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Tech news: 2013-22

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

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
Future software changes
  • MediaWiki will stop supporting XHTML 1.0 and HTML versions lower than version 5. HTML5 will now be the default language for pages created by the software. [6] [7]
  • The software will check if all uploaded files are secure and match their type. [8]
  • The Wikimedia Commons Android app will come out of the beta phase on its next release. [9]
  • Account creation by manual log-in will now be recorded in the account creation log (bug 42434). [10]
  • Links to file description pages will again be accessible directly from within videos (bug 43747). [11]
  • The software behind recent changes patrolling was re-written; the change fixes issues related to patrolling new pages, among other things. [12]
  • During a meeting, developers agreed on rules about making big changes to the software. [13]
  • There is now a category to list pages with invalid music code. [14]

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Tech news: 2013-23

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

Recent software changes
(Not all changes will affect you.)
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5. [15]
  • The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page. [16]
  • There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages. [17]
  • The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits. [18]
  • The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address. [19]
  • Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia). [20]
  • Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) [21].
  • All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this. [22]
  • The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them. [23]
Future software changes

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Geeta Guru-Murthy

Every morning I watch BBC World New with anchor Geeta Guru-Murthy. I tried to look up this news anchor who relays the news for one of the most reputable news sources in the world but found that someone had deleted her page. Since this appears to be you, I'm writing to demand that you correct this stupid mistake. And next time you decide to delete a page for lack of relevance, make sure it's really irrelevant.

What the hell makes you so special that you can judge the BBC News Anchor as unworthy of having a wiki page?

UTRS Account Request

I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. Legoktm (talk)

WikiLove

File:Pie.jpeg

Miss Bono [zootalk] has given you a fresh pie! Pies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a piping hot pie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!

Sorry, here's a pie for you...

Spread the tastiness of pies by adding {{subst:GivePie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

The Signpost: 25 December 2013

Mail

Hello, Legoktm. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
--Meno25 (talk) 08:11, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-01

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

Recent software changes

  • You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [27] [28]
  • With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [29]

VisualEditor news

  • Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5 <figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [30]
  • You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.

Problems

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
  • AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [32] [33]
  • It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [34] [35]
  • It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [36] [37]

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08:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Happy New Year!


Jianhui67 talk★contribs — is wishing you a Happy New Year! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the New Year cheer by adding {{subst:New Year 1}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Jianhui67 talk★contribs 09:41, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year Legoktm!

Happy New Year!
Hello Legoktm:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Northamerica1000(talk) 10:31, 1 January 2014 (UTC)



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Signpost

Hey Logoktm, the Signpost will be published soon. It looks like you meant to add a little more to the tech report? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:37, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 January 2014

The new #target: parser function

Hi, please could you check this edit, and amend if necessary? --Redrose64 (talk) 00:23, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I removed the link to m:Template:target since that one is constructed differently and might confused people. Do you think it makes sense to include the target wiki feature even though it's disabled on enwiki? Legoktm (talk) 01:24, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) If it is not enabled on enwiki, it should not be on the Help:Magic words page for the enwiki. Including such an item is just confusing for people looking at a Help page. At an absolute minimum, it should include an note stating that it is not enabled on enwiki. Don't make it harder for someone who is already looking at a help page for ... you know help ... to figure out what is going on.
Without the above message from Legoktm, I might have spent considerable time trying it out to eventually determine that it was not enabled. For this specific functionality, I would not have spent that time as it is not something I am currently interested in, but someone else might. If it is known not to work on enwiki, an enwiki Help page should not include it as something that can be used. Makyen (talk) 07:27, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Err, you misunderstood my comment. The target parserfunction is enabled on enwiki, there are plenty of pages using it, but the remote wiki parameter is not enabled. Legoktm (talk) 07:32, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
{{#target:User:Legoktm}} versus {{#target:User:Legoktm|meta.wikimedia.org}} Legoktm (talk) 07:33, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for the clarification. I should have read your original comment with more diligence. However, I still stand by the gist of what I was attempting to say. As I now understand it, on the enwiki it is:
{{#target: noticeboard }}
If that is the case would not the following be appropriate for the text:
  • {{#target: noticeboard }} - used with the MassMessage extension; see also mw:Help:Extension:MassMessage, which shows an additional option to specify another wiki on which the post is made. However, the ability to post to another wiki is disabled on the English Wikipedia.
Given that we are sending users interested in more information to a different page, we should sate that some functionality covered on that page is disabled on enwiki. This is particularly true as that page explicitly shows an example with en.wiki.x.io as the target. Makyen (talk) 08:08, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Huzzah!!! Doc talk 06:11, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-02

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
  • The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site. [38]

Problems

  • On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
  • On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes

  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [39]
  • Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [40]
  • Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [41] [42] [43]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [44] [45]
  • You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [46] [47]
  • You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [48] [49]
  • E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [50] [51]
  • Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [52] [53]

