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bn: উইকিসংকলনের বিষয়বস্তু ও সমস্যার আলোচনা করার এইটি একটি কেন্দ্রীয় আলোচনার স্থান। প্রয়োজন হলে সাহায্য চাইতে পারেন। আপনি যে ভাষা জানেন তাই ব্যবহার করতে পারেন ও অনুবাদ করতে পারেন।
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el: Αυτή είναι η κεντρική τοποθεσία για να συζητήσετε θέματα για τη Βικιθήκη, αλλά και το μέρος για να ζητήσετε βοήθεια. Χρησιμοποιήστε τη γλώσσα (ή τις γλώσσες) που γνωρίζετε και μεταφράστε αυτά που θέλετε.
en: This is the central location for discussing issues with Wikisource, and the place to ask for help. Use the language(s) you know, and translate what you like.
eo: Ĉi tio estas la centra loko por diskuti problemojn pri Vikifontaro, kaj la loko por serĉi helpon. Uzu la lingvo(j)n kiu(j)n vi konas, kaj traduku kion vi volas.
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gbm: इ च मझळु अड्डा विकीसोतु दगड़ मुद्दा बारा म छुंई लगाणु खुणी, अर ठाणु मदद मंगण खुणी. इस्तेमाल कारा उ भाखा ज्व तुमु बिंगुदौ, अर बदलाखरा जू च पसंद​।
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hy: Սա Վիքիդարանի հետ կապված հարցերի քննարկման կենտրոնական վայրն է, որտեղ դուք կարող եք նաև դիմել հարցերով։ Օգտագործեք ձեր իմացած լեզուն(երը) և թարգմանե՛ք ի՜նչ կամենում եք։
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ko: 이곳은 주로 위키문헌과 관련된 문제들에 관한 논의를 하는 곳이며 도움을 구할 수 있는 곳입니다. 당신이 구사할 수 있는 언어를 사용해서 마음껏 번역해 주시길 바랍니다.
nb: Dette er det sentrale stedet å diskutere saker som angår Wikisource, og stedet for å be om hjelp. Bruk de språka du kan, og oversett det du vil.
nl: Dit is de centrale plek om elk onderwerp in Wikisource te bediscussiëren en de plaats om hulp te vragen. Gebruik de taal die je kent en vertaal wat en wanneer je wilt.
nn: Dette er den sentrale staden å diskutere saker som gjeld Wikisource, og staden for å be om hjelp. Bruk dei språka du kan, og set om det du vil.
pl: To główne miejsce dyskusji o sprawach związanych z Wikiźródłami i miejsce uzyskiwania pomocy. Używaj języków, które znasz i tłumacz co i kiedy chcesz.
pt: Esta é a página principal para discutir tudo o que se relaciona com o Wikisource e também o lugar para procurar ajuda. Faça uso da(s) língua(s) que conhece, e traduza os textos que quiser.
ro: Acesta este locul central de discutare a problemelor legate de Wikisursă și locul unde se poate solicita ajutor. Folosiți limbile pe care le stăpâniți, și când doriți, traduceți ceea ce vă place
ru: Это центральное место для обсуждений, связанных с Викитекой в целом, а также место, где можно спросить о помощи. Используйте язык, который вы знаете и переводите что и когда вам нравится.
su: Ieu mangrupa loka pikeun nyawalakeun hal-hal ngeunaan Wikisource, sarta tempat pikeun ménta pitulung. Pigunakeun basa nu ku anjeun dipikawanoh, tarjamahkeun nu dipikaresep.
sv: Detta är den huvudsakliga platsen där alla typer av frågor rörande Wikisource diskuteras och där nya frågor kan ställas. Använd de språk som du kan och översätt när och vad du vill av andra.
tl: Ito ang sentrong lokasyon para pag-usupan ang mga isyu kasama ng Wikisource, at ang lugar upang humingi ng tulong. Gamitin ang (mga) wika na alam mo, at isalin ang anong gusto mo.
uk: Це центральне місце для обговорень, пов'язаних з Вікіджерелами в цілому, а також місце, де можна попросити про допомогу. Використовуйте мову, яку ви знаєте і перекладайте те, що вам подобається.
vi: Đây là trung tâm để thảo luận các vấn đề liên quan đến Wikisource. Bạn sử dụng các ngôn ngữ bạn biết, và dịch những gì bạn thích.
vo: Atos binon top cifik, kö mögos ad bespikön valikosi dö Vükifonät, e kö kanoy i begön yufi. Gebolös pükis, kelis sevol, e tradutolös utosi, kelosi vilol.
zh-hant: 這裡是討論與維基文庫有關話題和尋求幫助的頁面。使用您所了解的語言留言。您也可以在任何時候把他人的留言翻譯成您熟悉的語言。
zh-hans: 这里是讨论与维基文库有关话题和寻求帮助的页面。使用您所了解的语言留言。您也可以在任何时候把他人的留言翻译成您熟悉的语言。
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New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS[edit]

