Beta Features/scn

Li Funziunalità Beta sunnu pi tìa na manera di pruvari funziunalità novi nta Wikipedia e àutri siti Wikimedia prima ca vennu rilasciati a tutti quantu. Vai ntê tò prifirenzi p'attivari li Funziunalità Beta pâ tò utenza; arricorda ca l'attivazzioni è vàlida sulu pô situ ntô quali veni effittuata.

Pi favuri, fanni sapiri zocchi nni penzi di stu prugramma nta sta pàggina di discussioni.

Scopu
Lu scopu principali dê Funziunalità Beta è di pirmètteri ê pruggittisti e ncigneri di Wikimedia (sia dâ Funnazzioni Wikimedia ca dâ cumunità) di pruvari li migghiuramenti tècnici nta n'ambienti unni un granni nùmmiru d'utenti ponnu tistari, furniri riscontri e usari sti funziunalità nta cunfigurazzioni riali. Lu scopu sicunnariu dê Funziunalità Beta è di furniri un pircursu tali ca strummenti agghiuntivi ùtili e boni pruggittati e àutru còdici dâ cumunità pòzzanu èssiri ntigrati ntô core doppu aviri statu virificati, tistati e rivisiunati di Wikimedia Design e Engineering.

Lu còdici pi furniri funziunalità comu chisti è cuntinutu nta n'estinzioni, Extension:BetaFeatures. Li prifirenzi dê Funziunalità Beta sunnu dispunìbbili nta na scheda Prifirenzi, accissìbbili pi tutti l'utenti riggistrati attraversu la barra pirsunali ntâ summità dâ pàggina.

Functionality
Right now, users can:


 * manually opt-in to individual features
 * automatically enroll in all additional features as they are subsequently released

To use either function, users should select the appropriate checkbox, then click 'Save', which will save their Beta Features preferences (like with other preferences). Every now and then new features are made available to users, as outlined at Beta Features/Roadmap.

Current Beta Features
Here are the current beta features which we are testing with this system:


 * VisualEditor Opt-in (lead: James Forrester) — edit pages without having to learn wiki code
 * Compact language links (lead: Pau Giner) — show a shorter version of the language list, with just the languages that are more relevant to you.
 * Hovercards (lead: Dan Garry) — give readers a short summary of an article whenever they hover over a link to it.
 * VisualEditor language tool (Lead: James Forrester) — a tool for marking the language in which text is written.
 * Other projects sidebar (lead: Tpt and Lydia Pintscher) — adds section to the sidebar for sister project links, based on Wikidata site links.

We invite Wikimedia product teams and community volunteers who want to test out new features, or significant changes to existing features, to do so through this project.

Creating your own
Do you want to create your own Beta Feature? Great! James is happy to help guide you.

First, you should check that your code meets the following basic requirements:
 * Not significantly degrade site performance;
 * Not noticeably degrade perceived performance of the site, or the user's system;
 * Not crash the user's browser;
 * Not cause data loss, or corruption;
 * Pass basic interoperability with other Beta Features features; and
 * Contribute positively to the user's experience of the site, and be additive in nature. e.g. Beta Features cannot be used to remove site features or functionality without adding features meant to replace what was removed.
 * You should expect to test your new feature on the WMF pre-deploy beta server for at least one week before deploying to production. This testing period is intended to catch any serious bugs before jeopardizing users on production.

If you're happy your code meets these requirements, you should write-up your proposal on the New Features proposal page. As part of creating the Beta Feature, you will be asked for some text copy and an image to represent your feature in the user interface; the Design and Product teams can help you with this.

Appearance
The appearance of the Beta Features tab in Preferences is purposefully different, to both inspire interest and propose a departure from the standard layout and complexity of the existing user preferences.

Here is a screenshot of the Beta Features preferences tab: