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Tech news: 2013-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
  • On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on $wgCanonicalNamespace. [1]
  • A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "New section" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [2]
  • There was a short site outage on June 28.
  • The automated Category:Pages with missing files now includes broken file links inserted inside the <gallery /> tag (bug #50119). [3]
  • The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [4]
  • There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [5]
  • The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [6]
  • VisualEditor news:
    • Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
    • VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
    • In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
    • Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
    • TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
    • Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
    • Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [7]
Future software changes
  • VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
  • From July 8, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages ([[<tvar|bug-49505>bugzilla:49505</>|bug #49505]]). [8]
  • The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [9]
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14:18, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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Tech news: 2013-28

Latest [[<tvar|technews>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News</>|tech news]] from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. [[<tvar|more-transl>m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/28</>|Translations]] are available.

Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

  • VisualEditor news:
    • VisualEditor deployment has been delayed by a week. It is now planned to enable the editor for logged–in editors on chosen Wikipedias on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 29.
    • A bug that made it impossible to save VisualEditor edits that triggered a CAPTCHA has been fixed. [11]
    • Several bugs that occurred on right–to–left wikis have been fixed last week (bug #49416, bug #49613, bug #50543).
  • Uploading files has been restricted on Meta Wiki to administrators and the newly created uploader group. An exemption doctrine policy is being developed (bug #50287). [12]
  • Emergency priority CentralNotice banners will always be shown unless users have hidden them, ignoring cookies set for lower priority banners. [13]

Future software changes

  • MediaWiki will allow choosing a specific page of a PDF document or a thumbnail of a video file to show up inside the
    tag (bug #8480). [14]
    • It will now be possible to create empty MediaWiki: messages, for instance in order to disable them (bug #50124). [15]
    • The Nearby feature will soon be enabled on Wikivoyage wikis again. [16]
    • The Notifications extension messages will now include a direct link to diffs on wiki as well as in notification e-mails (bug #48183). [17]
    • Table of contents will now use the HTML <div /> element instead of <table />, fixing a nine–year–old bug #658. [18]
    • First mock–ups of a mobile Wikidata application have been published by Pragun Bhutani as part of his Google Summer of Code project. [19]
    • A discussion on minimum documentation practices in MediaWiki code has been started and awaits comments from the community.

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    18:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

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    Start Snuggle

    IRC office hours for wiki-mentors and Snuggle users

    Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to try out Snuggle and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in #wikimedia-office connect on Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC. See the agenda for more info. --EpochFail(talk • work), Technical 13 (talk), TheOriginalSoni (talk) 17:17, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-29

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

    Future software changes

    • A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [23]
    • The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [24]
    • Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [25] [26]
    • Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [27]
    • Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22. [28]
    • A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
    • An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [29]

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    17:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

    National Film Award for Best Actor

    Hi, would you be interested in taking this to FLC? —Vensatry (Ping me) 06:19, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

    I'd love to bring it up to FLC quality, and then we can co-nominate. With your experience of Best Actress FLC, this should be a cakewalk. — Bill william comptonTalk 06:50, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
    Exactly! I'm modeling this list based on the "Best Actress" list. Your help will be much appreciated :) —Vensatry (Ping me) 10:47, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

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    Tech News: 2013-30

    Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

    Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

    Future software changes

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    20:59, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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    Tech News: 2013-31

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

    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1. [37]
    • Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24. [38]
    • Pywikipediabot moved their code from SVN to git; bot owners need to update their tools. [39]
    • The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon. [40]
    • It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon. [41]
    • The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now. [42]
    • Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. [43], [44], [45]
    • Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438). [46]
    • A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
    • VisualEditor news:
      • On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29. [47]
      • A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24. [48]
      • Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages. [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54]
      • It is possible again to scroll down in the template editing window (bug #51739).
      • VisualEditor now works with the FlaggedRevisions extension. (bug #49699)
      • If the user opens VisualEditor using a section edit link, the title of the section is added to the edit summary (bug #50872).
      • Invisible templates now can't be deleted by accident or on purpose (bug #51322).

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    20:39, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

    DYK-Good Article Request for Comment

    WikiCup 2013 July newsletter

    We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's Canada Sasata (submissions) currently leads overall, while Pool B's Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today, London Miyagawa (submissions), with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by Poland Piotrus (submissions), Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions) and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

    Other than that, there is not much to report! If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 23:53, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

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    Goel

    Hi, I've gotten myself confused with an image of Goel that has been uploaded here and at Commons. You've tagged it as having OTRS permission here (I think!) but are probably not aware of the Commons version. Please could you see my comment on your Commons talk page here. - Sitush (talk) 06:31, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

    I've tagged it with OTRS pending on Commons. According to him, "[he] own[s] the copyright to the image". If you have any doubts, I'd suggest DR. — Bill william comptonTalk 07:04, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

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    The Signpost: 14 August 2013

    February 2013 Wikification Drive

    Hi there! I thought you might be interested in WikiProject Wikify's February Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We'll be trying to reduce the backlog size by over 500 articles and we need your help! Hard-working participants in the drive will receive awards for their contributions. If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks!
    15:57, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

    I have unreviewed a page you curated

    Hi, I'm Gbawden. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Being Human (UK series 3), and have un-reviewed it again. If you've got any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thanks, Gbawden
    15:57, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

    National Film Award for Best Actor FLC

    Hi, do you feel the list is ready for the nomination? Kindly leave me a note in case of any issues. —Vensatry (Ping me) 06:27, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

