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Yesterday

Prototyperspective updated subscribers of T396165: In the OWID Importer repo explain how to report issues.

That extension is only about the OWID Gadget. Maybe info should about the importer should be added there too (@Doc_James ?).

Mon, Jun 9, 2:39 PM · OurWorldInData

Sat, Jun 7

Prototyperspective added a comment to T392946: A way to get notified when a specific bot made an edit while hiding bot edits in Watchlist.

I don't know if it's possible to set a priority lower than Low but I think this would be suitable to be set to something like it:

  • I meant to report that I don't get notifications when pages where I clicked "Subscribe" get updated but later learned Subscribe is only meant to show a notification when a new section is added.
  • Listeria updates relevant pages so frequently (once per week) that notifications would probably be too distracting / too frequent
  • Currently, there aren't so many bots editing on Wikidata so that I just changed my Watchlist to also show bot edits so that the updates by the ListeriaBot show up in it

Now this may very per case and user or at some later time but probably it's not that needed or useful. Also there are alternatives such as enabling the user to specify which thing they'd like to get a notification for when clicking Subscribe (just new sections or any change etc).

Sat, Jun 7, 11:26 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team, Wikidata, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Prototyperspective awarded T396168: Commons videos not indexed by Google a Burninate token.
Sat, Jun 7, 12:02 PM · TimedMediaHandler, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons, SEO

Fri, Jun 6

Prototyperspective added a comment to T368298: Support showing WebVTT (embed in media file) subtitles on Wikimedia Commons.

Thanks very much for looking into it. I think there is two routes: 1. one can download the subtitles with yt-dlp and add them to the TimedTexts which would require some change to video2commons and/or some tool that does it for videos imported with it from YT retrospectively 2. doing something like ffmpeg -i video.webm -map 0:s:0 subtitles.srt on the server.

Fri, Jun 6, 10:55 PM · TimedMediaHandler-TimedText, Commons
Prototyperspective added a comment to T202632: Provide a link that opens all pages with changes since last visit in new tabs.

"all pages" is very ambiguous – you probably don't mean the articles right? This would mark the changes as seen but not show a diff of what has changed. So is it the revision history page or a diff of all changes since last seen? I think a diff of all unseen changes is what would be most useful. I think the Wikipedia Watchlist is broken because it does not have a button to see a diff of unseen changes per article with one click. So lots of time wasted and it's exhausting to go through the Watchlist and I can't understand why editors are not calling for this is hordes since I can't even use the Watchlist without such a button which I had added via some script.

Fri, Jun 6, 3:50 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist, MediaWiki-Recent-changes
Prototyperspective awarded T202632: Provide a link that opens all pages with changes since last visit in new tabs a Burninate token.
Fri, Jun 6, 3:50 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-Watchlist, MediaWiki-Recent-changes

Thu, Jun 5

Prototyperspective created T396170: In the OWID Importer, suggest more categories users of the tool may not set otherwise.
Thu, Jun 5, 11:37 PM · OurWorldInData
Prototyperspective created T396165: In the OWID Importer repo explain how to report issues.
Thu, Jun 5, 11:28 PM · OurWorldInData

Wed, Jun 4

Prototyperspective added a comment to T371006: Translating comments on talk pages on demand.

Yes; should have removed EN, I meant to refer to English Wikipedia but then changed it to mean multilingual wikis mainly Wikidata, Commons, and MetaWiki where also most comments are in English and quite a fraction of talk pages get quite many pageviews. If this was being used on Commons VillagePump, it would result in thousands of the same requests where it would be sufficient to just check once with the subsequent same requests being redundant.

Wed, Jun 4, 1:32 PM · Community-Tech, Patch-For-Review, Community Wishlist (Translations)
Prototyperspective added a comment to T334940: All Graphs broken on Wikimedia wikis (due to security issue T336556).

The Charts extension has now been deployed also to English Wikipedia. For those interested in re-enabling interactive charts by converting graphs to the new Chart extension, see this tool graphDataImport which makes this quick & easy and also the alternatives in the See also section there. Anything related to any of this can be asked in this new WikiProject.

