On 7 October 2014 23:12, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
One thing that would help tremendously would be encouraging template
standardization on the wikis. For example, on en.wiki, we currently have 60
different quotation templates![1]
1.
On 11 October 2014 20:12, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
In the recent past, I've done a *lot* of work on en.WP, encouraging
the community to delete or merge redundant templates.
I'm happy to hepl with doing so for quote templates.
I've nominated a bunch of quote templates for
On Oct 9, 2014 8:08 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Helder wrote:
This is why we have proposals like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GlobalTemplates
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global-Wiki
Yes, a million times this. We must figure out a way to centralize
templates so that
On 7 October 2014 23:12, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
One thing that would help tremendously would be encouraging template
standardization on the wikis. For example, on en.wiki, we currently have 60
different quotation templates![1] And all of them have completely different
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Florian
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Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] {{TemplatesThatWorkOnMobile}}
On Tue
Helder wrote:
This is why we have proposals like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GlobalTemplates
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global-Wiki
Yes, a million times this. We must figure out a way to centralize
templates so that maintenance is easier. The current system of per-project
wiki templates
Perhaps someone could trail making a gadget that will display the template
loaded into the m.* mobile experience so its's easier for users to have a
look as a starting point?
On 9 October 2014 14:09, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Helder wrote:
This is why we have proposals like
Jon,
1: Get templateeditor rights on your volunteer account, you can edit the
majority of templates with that, and you only need to proof your skill with
templates for that, which is a reasonably low barrier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_editor
2: This whole stuff is mostly
On 8 okt. 2014, at 04:37, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
As members of the Mobile Team, it's our job to make the mobile platform the
best it can be. If we have to edit templates to do that because they're
causing significant display issues that are disrupting the platform, so be
it.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman
d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote:
5: Remember that you need to do this for EACH AND EVERY individual wiki…
...or, from what I have seen, if you do it only on enwiki then users
will just create another fork of the template on smaller wikis and:
*
On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in
templates. For example:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001
When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is
because of a troublesome inline style in the template and then we
communicate this on
(See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35704 for
lots of examples of broken template/css combos)
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in
templates. For example:
One thing that would help tremendously would be encouraging template
standardization on the wikis. For example, on en.wiki, we currently have 60
different quotation templates![1] And all of them have completely different
inline styling (most of which don't work well on mobile). If there were
only
Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile
problems?
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in
templates. For example:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001
When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is
because
On 07/10/14 22:02, Jon Robson wrote:
On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in
templates. For example:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001
When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is
because of a troublesome inline style in the
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile
problems?
I'll write up some notes...
The first thing is to *test your pages on mobile*. The least one can do is
fire up a page in *.m.wikipedia.org in a
On 07/10/14 22:17, Isarra Yos wrote:
On 07/10/14 22:02, Jon Robson wrote:
On mobile we continuously get bugs related to inline styles in
templates. For example:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68001
When these happen we usually spend time investigating, discover it is
because of
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Bináris wikipo...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a techguide anywhere on how to style templates to avoid mobile
problems?
There are a few notes here -
The wiki way is not to ask and wait for someone else to act, but to act
directly in good faith and communicate what you did and why so that if
there is disagreement it can be resolved afterwards.
Sadly I only have template edit rights on my staff account and I
really don't like using that
Templates aren't protected by default =).
If they are protected there is generally a good reason such as heavy usage,
you can always put a comment on the talk page and tag it with
{{EditProtected}} which will summon someone with sysop rights.
You can also setup a /Sandbox page with the proposed
Jon,
Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template
is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to
fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to
edit the template (e.g. because it's protected), then speak to Tomasz
On 7 Oct 2014 18:03, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Jon,
Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template
is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to
fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to
edit
On 7 Oct 2014 18:15, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 7 Oct 2014 18:03, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Jon,
Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a
template
is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough
to
fix it,
On Oct 7, 2014 10:03 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Jon,
Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template
is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to
fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to
On Oct 7, 2014 10:03 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Jon,
Regarding editing specific templates, I'll echo Brion here. If a template
is causing difficulties for your work and you feel like you know enough to
fix it, then fix it! That's the wiki way. If you don't have the rights to
As members of the Mobile Team, it's our job to make the mobile platform the
best it can be. If we have to edit templates to do that because they're
causing significant display issues that are disrupting the platform, so be
it. For example, let's say pie charts are completely broken on mobile and
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