(Please help translate to your language)

Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).

You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.

Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17:45, 30 July 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

My idea is that we need one or two admins / non admins at least in this group here, which starts now. Any suggestions? (As far as I know the admin rights are not nessesary for it; just users who know what it is.) -jkb- (talk) 20:31, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

I think this flag may be assigned to admins by 'crats just on request, when they need it per 'crats discretion (like in many other wikis). Do you wish to suggest some non-admin candidates? Or do you think we should assign it to some users in advance for the case when no `crat is active? Ankry (talk) 08:01, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
I agree, as this was something any admin could do prior to this - in my opinion - superfluous user group. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 08:30, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
@Ooswesthoesbes: I don't agree with that… The point of separating these rights into another group is so that there are fewer people able to edit JS and CSS files. By editing those, people could insert malicious scripts, off-site tools (which could violate user privacy), and so on. The entire idea is to make it so that fewer people have those rights, so if a hacker is able to take over an admin account, they can't do as much damage as they could if they were able to edit those JS/CSS pages. Also, out of the current 14 admins, only 5 have edited pages in the MediaWiki namespace within the last year, so the majority of admins have shown no need for the ability to edit those. If they should get the need to do it regularly, they can request interface admin rights, if they only need it for one-off things, they can request an edit by an interface administrator just like any other user. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 11:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
As far as I'm concerned, any admin who has edited MediaWiki pages regularly in the past should just be given this flag once requested. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 12:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Enable translate extension?[edit]

Hi folks, I would like to suggest enabling the translate extension here on oldwikisource. It would make it much easier to translate pages in the Wikisource namespace, like policies and guidelines. It is already in use on many major Wikimedia projects, like Wikidata, Meta and Wikimedia Commons, and is a well-tested and stable piece of software that I think would have the potential to improve this project. What do you think? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:58, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Symbol support vote.svg Support I think it may be a good idea. However, two problems: (1) we may have not many users able to manage translations and (2) some languages used here may be not supported by wiki software (eg. gbm on this page). Ankry (talk) 05:46, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
@Ankry: (1) It's not very difficult after a bit of practice, and for a small project like this the workload wouldn't be unbearable for even one or two people. (2) That should be adressed, but it is quite an easy fix. Do you know if there is a comprehensive list of languages used here somewhere? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:23, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
@Jon Harald Søby: I am afraid most users here edit accidentally only, so no chance for practice :( And I think most languages used here are languages without subdomain (eh. Khmer, Hindi, Mingrelian, Urdu). I am afraid it will be hard to find translators. I also think of possibility tu use this extension to translate some common templates ({{header}}.{{Author}}, {{disambig}}) as I encoutered needs for multilingual pages that use them. And also documentation for basic templates like eg. {{rh}} or {{gesperrt}}. Ankry (talk) 13:16, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
@Ankry: I was thinking more of the "translation admin" side, that's what can be a bit confusing at first. Translation itself is easy-peasy, anyone can do it with minimal prerequisites (the only thing being that you need to know basic wiki syntax, but that goes for pretty much anything around here). When there is a call for translation on page, it's very easy to get started – I myself have translated many pages that I wouldn't have thought to do otherwise just because it was possible (and easy!). And yes, the extension can indeed be used for those cases you mention! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 13:32, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Neutral. I have no valid reason to oppose this, but I also believe it isn't going to be used that much. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 09:52, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
@Ooswesthoesbes: Aye, but that's not necessarily a problem. I'm thinking it would be useful for meta pages, the ones that tell users how to get started. And since this is sort of the Incubator for languages that don't have Wikisources yet, I believe it would be useful to have that information in more languages than just English. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:23, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Support Altho I agree that in fact, there will be very little translating actually done, this is an ideal wiki for the extension. Good thinking, Jon. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:30, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support --Zyephyrus (talk) 07:59, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support though I don't know whether it is needed right now, but in future seems to be useful. --Nigmont (talk) 00:16, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks folks! Since it has been a week since the suggestion and no objections, I've created a task and a patch to add the Translate extension here. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:46, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Very good! :) --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 11:24, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
And now it has been deployed. :-) For it to be used though, we need some translation administrators who can mark pages for translation (bureaucrats can assign that right). I'll fill out a request for it for myself on Wikisource:Administrators. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:19, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32[edit]