Wed, Jun 4, 1:17 PM · Regression, User-notice, Tech Ambassadors & Translators, MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

Tue, Jun 3

Prototyperspective added a comment to T371006: Translating comments on talk pages on demand.

@Samwilson I suspect this would need to be revisited at some later point then. Most EN talk pages get quite a few views per month so it would make much more sense to only load and set the language the first time it's loaded and then store/cache it somehow. It has been already loaded when the next user visits the page. It's relatively rare currently that people comment with nonenglish comments and there probably will be doubts whether so many duplicate API requests are adequate.

Tue, Jun 3, 11:48 PM · Community-Tech, Patch-For-Review, Community Wishlist (Translations)
Prototyperspective added a comment to T371006: Translating comments on talk pages on demand.

@Samwilson In the description of that change (would be really useful) it says "When the page loads, a request is made to the Lift Wing API to get
a prediction of each thread's language. If the result is different from the current interface language, the translation button is shown." but wouldn't that lead to many unnecessary requests, longer page-load and server costs? I think it would be better if it just always showed that button or if talk page comments were labeled with the language just once (probably when users post a comment with the Reply tool).

Tue, Jun 3, 1:57 PM · Community-Tech, Patch-For-Review, Community Wishlist (Translations)

Sun, Jun 1

Prototyperspective changed the status of T395733: Translations page should show one's translated articles (page Übersetzungen in German Wikipedia) from Stalled to Open.
Sun, Jun 1, 5:13 PM · ContentTranslation
Prototyperspective added a comment to T395733: Translations page should show one's translated articles (page Übersetzungen in German Wikipedia).

The problem remains: How to find out in a technically feasible way that you translated a page if there is no trace in any log which shows that you wrote a translation (means: text source was another Wikimedia wiki) instead of writing a non-translation?

Sun, Jun 1, 5:12 PM · ContentTranslation
Prototyperspective created T395760: Upload data graphics without legend at bottom in OWID Importer tool.
Sun, Jun 1, 4:55 PM · OurWorldInData
Prototyperspective created T395759: Enabling the import of charts by country in the OWID Importer.
Sun, Jun 1, 4:50 PM · OurWorldInData
Prototyperspective added a watcher for OurWorldInData: Prototyperspective.
Sun, Jun 1, 4:47 PM

Sat, May 31

Prototyperspective added a comment to T395733: Translations page should show one's translated articles (page Übersetzungen in German Wikipedia).

@Aklapper The full link is https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ContentTranslation&campaign=contributionsmenu&to=de

Sat, May 31, 10:18 PM · ContentTranslation
Prototyperspective created T395733: Translations page should show one's translated articles (page Übersetzungen in German Wikipedia).
Sat, May 31, 4:20 PM · ContentTranslation
Prototyperspective updated the task description for T378756: Enabling the InputBox on Commons to use the new MediaSearch instead of SpecialSearch.
Sat, May 31, 12:39 PM · Patch-For-Review, Commons, MediaWiki-extensions-InputBox
Prototyperspective added a comment to T378756: Enabling the InputBox on Commons to use the new MediaSearch instead of SpecialSearch.

@Samwilson In my opinion yes. Thanks for looking into it.

Sat, May 31, 12:38 PM · Patch-For-Review, Commons, MediaWiki-extensions-InputBox

Wed, May 28

Prototyperspective added a comment to T395490: Support rendering previews of charts as thumbnail images.
  • Images gallery elements aren't necessarily small
  • I think a main benefit of the Charts is that these are interactive so showing some static cached version would entirely negate that. Much of the whole point of using charts in the first place is that these are interactive; and if this is done the problem of including charts in galleries would still be there.
  • In regards to performance etc it could be best to load and show a cached static thumbnail by default but load the chart when the e.g. the user hovers over it or clicks some button on it like [toggle interactivity] – I think that's an issue relating to improving performance, reduce server costs, make pages load faster and be less data-heavy; and not relating to enabling charts to be included in various types of containers
Wed, May 28, 5:42 PM · Charts
Prototyperspective added a comment to T395362: Enabling the inclusion of charts in <gallery> galleries.

