User talk:Naypta/2021/May

Tech News: 2021-18

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

• Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

• The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [1]
• Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [2]

Changes later this week

• Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [3][4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [5]

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Opt out

Hello, I believe I opted out of the RFC feedback services a while okay, but continue to receive requests. Prcc27 (talk) 03:35, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Prcc27: You don't seem to have succeeded in option out, as your name wasstill listed at WP:FRS in three sections. I've now removed you from the list, so you shouldn't get any more FRS notices. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:57, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19

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 later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

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

• There is a new toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [6] [7] [8]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [9][10]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [11]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

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 Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Feedback request: Wikipedia technical issues and templates request for comment

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Edit request for article already reviewed

I received a request today for feedback (go to the bottom of the page, please) - for a review that is on hold. You may wish to investigate. Thank you. --Whiteguru (talk) 02:38, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The bot got confused by the page being moved mid-GAN and thought is was a new nomination, and thus sent another batch of notices. This is probably a rare corner case that isn't work fixing -- but even if it wasn't it's unlikely to be fixed since the bot's operator hasn't edited since August 2020. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:48, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Request for Comment that has expired

I received a request to comment on an RFC on Talk:Elizabeth II. It appears that the RFC was published on 4 April, and has expired, and simply has not yet been formally closed. Either that, or there is another invisible RFC. Should we get invited to RFCs that are awaiting formal closure. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:28, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

So I closed the RFC as No Consensus. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:41, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Robert McClenon: The bot was actually asking you to comment on Talk:Elizabeth II#Lead Image after her passing, which was closed as premature between the time that the bot posted the notice to your talk page and you acted on it. It doesn't know anything about the earlier RfC that you closed at Talk:Elizabeth II#RFC Lead Paragraph (well, it sent some notices about it on April 6, but then forgot about it when Legobot removed the RfC tag) * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:11, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

Robert, just fyi: Naypta hasn't contributed in many months and may be retired. Mathglot (talk) 05:02, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

User:Mathglot, User:Pppery - So does anyone operate the bot, or is this yet another bot that is just a disembodied script that happens to work until it doesn't work? Should we make obscure self-referential jokes about bots that are simulating their operators or something? We have had sad experiences with bots that had to be stopped because their bot operators have died. Real death of humans is not funny. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:17, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon:, don't remember where I heard "retired", but pretty sure not dead. Jokes are definitely a good idea. I hereby welcome jokes all over my TP after I'm in Wiki-Heaven. (Or, the other Wiki-H, as the case may be.) Mathglot (talk) 05:24, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-22

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

• There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [13]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

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