Talk:Tech/News

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Talk:Tech/News/Archives

Plural

Hey team, please remember to use the plural function for numbers like View all $1 community-submitted tasks. The word "tasks" changes depending on the number in many languages, e. g. in Russian "$1 tasks" can be:

• …11 задач
• …3 задачи
• …21 задачу

Some languages also have specific forms for 2 items (Arabic) etc. Le Loy (talk) 05:46, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

@Le Loy Oh! Thank you for that note. I was aware that plural words often vary a lot below 10 in some languages, but didn't know (or had forgotten) that they changed for larger numbers. I've added a note to the TN Manual. P.s. Thank you Cookai1205 for the edit to this week's edition. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:28, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News page

Hiya! The Tech News "front page" has recently undergone some changes. I must admit I prefer the previous header, as it was clear if anything needed a translation and such. The text on the page is also entirely unaffected by the customizable "text size". I am using the "small" configuration, and it all just seems rather jumbled and large to me. Is this intentional? EdoAug (talk) 20:58, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Oh, and also, what's up with the serif font? EdoAug (talk) 21:01, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi EdoAug! Thanks for the comments. I plan to discuss these issues and related concerns with my colleagues later this week. We might have some of them fixed even earlier. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:51, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

@Quiddity (WMF): Hiya! It's been a couple of weeks since this was brought up. Did the meeting result in anything related to these concerns? EdoAug (talk) 18:12, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the nudge.

Content-wise: (1) I've replaced the link for "edit the next issue" in the header bar. (2) The direct "Translate the next issue" link should automatically appear once the next edition is marked as ready (cf. the `ifexist` line) [but i'll check again, once it's ready!].

Text-size: Someone is looking into the issues with the appearance menu's text-size options not working (here and other pages that use the same formatting templates).

Serif-fonts: Ongoing discussions about the usage here and elsewhere.

Cheers, Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:52, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

I’d suggest reverting these changes outright. Currently the page fonts became unaffected by font size settings in Vector 2022 (and I assume in Minerva), which is an accessibility problem. Serif fonts should also not be imposed on everyone reading the pages without a discussion. stjn^[ru] 10:53, 18 October 2024 (UTC)