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June 2015 - July 2016


Please comment on Talk:Smartbond

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The Signpost: 05 June 2016

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Tech News: 2016-23

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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

  • MathML/SVG is now the default <math> rendering mode on Wikimedia projects. [1][2]

Changes this week

  • The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [3]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

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Hello! thanks for inviting me at tea house
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Tech News: 2016-24

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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

Changes this week

  • You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [9]
  • It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [10]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 June 2016

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Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria

  • New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
  • Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
  • New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

Read the full newsletter

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Your thoughts

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Hi again, three months ago (!) you raised a concern about a GA review I did - it's recently come up in conversation, and I wondered if you could go over your concerns again? Always looking to improve stuff like that, so it'd be really appreciated -- samtar talk or stalk 12:02, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Samtar: Hey! Just wanted to say I've seen this and will take a proper look at it soon (and by proper I mean I'll read some papers and say something comprehensive!) :) Sam Walton (talk) 09:59, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Talk:Garden of Eden (cellular automaton)

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Tech News: 2016-25

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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

  • Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [11]

Changes this week

  • The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [12][13]
  • Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [14]
  • When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [15]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lara Jade (June 26)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by LaMona was:
This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
Weirdly, many of the links are going to a different site, TechRadar, and are not about her. Please check your links.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
LaMona (talk) 15:56, 26 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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Hello! Samwalton9, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! LaMona (talk) 15:56, 26 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2016-26

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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

  • The ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [16]
  • The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [17]
  • A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [18]

Problems

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
  • The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [21]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [22]
  • An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [23]
  • The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [24][25][26]
  • From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [27]
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [28]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Jonathan Wells (intelligent design advocate)

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The Signpost: 04 July 2016

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Tech News: 2016-27

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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

  • A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [29]

Changes this week

  • The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [30]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Could you please make this an editfilter?

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Hi, could you please make an edit filter called "Misspelled Pokémon", where if it matches "Pokèmon", "Pokemon", etc it'll warn the user and log it? I've tried to remove all the misspellings of Pokèmon that I could find, but it'd be useful if there was a comprehensive log of the new ones. Cheers. Anarchyte (work | talk) 08:31, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Anarchyte: We only have limited capacity for edit filters, and so really only run them for cases of vandalism, long term abuse, or widespread undesired edits, so unfortunately not, sorry. Sam Walton (talk) 08:40, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ah ok. I thought it'd be fine due to the edit filter being used to catch good faith edits. Would it be a better idea to try to gain consensus at the requests page or not bother? Anarchyte qI'm (work | talk) 08:46, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Anarchyte: It certainly wouldn't be against the rules to make this filter, but it would be much too computationally expensive for this kind of largely harmless edit. I doubt very much you'd gain consensus for such a filter when we're having to turn off some anti vandalism filters due to the limited capacity we have. Sam Walton (talk) 09:01, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page watcher) @Anarchyte: this could, however, be a good job for a bot to run, or even just manually via AWB? -- samtar talk or stalk 12:55, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Samtar: I have literally no experience in coding bots, so unless someone else could do it, that's not going to happen any time soon. I don't have the AWB right, either . Anarchyte (work | talk) 13:00, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q2 2016

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 9, No. 2 — 2nd Quarter, 2016
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Tech News: 2016-28

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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

  • A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [31][32][33]
  • Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [34][35][36]
  • Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [37][38][39]

Problems

  • On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [40]
  • Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

questia, email cengage

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If editors email the cengage address you supplied, will that cengage employee give them a new code? Or will he just give them permission to re-use their email? Should I NOT give them a new code? Not clear.  Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 02:08, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Lingzhi: I'm not sure - The email I received when I asked said: "we can only manually extend the editor’s access. As such, when it’s time for renewal, your editors can contact our Customer Service Manager, Luis Pedraza, either via phone or email with their HighBeam or Questia email address and name. He will be able to look up their account and then extend it for another year." He also said "those codes were designed to be only used for new accounts, not renewals" so I don't think you should give out codes for renewals if the user wants to keep their same email address, they should just email Luis and he'll extend their account manually. Sam Walton (talk) 09:29, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2016-29

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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

Problems

  • On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [44][45]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
  • Special:Log now has a help link. [46]
  • The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [47]

Future changes

  • User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [48][49]
  • Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [50]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Earthquake prediction

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The Signpost: 21 July 2016

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Tech News: 2016-30

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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

Problems

  • Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [52]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
  • It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [53]
  • Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [54]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [55]

Future changes

  • The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [56]
  • Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [57]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

CTX

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Hi Samwlaton9, re your question on AN - the best way to see what CTX is all about really is to just load it up Special:ContentTranslation. We wary of pressing PUBLISH - or your change edit will be made (and if you pick a TO language besides English it will go on another project). After trying you may want to turn off all the plug ins it give you, they are in preferences, under beta. — xaosflux Talk 23:31, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Template touchup needed

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Hi, Sam. WP:ASP WP:MIT and WP:RSUK need a slight touchup re: the new TWL continuity template. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:54, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Checkingfax: In regards to the Navbox? It's on my to do list :) Sam Walton (talk) 10:10, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You were right :), can the following table prove useful? Resources not mentioned have {{TWL Header}} transcluded and /Navbox. Let me know if I can help out with moving. Sam Sailor Talk! 13:45, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
{{TWL Header}}
TWL resource Uses /Navbox Uses /Nav Notes
Al Manhal No No But TWL Header is transcluded, i.e. has red-linked {{Wikipedia:{{PAGENAME}}/Navbox}}
De Gruyter  Yes TWL Header is not transcluded
Jamalon No No But TWL Header is transcluded, i.e. has red-linked {{Wikipedia:{{PAGENAME}}/Navbox}}
JSTOR  Yes TWL Header is not transcluded
OUP  Yes TWL Header is not transcluded
Pelican Books No No TWL Header is not transcluded
Fold3  Yes TWL Header is not transcluded
RIPM  Yes TWL Header is not transcluded
Questia  Yes TWL Header is not transcluded
Elsevier ScienceDirect  Yes TWL Header is not transcluded
Royal Society journals No No But TWL Header is transcluded, i.e. has red-linked {{Wikipedia:{{PAGENAME}}/Navbox}}

@Sam Sailor: Super helpful, thank you! I'm just going through and moving all the /Nav Navboxes to /Navbox so they're standardised, then we'll stick with that in the future. The pages where TWL Header isn't transcluded yet have minor differences that require the template to be edited a bit, which I'll get to soon. Sam Walton (talk) 14:21, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2016-31

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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

  • A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [58]
  • The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

  • Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [59]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

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