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92:. I wrote something in it nearly 2 weeks ago but no one has taken any action about it. Maybe a small notice of some sort in the article page would make interested readers come and act on it? Maybe this would give readers the opportunity to see if a page they're reading has any issues on it and possibly involve them in the on-going discussion? Or maybe we don't really want readers to participate massively in such discussions and this would be a bad idea overall? A similar mechanism already exists on big wikis though where articles get notice templates notifying readers about the problems they might have, even though they're not usually related to talk page discussions. This would make use of that principle and extend it to be a native feature in all namespaces, not only the main one. - 248: 303: 160: 122:) have talked about this problem, especially thinking about communities the size of sqwiki. An experienced editor will know how to provoke a response if something is important. Here, if it were important, you or I would go to a village pump, a WikiProject page, or a noticeboard. At smaller wikis, most communication might happen on 165:
Actually what I'm thinking is neither of those suggestions (even though the phab task you mentioned looked really interesting). I was just picturing a system where each talk page discussion has a square box near it the tick of which marks it as resolved. If there are unresolved discussions/issues, a
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Hello! I had an idea and thought about discussing it with you given your involvement in talk page discussions. Some time ago I've expressed the wish to introduce the "resolved/unresolved" feature in DiscussionTools, or even summaries, things we already have at MediaWiki talk pages (they use Flow,
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I think making the notice appear in the mainspace (reliably) would require this "meta-data" system to work. It could perhaps be faked with a bot, but cached versions would be outdated. (Perhaps it would work better if it displayed to logged-in users, since I have heard that those are a little
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If you are thinking about a category-based system (i.e., add a template that puts the page in a "Category:Knowledge talk pages with unresolved questions"), then that might work, assuming that there were people interested in clearing that backlog. There would, however, be the difficulty of
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notice comes on the homologue mainpage notifying each reader that the following discussions are still open and on-going on the talk page and their participation would be valuable (this notice copies all the titles of the unresolved discussions and links to them in a list format).
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I managed to reproduce this on test.wikipedia.org where I disabled all of my gadgets. I also forgot to add a crucial detail that the bug happens on Chrome/Edge mobile when copying into the source editor for the reply tool.
351:, but I finally figured out the problem! Copying and pasting a block of text with a newline into the reply field causes it to break. I'll look into filing a bug report since you're no longer working at the WMF. 126:
pages. But an inexperienced editor won't know how to do that, and if nobody's watching the page, then the comment will get overlooked. I don't think that they ever came to a conclusion about how to solve the
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no?). Now I'm extending that idea to incorporate a rather non-invasive notice of some sort in main pages accompanying talk pages if there are unresolved issues in them.
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Automagically displaying the talk page situation in the mainspace would probably require a significant but feasible change to MediaWiki. I think that would require
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I think the problem with that particular comment is that almost nobody is watching the page, and therefore almost nobody will see it. @
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Yeah, a bot could also help but it would be better if it was a native feature because small wikis tend to lack such infrastructures.
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I agree with you. Even in the larger wikis, bots aren't a reliable long-term solution. Bot operators may leave or lose interest.
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less-experienced editors knowing how to trigger the extra attention. This would be similar to the existing
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Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! The Nativity scene on the
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Yes, several. I'll see what the minimal combination is to reproduce.
