Charles Edward Buckland

“ Throwing the baby out with the water, or having hissy fits, or going ballistic are not options for a functioning community. I would ask that you work within the framework of the consensus of the community, and to partake in the discussions to form those consensus. Your case is just one like many others, and you have contributed to it more than others, though there have been others who have willing participated and similarly shown intolerance as you have. — billinghurst sDrewth 16:31, 15 September 2019 (UTC) i have always tried to work within consensus. ”

“ You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. ”

“ When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you? What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them? What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages? ”

“ You can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup. Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. ”

“ Comment I don't think that we need to change anything (well except I just protected the template to admin only with specific protection statement) . The no-notice applies to works between 1923 and 1977, so it will always be factually correct. They should be picking a different license if post 1922 and out of copyright for another reason, and the actual year of publication doesn't need to be there. Only reason for a death year is so it goes to PD-old or equivalent. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:23, 25 July 2019 (UTC) Tech News: 2019-31
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. ”

“ The whole point of the bot is that it uploads high quality original scans from the Internet Archive, which is distinct from the purpose of the template (which, as you describe, typically pulls in the low quality preview from a DJVU file, so the reader has something to look at.) Maybe the best thing would be to adjust the way that HesperianBot tags files? (Personally, I no longer use it, primarily because the lack of PD tags makes the transfer to Commons cumbersome; easier to just download the JP2 files directly from the Archive myself.) ”

“ Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project. ”

“ I suggest that what we want to do is start populating testcases in {{article link/testcases}} (and I would point to what I have done at our complementary template {{authority/link}} and {{authority/link/testcases}}) . So let us start populating simple through to complex testcases—even with ridiculous amounts of parameters to worse case scenario—and then when we build the sandbox we can tweak the formatting. I will build for the situation without translators, and we can work from there. — billinghurst sDrewth 05:56, 2 August 2019 (UTC) I have added some test cases to that page. ”

“ If you really want to invoke these conversations when other editors question your actions, the least you should do is collect links to them in an essay like the common outcomes essay on enWP.
If someone tells you that they are completely fed up with hearing objections from you, it is not helpful to immediately respond with even more new objections. The most likely result of that kind of response is that the other person will retire from the project because they fear that your objections are liable to escalate forever. ”