User talk:King of Hearts/Archive/2015/06
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
- Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [1]
- Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [2]
- Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [3] [4]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
- You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [5]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 June 2015
[edit]- News and notes: Three new community-elected trustees announced, incumbents out
- Discussion report: The deprecation of Persondata; RfA – A broken process; Complaints from users on Swedish Wikipedia
- Featured content: It's not over till the fat man sings
- Technology report: Things are getting SPDYier
- Special report: Towards "Health Information for All": Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013
- Traffic report: A rather ordinary week
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
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [6] [7]
- If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [8]
- When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [9]
- The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [10]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [11]
Future changes
- If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for
action=querywill change at the end of June. [12]
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15:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Request for help
[edit]Hi,
Presently I am discussing some points at :mediawiki:Thread:Project:Support_desk/Whether_edit_filters_do_count_preview_actions.
- What I am trying to find out In brief:
- Edit action hits which are only flagged or tagged by a filter (but without warn or disallow) are usually (technically) are supposed to get saved. But prima facia we are coming across instances where in few such edits are not getting saved.
- Why I am trying to find out :
- If the 'edit filter extension' counts, 'user edit actions preceding of pressing save buttons (actions like preview action), then there remains a chance of Edit filters based on number of user edit actions or filters with rate limit may malfunction ocasionally.(nl wikipedia and mr wikipedia have reported some bugs as some edit filters may not be functioning as expected in this respect)
- At en wikipedia:
- I have listed few such likely instance at Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports#Study_of_hits_and_false_positives. I need your support in administrative preview of listed instances to confirm that if any blacklisting or any other action might have stopped those edit actions from getting saved.
If I can get your support then I can dig further to list more such instances, and bring doubtfull hits to technical discussion and report at respective bugs wherever necessary. Secondly,I would likely to know, If you are aware of any discussion has already taken place at en wikipedia about above mentioned aspects.
Thanks and Regards
Mahitgar (talk) 03:06, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 June 2015
[edit]- News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
- Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
- Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am
- Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
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
- Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [13]
- Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [14]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [15]
Future changes
- Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [16]
- If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use
compatanymore. [17] [18] [19]
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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 June 2015
[edit]- Arbitration report: An election has consequences
- News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
- Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
- Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
- WikiProject report: Western Australia speaks – we are back
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
- Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [20] [21]
- You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [22]
Problems
- On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [23] [24] [25]
- On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [26] [27] [28]
- Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [29] [30] [31]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 June 2015
[edit]- From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
- Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
- Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced
- News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
- Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
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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
- Long lines in code blocks now look better. [32]
- You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [33]
- When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [34]
- The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [35] [36] [37]
- You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [38]
Problems
- JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [39]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
- You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [40]
- When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [41]
- If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [42]
- Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for
action=querydoesn't work any more. [43]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future
- When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [44]
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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)