Wikinews:Water cooler/technical/archives/2024/October

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Call for testing - Software - Writing and review - Cryptpad: Etherpad with highlighting

Hello

I have created a template for new article here (it is like w:Google Docs but is open source software)

Template [1] (expires in 90 days)

Example of article here:

[2] (expires in 90 days)

The purpose is to have ability to highlight parts of draft and parts of source -- can't do this on wiki due to licence restrictions. Any author and any reviewer can copy paste the contents of template into a new pad:

Click "+ New" to create your pad [3] (new pad expires in 90 days)

I'll let you know what useful comes out of it, maybe it can help me review more consistently.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback. Thanks! Gryllida (talk) 22:12, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Expand the abandoned template

I've edited it to include time of last edit to article and article talk (as i check this info manually each time to ensure the article was not un-abandoned) and wanted to also add time when the abandoned template was added to article but this one got stuck as all it does is show five tildas. Please see my edited version at {{Gryllida-Abandoned‎}} and merge these changes into {{abandoned}} if possible (or make your own copy and then i can merge for you). Thanks in advance. Gryllida (talk) 00:05, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:29, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]