Salino01 thanks for those examples! @Tkarcher That was just an example chart. Even then, having an interactive chart is or can still be advantageous as one can hover over the individual year points. I think a main benefit of the Charts is that these are interactive so showing some static cached version would entirely negate that. However, in regards to performance etc it could be best to load and show a cached static thumbnail by default but load the chart when the e.g. the user hovers over it or clicks some button on it like [toggle interactivity]. That's not really about this issue though. Again the much of the whole point of using charts is that these are interactive; and if this is done the problem of including charts in galleries would still be there.

Wed, May 28, 5:38 PM · Charts

Tue, May 27

Prototyperspective created T395362: Enabling the inclusion of charts in <gallery> galleries.
Tue, May 27, 5:47 PM · Charts
Prototyperspective created T395348: An option to load more files for deepcategory searches with partial results (larger depth).
Tue, May 27, 4:18 PM · CirrusSearch, Commons, Discovery-Search
Prototyperspective updated the task description for T395341: Deepcategory search on Commons often does not show any results instead of results up to the configured limits.
Tue, May 27, 3:52 PM · CirrusSearch, Commons, Discovery-Search
Prototyperspective created T395341: Deepcategory search on Commons often does not show any results instead of results up to the configured limits.
Tue, May 27, 3:51 PM · CirrusSearch, Commons, Discovery-Search

Mon, May 26

Prototyperspective added a comment to T376440: Deepcategory search does not show any results on Commons instead of results up to the configured limits.

Well the reason for why I reopened this issue is that it seems to be the same problem (again or still). It's not about MediaSearch, it also doesn't work (anymore iirc) with SpecialSearch. However, now results are showing again so it seems like it was a temporary problem that's fixed now.

Mon, May 26, 11:46 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.5; 2024-11-25), Discovery-Search (Current work), CirrusSearch, Commons
Prototyperspective reopened T376440: Deepcategory search does not show any results on Commons instead of results up to the configured limits as "Open".

What happened now? Didn't this work just two days or so ago – see T391876

Mon, May 26, 10:37 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.5; 2024-11-25), Discovery-Search (Current work), CirrusSearch, Commons
Prototyperspective added a comment to T376845: Allow editors to control size of charts.

Is it within the scope of this issue to enable charts to be included in <gallery> s? For an example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Data_Visualization#Examples – I'd like to include that chart in the gallery next to the images.

Mon, May 26, 5:41 PM · Charts
Prototyperspective updated the task description for T378093: In the Wikipedia app, enable seeing more than 1 set of recommended articles (Because You Read).
Mon, May 26, 12:49 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog, Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog
Prototyperspective renamed T378093: In the Wikipedia app, enable seeing more than 1 set of recommended articles (Because You Read) from In the Wikipedia app, enable seeing more than 1 set of recommended articles to In the Wikipedia app, enable seeing more than 1 set of recommended articles (Because You Read).
Mon, May 26, 12:48 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog, Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog

Fri, May 23

Prototyperspective added a comment to T391876: Deepcategory search does not work with MediaSearch on commons.

Great that this works now. EBernhardson, is there a way to leave things as they are but give the user the option to click a button to load more files (larger depth)? e.g. [click here to load more]

Fri, May 23, 7:21 PM · Discovery-Search (2025.05.24 - 2025.06.13), MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), CirrusSearch, Commons

Mon, May 19

Prototyperspective created T394667: The cat-a-lot progress window moves.
Mon, May 19, 1:25 PM · gadget-Cat-a-lot

May 10 2025

Prototyperspective updated the task description for T371195: Search operator intitle does not work if it includes a - minus sign on Commons.
May 10 2025, 5:52 PM · Discovery-Search (Current work), CirrusSearch

May 2 2025

Prototyperspective created T393222: In the edit summary of the reFill tool, link to the page describing reFill.
May 2 2025, 10:22 PM · Tool-refill

Apr 29 2025

Prototyperspective created T392946: A way to get notified when a specific bot made an edit while hiding bot edits in Watchlist.
Apr 29 2025, 6:32 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team, Wikidata, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Prototyperspective created T392901: Also fill the language= parameter with the reFill tool.
Apr 29 2025, 12:45 PM · Tool-refill

