On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Jan Ainali <jan.ain...@wikimedia.se> wrote:
> 2014-09-15 23:54 GMT+02:00 James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com>: > > > In the recent discussion of editor engagement effectiveness on > > wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext > > practice arose. I would like to know whether anyone shares my concern > that > > eliminating wikitext talk pages will remove what has, for the past few > > terabytes of edits, served the same purpose as the "sandbox" pages which > we > > encourage new editors to practice with. > > > Is that just enwp? On svwp we do not encourage people to use the talk pages > as sandboxes. Instead we have a default-on gadget with a link to > [[Special:MyPage/Sandbox]]. > > > 62 wikis have that gadget, and 50 of them have it enabled by default currently, according to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70499 (which is a bug-ticket to enable the new Extension, that supercedes the gadget! This will fix the last-second "jump" that the gadget-version causes, when it nudges the user/echo/usertalk links to the left/right. :) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SandboxLink I believe it's still in need of translation work if anyone can help with that :) https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-sandboxlink _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