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Recent changes

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. [2][3]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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.

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 7 August 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 on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33[edit]

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Recent changes

  • Octicons-tools.svg 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. [4]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 14 August 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 on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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. [5]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34[edit]

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Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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

  • 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 on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Enable arbitrary Wikidata access for oldwikisource[edit]

Tracked in Phabricator
Bug T202543

Hi again, folks! I think it would be a good idea to enable what's called arbitrary Wikidata access for this wiki. This means that one can build modules that pull information from Wikidata to be used here. I am working on Module:Interwiki, which would let you put {{Interwiki|qid=Q16503}} on this very page to get the interlanguage list on the left. However, since arbitrary access isn't enabled here yet, the module doesn't work. I think this could also be useful for many other uses as well (for example infoboxes on author pages), so therefore I would like to ask you to support this proposal. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:28, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Symbol support vote.svg Support Absolutely! Candalua (talk) 14:48, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 18:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support If mul.ws links can't be included in d: yet, at the very least we can include them locally thru the module. Good thinking again, Jon. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:06, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support, looks very good for me too. --Nigmont (talk) 21:02, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support Ankry (talk) 15:41, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
Symbol support vote.svg Support--Jusjih (talk) 00:14, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

This change has now been put in place (thanks, Amir!), and I got the Interwiki module working and have put it on this page. This change also enables us to create automatic infoboxes for authors, for instance, using data from Wikidata. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:50, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

New Phab task for mul.ws subdomain[edit]

Tracked in Phabricator
Bug T202595

Please see and comment there. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:13, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Tracked in Phabricator
Bug T202794

And this, too. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:32, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now[edit]

(Please help translate to your language)

Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Interface administrators) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:40, 27 August 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)

Tech News: 2018-35[edit]

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Recent changes

  • You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [7]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [8]

Problems

  • Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [9]

Changes later this week

  • The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [10]
  • AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [11]
  • Advanced item 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 is article_text which is now page_title. [12]
  • Advanced item Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [13]
  • Recurrent item 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

  • 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 28 August 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 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)

Setting languages of pages[edit]

Since we now have mw:Extension:Translate, I've changed the page information for several pages to correspond to the correct language. On my talk, another user suggested that setting author pages to a particular language may not be a good idea. In retrospect, I think maybe setting them to mul may be best since the interface on an author page should be multilingual. What do others think? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:18, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Symbol support vote.svg Support the idea.--Jusjih (talk) 04:37, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36[edit]

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. [14][15]
  • 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. [16][17]
  • You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [18]
  • wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [19]
  • 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. [20]

Problems

  • UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [21]
  • 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. [22]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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

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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October[edit]

Read this message in another language • Please help translate to your language

The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

  • You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
  • If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

  • Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
  • There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)

13:33, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37[edit]

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

  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [24]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [25]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [26]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [27]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [28]
  • When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [29]

Changes later this week

  • 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.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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 11 Septmber 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 on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism[edit]

For admins: please take care and keep watching at least for the main pages of the Wikisource, since in the recent time some vandal: User:185.232.31.100, has vandalized some main pages. I reverted those vandal edits, but the vandal should be prevented from doing the same. --Nigmont (talk) 02:47, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected Main Page/Bahasa Melayu, Main Page/Afrikaans and Wikisource:Armâneascâ. Please go to Wikisource:Protection requests for any follow up.--Jusjih (talk) 02:42, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38[edit]