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is supporting the Editing team now, and I suspect that either @
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Thank you for your diligent effort over the past decade! ~ 🦝
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Thank you! I was asking, as I can't reproduce the issue. :)
347:I know it's been 3 years since you asked me about 325:is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. 156:Hi! Hope you had a good time on your vacations! 278:Thank you for the barnstar! I appreciate it. 118:and the Editing team (who are now focused on 80:Notify readers for page issues in talk pages 379:. Thanks for the update. I believe that @ 375:Oooh, that's an interesting discovery, @ 300: 391:will be interested in the bug report. 157: 13: 14: 521: 254:The Tireless Contributor Barnstar 184:different for caching purposes?) 301: 246: 158: 502:17:33, 20 September 2024 (UTC) 471:14:58, 20 September 2024 (UTC) 453:13:14, 20 September 2024 (UTC) 423:08:51, 20 September 2024 (UTC) 401:00:03, 20 September 2024 (UTC) 370:16:04, 19 September 2024 (UTC) 288:21:59, 26 September 2023 (UTC) 270:17:30, 26 September 2023 (UTC) 1: 335:02:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC) 319:Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery 88:For a simple example, check 7: 225:16:19, 23 August 2023 (UTC) 210:09:07, 23 August 2023 (UTC) 194:04:43, 23 August 2023 (UTC) 178:15:25, 18 August 2023 (UTC) 152:15:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC) 10: 526: 409:, do you use any gadget? 349:glitches in the reply tool 102:14:35, 5 August 2023 (UTC) 307: 245: 283: 220: 189: 147: 133:Knowledge:Edit requests 343:Glitches in reply tool 73:June 2022 to May 2023 67:June 2021 to May 2022 61:June 2020 to May 2021 55:June 2019 to May 2020 49:June 2018 to May 2019 43:June 2017 to May 2018 37:June 2016 to May 2017 31:June 2015 to May 2016 25:June 2014 to May 2015 19:June 2013 to May 2014 239:A barnstar for you! 311:Season's Greetings 294:Season's Greetings 280:Whatamidoing (WMF) 217:Whatamidoing (WMF) 186:Whatamidoing (WMF) 144:Whatamidoing (WMF) 16:Old discussions: 499: 450: 367: 340: 339: 275: 274: 517: 500: 493: 481: 451: 444: 433: 368: 361: 305: 298: 297: 250: 243: 242: 212: 180: 163: 162: 161: 125: 75: 69: 63: 57: 51: 45: 39: 33: 27: 21: 525: 524: 520: 519: 518: 516: 515: 514: 484: 475: 435: 427: 352: 345: 296: 241: 159: 123: 82: 71: 65: 59: 53: 47: 41: 35: 29: 23: 17: 12: 11: 5: 523: 513: 512: 511: 510: 509: 508: 507: 506: 505: 504: 389:ESanders (WMF) 344: 341: 338: 337: 314: 313: 308: 306: 295: 292: 291: 290: 273: 272: 257: 256: 251: 240: 237: 236: 235: 234: 233: 232: 231: 230: 229: 228: 227: 164: 136: 128: 116:PPelberg (WMF) 112: 81: 78: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 522: 503: 497: 491: 487: 479: 474: 473: 472: 468: 464: 462: 456: 455: 454: 448: 442: 438: 431: 426: 425: 424: 420: 416: 414: 408: 404: 403: 402: 398: 394: 390: 386: 382: 378: 374: 373: 372: 371: 365: 359: 355: 350: 336: 332: 328: 324: 323:Nicola Pisano 320: 316: 315: 312: 309: 304: 299: 289: 285: 281: 277: 276: 271: 267: 263: 259: 258: 255: 252: 249: 244: 226: 222: 218: 214: 213: 211: 207: 203: 197: 196: 195: 191: 187: 182: 181: 179: 175: 171: 155: 154: 153: 149: 145: 141: 137: 134: 129: 121: 120:mw:Edit check 117: 113: 110: 106: 105: 104: 103: 99: 95: 91: 86: 77: 74: 68: 62: 56: 50: 44: 38: 32: 26: 20: 498:me on reply) 478:Trizek (WMF) 460: 449:me on reply) 430:Trizek (WMF) 412: 393:WhatamIdoing 385:DLynch (WMF) 381:Trizek (WMF) 366:me on reply) 346: 310: 253: 140:phab:T132072 87: 83: 15: 264:(he/him • 202:Klein Muçi 170:Klein Muçi 124:User_talk: 109:Klein Muçi 94:Klein Muçi 262:Shushugah 135:approach. 90:this page 494:(please 445:(please 362:(please 127:problem. 107:Hello, @ 496:mention 447:mention 364:mention 327:Johnbod 459:Trizek 411:Trizek 486:Chess 463:(WMF) 437:Chess 415:(WMF) 407:Chess 377:Chess 354:Chess 490:talk 467:talk 441:talk 419:talk 397:talk 387:or @ 358:talk 331:talk 284:talk 266:talk 221:talk 206:talk 190:talk 174:talk 148:talk 98:talk 321:by 492:) 469:) 443:) 421:) 399:) 360:) 333:) 286:) 268:) 223:) 208:) 200:— 192:) 176:) 168:— 150:) 100:) 76:. 70:, 64:, 58:, 52:, 46:, 40:, 34:, 28:, 22:, 488:( 480:: 476:@ 465:( 461:_ 439:( 432:: 428:@ 417:( 413:_ 405:@ 395:( 356:( 329:( 282:( 219:( 204:( 188:( 172:( 146:( 96:(

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