Global Collaboration/Reports/2017-October

Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Collaboration team about technical development of the software they maintain. Names of people assumed to contribute as volunteers are in bold text.

You can also subscribe to our monthly newsletter, which includes the most important points. Please help us translate it.

Helpful links:
 * Team page (on mediawiki.org)
 * Team talk page
 * FAQ page

Content Translation
Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Following improvements were done on Content Translation dashboard:
 * List items (suggested items and in-progress/published translations) layout restyled to prevent overflows on small screen sizes.
 * Search results for new translation dialog are now embedded, instead of being displayed in floating menu. Search results remain displayed when tabbed out and can be closed using ESC key.
 * Missing pages are no longer shown when there is no match for search query. Message informing that there are no results is displayed instead.
 * Embedded search results enabled to provide users with more translation opportunities. Articles user recently edited (in currently selected source language wiki) are surfaced when there is no input in search bar, with additional info if article is missing in user's currently selected target language.
 * Long suggestion descriptions are limited to three lines, and the rest is truncated, which is indicated by ellipsis.
 * Chart data representing user translation statistics in now showing all the months since user's first published translation. Months that went without translation are now displayed in chart as well.
 * Loading indicator is shown while suggestions are loading.
 * Button to discard dialog is now shown through the whole process of selecting article to translate.

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.

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

Notifications
Mediawiki allows users to restrict who can send them notifications.