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Inconsistent or improvable language in UI in an effort to make voice and tone more consistent, clear, or appropriate.

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Tue, Nov 19

Aklapper placed T18111: MediaWiki:Cascadeprotected and MediaWiki:Cascadedprotectedwarning should take the same parameters up for grabs.

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Tue, Nov 19, 6:00 PM · Patch-Needs-Improvement, Voice & Tone, I18n, good first task, MediaWiki-Parser
Samwalton9-WMF added a comment to T366647: Rename Nuke extension to "MassDelete" or similar.

I just had a look across a handful of big wikis and it turns out, if Google Translate is to be believed, that most wikis localised Nuke to be called something like 'Mass delete' anyway:
de: Massenlöschung (mass deletion)
es: BorradoMasivo ( Mass Delete )
fr: Nuke
it: CancellazioneMassiva ( Mass Cancellation )
ja: まとめて削除 ( Delete all )
ru: Множественное удаление ( Multiple deletion )
zh: 大量删除 ( Mass deletion )

Tue, Nov 19, 11:49 AM · Voice & Tone, Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-Nuke
Pppery added a comment to T49694: "Remember me" on Login interface should state duration.

Oops.

Tue, Nov 19, 4:35 AM · Voice & Tone, I18n, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
matmarex reopened T49694: "Remember me" on Login interface should state duration as "Open".

No, @Dringsim is right, and MediaWiki.org also has an override :/ The base message in MediaWiki for 'userlogin-remembermypassword' is just "Keep me logged in": https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core/+/REL1_43/languages/i18n/en.json#379 (but it takes an unused parameter $1 that allows displaying the customized time).

Tue, Nov 19, 4:35 AM · Voice & Tone, I18n, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
Pppery closed T49694: "Remember me" on Login interface should state duration as Resolved.

No, it's not enwp's custom message: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin also shows it. Enwp overrode 365 days -> 1 year which is just a minor wording change .

Tue, Nov 19, 4:22 AM · Voice & Tone, I18n, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
Dringsim reopened T49694: "Remember me" on Login interface should state duration as "Open".

The duration has been restored at some point, probably long ago, and the login form currently states something like "Keep me logged in (for up to one year)".

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Tue, Nov 19, 4:02 AM · Voice & Tone, I18n, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
Dringsim merged T62437: 'Keep me logged in' checkbox should specify expiry time (if any) into T49694: "Remember me" on Login interface should state duration.
Tue, Nov 19, 4:02 AM · Voice & Tone, I18n, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
matmarex closed T134372: Logging in with reserved username should return reasonable message with description and not error as Resolved.

Tested with username "MediaWiki default".

Tue, Nov 19, 2:10 AM · Voice & Tone, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup
matmarex closed T49694: "Remember me" on Login interface should state duration as Resolved.

The duration has been restored at some point, probably long ago, and the login form currently states something like "Keep me logged in (for up to one year)".

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Tue, Nov 19, 2:07 AM · Voice & Tone, I18n, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup

Mon, Nov 18

Bugreporter added a comment to T366647: Rename Nuke extension to "MassDelete" or similar.

Note since we have the Nuke extension the term "nuke" got a specific meaning: to delete all pages created by a specific user, which is distinct from another extension named DeleteBatch and a maintenance script DeleteBatch.php, both asks user a specific list of pages to delete.

Mon, Nov 18, 8:55 AM · Voice & Tone, Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-Nuke
Bugreporter2 added a project to T359609: Special page at [[special:Redirect]] is confusingly misnamed.: Voice & Tone.
Mon, Nov 18, 7:11 AM · Voice & Tone, MediaWiki-Redirects, MediaWiki-Special-pages

Fri, Nov 15

stjn added a comment to T366647: Rename Nuke extension to "MassDelete" or similar.

In many countries, the word "nuke" is taken lightly, but that's not true everywhere in the world. [citation needed] Also, with current geopolitics I feel it's a bit in poor taste to use the name of a devastating weapon in an extension for cleaning up wikis.

To be clear: I think the sensitivity around the word ‘nuke’ needs a citation before taking an action on this (especially as drastic action as forking and re-creating the extension under a new name). Without such a demonstration this is just, for the lack of better term, virtue signalling: an attempt to do something socially progressive that wasn’t an actual issue with anyone and would change nothing.

