Global Collaboration/Reports/2017-November

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Content Translation
Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Following improvements were done on Content Translation dashboard:

Dashboard
 * Refactor various language filters on Content Translation dashboard into common class, creating reusable component, easier to maintain.
 * Standardize the dialog for selecting article to translate, by introducing new component that is used for selected page on both "New translation" dialog and suggested page to translate. (T178866).
 * Allow more space for language filter to increase responsiveness and show more language names without truncation. (T178866).
 * Don't show duplicates for user search input any longer, while searching for a new page to translate. (T181002).
 * Prevent flashes of some elements while page is loading:
 * Don't change background color from light to dark grey
 * Don't have user translation statistics card flash with empty data and chart. (T179747).
 * Add loading indicator to In-progress and Published lists to prevent abrupt appearance. (T178145).
 * Prevent source and target language to be set to same language. (T178126).
 * Fix various PHP warnings and Javascript errors. (T181533, T179517).

CXServer
 * Various code clean up for ES6 syntax, refactoring, dependent node module updates
 * Support for parsoid's upcoming section tag wrapping (T177752).
 * cxserver has v2 APIs to introduce some breaking changes in API output for CX2

Edit Review Improvements
Edit Review Improvements are a set of improvements done to ease new changes review by making it more easily, and less harmful for newcomers.

Deployments Improvements
 * The filters are now deployed as a default feature on all wikis on RecentChanges and RecentChangesLinked pages.
 * The filters are still available as a Beta feature on all wikis on Watchlists.
 * LiveUpdates have been deployed as a default feature for all wikis.
 * On wikis using extension:translate, translated messages can now be filtered. System messages can be filtered as well, on all wikis. T159795
 * "View newest changes" link is now more prominent, to invite users to use that native feature to update the list of results. T177926
 * Pagination and time period selectors are now combined and located on the right on left-to-right wikis. T177926
 * When a user wanted to click outside of the filter menu to click it, it was possible to click on [revert] by accident. It is not possible anymore. T177626
 * It is now possible to filter the following events: Making a page a redirect, Changing redirect target, Changing an existing redirect into a non-redirect, Blanking of the page, Removing nearly all (more than 90%) content, Rolling back an edit. Those are tags for types of edits that get automatic edit summaries. T73236
 * Some design improvements have been done to Related Changes page to integrate the new filters. T172161
 * "Save current filter settings" menu and legend overlapped the results. This is now fixed. T182269
 * Some small design improvements have been done. T179825

Ongoing work

Structured Discussions
Structured discussions were formerly known as Flow. The Flow project has been re-scoped and renamed to reflect what it is now.

Improvements Ongoing work
 * It is now possible to use Special:Nuke on hidden Structured discussion topics. T180607
 * The Reply button is not active while something is typed. T181063
 * Front-end rewriting is ongoing to use native OOjs UI instead of using HTML templates. At the moment, some tests are performed to see what is the better option for a front-end rewriting. Those tests are performed locally, on developers computers. Those experiments will have no impact on users.

Notifications
Improvements
 * Unread notifications now have a more visible background color. T78594

Other projects

 * Related to Recent Changes and Watchlists, and for wikis that use ORES, ORES preferences have been rationalized on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages. T180866
 * ORES will be deployed on Simple English Wikipedia. That will will be able to use the Prediction filters. T182012