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Tech News: 2017-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

Changes this week

  • Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [2]
  • There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [3]
  • OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [4]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Legobot (talk) 04:27, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

72.69.126.161

Just wanted to let you know (and I'm assuming Widr will get this through pinging them, too) that you both appear to have conflicted this IP's block duration. Regards. 172.58.41.136 (talk) 03:41, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks.--5 albert square (talk) 03:44, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [5]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [6]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [7]
  • The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [8][9]

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19:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2017

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Violent Factionalizing Debate

In a close, divided discussion such as the one you just closed, I think it'd be appropriate to leave some reasoning why you came to that decision. (Full discloure: I disagree with your closure and believe there's consensus for deletion.) -- Tavix (talk) 23:05, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I agree fully with what Nyttend said--5 albert square (talk) 23:19, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Then you should leave a !vote explaining "Keep per Nyttend" instead of an inappropriate close. Would you mind if you did that? -- Tavix (talk) 23:21, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Sure, give me a couple of moments :)--5 albert square (talk) 23:24, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
That's not what you did though. You simply expanded upon your close instead of reverting it. Again, that's simply your opinion of the redirect instead of an assessment of consensus. A closure should never be "per someone", that's reserved for !votes. -- Tavix (talk) 23:43, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Sorry I misunderstood what you said, that's what happens when you try to do too many things at once.--5 albert square (talk) 01:00, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
Now that you've officially left a !vote, I'll consider you involved and officially reopen the discussion, noting that you expressed willingness to do so. -- Tavix (talk) 01:13, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
But I'm not though. I left it after I closed it because you asked me to explain my decision which I was happy to do. Never mind I'll link to what you said above in the discussion. Thanks.--5 albert square (talk) 06:38, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
By the way, I didn't ask you to leave a !vote. I'm simply saying that by closing something "per someone" is your opinion and not an assessment of consensus, so it would be better for you to leave a !vote instead of closing the discussion. In fact, I'd rather you either don't leave one or leave a delete !vote. (I believe that the redirect characterizes one of our deletion processes as violent, which is not a good message to send to the community, and there's no other benefit the redirect is providing.) -- Tavix (talk) 14:29, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Proposed deletion

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Tech News: 2017-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [10]
  • When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [11]

Problems

  • Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [12]
  • Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [13]

Changes this week

  • The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [14]
  • The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [15]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Legobot (talk) 04:34, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Sam Mitchell 2016.png

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Thanks for uploading File:Sam Mitchell 2016.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 20:06, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Flying lemur

Back in 2016 you deleted the Flying lemur redirect as it had been tagged R3. I think that it was a valid redirect. While the target, Colugo, are not lemurs and don't fly I did see that the redirect flying lemurs leads there and within the article there are links to Philippine flying lemur and Sunda flying lemur. All in all just a long way round to say that I have restored the redirect. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 21:17, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes this week

  • You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [16][17]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [18]
  • CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [19][20]

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15:26, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Drafts

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Thanks

Hi 5 albert square, Just wanted to say thanks for dealing with the editor as well as for revdelling my talkpage, Don't think I'll ever fully understand these deranged usernames but anyway thanks again for your help - Much appreciated, Cheers, –Davey2010Talk 17:55, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

No worries :)--5 albert square (talk) 18:36, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Combining AfC reviewers and new page reviewers

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Tech News: 2017-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [21]
  • DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [22]
  • You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [23]
  • The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [24]
  • The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [25]

Problems

  • On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [26]

Changes this week

  • When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [27]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

User talk:TheGracefulSlick

An autoconfirmed sock vandalized the page. It will probably need extended-confirmed protection. —MRD2014 📞 contribs 01:13, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

 Done--5 albert square (talk) 01:31, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs

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Tech News: 2017-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [28]

Problems

  • Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [29][30]

Changes this week

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14:47, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Tech News: 2017-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [31]
  • The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [32]
  • English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [33]

Problems

  • Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [34]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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