Fri, Nov 15, 4:57 PM · Voice & Tone, Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-Nuke
Samwalton9-WMF added a comment to T366647: Rename Nuke extension to "MassDelete" or similar.
  • Isn't it really hard or impossible to rename WMF-deployed extensions? Not sure it'd be worth the engineering time.
Fri, Nov 15, 11:02 AM · Voice & Tone, Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-Nuke
Novem_Linguae added a comment to T366647: Rename Nuke extension to "MassDelete" or similar.
  • Isn't it really hard or impossible to rename WMF-deployed extensions? Not sure it'd be worth the engineering time.
  • Could result in a situation where there's 2 names for it floating around, kind of like what happened to Extension:Flow when they tried to rename it to StructuredDiscussions. I found that very confusing.
Fri, Nov 15, 10:59 AM · Voice & Tone, Moderator-Tools-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-Nuke

Thu, Nov 14

Pppery renamed T341550: Unable to Delete Article in Custom Namespace name created with spaces from Unable to Delete Article in Custom Namespace to Unable to Delete Article in Custom Namespace name created with spaces.
Thu, Nov 14, 6:55 PM · Voice & Tone, MediaWiki-Page-deletion
AnneT closed T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description as Resolved.
Thu, Nov 14, 2:56 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex

Wed, Nov 13

Jdlrobson moved T309760: Show "No preview available" instead of "There was an issue displaying this preview" from Product Backlog to Legacy backlog on the Web-Team board.
Wed, Nov 13, 11:56 PM · Web-Team, Patch-Needs-Improvement, User-thiemowmde, WMDE-TechWish-Maintenance, Page-Previews, Voice & Tone
Jdlrobson edited projects for T309760: Show "No preview available" instead of "There was an issue displaying this preview", added: Web-Team; removed Web-Team-Backlog.
Wed, Nov 13, 11:42 PM · Web-Team, Patch-Needs-Improvement, User-thiemowmde, WMDE-TechWish-Maintenance, Page-Previews, Voice & Tone

Fri, Nov 8

nshahquinn-wmf closed T272220: Remove "master" terminology from wmfdata-python, a subtask of T254646: Reconsidering how we name things, as Resolved.
Fri, Nov 8, 3:24 AM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.21; 2022-07-18), MW-1.38-notes (1.38.0-wmf.12; 2021-12-06), MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.23; 2021-09-13), User-brennen, MediaWiki-extensions-General, WMF-General-or-Unknown, MediaWiki-General, Patch-For-Review, Voice & Tone

Thu, Nov 7

egardner moved T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description from Code Review to Pending Release on the Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)) board.
Thu, Nov 7, 11:10 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
Maintenance_bot removed a project from T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description: Patch-For-Review.
Thu, Nov 7, 10:30 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
gerritbot added a comment to T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description.

Change #1084134 merged by jenkins-bot:

[design/codex-php@main] doxyfile, composer.json, README.md: Update Codex PHP description

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1084134

Thu, Nov 7, 9:56 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
CCiufo-WMF triaged T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description as Low priority.
Thu, Nov 7, 5:33 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
CCiufo-WMF moved T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description from Triaging to DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08) on the Design-System-Team board.
Thu, Nov 7, 5:33 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
CCiufo-WMF moved T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description from Committed to Code Review on the Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)) board.
Thu, Nov 7, 5:31 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
Reedy updated the task description for T277936: Address Voice and Tone issues in ConfirmEdit.
Thu, Nov 7, 12:14 AM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.16; 2024-01-30), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.22; 2023-08-15), MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.21; 2022-07-18), MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.7; 2021-05-25), ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension), Voice & Tone
Reedy updated the task description for T277936: Address Voice and Tone issues in ConfirmEdit.
Thu, Nov 7, 12:13 AM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.16; 2024-01-30), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.22; 2023-08-15), MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.21; 2022-07-18), MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.7; 2021-05-25), ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension), Voice & Tone
gerritbot added a project to T277936: Address Voice and Tone issues in ConfirmEdit: Patch-For-Review.
Thu, Nov 7, 12:11 AM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.16; 2024-01-30), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.22; 2023-08-15), MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.21; 2022-07-18), MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.7; 2021-05-25), ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension), Voice & Tone
gerritbot added a comment to T277936: Address Voice and Tone issues in ConfirmEdit.

Change #1087996 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Reedy):

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit@master] Update code for voice and tone reasons

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1087996

Thu, Nov 7, 12:11 AM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.16; 2024-01-30), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.22; 2023-08-15), MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.21; 2022-07-18), MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.7; 2021-05-25), ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension), Voice & Tone

Fri, Nov 1

Dreamy_Jazz closed T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading as Resolved.
Fri, Nov 1, 11:50 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter
dom_walden moved T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading from Needs QA to Done on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15) board.

