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Tech News: 2016-06

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

Recent changes

  • Syntax highlighting support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [1]
  • When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [2]
  • RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [3]

Changes this week

  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [4][5]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [6][7]
  • Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [8][9][10]

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18:58, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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Transportfan/Transportfan70 Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Transportfan dual account

(Discussion moved from Talk:Ontario Highway 401 page)

I did create an account in 2008 but didn't think I used the name "Transportfan" as my name. I also edited without signing in for years, but I wanted to upload files so I basically forgot about the old one and created a new account and thought it would overwritten. Can I delete the old one myself? Transportfan70 (talk) 17:00, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

For legal reasons, we cannot delete accounts or have accounts deleted. --Rschen7754 01:23, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-07

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 edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [11]
  • You can now use the Math extension to write chemistry formulas. [12]

Problems

  • A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [13][14]

Changes this week

  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [15][16]
  • Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [17]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (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 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [18]

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16:16, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 15

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Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
  • #1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
  • New branches and coordinators

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Tech News: 2016-08

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

  • There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [21][22]

Changes this week

  • After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [23]

Meetings

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18:22, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 15, 2016

A summary of another Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. The summary mostly follows the lead section; how does it look? - Dank (push to talk) 15:49, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

I didn't notice anything wrong, but talk page stalkers are free to chime in --Rschen7754 18:01, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-09

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

  • Thanks to the Graph extension and Pageview API, we now have {{Graph:PageViews}} templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See the examples.
  • The Capiunto extension is installed on test wiki. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for Scribunto and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
  • The visual editor now follows the TemplateData format setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways. [24][25]
  • The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected. [26][27]

Changes this week

  • On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences. [28]
  • Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. [29]
  • Parsoid has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications. [30]

Meetings

  • Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at Knowledge Engine FAQ regarding the much talked about project. [31]
  • 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 1 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:12, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Joseph's request

Dear Rschen7754:

Please do not block my editing ever again!

Sincerely, Joseph Anthony Steiner — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.23.175.70 (talk) 20:17, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Too bad, I just did. --Rschen7754 01:13, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-10

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

  • Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB. [32]
  • Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one. [33]
  • The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this. [34]
  • It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app. [35]
  • Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages from="" to="" section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from="" to="" section=1> or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects. [36]

Problems

  • Phabricator has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [37]
  • The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title. [38]
  • The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource. [39]
  • You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon. [40]
  • Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes. [41]

Changes this week

  • Cross-wiki notifications will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [42]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).
  • Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension. Kartographer will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the Maps talk page. If you find any bugs, you can report them in Phabricator. [43]

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 8 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [44]
  • The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change. [45]

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20:24, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

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User-rights

At this moment, I would like the File Mover and Rollbacker, on the condition that it's needed for WP:TW's functionality. --wL<speak·check> 04:36, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

 Done Sorry to see that you're resigning as an admin, though I understand your rationale completely. --Rschen7754 05:15, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-11

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

  • The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [46]
  • The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [47]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [48]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [49]

Meetings

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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Merchandise Giveaway Nomination Notification

Hi Rschen7754/Archive 32

You were previously nominated to receive a free t-shirt from the Wikimedia Foundation through our Merchandise Giveaway program (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Merchandise_giveaways). Congratulations and thank you for your hard work!

Please email us at merchandise@wikimedia.org and we will send you full details on how to accept your free shirt.

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Tech News: 2016-12

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

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [50]

Changes this week

  • It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [51]
  • You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [52]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [53]

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

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Mohanlal filmography

Hai, I have put this for FLC. Can you spare some time to take a look at it.--Inside the Valley (talk) 12:35, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I generally don't review non road-related articles due to my limited availability. --Rschen7754 01:57, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
That's no problem. Thanks for your reply anyway.--Inside the Valley (talk) 10:48, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-13

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [56]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
  • You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [57]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [58]
  • Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

  • Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-14

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 filter Special:Log in more detail. [59]
  • Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [60]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-15

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 visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [61][62]
  • Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [63][64]
  • ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [65]
  • The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [66]

Problems

  • There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [67]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
  • The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [68]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [69]

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20:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

  • New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
  • Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
  • A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
  • Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

Read the full newsletter

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Tech News: 2016-16

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 filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [70][71]
  • You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [72]
  • MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [73]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [74]
  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.

Meetings

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20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

SR 1 Issue

It seems that you revised my edit on the State route 1, shown here.