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

Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [30]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [31]

Problems

  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [32]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [33]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

IP vandal creating bad user and talk pages[edit]

Could an admin deal with 2607:FB90:54A9:200A:A13D:D345:383E:EFB5 and delete all their page creations? Thanks! Graham87 (talk) 07:37, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

@Graham87: Blocked, nucked, reported to stewards. Thanks for the report and sorry for delay. Ankry (talk) 09:21, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39[edit]

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Changes later this week

  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [34]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:23, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40[edit]

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

  • Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [35][36]

Problems

  • New and updated translations from will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [37][38]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • 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 on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

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 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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17:35, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Words hyphenated across pages in Wikisource are now joined[edit]

Hi everybody. I forgot to include this site in the mass-message that was sent about this change, so I'm now copy-pasting it here:

The ProofreadPage extension can now join together a word that is split between a page and the next.

In the past, when a page was ending with "concat-" and the next page was beginning with "enation", the resulting transclusion would have been "concat- enation", and a special template like d:Q15630535 had to be used to obtain the word "concatenation".

Now the default behavior has changed: the hyphen at the end of a page is suppressed and in this case no space is inserted, so the result of the transclusion will be: "concatenation", without the need of a template. The "joiner" character is defined by default as "-" (the regular hyphen), but it is possible to change this. A template may still be needed to deal with particular cases when the hyphen needs to be preserved. --Candalua (talk) 08:10, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

I would propose to use &shy; as the joiner character instead of a normal hyphen – that is called a "soft hyphen", and is used as a marker for where words should be split in case they are too long to fit on a line. Semantically I think that would be a bit more correct than just the normal hyphen. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:36, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
I think that using &shy; here is unnecessary complication, especially for users entering the text:
  • The character is finally removed in main namespace, so at this point it is technically irrelevant what character is used
  • Entering binary version of &shy; (not the &-s-h-y-; 5-character HTML entity) may be a bit complicated
  • I am not sure whether the &shy; 5-character HTML entity can be even used as joiner, technically
  • Even if the above is possible, I do not think that both versions: binary and the HTML entity &shy; could be used interchangeably here (note: &#45; cannot be used here instead of - now)
  • This is not a big difference for displaying at the end of page in the Page namespace. However, only at this point the above note concerning correctness is indeed valid. The disappearing-in-the-middle-of-line function of the &shy; will not be used here as the joiner will appear only at the end of last page line.
Summarizing, I think disadvantages predominate here. Ankry (talk) 07:11, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Bot status for JhsBot[edit]

Hi, I'd like to request bot status for my bot, JhsBot. It uses the normal Pywikibot framework, and I will use it to fix various things in "my areas". However, I have ben running the bot for more than 10 years, so if there are other bot tasks that need doing, I'm more than willing to help in other areas too (as long as I know how). Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:57, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 15:29, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41[edit]

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 a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [40]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 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.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42[edit]

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

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [41]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [42]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [43]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [44]
  • 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 on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43[edit]

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The 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.

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-44[edit]

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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
  • Advanced item The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [45]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [46]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [47][48]

Meetings

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20:09, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45[edit]

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 later this week

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [50]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

mul.ws is confusing[edit]

See this thread on the en.ws Scriptorium: "I see, thanks for the explanation very much, now I understand it better. The biggest problem I see with this site is that it was necessary to explain it at all, as the reader does not get this information on the main page and in fact I did not find it even after quite a long time of searching. I was not able to find any page explaining the system of the site, its rules, anything. As a reader I am directed to various single-language sites and do not get the information that multi-lingual works can be found there and how/where I can find them. So I got the impression that adding there some work is like throwing it into a black hole :-( --Jan Kameníček (talk) 07:20, 20 October 2018 (UTC)" We should really fix this via revamping the main page. Thoughts? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:18, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

We can't do an awful lot to the main page as it has to be in sync with the portals of www.wikipedia.org, www.wiktionary.org etc.
Instead, we could make sure the help pages are actually helpful. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 09:48, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
Please note, that if a multilingual book can be split into separate single-language parts, publishing appropriate parts in various single-language wikisources is an alternative and commonly utilized way to present such books. It is likely that readers do not know that the book is multilingual why searching for the texts and making the content easier to find for readers is a strong argument. Few examples of books that are done this way:
Ankry (talk) 11:08, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46[edit]

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

  • Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [51]

Problems

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [52][53][54]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [55]

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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web[edit]

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Please help translate to your language

Example of improvements

Hello,

In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.

