Wikipedian, developer. Interface admin / engineer in Russian Wikipedia. DiscordWikiBot maintainer.
Википедист, разработчик. Администратор интерфейса / инженер в русской Википедии.
(image/изображение: Almond Blossoms, van Gogh.)
| Pronouns | he/him, they/them · он/его, они/их |
| English user page | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stjn |
| Russian | https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Участник:Stjn |
| Other links | https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/stjn/ |
Codex redesign of Special:Block might be well-intentioned, but it highlights one thing: WMF designers have completely replaced the genuine design thinking process with just slapping a somewhat related component and not putting much more thought into it.
File is from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Multiblocks
I wish MediaWiki (or maybe DiscussionTools) had some feature that made it so talk subpages of non-existing pages try to link to their root page if possible (maybe adding a third tab to the subpage so you can still create it). Such a simple quality of life improvement.
Similar task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262656
Codex logo is now this cube. It is either made out of identical puzzle pieces glued together, or is just a cube with holes. You decide.
BrandonXLF’s Autoref allows users to use Citoid feature (‘Cite’ button) from VisualEditor in regular wikitext editor (WikiEditor) using its ‘Reference’ button. Should be by default for everyone tbh 🙂 #MediaWiki #MWScripts
How to install: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrandonXLF/Autoref