State Route 1 marker

State Route 1

Map of California with SR 1 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Caltrans
Length655.845 mi[1] (1,055.480 km)
(broken into 5 pieces by U.S. Route 101)
Existed1934–present
Tourist
routes		 Route One, Big Sur Coast Highway and Route One, San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway
Restrictions
Special restrictions'[2]
Major junctions
South end I-5 in Dana Point
Major intersections
North end US 101 near Leggett
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
Highway system
← I-980→ SR 2

State Route 1 marker

State Route 1

Map of California with SR 1 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Caltrans
Length655.845 mi[1] (1,055.480 km)
(broken into 5 pieces by U.S. Route 101)
Existed1934–present
Tourist
routes		 Route One, Big Sur Coast Highway and Route One, San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway
Restrictions
Special restrictions'[3]
Major junctions
South end I-5 in Dana Point
Major intersections
North end US 101 near Leggett
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
Highway system
← I-980→ SR 2

I appreciate your edit and my recognition of only having 10 intersections. However, the extra routes I put are just as significant, if not, more than the previous intersections. For example, SR 152 provides access to Gilroy and is a major route to I-5, and it wasn't on the list, compared to SR 17, which is a mere 25 miles and it only connects Santa Cruz and San Jose, which is on the list. There were also major Interstates that wasn't selected in the major intersections. If you put a spur route of I-80, why not spur routes of I-5 and I-10?

Or, we could do this statistic-wise. We use the 2014 traffic report of CalTrans. You can read more here:

I gathered data about all of the routes' monthly-average traffic put on my previous edit, along with every defined route SR 1 intersects shown below (for our purposes):

Route Avr. Amount of Traffic/Month
Route 133 38600
Route 55 49350
Route 39 38100
Route 22 34000
Route 710 39000
Route 103 30000
Route 110 55000
Route 213 61000
Route 107 42500
Route 105 110000
Route 90 65000
Route 187 41500
Route 10 63000
Route 23 11700
Route 34 33500
Route 232 30500
Route 246 11600
Route 135 17000
Route 166 5800
Route 41 19600
Route 46 8600
Route 68 51000
Route 218 71000
Route 156 17700
Route 183 31000
Route 129 40000
Route 152 53000
Route 17 61000
Route 9 47000
Route 84 6000
Route 92 27500
Route 35 64000
Route 280 85500
Route 116 2750
Route 128 3200
Route 20 21000
Route 211 680
Route 271 630

The top-10 routes who had the most traffic were:

  • Route 105, 110000
  • Route 280, 85500
  • Route 218, 71000
  • Route 90, 65000
  • Route 35, 64000
  • Route 10, 63000
  • Route 213, 61000
  • Route 17, 61000
  • Route 110, 55000
  • Route 152, 53000

Route 280, 10, and 17 were in the revised list and Route 105, 280, 10, 17, 110, and 152 were the old list. The other routes are either minor routes which are probably full of traffic through its entire route. Route 218 is just a mile long, a connector from SR 1 to SR 68, but it's heavy in traffic because it's a surface street and its congested of traffic lights. So in order to arrange the major intersections of SR 1, we need to find out the length of each of these routes， which will be in part 2 of this talk (I troll constantly). kevon kevono (Talk) 11:24, 17 April 2016 (PT)

Routes with the most traffic is not the sole criteria that is used to determine what goes in an infobox. Usually we consider what routes are truly major, and we also try to pick junctions spread out along the route (for example, we wouldn't pick 7 routes of the 10 to be in the Bay Area, we would try and choose ones representative of the entire route).
However, something to keep in mind: while I appreciate your enthusiasm, this is just the infobox, a small part of the article. We want to beware of spending too much time getting the infobox perfect, while the rest of the article remains a mess (it is rated as C-class under our assessment scheme, which is embarrassing for the most viewed California road article (CA 78 is higher in March since it was on the Main Page for a day that month). --Rschen7754 23:07, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
I wasn't really done with my research and my debate/rant yet. However, you're right. The infobox is a small part of the article. I could edit the infobox as it isn't very accurate but the rest of the article is fine. I upgraded the article to B class a few weeks ago but it got turned down. I think the article should be a B class. I've seen C classes before and they're not more than a few lines long. kevon kevono (Talk) 14:13, 18 April 2016 (PT)

I could continue my research if you want.

On the surface, an article like SR 1 looks "fine", but it's not. Note the mass of unsourced information in the history, as well as the information that isn't there. For example, look at California State Route 78 - it has a lot more detail in the history section. That's the sort of quality that is expected for a history section. In truth, an article of any length can be a C-class article if it is still a mess. --Rschen7754 00:17, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference trucklist was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Special Route Restrictions". California Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
  3. ^ "Special Route Restrictions". California Department of Transportation. Retrieved July 25, 2014.

Your GA nomination of California State Route 11

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Tech News: 2016-17

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

  • Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [75]
  • When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
  • Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [76]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [77]
  • It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [78]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (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 April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [79]

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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of California State Route 11

The article California State Route 11 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:California State Route 11 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Sainsf -- Sainsf (talk) 04:21, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-18

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Recent changes

  • The visual editor now works when you use Internet Explorer 9. [80]

Problems

  • There was a security problem with the MobileFrontend extension. It showed information that had been oversighted. This has now been fixed. [81]

Changes this week

Meetings

Future changes

  • Pages could be added to new users' watchlists by default when they edit them. New users could also by default get email notifications when pages they watch are edited. This is discussed on Meta. [83]

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20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Penn Turnpike