What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.

For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:35, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

For boldest users...[edit]

While working again a little bit in nap pages, I'm updating a personal "maxi-gadget", that emulates many of itwikisource editing tools. Consider that is a tool designed mainly to help and fasten nsPage edits, and that it is poorly documented, being mainly for personal use; it doesn't manages but latin languages; but if any of you would like to test it.... simply add importScript("User:Alex_brollo/common.js"); into your User:UserName/common.js and (prudently!) go. --Alex brollo (talk) 18:11, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Grazie! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:56, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Some doc about that tool (in Italian) here: User:Alex brollo/BAT man. By now, it implements too "eis", the Edit In Sequence itwikisource environment (briefly quoted into Community Wishlist Survey 2019). Alex brollo (talk) 06:57, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
@Koavf, Ruthven: Update I'm very frustrated, I found that "add importScript("User:Alex_brollo/common.js");" doen't run for some users (while it runs into my secondary test user User:Alex brollo bis). I'm trying to fix the bug. --Alex brollo (talk) 17:38, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
Hm. Not sure why that is/isn't working myself. Does copy/paste of the raw code work? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:41, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
I logged in with my bot account User:BrolloBot; the trick "add importScript("User:Alex_brollo/common.js");" didn't run; copying the whole page User:Alex brollo/common.js into User:BrolloBot/common.js runs! I don't understand why, but it runs. So, try too to copy the whole User:Alex brollo/common.js into your personal common.js subpage; if it runs, you'll see a long list of small buttons at the bottom of the page. They are edit buttons, but their appearance in view mode too isn't a mistake :-) --BrolloBot (talk) 17:50, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
@Alex brollo: unsure if this is the case, but maybe related: while testing some gadgets I noticed that user/common.js changes sometimes take effect after many hours. Probably due to some caching issues, probably unrelated to local browser cache. I did not observe such issues with gadgets. Maybe it is worth to convert your code to a gadget, or a set of gadgets? Ankry (talk) 02:23, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
@Alex brollo: I think that I've solved. In my case, the issue was with the way I'd written my PersonalButtons. I do upload the the javascript with mw.loader.load('/w/index.php?title=User:Alex_brollo/common.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );. Cheers, Ruthven (talk) 10:55, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
@Ankry, Ruthven: First, thanks for your interest and help. I'll try to convert deprecated importScript() into mw.loader.load; presently I haven't admin nor interface admin privileges here, so I can't create or edit gadgets. The recent implementation of User:Alex brollo/eis.js is just a test, and needs to be rethought by scratch. It's a little bit frustrating to document an "alpha tool", things change fastly into it, but I'll try. --Alex brollo (talk) 08:30, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
@Alex brollo: I am not bureaucrat here, but I think this would not a problem to receive interface-admin rights if you need that. Ankry (talk) 09:41, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 : @Ankry: Thanks but... I feel myself more and more dissatisfied about the quality of my developer skills, so I will not ask for interface-admin rights; I prefer to edit my personal js pages. Alex brollo (talk) 21:33, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Vandal 2001:56a:76ec:e800:e0ae:62c5:d3ce:6c10[edit]

I don't know how to report vandalism. Could an administrator please review possible vandalism by 2001:56a:76ec:e800:e0ae:62c5:d3ce:6c10 Link to contributions

  • editing existing page in bad faith to link to the same creations [61]
  • deleting I placed on one of the nonsense pages [62]

Apt-ark (talk) 04:39, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done Reviewed. Deleted. Blocked. Ankry (talk) 06:30, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47[edit]

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 vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
  • Advanced item There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [65]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [66]
  • The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [67]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Adding Cosmoglotta[edit]

Hello,

I am looking for some feedback before importing a magazine written from the 1920s to around 1950. It's called Cosmoglotta and is written mostly in the planned language Occidental (Interlingue), but includes a number of other languages as well from time to time. The Austrian National Library hosts it here:

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=e0g

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=e0m&size=45

Each year is around 100 pages. Cosmoglotta at its height was 12 pages per issue, one issue per month, so many years have exactly 144 images. Also for a number of years it published two versions of the magazine, which is why there are two links.

