Johannes Richter (WMDE)

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Lionel Cristiano (talk) 14:52, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 11:17, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

re: Wikipedia beginners wanted for user testing

Hi John. I noticed your posts to very new editors on en-wiki, seeking input for user testing on de-wiki. I hope you get the response you want. But I just thought I'd suggest that you might, perhaps, get much better take up if you specify that the survey and involvement does not require knowledge of German. Not specifying that would certainly put me off were I a new user. Kind regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 08:43, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Nick Moyes, thanks for the advice! We were specifically looking for input for user testing on en-wiki (and of course in English). Multiple users seemed to be confused about this, so we'll make this more clear the next time we are inviting people to participate in user testing. Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 07:45, 1 October 2024 (UTC)