Talk:Tech/News/2020/37

Unreview

@Johan (WMF) and DannyS712: I'll take another look at phab:T242232 later, but right now I'm confused. What is this about? It says review, so presumably not patrol. I think enwiki has some review system? But dewiki also has a review system. On dewiki I'm autochecked, internally known as autoreview. But I guess it'll be one of the things on w:Wikipedia:Reviewing. I'm not sure this even applies to all wikis? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 04:25, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Came here to say the same thing. This deals with the review system on enwiki. I am not sure which other wikis use it. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:07, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

This entry is about Page Curation, but I don't know what marking as reviewed do. "review" is most known for Flagged Revisions. Wargo (talk) 08:28, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Sorry folks, mistranslated it in my head (I patrol in Swedish, not English) and confused it with a more widely used function. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 08:47, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

New user right

"There is a new user right to let editors delete redirects to move a page there. This will only work if the page they delete has no other history than being that redirect. phab:T239277"

@Johan (WMF): wasn't this already possible? Because I remember doing it.. Or was it previously only possible to move over your own redirects? (I'm not really sure if moving over redirects created by another was also possible) — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 22:43, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

talk:As I understand it, the difference was that before, you could delete the page (without being an admin) if the redirect directed to the page you moved. This is no longer necessarily the case with this user right. The use case is for example when a page redirects to a page because that's where the topic is covered, but then the topic is broken out into its own article – the old redirect target isn't moving. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 22:48, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

@Johan (WMF): I see, thanks for explaining. I will add some of that in the translations. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:08, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Google Play

I'm not even going to ask why Google Play is required, but something else: It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users.

Does this mean Google Play is required to run the app on Android 4.4? Or was Google Play somehow used to compile the app for Android 4.4? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 23:08, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Alexis Jazz: It fixes a connection problem. You can run the app, but if it can't connect it's not very useful, since it doesn't come with the content preloaded. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 00:31, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

@Johan (WMF): Odd. Anyway, I left that line out of the translations, it doesn't seem essential for the core message. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 00:34, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

The connection problem is due to a certificate issue that Google Play Services can help us get around. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 00:40, 5 September 2020 (UTC)