Volker E. (WMF)

User page

Hi there Volker E.!

I took the liberty of copying over your MediaWiki page to meta. It is now global so if your user page does not exist locally it will not be a redlink. If this was inappropriate I apologize. It is just strange to see a (WMF) tagged account as a redlink. --Majora (talk) 02:01, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (September 9)

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David.moreno72 13:11, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello! Volker E. (WMF), I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! David.moreno72 13:11, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Feedback on a recent UX change

Hello Volker, please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Alarming_"only_a_preview_message". — xaosflux ^Talk 14:28, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Localization for dark-mode.js

Hello Volker, and thank you for dark-mode.js, it's really helpful. The only thing is that it has no option for localization, so I had to copy it in fa:User:Ahmad252/scripts/dark-mode.js only to translate "Dark mode" into Persian. Is it possible to change the code in a way that we can use it globally (= in a way that we can manually set the translation or something like that), instead of copying it in each wiki? Thanks. Ahmad^talk 21:43, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi Ahmad, thanks for your feedback. Currently user scripts and gadgets don't provide a simple way for translating the interface. See phab:T31272 and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets/Gadgets_2.0 discussion. What I was thinking about addressing the issue by a way to at least be able to identify and interact with the link is adding a 'night' and a 'dark' mode representing icon. Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 00:06, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for response. That would be another good method to solve the problem. Maybe and would be good for this (although I personally prefer a toggle switch like ). Ahmad^talk 11:43, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

There's icons added now that should provide some orientation in non-English languages for the time being in latest version. Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 18:03, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

dark-mode.js not working on other wikis

I tried to use it in other wikis (Wikimedia Commons to be precise). But I am seeing just another logo of Commons and this script is not working. Masum Reza^📞 20:25, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Please clarify “script is not working”. If you see two logos, then something seems to work. Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 23:39, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

I mean if I install it, I see two Commons logos and the page never becomes dark! It is working here though. Maybe it's because you are using a deprecated method to import stylesheets. Could you migrate to mw.loader.load? Masum Reza^📞 00:54, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I was able to reproduce this, both in c:Special:PermaLink/371256573 and c:Special:Diff/371256652. Since the same thing happened, I think the script can't import stylesheets when used on other wikis. Ahmad^talk 11:39, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Masumrezarock100 and Ahmad252, that should be fixed in the latest version of the script, which follows the right import measures. Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 18:01, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Dark mode with different background color

Hi Volker, thanks for creating dark-mode.js. Is it possible to change the dark mode background from #000000 to #121212? I prefer a dark gray rather than complete black. • in vivo veritas • 04:55, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

About dark mode

Hello Volker E., Thank you and the dark mode team! Here i want to tell you about replacing .vectorTabs with .vector-menu-tabs selector according to meta:Tech/News/2020/26. And did you notice that when you refresh a page, the Wikipedia logo becomes double? However, please ignore all other projects and work on Dark Mode. This is priority! Thanks! ⇒ AramTalk 12:31, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Aram, I've updated the CSS to reflect recent Vector changes! Wikipedia logo needs to be duplicated otherwise we can't deal appropriately with the readability of it. It shouldn't affect performance as it's just pointing to the same image file, which is already cached when called. Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 19:27, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Dark mode rendering flags wrong

Moin,

https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol

i searched for a german democratic republic emoji/flag and noticed that dark mode renders the german flag upside down, which is funny.

MikeTango (talk) 09:01, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

@MikeTango: Thanks for flagging. It might be possible to catch this specfic use case with a CSS selector like a[href*='wiki/%F0%9F%87%BF%F0%9F'], not sure about all instances of unicode though at the moment and this also limits their occurrence handling to link hrefs only. –Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 01:46, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Dark mode

Hey Volker! I'm an interface admin at SqWiki/Quote. I recently imported your dark mode gadget and it works nicely. I was wondering if it could be possible to maybe have it be enabled periodically following the device's time. Like, for example, it gets dark after 8 PM with the local time. Could that be a future functionality to be expected? - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:37, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

I'd propose to help for such a functionality. Possibly starting with writing a Phabricator task. Currently the focus is, besides my main work at day, to somewhen in the close future get this gadget out to a few more test wikis and even out more errors like topic above. So the priority for such functionality from my point of view is low at the moment. Hope you understand –Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 01:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Yeah , don't worry. I was mostly just curious to know how you felt about that idea in general and if it could be done in theory. Take your time and thanks for the tool! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 07:33, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

About Dark Mode Emojis

Hello, I'm Whitetiger0423(just call me whitetiger) who contribute on kowiki. When I use dark mode, I could see that emojis(like 😁 or 🕊 or..etc.) are color-reversed(ko: 색반전의)(I'm not good at Eng, so if you can't understand what I'm saying, please use interpreter). If it is possible, can you made the emojis non-reversed(색반전이 되지 않게)? --Whitetiger0423 (talk) 08:31, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Whitetiger0423, thanks for your message. I'm sorry to say, but emojis are not marked up in any special way (you could right click and choose “Inspect” in your browser, that they are just part of Unicode and similar to textual content, so they are inverted by my script and there's no workaround I can think of within current technical limitations. – Volker E. (WMF) (talk) 21:10, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for your reply. --Whitetiger0423 (talk) 08:01, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Bir yıldız da sizin için!

	Grafik Tasarımcısı Yıldızı
	Just here to give you a barnstar. Your dark theme has so much efforts on it and I'm proud to use your stylesheet. Keep up your work dude. Baris6161TURK (talk) 08:14, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

updating SVGo

I just saw phab:T324899.

updating 5year old librsvg would be much more important

c-librsvg 2.40 is deprecited since 2017 still used by Wikimedia even though it got replaced by rust-librsvg 2.42 in January 2018 (~5years ago). SVGo 3.0 (differently to librsvg) is not important for Wikiversum and got just released End of October (~2Month).  — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 19:41, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

SVG Optimization

1. SVG-Optimization is generally undesired on Wikimedia Commons, see c:Help:SVG_guidelines#When_is_optimizing/validating_files_undesired? for reasons.
2. Compared to scour and svgcleaner. SVGo is much more buggier (i) if activated everything as-well as (ii) if deactivated everything possible.

 — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 19:41, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

I just saw your comments on phab:T324899#8482734.

I just link some svgo-bugs on Commons-Images I run into

1. convertPathData: https://github.com/svg/svgo/issues/880
2. convertPathData: phab:T217990
3. cleanupNumericValues: https://github.com/svg/svgo/issues/1080
4. minifyStyles: https://github.com/svg/svgo/issues/888
5. removeStyleElement: https://github.com/svg/svgo/issues/1057
6. everything deactivated: https://github.com/svg/svgo/issues/1021

more SVGo-Bugs on Commons-files can be found: https://github.com/svg/svgo/issues/created_by/JoKalliauer

If you say “not been buggy at all”, you just didn’t use SVGo enought to know their bugs.

 — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 20:08, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

c:User:SVGWorkaroundBot

I have c:User:SVGWorkaroundBot and https://svgworkaroundbot.toolforge.org/ for fixing librsvg-bugs using scour and svgcleaner and usvg, however I wasn't able to use/install SVGo on toolforge. Maybe you can help me with that?

 — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 19:41, 20 December 2022 (UTC)  — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 19:41, 20 December 2022 (UTC)