Global Collaboration/Reports/2017-December

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

Dashboard
 * Further enhancement are made for list (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens: long titles no longer overflow or overlap with other UI elements. (T179148)
 * A couple of changes are made to the header with publish button on translation view:
 * Header becomes sticky (again) when user scrolls. (T174138)
 * The header is integrated with main piece of the document. Various style changes are made to the header and associated buttons. (T160068)
 * Various changes to "New translation" dialog and selected page for translation: (T181701)
 * Longer titles of selected pages are displayed smaller to better utilize available space. Spacing is assured between title and other UI elements, balancing the visuals.
 * Using ellipsis to truncate language codes is no more. Only full, autonym language names are subject to truncation.
 * Revisited minimal supported screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog made more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
 * Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
 * Language filters no longer render wrong, non-existent language codes. (T182947)
 * Various changes to code and markup structure for "New translation" dialog, with a couple of bug fixes: (T181457)
 * Correct message is displayed when user fails to find any results for given input query and changes the source language afterwards.
 * Pending indicator is added to search widget, shown during the retrieval of custom user suggestions when there is no user input.

CXServer

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.


 * https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/11/27/new-filters-for-edit-review/

Deployments

Improvements

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.

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