Image quality varies from very good to fairly blurry such as this one:

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=e0m&datum=1945&page=26&size=45

Since it's multilingual that should solve where to put it (here on the multilingual WIkisource). I have two questions:

1) Importing the images: is one at a time best? The closest thing the library site has to displaying all pages on one screen is this: http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=e0g&datum=1922&pos=1&size=45 But I don't think that'll be enough. I have no problem with doing them one at a time though.

2) Two orthographies. The orthography and vocabulary changed somewhat between the years 1922 and 1947, the latter date when it took on its current form. Also for a number of years, especially during WWII, it was put together on a pretty shoestring budget with a typewriter and so has a number of typos here and there. I would ideally like to type up two versions: 1) the way it was originally printed, and 2) the cleaned up, modernized version. The difference is not great, but since nobody speaks Occidental as a native language it's important to not confuse anyone wanting to learn it or trying to decipher it (e.g. if the spelling is off it may not show up in a dictionary).

All in all it's about 3000 to 3500 pages. I would start with Cosmoglotta B which goes from 1935 to 1947, as that is when the most work was put into cleaning up the language, and also due to the period's historical importance (Cosmoglotta A did not publish during the war).

Mithridates (talk) 03:34, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Mithridates:, I see that lots of Cosmoglotta fascicles have already been uploaded into archive.org, here the results of a first search: https://archive.org using creator:"Societé Kosmoglott" into search field.
I think that mulwikisource is the best project to upload multilingual works, please try the tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/ that often runs even if IA item haven't a djvu file.
The project is a hard one, so my suggestion is to begin with a "diplomatic" (as it has been printed) version; there are possible tricks to write an alternative modernized version into the same nsPage page, but I feel that a simple diplomatic version is the best strategy to begin such a large work. Alex brollo (talk) 09:26, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, that tool is exactly what I was looking for. I see on Archive.org they have Cosmoglottas up to 1939, after which only very few changes were made. So I can just type out the 'diplomatic' version as you said and in the end it will be at least 99% the same as the modern version. I'll start with the 1939 issues, and even that one year will take a very long time. The tool seems to have worked well: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Cosmoglotta_A_128_(Sep-Dec_1939).djvu Mithridates (talk) 11:47, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
@Mithridates: I took the opportunity to import here an itwikisource successful gadget using CropTool. While editing nsPage, it adds a "CropTool" link to Tools list into sidebar, and a button Pulsante img.png into Advanced section of toolbox. The former opens CropTool for current page, the latter inserts a draft code for cropped image using the default file name suggested by CropTool. I tested the script into page 1 of your new Index. If you like, the code for that script is into User:Alex brollo/vector.js, you can test it simply copying the code into yours User:Mithridates/common.js. I hope that it will run for you too. :-) Alex brollo (talk) 13:20, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
@Alex brollo: Ah, took me about five minutes to see what exactly you were referring to but I see it now. Cosmoglotta is full of those hand-drawn images and diagrams so that should help a lot. Thanks again! Mithridates (talk) 14:21, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
@Alex brollo: So today I noticed somebody has added a few pages and also included a SIC tag to indicate where the spelling has changed. I gave that a try on page 8 and it seems to be a good solution to indicate where the spelling has changed. In a single page I ended up using it five times, which is not too much: Illa-ella, antiqualya-antiquallia, femina-fémina, ley-lege, analysat-analisat. Mithridates (talk) 01:12, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
@Mithridates: Maybe this is a stupid question, but why do you think that the magazines are PD (in US in case of this project)? It is clear that 1922 volumes are PD and 1923 ones will be PD in January. But others? is there a specific exclusion in Swiss copyright law that made them PD in Switzerland in 1996? Being available in a digital library does not automatically mean that they are PD. They may be available under Fair Use or some limited permission (like non-commercial ones). Ankry (talk) 22:19, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
