, and after a few seconds it auto-filled the Title and Website name parameters), but I cannot reproduce it now. I'm not sure if that's related (IIRC they use different backends?). But good to note.

Oct 16 2025, 10:15 PM · Citoid
Quiddity created T407567: Citoid cannot fetch data for cbc.ca articles due to upstream WMF specific block ( 504 gateway timeout ).
Oct 16 2025, 8:19 PM · Citoid

Oct 10 2025

Quiddity closed T93487: scrolling to the beginning of a Flow topic is uncomfortable on mobile when on Topic page as Declined.

Declining ancient Flow task

Oct 10 2025, 9:55 PM · Growth-Team-Filtering, Growth-Team, Design, Mobile, StructuredDiscussions
Quiddity closed T93487: scrolling to the beginning of a Flow topic is uncomfortable on mobile when on Topic page, a subtask of T93430: Mobile web - Flow issues (tracking), as Declined.
Oct 10 2025, 9:55 PM · StructuredDiscussions, Tracking-Neverending