Apr 28 2025

Prototyperspective created T392863: In MediaSearch images seen in QuickView can't be selected anymore.
Apr 28 2025, 10:06 PM · gadget-Cat-a-lot
Prototyperspective created T392862: Showing cat-a-lot breaks MediaSearch keyboard shortcut for next image.
Apr 28 2025, 9:55 PM · gadget-Cat-a-lot
Prototyperspective updated the task description for T392809: In the cordo tool also show thumbnails for files that are candidates for deletion.
Apr 28 2025, 11:59 AM · Tool-wikicordo
Prototyperspective created T392809: In the cordo tool also show thumbnails for files that are candidates for deletion.
Apr 28 2025, 11:58 AM · Tool-wikicordo

Apr 27 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T391822: Adding info on GLAMorous 2 to GLAMorous tool.

Reported at https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/glamtools/issues/291/info-on-glamorous-2-to-glamorous-tool

Apr 27 2025, 2:44 PM · Commons

Apr 14 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T391822: Adding info on GLAMorous 2 to GLAMorous tool.

I don't think I have a bitbucket account. I think very few people on Commons have. Could Manske please move it on GitHub like most external Wikimedia tools and for which at least many and maybe most issue-reporting issues have an account? Having it on Bitbucket makes things hard and makes this difficult to find etc. Alternatively, consider whether Phabricator could be used for this.

Apr 14 2025, 1:30 PM · Commons
Prototyperspective created T391827: In GLAMorous 2, only the first 10 images (thumbnails) are loaded.
Apr 14 2025, 1:02 PM · Commons
Prototyperspective created T391822: Adding info on GLAMorous 2 to GLAMorous tool.
Apr 14 2025, 12:43 PM · Commons

Apr 10 2025

Prototyperspective created T391583: Switching from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch loses deepcategory parameter in search field.
Apr 10 2025, 1:40 PM · Patch-For-Review, Structured-Data-Backlog, MediaSearch, Commons

Apr 9 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T376440: Deepcategory search does not show any results on Commons instead of results up to the configured limits.

Great, thanks for solving this! Has something changed about this or is this not applied for some cases?: I was looking for example photos of factory interiors for a new photo challenge proposal and tried to use deepcategory:"Manufacturing by product" but it does not show any results in the MediaSearch. Why is that? The special search does show results with the note "A warning has occurred while searching: Deep category query returned too many categories. Only a subset of categories has been applied." but the MediaSearch doesn't. Maybe a separate bug should be filed about it – iirc it did show results in MediaSearch for other categories of that type.

Apr 9 2025, 11:30 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.5; 2024-11-25), Discovery-Search (Current work), CirrusSearch, Commons
Prototyperspective added a comment to T353659: V2C should be integrated into MW.

Yes, exactly. The requirement to upload MP4 videos via an unsupported tool is the result of the Commons community's commitment to patent purity. We can't just integrate V2C as Yann requests.

Apr 9 2025, 10:25 AM · video2commons, Commons

Apr 3 2025

Prototyperspective updated the task description for T390958: Hiding video captions by default except if video lang diffs from user lang and/or an option to hide subtitles.
Apr 3 2025, 3:07 PM · TimedMediaHandler-TimedText, Commons
Prototyperspective renamed T390958: Hiding video captions by default except if video lang diffs from user lang and/or an option to hide subtitles from Hiding video captions by default except if video lang diffs from user lang to Hiding video captions by default except if video lang diffs from user lang and/or an option to hide subtitles.
Apr 3 2025, 3:00 PM · TimedMediaHandler-TimedText, Commons
Prototyperspective created T390958: Hiding video captions by default except if video lang diffs from user lang and/or an option to hide subtitles.
Apr 3 2025, 12:22 PM · TimedMediaHandler-TimedText, Commons

Apr 1 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T390302: Prototype upload flow to Commons in iOS Wikipedia App.

@HNordeenWMF Thanks for explaining. That's very understandable and I was not suggesting that it seems like you'd prioritize iOS over Android or anything of that sort. As I linked this issue at the meta wishlist proposal about an iOS I thought I should at the same time also leave a note about the Android app.