    The only potential problem I can think of is that dff.nic.in is a heavily-used source. Can you do the spotcheck? — Bill william comptonTalk 07:19, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
    Would you mean to say that we should go for other sources? —Vensatry (Ping me) 11:18, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
    I think variety of sources should be used, but this is my personal opinion. If you think it won't be a problem, then we should go for it. Do you want me to start the nomination? — Bill william comptonTalk 11:19, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
    That won't be a problem since these kinda lists are largely dependent on sources from single publisher. Many sports especially cricket lists are dependent on single publisher only. Anything else you want to add? —Vensatry (Ping me) 11:34, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
    No, I think everything else is covered. — Bill william comptonTalk 11:43, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

    I've nominated the list. —Vensatry (Ping me) 07:19, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

    Do you think there is a need of IPA for Rajat Kamal? — Bill william comptonTalk 15:58, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
    Might be useful. —Vensatry (Ping me) 14:24, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

    August 2013

    Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Independent Olympic Athletes at the 2013 Asian Youth Games may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "[]"s. If you have, don't worry, just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

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    Talk back

    Hello, Bill william compton. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Today's_featured_list/submissions#List_of_Presidents_of_Pakistan.
    Message added Zia Khan 19:01, 20 August 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

    STiki emergency

    DYK for Kumaravel Premkumar

    Alex ShihTalk 00:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

    Tech News: 2013-34;

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

    New features

    • The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22. [55]
    • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29. [56]
    • You can now use new styles of galleries. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff. [57]
    • You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science. (25931) [58]
    • You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468) [59]
    • Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713) [60]

    Problems fixed

    • There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
    • Maintenance reports provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
    • There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077) [61]

    VisualEditor news

    • The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
    • You can now edit references that are added inside a <references> block. (51741)
    • You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the button for the <s> tag), lower text ( for <sub>), upper text ( for <sup>), underlined text ( for <u>), computer code ( for <code> and <tt>), math text ( for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs ( for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ( for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
    • You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [62]

    Future

    • Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [63]
    • Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [64]
    • Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta. [65]
    • Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [66]
    • The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned. [67]

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    19:50, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

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    WikiCup 2013 August newsletter

    This year's final is upon us. Our final eight, in order of last round's score, are:

    1. Australia Hawkeye7 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer who has contributed on topics of military history and physics, including a number of high-importance topics. Good articles have made up the bulk of his points, but he has also scored a great deal of bonus points. He has the second highest score overall so far, with more than 3000 points accumulated.
    2. New South Wales Casliber (submissions), another WikiCup veteran who reached the finals in 2012, 2011 and 2010. He writes on a variety of topics including botany, mycology and astronomy, and has claimed the highest or joint highest number of featured articles every round so far this year. He has the third highest score overall, with just under 3000 points accumulated.
    3. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 WikiCup champion, who writes mostly on marine biology. She has also contributed to high-importance topics, seeing huge numbers of bonus points for high-importance featured and good articles. Previous rounds have seen her scoring the most bonus points, with scoring spread across did you knows, good articles and featured articles.
    4. Canada Sasata (submissions), a WikiCup veteran who finished in second place in 2012, and competed as early as 2009. He writes articles on biology, especially mycology, and has scored highly for a number of collaborations at featured article candidates.
    5. Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), the winner of the 2010 competition. His contributions mostly concern Naval history, and he has scored a very large number of points for good articles and good article reviews in every round. He is the highest scorer overall this year, with over 3500 points in total.
    6. Wyoming Ealdgyth (submissions), who is competing in the WikiCup for the second time, though this will be her first time in the final. A regular at FAC, she is mostly interested in British medieval history, and has scored very highly for some top-importance featured articles on the topic.
    7. London Miyagawa (submissions), a finalist in 2012 and 2011. He writes on a broad variety of topics, with many of this year's points coming from good articles about Star Trek. Good articles make up the bulk of his points, and he had the most good articles back in round 2; he was also the highest scorer for DYK in rounds 1 and 2.
    8. Scotland Adam Cuerden (submissions) has previously been involved with the WikiCup, but hasn't participated for a number of years. He scores mostly from restoration work leading to featured picture credits, but has also done some article writing and reviewing.

    We say goodbye to eight great participants who did not qualify for the final: Poland Piotrus (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), Michigan Dana boomer (submissions), Prince Edward Island Status (submissions), United States Ed! (submissions), Florida 12george1 (submissions), England Calvin999 (submissions). Having made it to this stage is still an excellent achievement, and you can leave with your heads held high. We hope to see you all again next year. Signups are now open for the 2014 WikiCup, which will begin on 1 January. All Wikipedians, whatever their interest or level of experience, are warmly invited to participate in next year's competition.

    This last month has seen some incredible contributions; for instance, Cwmhiraeth's Starfish and Ealdgyth's Battle of Hastings—two highly important, highly viewed pages—made it to featured article status. It would be all too easy to focus solely on these stunning achievements at the expense of those participants working in lower-scoring areas, when in fact all WikiCup participants are doing excellent work. A mention of everything done is impossible, but here are a few: Last round saw the completion of several good topics (on the 1958, 1959 and 1962 Atlantic hurricane seasons) to which 12george1 had contributed. Calvin999 saw "S&M" (song), on which he has been working for several years, through to featured article status on its tenth try. Figureskatingfan continued towards her goal of a broad featured/good topic on Maya Angelou, with two featured and four good articles. ThaddeusB contributed significantly to over 20 articles which appeared on the main page's "in the news" section. Adam Cuerden continued to restore a large number of historical images, resulting in over a dozen FP credits this round alone. The WikiCup is not just about top-importance featured articles, and the work of all of these users is worthy of commendation.

    Finally, the usual notices: If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to reduce the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email) and The ed17 (talk • email) 06:08, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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