User talk:Perhelion
Invitation
Hello, Perhelion,
I am contacting you because you have left feedback about VisualEditor at pages like mw:VisualEditor/Feedback in the past. The Editing team is now asking for your help with VisualEditor. Please tell them what they need to change to make VisualEditor work well for you. The team has a list of top-priority problems, but they also want to hear about small problems. These problems may make editing less fun, take too much of your time, or be as annoying as a paper cut. The Editing team wants to hear about and try to fix these small things, too.
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Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:40, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
2016 Community Wishlist Survey
Hi,
You’re getting this message because you participated in the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey and we want to make sure you don't miss it this year – or at least can make the conscious choice to ignore if it you want to. The 2015 survey decided what the Community Tech team should work on during 2016. It was also the focus of Wikimedia hackathons and work by other developers. You can see the status of wishes from the 2015 wishlist at 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Results.
The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is now open for wishes. You can create proposals until November 20. You will be able to vote on which wishes you think are best or most important between November 28 and December 12. /Johan (WMF) (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
New English Wikipedia permission
Hello. I'm just letting you know that English Wikipedia recently introduced a new user permission called "New Page Reviewer". Currently, User:Perhelion/userstatus.js does show the permission, but it shows up as New pages patrol/Reviewers instead of New pages reviewer. It links to the page Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers on English Wikipedia. I'm not sure if you already handled this permission in your code or not (I don't know JavaScript.), so I thought I should let you know just in case. — Gestrid (talk) 07:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hello @Gestrid:, thanks for attention, unfortunately this group names are read dynamically from API (If the page don't changes it is read fast from the cache). But I could do something with name, as I did it also with # in the name, I simply truncate the name to the first part. The only current other group with this slash are m:Board elections/2008/en. (In German is also a group with #) So the result is "New pages patrol". Would this be okay? But if it really hurts and there are more problematic groups I could save some names separately (as before for the most). Greetings ↔ User: Perhelion 21:34, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- No, it's ok. I was just letting you know in case you had to do something to your plugin. — Gestrid (talk) 21:58, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
UnknownError
Your userstatus script sometimes throws two of UnknownError in the console. The first error is thrown by the line var request = indexedDB.open(us.name); and the second error is thrown by the line indexedDB.open(us.name);. --Terra ❤ (talk) 07:07, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- @TerraCodes: You're probably gonna have to give an example or two of when the error is thrown to help narrow down what exactly in those two lines of code is causing it. — Gestrid (talk) 16:46, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- Go to any page where the script would show up (like User:Perhelion or en:User:Gestrid) and after the page finishes loading, the errors show up in my console. --Terra ❤ (talk) 17:34, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- Hello TerraCodes, thanks for report. That is indeed hard to say. But I'll improve that relevant code anyway. The first thing I can say, clean the browser cache (or type
indexedDB.deleteDatabase("Userstatus")in the console). Which exact browser do you use? -- User: Perhelion 23:14, 10 May 2017 (UTC)- It still happens after using
indexedDB.deleteDatabase("Userstatus")and refreshing the page. I am using Firefox Beta 54.0b6 (64-bit) --Terra ❤ (talk) 23:48, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
- It still happens after using
- Hello TerraCodes, thanks for report. That is indeed hard to say. But I'll improve that relevant code anyway. The first thing I can say, clean the browser cache (or type
- Go to any page where the script would show up (like User:Perhelion or en:User:Gestrid) and after the page finishes loading, the errors show up in my console. --Terra ❤ (talk) 17:34, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
Tech ambassadors, "take two"
Hello tech ambassador! This month has seen a good influx of new faces in this crew \o/ , so it is time to reactivate our conversations. Now that we have a pretty good coverage of so many different projects, here are some topics for your consideration.
- Are there further thoughts on the role itself? I hope the questions available on Meta can help spark them. Please weigh in at Talk:Tech/Ambassadors/List#Tech ambassadors, take 2.
- How about we try and organise future collective work in a Phabricator workboard? Talk:Tech/Ambassadors/List#A Phab workboard for us? has all the details to explore this proposal.
- Finally, you are also welcome to comment at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177923, should you happen to have suggestions for the Community Liaisons team, currently wondering how to measure "Wiki projects requesting beta features and other early deployments".
We hope to be able to host a live discussion in early 2018; until then, we're looking forward to hearing from you on Meta! All the best, --Elitre (WMF) (talk), on behalf of the Community Liaisons
Getting started on Phabricator
Greetings, ambassador!
As recently discussed within this group, we are ready to experiment with setting up a project and its related workboard on Phabricator, the platform used in the Wikimedia movement for project management, software bug reporting and feature requests. It will help us coordinate and cooperate better on projects that should require ambassadors' involvement.
For the time being, I'm just asking that you please add your Phabricator nickname next to your name in the ambassadors' table (you can create an account now if you don't have one already). I will send you further information soon! Thanks for your patience as we get to the operational stage of this effort :) Best, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 14:48, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
UserStatus and the new wikitext editor
Your UserStatus script seems to be causing the new wikitext editor to act weirdly, as seen here. (the page was this page) --Terra ❤ (talk) 14:32, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
- Hello @TerraCodes:, that is not possible as the script runs neither on non user namespace nor on edit mode. Can you be more concrete what appears? Wrong text-marker position? -- User: Perhelion 15:45, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
- Huh, when I commented out all of my global.js, and started uncommenting it, the issue didn't happen until I uncommented out your script. Yep, the cursor appears several lines down from where the actual text is. And it happens in every namespace I've tried it in (so far the article and user namesapces). --Terra ❤ (talk) 19:58, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
- @TerraCodes: Sorry man, I checked the code again, and it seems it "was possible", fixed. I updated also the docu. -- User: Perhelion 22:34, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
- Huh, when I commented out all of my global.js, and started uncommenting it, the issue didn't happen until I uncommented out your script. Yep, the cursor appears several lines down from where the actual text is. And it happens in every namespace I've tried it in (so far the article and user namesapces). --Terra ❤ (talk) 19:58, 28 January 2018 (UTC)