Apr 1 2025, 6:46 PM · Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025

Mar 30 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T390302: Prototype upload flow to Commons in iOS Wikipedia App.

Aklapper: Please move your comment to forums, thanks. Also you misquoted my small relevant good-intentioned friendly ontopic comment.

Mar 30 2025, 7:56 PM · Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025

Mar 29 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T390302: Prototype upload flow to Commons in iOS Wikipedia App.

If there is WMF support / development of an iOS, I think there should be at least as much support / development for the Android app. That is because (probably) a much larger share of users and especially contributors is using Android vs iOS, fairness, and that Android is more open source than entirely closed-source iOS. Issue in the Android app repo is here.

Mar 29 2025, 1:31 PM · Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025

Mar 27 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T351978: SVG file upload: Allow to preview SVG file without external URLs loaded and continue upload after removal of external "@import url".

When uploading a SVG from OWID I first need to open it in the text editor, remove the problematic line, and then can upload it.

Mar 27 2025, 12:50 AM · MediaWiki-Uploading

Mar 23 2025

Prototyperspective created T389726: Including more categories in the dropdown autocomplete results of the Commons search bar .
Mar 23 2025, 12:03 AM · Structured-Data-Backlog, MediaSearch, Commons

Mar 22 2025

Prototyperspective created T389725: Further replace legacy SpecialSearch with MediaSearch on Commons: when entering sth in search bar and clicking "Search for pages containing [xyz]" use MediaSearch.
Mar 22 2025, 8:56 PM · Structured-Data-Backlog, MediaSearch, Commons

Mar 19 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T377980: Wish Categories.

This seems to be about some sort of new type of tags, not Wikimedia categories. "Only one category can be selected per wish" – categories would be so that one could have multiple categories for a Wish. Please enable adding multiple categories.

Mar 19 2025, 1:13 PM · Epic, Community-Tech, Community Wishlist

Mar 18 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T389244: On mobile when tapping "Show Slideshow" button in Commons category enable hiding the file description box and hide it by default.

Should have added this was when logged out on the mobile Web site of Commons. I don't have any preferences set so this is just the default displayed to all logged out users. Again I'm not even logged in.

Mar 18 2025, 7:28 PM · Mobile, Commons
Prototyperspective created T389244: On mobile when tapping "Show Slideshow" button in Commons category enable hiding the file description box and hide it by default.
Mar 18 2025, 6:22 PM · Mobile, Commons
Prototyperspective added a comment to T383055: [Epic - Q3 hypothesis] Improve category selection in Upload Wizard .

Does this include resolving redirect categories so that if the user enters a redirect, it adds the category the page redirects to (and not the redirect) like HotCat does it too?

Mar 18 2025, 12:15 PM · Epic, OKR-Work, UploadWizard, Structured-Data-Backlog (Current Work)

Mar 12 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T379721: In Glamorous the square brackets [ ] in the link cause these links to break in wikitext.

Finally at least a workaround has been found: replacing the [ with &#x5B; and ] with &#x5D;. (This can be done with the wikitext search and replace in the top right of the source editor.)

Mar 12 2025, 5:40 PM · Tools

Mar 11 2025

Prototyperspective added a comment to T300207: What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata.

Please let me know if something did come out of this that could be used to set the given name and last name properties for Wikidata items that are instances of human on Wikidata since I made a bot request for that where this issue got linked.

Mar 11 2025, 3:23 PM · Outreachy (Round 24)

Mar 10 2025

Prototyperspective created T388447: Tables can't be sorted by columns for media.
Mar 10 2025, 6:49 PM · MediaWiki-User-Interface (Tables)

Mar 9 2025

Prototyperspective created T388336: In the Global Watchlist move buttons in front of the item like in the normal Watchlists so they don't have varying locations.
Mar 9 2025, 12:31 PM · User-DannyS712, MediaWiki-extensions-GlobalWatchlist
Prototyperspective attached a referenced file: F58721214: Global_Watchlist_items_for_EN_Wikipedia_(with_since_last_seen_diff_button).png.
Mar 9 2025, 12:25 PM · User-DannyS712, MediaWiki-extensions-GlobalWatchlist
Prototyperspective added a comment to T298920: Hide the list of recent editors next to article titles and add a config to display it.