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08:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject Albania tagging

Asked the question here, not sure if it was the right place. Thanks! --Perkohesisht ai i vjetri (talk) 23:33, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 January 2014

MOS:Common sense listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect MOS:Common sense. Since you had some involvement with the MOS:Common sense redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). John Vandenberg (chat) 04:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

meh. I don't really care about that page... Legoktm (talk) 05:49, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Bot errors

Could you fix the history of the following files: File:Heron Bommie SVII.jpg, File:Taagepera mõisa peahoone2.jpg & File:Rouge gorge familier - crop (WB correction).jpg? You're bot deleted every revision, and than only undeleted the latest one. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:11, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done. I need to figure out a better solution to the deleting/undeleting thing... Legoktm (talk) 05:58, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Almost, but you restored the local file for File:Rouge gorge familier - crop (WB correction).jpg and now Commons description isn't showing through. Could you deleted the local image? Armbrust The Homunculus 07:58, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-03

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

You can read a recent blog post about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [54]

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [55]
  • You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [56] [57] [58]

Problems

  • For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [59] [60]
  • For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

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09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

The Center Line: Winter 2013

Volume 7, Issue 1 • Winter 2014 • About the Newsletter
Departments
Features
State and national updates
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS
—MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:15, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Re your question on IRC

See Template talk:EP#To subst or not to subst. Jackmcbarn (talk) 12:59, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 January 2014

Tech News: 2014-04

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

Recent software changes

VisualEditor news

  • In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
  • You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [71]
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [72]
  • When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [73]
  • When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [74] [75]
  • The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [76]
  • Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [77]

Problems

  • There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [78]
  • There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [79]
  • On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [80]

Future software changes

Orange bar with new messages
  • If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [81] [82]
  • You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [83]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [84]
  • You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [85] [86]

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10:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:AF/D listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:AF/D. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:AF/D redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. John Vandenberg (chat) 02:53, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:AF/C listed at Redirects for discussion

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Wikipedia:AF/N listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:AF/N. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:AF/N redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. John Vandenberg (chat) 03:02, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry Legoktm for templating you so heavily, I didnt realise these were all your creations. ;-( John Vandenberg (chat) 05:48, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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Who's Max?

Killiondude (talk) 23:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

That is a very good question. I've been wondering the same myself. Legoktm (talk) 23:46, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hmmm, your talk page link should be blue. Weird. --MZMcBride (talk) 23:59, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Signpost

Thanks for the interview this week—nice work. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 01:01, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 January 2014

Filter

lcase(new_wikitext) rlike "([^aeiou0-9]\B|;)j(;|\B[^aeiou0-9])" & lcase(new_wikitext) rlike "([^aeiourstlncw0-9]\B|;)k(;|\B[^aeiouynr'0-9])"

Can you add that on feedback, public, log-only, called "Keyboard mashing"? Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:11, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

I've pulled this out of the archive. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:27, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Sorry, this dropped off my radar somehow. Special:AbuseFilter/604. Legoktm (talk) 01:57, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-05

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

Recent software changes

  • Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [87]
  • The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [88]
  • The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [89]
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems

Future software changes

  • You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [91]

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09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

haaretz.com redirect URLs

Prior to 2011, Haaretz.com changed its URL format from, e.g.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084296.html

to

http://www.haaretz.com/news/michael-fox-cofounder-of-israel-s-largest-law-firm-dies-at-75-1.275706

or

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=353521

to

http://www.haaretz.com/news/mk-s-wife-unhurt-after-bomb-explodes-under-her-car-1.103677

or

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=125017&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=125017

to

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/bad-walls-make-bad-neighbors-1.53971
Information and belief
  • All URLs of the form http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/... and http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/... are obsolete.
  • All URLs of the form http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/... continue with pages/... or spages/... (but I don't know this for sure).
  • Some such haaretz.com URLs are dead and redirect to the Haaretz home page, http://www.haaretz.com/.
  • Most such haaretz.com URLs automatically redirect to current haaretz.com pages.
  • All such haaretz.co.il URLs are dead. They won't redirect, but some will if .co.il is replaced with .com.
  • there are over 2,000 English Wikipedia articles with links of these types.

I request a bot that reviews articles and looks for links of the form

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/...

and for each such link, it activates that link, and

  • if redirected to the haaretz home page, add a {{dead link|date=...}} after the link (either the closing right bracket or the closing double brace of {{cite ... }})
  • if redirected to any other page, replace the link with the redirected link.

In either case, it should save the article with an appropriate edit summary.

It should also look for links of the form

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/...

and for each such link, it should change haaretz.co.il to haaretz.com, activate the link, and act as noted above.

Once this is done, it needs to be run only once on the main article space. It shouldn't be needed again because Haaretz changed its URL format years ago and it is unlikely that old-style Haaretz URLs will be added into Wikipedia articles in the future. —Anomalocaris (talk) 22:37, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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