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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
- Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [1]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
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Future changes
- Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [2][3]
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [4][5]
- All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [6]
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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 28
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Issue 28, April – May 2018
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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
- PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.
Problems
- When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [7][8]
Changes later this week
- Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [9]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).
Meetings
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Recent changes
- The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [10]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [11]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- 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 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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00:46, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
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
- WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [12]
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [13]
- All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [14]
Problems
- When you rolled back an edit it could get both the
RollbackandUndotags. This has been fixed. [15] - Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [16]
Changes later this week
- When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [17][18]
- On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [19]
- When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [20]
- Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [21]
- When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [22]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
- Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [23]
- Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [24]
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23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [25]
- You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [26]
- You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [27]
Changes later this week
- Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [28]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).
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16:01, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
Harold Spitznagel
Hey Runner1928, and thanks for starting the article on Harold Spitznagel. It looks great so far! I just wanted to let you know that I shortened the lead section & broke out the rest into a "Life and career" section.
I was curious if you were planning to submit the article as a "Did you know". I think it would be a great candidate. Let me know if you would like to, and/or if you would like my assistance in doing so.
Happy editing! = paul2520 (talk) 13:17, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Paul2520: Thank you for the kind words and for your work on the article. I've never submitted anything for DYK so I'm not sure what quality I ought to bring the Spitznagel article to first. I appreciate any advice you can give, and I'd love to submit for Did You Know when it's reasonable to do so. Runner1928 (talk) 14:26, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Runner1928: Great! Looks like it passes all the eligibility criteria. It must be less than or equal to seven days old when submitted, so we still have a few days. If there are any other references you want to add, or information you know/suspect to be missing, you can add it. Otherwise, I should have time over the weekend to work on the article.
- I recently got access to Newspapers.com via The Wikipedia Library, so I can search for another couple of references.
- Do you want to actually make the nomination, or would you like me to nominate it on your behalf? = paul2520 (talk) 12:30, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Paul2520: I'll also work on the article over the weekend. Today I added sections based on the architecture WikiProject's template. The Career section especially needs to be filled out. I'm using the South Dakota History journal article as my chief reference. The architectural magazine articles are helpful but they're a COI because they're written by Spitznagel's firm's employees. So we should downplay those or even omit them, or maybe just move into "official website" status. As far as DYK nomination goes, I'd appreciate you nominating it on my behalf. I'll learn from you how that process works, so that the next time I'll do it on my own. Runner1928 (talk) 16:39, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Runner1928: okay, I've read through the article. I think it's really close, though a couple more references should be added. Can you add citations to the Career and Works sections? Definitely something the DYK reviewers look for are having every sentence referenced (or full paragraph, if there's a cite at the end). = paul2520 (talk) 16:07, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Paul2520: No problem. So many of the sentences were from sources in the Bibliography section, so I converted those into traditional inline citations. Thanks also for your latest edits, including his nickname. Feel free to submit whenever you feel it's ready, and thank you for doing that. Runner1928 (talk) 02:27, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Runner1928: thanks! Looks much better! Curious about the mention "1968 By William Bentzinger" – what does that mean? And what about references to the Works/Buildings section? Was that just a list, perhaps this one?
- Otherwise, I think it looks good. I think we can submit the nomination today, and can always make changes in the meantime/when we hear back from the reviewer.