This would be quite simple to fix: just don't show this entirely unnecessary large sea of blue next to each item (removing the code that does that). Alternatively (the better option): make this a setting with the default being set to not showing this sea of blue.

Mar 9 2025, 12:19 PM · User-DannyS712, MediaWiki-extensions-GlobalWatchlist
Prototyperspective added a comment to T379721: In Glamorous the square brackets [ ] in the link cause these links to break in wikitext.

Another example, I could not link this https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Creative_Commons_videos_by_German_public_broadcasting&use_globalusage=1&ns0=1&depth=10&show_details=1&projects[wikipedia]=1 here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Broadcast/Media#Examples_in_articles

Mar 9 2025, 12:05 PM · Tools

Mar 4 2025

Prototyperspective awarded T386778: Cat-a-lot: test Special:MediaSearch feature a Like token.
Mar 4 2025, 2:12 PM · RoadToWiki, gadget-Cat-a-lot, Google-Summer-of-Code-2025, Developer-Outreach

Feb 21 2025

Prototyperspective awarded T301648: Allow filtering of WhatLinksHere to remove links from templates a Like token.
Feb 21 2025, 7:49 PM · MediaWiki-Page-derived-data, Parsoid, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2022, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Feb 15 2025

Prototyperspective awarded T386560: Make dark mode available to logged-out users in Wikimedia Commons a Like token.
Feb 15 2025, 9:10 PM · Web-Team (Q4 Sprint 3 (May 7 2025 - 21 May)), Readers Essential Work 2025 (Dark mode everywhere), Commons, Wikimedia-Site-requests, dark-mode

Jan 23 2025

Prototyperspective raised the priority of T152199: Display categories for logged-in users on mobile web stable from Low to Needs Triage.
Jan 23 2025, 2:47 PM · MinervaNeue (Tracking), patch-welcome, Design

Dec 31 2024

Prototyperspective added a comment to T382814: Missing info on how to upload a file larger than 100 MB in the 'Upload a new version of this file' page.

Well it could also be below the Maximum file size: line.

Dec 31 2024, 4:07 PM · MediaWiki-Uploading, Commons
Prototyperspective updated the task description for T382814: Missing info on how to upload a file larger than 100 MB in the 'Upload a new version of this file' page.
Dec 31 2024, 2:07 PM · MediaWiki-Uploading, Commons
Prototyperspective added a comment to T382814: Missing info on how to upload a file larger than 100 MB in the 'Upload a new version of this file' page.

None of those strings, I will attach an image to the issue to visualize an example of the change requested here.

Dec 31 2024, 2:00 PM · MediaWiki-Uploading, Commons
Prototyperspective added a comment to T86463: Some form content (Search; Create new task) not fully preserved after "Back" button.

Is this the same issue since this bug report here does not include that same error message? If it is here is another way this can occur:

Dec 31 2024, 11:16 AM · Upstream, Browser-Support-Apple-Safari, Browser-Support-Firefox, Phabricator (Upstream)

Dec 30 2024

Prototyperspective added a comment to T382814: Missing info on how to upload a file larger than 100 MB in the 'Upload a new version of this file' page.

I don't fully understand what is meant. This is about the info in this box shown in the page that is shown when clicking on Upload a new version of this file (see below). I don't know how its content is set but it apparently can't be edited as wikitext.

Dec 30 2024, 12:10 PM · MediaWiki-Uploading, Commons

Dec 29 2024

Prototyperspective updated the task description for T382814: Missing info on how to upload a file larger than 100 MB in the 'Upload a new version of this file' page.
Dec 29 2024, 11:19 AM · MediaWiki-Uploading, Commons
Prototyperspective created T382814: Missing info on how to upload a file larger than 100 MB in the 'Upload a new version of this file' page.
Dec 29 2024, 11:14 AM · MediaWiki-Uploading, Commons
Prototyperspective created T382812: Unhandled exception AphrontMalformedRequestException in phabricator (invalid CSRF token) causes loss of issue description.
Dec 29 2024, 10:31 AM · Phabricator

Dec 27 2024

Prototyperspective added a comment to T375367: Feature suggestion: Places Launcher Shortcut.

