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so that happens automatically, on any page with 'talk' as part of the prefix. Concomitantly, there might need to be another watchlist preference (or divide the current one in two: talk, and non-talk) so that if enabled, it adds non-talk pages that I edit to my watchlist, but does *not* add talk pages
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Hi, Not sure if this is the right place for this or if somebody already posted something similar, probably yes, anyway, I was not able to find it. Was wondering if the contents box on especially for lengthy wiki entries could be made more dynamic so that it moves down (or up) the page as you read.
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skin, which includes a complete redesign of the contents system. It is being moved to the sidebar, follows you up the page as you read and is collapsible. That link takes you to a page on mediawiki, a project that has already swapped to the new skin, where you can get some idea of how it will look.
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is rarely used worldwide, according to Can I Use..., and by replacing animated GIF by APNG and announcing the fact that Mediawiki and Wikimedia projects no longer can support Opera Mini can force Opera Mini users to use browsers that support APNG instead, forcing Opera Software to make Opera Mini
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I do now, thanks. I did not expect to see that in the "Editing" tab; I looked in Notifications (and Watchlist) and didn't see it there. Any reason that a particular preference item that seems to straddle a topic boundary couldn't be placed on more than one tab? I would not have found it, without
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that's more of a "what" not a "how". You are free to remaster most any file and upload a new version. As far as a non-animated GIF, if the issue is that it is lossy, you can't un-lossy it from the GIF directly. For example, here is a file that someone very recently uploaded:
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Even better would be if it is possible to fold it in (so that you don't have to look at the full table of contents all the time) and that it is this folded in tiny box that moves up and down the page. A 'move to top' and 'move to bottom' arrow(s) would be great too.
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lists the browsers supported by MediaWiki. Opera v.18+ is supported; Opera Mini is not mentioned. (Also, I don't think that "unable to see one or more images in 1% of articles" would actually constitute being "unsupported".)
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configuration items (and it is only available if you also enable other of those options). Technically, I suppose it could be on multiple tabs, but this wouldn't be the first like that (e.g.
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Yeah probably should have mentioned that as well, with the overall point that this is a discussion that mostly needs to happen on Commons first.
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at all, and graphics files that can be expressed in vector should be SVG rather than other formats in webpages. Some might argue that because
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to my watchlist if the 'Subscribe to discussions I edit' is enabled. This would be helpful for fast-moving talk pages with many sections.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Yeah I think the question that Rekish needs to put to a discussion is whether to deprecate GIF uploads.
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We have several tags you can apply to images that are of poor filetype, and some editors work on them:
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modern support (3) Because Microsoft stopped supporting IE11, people should stop using it (unless in a
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Keeping in mind that most uploads are not here, on the English Knowledge (XXG), but on commonswiki. —
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never supports APNG this format should not be used. Nonsense, because (1) IE is now rarely used (2)
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that is not on the watchlist tab). You can give the team working on DT feedback about this at:
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Non-animated GIF files should be replaced by PNG or SVG, depending on the content, unless in
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your message, as I don't think of enabling an automatic notification as an "editing" issue.
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this page is for concrete, actionable proposals. How do you propose this is done? —
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As title, since GIF's compression method is inferior to PNG's, and does not support
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I currently have "Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist" enabled in section
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There should be an automatically subscribe to topics selection in:
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I think it is there because it is grouped with all of the other
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a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic.
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This page contains discussions that have been archived from
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APNG is still not universally supported. According to
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Group changes by page in recent changes and watchlist
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Add 'Subscribe to discussions I edit' to Preferences
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