- As for the "hook", i.e., the sentence shown on the front page if the nomination is accepted, how does this sound? "Harold Spitznagel was an architect form South Dakota who has been called 'the state's foremost 20th-century architect'" if you have suggestions for an alternate or two, that's generally recommended. See the format & content guidelines here. = paul2520 (talk) 14:04, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Paul2520: I'm reformatting the notable buildings section with individual line citations and a cleaner look, not to mention getting away from just using the list from TSP. I want to use the South Dakota History article as much as possible to avoid directly citing the sort-of-COI TSP pages. I'm about 40% done with that work but I think we can start the DYK nomination soon. I like the hook you proposed -- note the typo in "from". Alternates can keep the phrase "Harold Spitznagel was an architect from South Dakota who" with variations such as "designed the Mount Rushmore visitor center", "designed Art Deco civic buildings in the Upper Midwest", "built a replica of a Norwegian stavkirke in the Black Hills". Runner1928 (talk) 16:58, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Runner1928: I submitted the nomination. I'll watch it for any suggested edits by the reviewers, but would appreciate your help if there are any. Thanks for the work you put into this! = paul2520 (talk) 02:59, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Paul2520: I'm reformatting the notable buildings section with individual line citations and a cleaner look, not to mention getting away from just using the list from TSP. I want to use the South Dakota History article as much as possible to avoid directly citing the sort-of-COI TSP pages. I'm about 40% done with that work but I think we can start the DYK nomination soon. I like the hook you proposed -- note the typo in "from". Alternates can keep the phrase "Harold Spitznagel was an architect from South Dakota who" with variations such as "designed the Mount Rushmore visitor center", "designed Art Deco civic buildings in the Upper Midwest", "built a replica of a Norwegian stavkirke in the Black Hills". Runner1928 (talk) 16:58, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Paul2520: No problem. So many of the sentences were from sources in the Bibliography section, so I converted those into traditional inline citations. Thanks also for your latest edits, including his nickname. Feel free to submit whenever you feel it's ready, and thank you for doing that. Runner1928 (talk) 02:27, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Runner1928: okay, I've read through the article. I think it's really close, though a couple more references should be added. Can you add citations to the Career and Works sections? Definitely something the DYK reviewers look for are having every sentence referenced (or full paragraph, if there's a cite at the end). = paul2520 (talk) 16:07, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Paul2520: I'll also work on the article over the weekend. Today I added sections based on the architecture WikiProject's template. The Career section especially needs to be filled out. I'm using the South Dakota History journal article as my chief reference. The architectural magazine articles are helpful but they're a COI because they're written by Spitznagel's firm's employees. So we should downplay those or even omit them, or maybe just move into "official website" status. As far as DYK nomination goes, I'd appreciate you nominating it on my behalf. I'll learn from you how that process works, so that the next time I'll do it on my own. Runner1928 (talk) 16:39, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi again!
Hey Runner1928! I realized you're located in MN, so you might be interested in an edit-a-thon that I'm helping organize next Saturday: Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis/Quatrefoil/Wiki Loves Pride 2018. If you're interested and have the time, it would be great to meet you in person! = paul2520 (talk) 17:30, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Paul2520: thanks very much for the invitation! I'll be out of town that day but would love to hear about other opportunities in the future. Best of luck!! Runner1928 (talk) 13:58, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [29]
- Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [30]
- Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [31]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (calendar).
Meetings
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Recent changes
- The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [32]
Problems
- Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [33][34]
- Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [35][36]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
- After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.
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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Harold Spitznagel
Hello! Your submission of Harold Spitznagel at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 14:21, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
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- From the editor: If only if
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Recent changes
- Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [37]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [38][39]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
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Recent changes
- CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [40]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
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Future changes
- The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [41]
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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Harold Spitznagel
On 15 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Harold Spitznagel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that prominent South Dakota architect Harold Spitznagel designed the original Mount Rushmore visitor center with Cecil Doty as part of Mission 66, providing a setting for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Harold Spitznagel. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Harold Spitznagel), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
- The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
- Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [42]
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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
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Books & Bytes – Issue 29
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 29, June – July 2018
- New partners
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- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief
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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
- You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [43]
- Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [44]
Problems
- Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [45]
Changes later this week
- The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [46]
- AWB will stop adding
using AWBin the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that saysAWB. [47] - Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says
Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example isarticle_textwhich is nowpage_title. [48] - Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is
page_age. [49] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).
Meetings
- 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 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 August 2018
- From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
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- In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles
- Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy
- Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
- Special report: Wikimania 2018
- Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits
- Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize upcoming work
- Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
- Humour: Signpost editor censors herself
- From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
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 user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [50][51]
- There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [52][53]
- You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [54]
wp10in ORES is now calledarticlequality. [55]- When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [56]
Problems
- UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [57]
- You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [58]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
- The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
- Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [59]
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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)