Where is this launcher shortcut? I don't see a widget for places nor do I have a second shortcut for Places. Is this about some link to the Places map within the map and if so why then does the Feature summary say "directly from their home screen" which I think refers to the Android home screen?

Dec 27 2024, 9:26 PM · Wikipedia-Android-App-Backlog (Android Release - FY2024-25)

Dec 14 2024

Prototyperspective added a comment to T246901: Support full colour 3D models on Wikimedia projects.

The focus area including this task / proposal is now open for voting along with a few other Commons-related areas: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Focus_areas/Media_formats,_editing,_and_display

Dec 14 2024, 5:15 PM · Wikimedia-Hackathon-2024, User-John_Cummings, Commons, 3D

Dec 5 2024

Prototyperspective awarded T380457: Request for Video Chapters in videos on common a Love token.
Dec 5 2024, 8:49 PM · TimedMediaHandler, Video
Prototyperspective added a comment to T380457: Request for Video Chapters in videos on common.

This would be very useful. For example to have video timestamp links for sections of a spoken Wikipedia article audio. Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Video_%26_audio_chapters_(jump_to_timestamp)

Dec 5 2024, 8:49 PM · TimedMediaHandler, Video

Nov 28 2024

Prototyperspective awarded T67117: Hovercards: Display popups across wikis (interwiki popups) a Love token.
Nov 28 2024, 12:12 PM · Page-Previews (Tracking)
Prototyperspective added a comment to T381032: Enhance search within Citoid's "Re-use" tab.

I don't see any re-use tab, could you clarify? How should the source appear if it does not have that URL? If it's linked to the URL, it already shows up when you ctrl+f search in the wikitext editor.

Nov 28 2024, 11:55 AM · VisualEditor-MediaWiki-References, VisualEditor, Community-Tech, Community Wishlist, Citoid

Nov 27 2024

Prototyperspective created T380973: Integrate Hashtags tool with edit summary search tool.
Nov 27 2024, 12:12 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team, Hashtags

Nov 25 2024

Prototyperspective added a comment to T376440: Deepcategory search does not show any results on Commons instead of results up to the configured limits.

@TJones Sounds great. Yes ways to narrow the results would be very useful. So it would be best if it showed partial results and along with at the top showed some ways to narrow these down.

  1. A slider to change depth (I think FastCCI has one such but I can't check since it doesn't load; one could also add a search-operator like depth:x in addition)
  2. Ways to filter out various types of subcategories such "xyz in fiction" and "xyz in art" categories (these are named in always-the-same standardized ways and are in the same category and one could exclude them for example by appending -deepcategory:"the relevant subcat found in this branch"). There would be filters to select from and people could add more of these filters (3. is also useful for new filters).
  3. A way to filter out categories depending on the results – there could be some info at the top with the subcategories sorted by how many files they contain like:
1. CDC videos in English (3503 files) x
2. Videos in English (2700 files) x
3. Wikimedia videos in English (980 files) x
[show 50 more; 214 categories in total]

where one can exclude a category/ies by clicking on the x and then refreshing the search. This way one can exclude various large or unrelated categories which may often get excluded via the 2. filters (often because of particular types of subcategories like the in art subcats – e.g. a deepcategory search of cat Maps of the world does not contain only instances of world maps and due to miscategorizations cat Microscopic images also contains various files/subcats that aren't microscopic images).

Nov 25 2024, 6:55 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.5; 2024-11-25), Discovery-Search (Current work), CirrusSearch, Commons
Prototyperspective created T380756: QuickStatements shows No batches. on own user page.
Nov 25 2024, 2:53 PM · Tools

Nov 21 2024

Prototyperspective added a comment to T171717: Allow seeing the diff of all changes since last visit directly from Special:Watchlist.