Moving to Done as this is just a copy change to en.json.

Fri, Nov 1, 11:41 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter

Thu, Oct 31

STran moved T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading from Needs review to Needs QA on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15) board.
Thu, Oct 31, 4:32 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter

Tue, Oct 29

gerritbot added a project to T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description: Patch-For-Review.
Tue, Oct 29, 3:16 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
gerritbot added a comment to T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description.

Change #1084134 had a related patch set uploaded (by Abaris; author: Abaris):

[design/codex-php@main] doxyfile, composer.json, README.md: Update Codex PHP description

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1084134

Tue, Oct 29, 3:15 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
ReleaseTaggerBot added a project to T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading: MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05).
Tue, Oct 29, 12:00 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter
Maintenance_bot removed a project from T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading: Patch-For-Review.
Tue, Oct 29, 11:30 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter
gerritbot added a comment to T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading.

Change #1083816 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/AbuseFilter@master] Update copy for protected variable use on filters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1083816

Tue, Oct 29, 11:11 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter

Mon, Oct 28

Dogu added a comment to T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description.

We can use the following for both composer.json and README.md:

A PHP library for building CSS-only UI components using Codex, the Wikimedia design system.
Mon, Oct 28, 7:22 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
Reedy added projects to T378371: Tweak Codex PHP description: Documentation, Voice & Tone.
Mon, Oct 28, 4:06 PM · Design-System-Team (DST-Sprint-35 (2024-10-28 to 2024-11-08)), Voice & Tone, Documentation, Codex
STran moved T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading from In Progress to Needs review on the Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15) board.
Mon, Oct 28, 1:55 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter
gerritbot added a project to T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading: Patch-For-Review.
Mon, Oct 28, 1:54 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter
gerritbot added a comment to T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading.

Change #1083816 had a related patch set uploaded (by STran; author: STran):

[mediawiki/extensions/AbuseFilter@master] Update copy for protected variable use on filters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1083816

Mon, Oct 28, 1:53 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter
KColeman-WMF added a comment to T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading.

Thanks for raising this copy issue, we appreciate the feedback.

Mon, Oct 28, 11:56 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter
kostajh edited projects for T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading, added: Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15); removed Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Cello (Oct 7 - 18)).
Mon, Oct 28, 11:08 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter

Sat, Oct 26

Pppery removed a project from T4453: [[Special:Allmessages]] should provide information about the content type of the message (html/wikitext/plain): MediaWiki-Special-pages.
Sat, Oct 26, 4:32 PM · MediaWiki-Internationalization, Voice & Tone
Pppery moved T282064: Rename Mute feature from To triage to Other special pages on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.
Sat, Oct 26, 4:19 PM · Voice & Tone, MediaWiki-Special-pages, Growth-Team

Oct 24 2024

Reedy moved T163148: Use a third-party bad word list to avoid explicit words from popping up in the captcha from Backlog to Feature Requests/Improvements on the ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension) board.
Oct 24 2024, 1:26 AM · Voice & Tone, WMF-General-or-Unknown, ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension)
Reedy moved T277936: Address Voice and Tone issues in ConfirmEdit from Backlog to Feature Requests/Improvements on the ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension) board.
Oct 24 2024, 1:23 AM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.16; 2024-01-30), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.22; 2023-08-15), MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.21; 2022-07-18), MW-1.37-notes (1.37.0-wmf.7; 2021-05-25), ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension), Voice & Tone
Reedy renamed T163148: Use a third-party bad word list to avoid explicit words from popping up in the captcha from Use a third-party blacklist to avoid explicit words from popping up in the captcha to Use a third-party bad word list to avoid explicit words from popping up in the captcha.
Oct 24 2024, 1:14 AM · Voice & Tone, WMF-General-or-Unknown, ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension)

Oct 23 2024

Msz2001 added a comment to T377553: MediaWiki:Abusefilter-edit-protected message is misleading.

Would this imply a level of optionality that isn't present? The filter is going to forcibly set itself to protected if it uses a protected variable.

Oct 23 2024, 9:44 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.2; 2024-11-05), Trust and Safety Product Sprint (Sprint Accordion October 28 - November 15), Voice & Tone, AbuseFilter