Hello,

I recently noticed a problem with the map for the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The link verifying alignments has been dysfunctional for a while now, hence the map errors I found. In the mid section of SR 43 intersecting I-70 (Mon–Fayette Expressway), the southern end of the turnpike has been extended from Hiller to Uniontown. I would make the corrections myself, but I don't have the experience. Another recommendation I have, since this is the only Penn interstate map we have, is to add omitted shields for other interstates (86, 180, 176) etc

Cheers, Cards84664 (talk) 22:58, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

@Dough4872: since you were the one working on this. --Rschen7754 00:18, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
I will work on having someone update the map to show the completed middle section of PA 43. The link is to a .zip file for PennDOTs GIS data, so you would need GIS software to use that link. As for the shields, they are only shown for longer routes due to space constraints. Dough4872 00:31, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-19

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Recent changes

  • Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [84]
  • You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [85]
  • Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [86][87]
  • You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [88]
  • Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [89]
  • The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [90]
  • Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [91]
  • Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [92]

Problems

  • MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [93]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [94]

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23:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-20

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Recent changes

  • Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [95]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [96]

Changes this week

  • Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [97]
  • Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [98]
  • A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [99]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [100]

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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 May 2016

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-21

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Recent changes

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [102]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [103]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2016

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Tech News: 2016-22

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Recent changes

  • There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [104]

Problems

  • A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [105][106]
  • CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [107]

Changes this week

  • When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [108]
  • The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [109]
  • A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [110][111]
  • Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [112]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (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 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

How I Write good articles essay

For the CA roads essay you sent me about a week ago, you should add what it takes to get an article to C-class. Most editors (myself included) know how, but just for newcomers or me until like 2 weeks ago, don't.

I appreciate that -DJ Khaled

Kevon kevono (talk) 02:39, 16 May 2016 (UTC) 19:39 (PT)

It is described on the linked page, WP:USRD/A. I mean, I could add it, but then by the same reasoning I would have to add a lot of other stuff too. (Also, there are no California road articles that are Stub-Class, and Start->C is just a matter of adding some resemblance of a Route description or History, even if it is bad...) --Rschen7754 04:48, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Should you add what'll make a good junction list for the California road article?
Kevon kevono (talk) 00:15, 31 May 2016 (UTC) 17:15 (PDT)
@Kevon kevono: It is already included here: User:Rschen7754/How_I_write_good_road_articles#RJL --Rschen7754 00:29, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 05 June 2016

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Tech News: 2016-23

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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. [115]
  • 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)

Signpost article on en-N stewards

Hey Rschen7754,

We're at an all-time low of en-N stewards right now, and not doing so well in terms of overall numbers either. I was thinking of writing a Signpost article (special report or op ed? not sure which would be best) about the last and next elections, to try and get some more enwiki regulars who are active and interesting in cross-wiki work to apply. Would you be interested in helping to write that? I would like you to return as well, though I understand why you wouldn't want to.

Thanks, Ajraddatz (talk) 21:27, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd be interested. The main concern I would have though, would be that people have to have the cross-wiki experience first though, before they apply - unfortunately, some very well qualified en-only candidates have recently failed at SE because they did not have much obvious crosswiki experience. I've written a few essays (m:User:Rschen7754/SE2015, User:Rschen7754/You represent the English Wikipedia!) that may have some usable material/ideas too.
As far as running again, I wouldn't rule it out completely, but the intensity/time commitment of being in such a high profile position just wasn't/still isn't compatible with my real-life situation. Yes, there were stewards who barely did anything and were reconfirmed, but that's just not me. I suspect the drama wouldn't be as bad as it was during my term, but the additional stress isn't really what I need at this time. I'm more than happy though to sit on the sidelines and pop in on Meta occasionally. I appreciate your thinking of me though. --Rschen7754 21:44, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
I was thinking of running the article about 5-6 months before the election, actually, to see if we can "nudge" people who are already inclined to maybe pick up a bit of xwiki activity before applying. You're right, that is the biggest stumbling block. There are also a lot of enwiki admins+ who are active across multiple projects, but maybe not in global areas - this could target them as well. I'll start a draft in my userspace sometime in the next couple of days and link it to you when I have.
As to your reasoning for potentially not re-applying, I completely understand. As is demonstrated at every confirmation, stewards don't need to be meaningfully active in the role to be kept around. But you and I both have a different philosophy on that matter, and if I were in the position of not having time to commit to it I'd step down too. Ajraddatz (talk) 22:32, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
And made at User:Ajraddatz/Future enwiki stewards. Not sure if the signpost is actually the best place for it though, maybe just kept as a userpage essay? Or both I suppose... Ajraddatz (talk) 20:43, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, I guess we'll have to see how it turns out. I was thinking about this, and we do seem to be at a low as to the number of global sysops, and there are none from enwiki. --Rschen7754 00:19, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
That might be a good place to start actually. Less about stewards, more about "this is global work and we need your help" sort of thing. Ajraddatz (talk) 00:29, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-24

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Changes this week

  • You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [121]
  • It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [122]
  • 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)

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