@Izno No, it's not the same problem or the same code issue. It's not about the last unseen diff here like you just described. It's about a convenient button in the Watchlist to see a diff of all unseen changes. I don't know how people can use the Watchlist without it, I think the Watchlist is broken. Those two issues are not about the two same thing. If there is something that they have in common create a new subtask or create a new issue where these two are subtasks but the issues themselves are very different.

Nov 21 2024, 10:39 PM · Edit-Review-Improvements-Integrated-Filters, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Prototyperspective reopened T171717: Allow seeing the diff of all changes since last visit directly from Special:Watchlist as "Open".

@Izno please don't close so quickly or more thoroughly compare: these are not the same – the other issue is about seeing all unseen diffs in one view like with the Watchlist showing edits directly in the Watchlist via the "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" option. In contrast, this issue here is about the normal Watchlist that shows one item per page but has an extra button to directly see a diff of all unseen changes for that page (one item in the Watchlist per watched article, not dozens of items per watched page),

Nov 21 2024, 10:30 PM · Edit-Review-Improvements-Integrated-Filters, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Prototyperspective awarded T171717: Allow seeing the diff of all changes since last visit directly from Special:Watchlist a Like token.
Nov 21 2024, 10:22 PM · Edit-Review-Improvements-Integrated-Filters, MediaWiki-Watchlist

Nov 19 2024

Prototyperspective added a comment to T54647: MediaWiki images and image pages are not being indexed properly by external search engines.

This problem also exists for DuckDuckGo. Also videos on Commons are not shown in the videos tab of search engines. I don't think there is any other as important Commons issue. See Community Wishlist proposal Do something about Google & DuckDuckGo search not indexing media files and categories on Commons with 3 concrete things that could be done. Please change the Importance rating of this issue.

Nov 19 2024, 5:41 PM · Commons, SEO, MediaWiki-File-management, MediaWiki-General
Prototyperspective awarded T380190: Template used in information->description causes wrong image description to be returned from API a Like token.
Nov 19 2024, 5:38 PM · CommonsMetadata, Commons

Nov 18 2024

Prototyperspective updated the task description for T376440: Deepcategory search does not show any results on Commons instead of results up to the configured limits.
Nov 18 2024, 6:28 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.5; 2024-11-25), Discovery-Search (Current work), CirrusSearch, Commons
Prototyperspective added a comment to T376440: Deepcategory search does not show any results on Commons instead of results up to the configured limits.

@TJones I'll remove that example. Thought I had it fixed here but it must have been somewhere else.

Nov 18 2024, 6:25 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.5; 2024-11-25), Discovery-Search (Current work), CirrusSearch, Commons

Nov 17 2024

Prototyperspective awarded T124168: Show Navbox templates in mobile skins a Like token.
Nov 17 2024, 3:02 PM · MobileFrontend (Tracking), Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, Mobile

Nov 15 2024

Prototyperspective added a comment to T380021: Add a flag for edits that are Structured Data edits.

I think "Edits made at Wikidata" are something different than Structured Data edits on Commons. Also as noted in this related wish, one can already ignore AC/DC & Depictor & DepictAssist edits (which based on my watched pages make up most SD edits which are ~redundant to file categories anyway) by clicking on Tagged edits at the bottom then selecting it then selecting Exclude selected and saving the watchlist settings as default.

Nov 15 2024, 1:37 PM · Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025, Community-Wishlist-Wishes, Wikidata, Wikidata Integration in Wikimedia projects, Structured-Data-Backlog, Commons, WikibaseMediaInfo, Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-Recent-changes, MediaWiki-Watchlist
Prototyperspective added a comment to T379956: Enable requesting changes of Toolhub software titles (titles can't be edited).

A basic way to implement this would be some "Request edit to title" button in the Toolhub that then links to a prefilled post on the respective user's talk page or however one is supposed to request this (and no extra moderation or anything needed). In any case I don't see why anybody ever would see it as acceptable that problems with titles just can't be fixed. A better way to solve this would be to just allow users to edit titles but as that seems "designed" to not be the case some request system is needed. Thanks for all the constructive info though and also for reopening. I don't see why anybody would see a way to change titles of tools as not an absolutely necessary component if Toolhub is to be live & used (which seems to be the case).

Nov 15 2024, 12:14 PM · Toolhub