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Tech News: 2018-10

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 make longer edit summaries. [1]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [2]
  • On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [3][4]
  • Advanced item Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [5]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Courses Modules are being deprecated

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Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 18#NOTICE: EducationProgram extension is being deprecated.

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This Month in GLAM: February 2018



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Wikidata weekly summary #303

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
    • Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
    • Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
    • Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

Recent changes

  • 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [6]
  • Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [7]
  • Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [8]
  • Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [9]

Problems

  • The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [10]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [11]
  • It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [12][13]
  • Advanced item A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [14][15][16]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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

Problems

  • On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item There is no Editing team meeting this week.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [18][19]
  • In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #304

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Development
    • Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
    • When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
    • Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
    • Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
    • Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
    • Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
    • Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
    • Make it possible to remove a Form (phab:T173332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Brussels

Hello

Hi Andy. Akwr (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy. MaikenHemme (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC) Are you happy today?

hej

Hello Andy. Theistrollejensen (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello/Hallo

Hello Andy. Anne-Marijn (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy. MHLlewellin (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy... EdenRS (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

hello

Hello Andy. Ajtharris (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, Could you offer me a beer? ManonBondetti (talk)

hello

Hello Andy. Odemircipalaeome (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy. Munozr.mb (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hallo

Can you buy me a beer, Andy. JNiemann (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello

Hello Andy This is Matthew Collins from ArchSci2020. Mc80york (talk) 15:10, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

HELLO

message here Xaweber (talk) 15:11, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

ORCID login question

Hi Andy, Do you know whether it would be possible to integrate the login system of ORCID and Wikimedia so that people with ORCID accounts could just use their login details as a wikimedia account? It could be a tiny barrier to entry reduction that would also allow ORCID to track wikipedia editing activity Alternatively, some one-button way of creating a wikimedia account from ORCID could work (possibly auto-pupulating the new user page with the relevant {{authority control}} template. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 04:35, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

@Evolution and evolvability: Yes, technically it's possible; I drafted some notes about this at meta:ORCID. It would need both the approval of the Wikimedia community and an investment of WMF resources; and possibly paying for WMF to have ORCID corporate membership. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:20, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Disappeared (Northern Ireland)

Any reason why you have violated WP:TROUBLES here? As for my revert, your edit was entirely unreferenced and unexplained. GiantSnowman 11:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

It's not possible to violate a "Request for arbitration". My edit was explained (edit summary "add Lisa Dorrian to table"). Yours, on the contrary, was not (reverting with an edit summary of "rv". You've been around here long enough to know better than to do that. My edit was also covered by existing citations in the article. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I'd direct you to the decision of the Arbitration (at WP:ARBTRB) where it says "Pages relating to The Troubles [...] are placed under discretionary sanctions" aka 1RR. I'll again ask why you violated this (and also WP:BRD, in case you are ignorant of WP:TROUBLES)). FYI my edit summary was inadvertently brief (I sometimes accidentally click save when on my Mac) whereas yours was practically non-existent. GiantSnowman 11:45, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
[ec] Well, if that's what you meant, that's what you should have said. Quite why you might have meant that, when I did not violate 1RR, is a matter for conjecture. BRD, on the other hand, cannot be "violated", since it it merely "an optional method of reaching consensus" (though it does require the reverting party to give an explanation for their revert, which you failed to do); again, you have been around here long enough to know better than to make such a comment. As for your false "feign ignorance", such attempts to smear [even if subsequently redacted] are beneath contempt. But yes, of course your edit summary was an "accident". Who could ever think otherwise? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:57, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
You have also been here long enough to a) WP:AGF and b) ask another editor if their summary was insufficient enougnbf ro you to comply with the basics of BRD. GiantSnowman 11:59, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
For what' it's worth I've finished the edit you started. Not difficult. GiantSnowman 12:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
AGF does not require me to accept a revert made with no stated reason in the edit summary or elsewhere; and neither does BRD. As I said above, but you seem to have overlooked, BRD is merely "an optional method of reaching consensus". But since you're still learning about BRD, you can now note that it also says "Revert an edit if it is not an improvement, and it cannot be immediately fixed by refinement. Consider reverting only when necessary. BRD does not encourage reverting...". HTH. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:18, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #305

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
    • Closed request for comments: Former ATE
  • Development
    • New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
    • Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
    • Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
    • Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
    • Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
    • Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
    • Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
    • Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
    • Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
    • Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Tech News: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

  • Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [20] [21]
  • Advanced item The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [22]
  • TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [23]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [24]
  • Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Janet Boyman

Please don't fiddle with other editor's user pages: It just incites drama—I assume you wish to avoid that. Cheers, —SerialNumber54129 paranoia /cheap shit room 10:37, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

I think you're operating under a misapprehension; I suggest you look at the article's history. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:57, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
As I indicate in my edit summary this time, while nobody should claim ownership over their creations, common sense and courtesy prevails in this case. I am sorry to say this, but if you try to do silly move warring like this again, you will lose your editing privilege. Whenever there is a chance to reduce unnecessary drama, it is only right to try your best to promote good will and collegial editing. You are free to start a new article on Janet Boyman that is not a duplicate copy if that's what you prefer. I hope you understand. Alex Shih (talk) 11:07, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Noted that you're an involved admin making block threats and abusing your tools to protect an article where you are involved. Shameful. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:17, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Pigsonthewing, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Notability
General notability guideline
Subject-specific guidelines
See also

ACTRIAL:

  • ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

  • Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

  • While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

  • The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.
To opt-out of future mailings, go here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...

... for improving article quality in March! Happy Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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