@Ankry: Not a dumb question. I wonder if the tool automatically selected PD? Either that or I did without looking closely when doing the upload. Let's see...anything by Edgar de Wahl (the creator of the language) will definitely be PD as he has been dead for exactly 70 years now (died in Tallinn in 1948), but Cosmoglotta was mostly written by others, some of whom like Berger and Matejka died in the 1980s and 1990s. The Interlingue-Union (previously the Occidental-Union) exists today though I think it might have been dissolved at once point when so many Occidentalists made the exodus to Interlingua...also the magazine often used letters to the editor and translated content from other languages that came from who knows where. The library itself has the standard disclaimer that (paraphrasing) "we are making this content available for historical reasons but that doesn't mean we are asserting them to be PD". So I think we both agree that full PD isn't claimable here. Should I just change it to CC BY-SA 3.0? Mithridates (talk) 00:40, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
@Mithridates:I see no evidence for CC BY-SA 3.0 license (this has to be explicitely declared by copyright owners to be valid). 70 pma may be also irrelevant here, as in US, for pre-1978 published works copytight is based on publication date, and lasts 95 years unless it falls under some special cases. One of the cases may be, that the work was PD in 1996 in the initial publication country (Switzerland, I assume). So the question is, when did Swiss copyright to these publications expire? (50 years after publication? 50/70 pma?) Ankry (talk) 02:10, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
@Ankry: I see. The library itself (should mention this is the Austrian library - Cosmoglotta was based in Vienna, although Cosmoglotta B was published in Switzerland) seems have kind of been winging it on copyright since the project started over 10 years ago: http://anno.onb.ac.at/faq.htm They say they are not asserting that any of the newspapers there are free of copyright, and that they choose to scan works that are in particularly bad condition, so journals that are on the verge of outright disappearing anyway. I remember an Occidentalist back in 2007 or so before they were scanned who had managed to get his hands on a few issues, and that was big news at the time. What sort of copyright applies here when we are in a "some is definitely PD, some may not be, and in the meantime the copyright owners have more or less let their material rot" situation? Some sort of fair use claim for the sake of preservation? Mithridates (talk) 02:31, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
@Mithridates, Ankry: What's a pity, this licence-related issue! It's a very complex and critical one and I can't help you. Our itwikisource policy is, to discuss it into Commons, and to accept Commons's decision. Nevertheless, thanks for opportunity of importing here too the CropTool stuff, I hope it will turn out useful for other users/other works. Alex brollo (talk) 07:19, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
@Mithridates: I think, you can safely upload the 1922 volumes, and in few weeks the 1923 volumes. The rest should wait for subsequent years or till their Swiss copyright status is resolved. As I do not know German/French/Italian/Rumansch I cannot help you in the latter. Their Swiss copyright may be based on publication date (50 yers) and may be not extended by newer copyright law. But we need an explicit clause either from Swiss copyright law or from some legal opinion by Swiss lawyers for that. Also, as the Swiss copyright is unclear, I suggest to upload the volumes here, and not to Commons (Commons require files to be PD in US and in the country of origin; Wikisource accepts works that are PD in US regardless of their copyright status in the country of origin). Everything published more than 95 years ago (before 1.1.1923 now, and before 1.1.1924 in Jan 2019) is PD in US. Ankry (talk) 08:31, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
@Ankry: Just to clarify, this is mostly Austrian copyright law as that's where most of them were published. (Swiss is involved too, but mostly Austria) I just sent an email to the library to get an opinion on this and will let you know if I get a reply. If it's only 1922 and 1923 that would be a shame, as that's when the magazine was a real hodge-podge of languages and the Occidental is a bit dated, so much less value to the community there. I was planning to do those years right at the end. Mithridates (talk) 08:41, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

User talk page[edit]

I need someone to indefinitely semi-protect my user talk page on this project, please. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 23:40, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done Ankry (talk) 00:21, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Advanced Search[edit]

Advanced Search will become a default feature on your wiki on November 28. This new interface allows you to perform specialized searches on the search page, even if you don’t know any search syntax. Advanced Search originates from the German Community’s Technical Wishes project. It's already a default feature on German, Arabic, Farsi and Hungarian Wikipedia. Besides, more than 40.000 users across all wikis have tested the beta version. Feedback is welcome on the central feedback page.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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  • On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [68]

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  • The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [69]
  • Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [70]
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  • Advanced item The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [71]

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Congratulazioni to Napulitano[edit]

Main Page/Napulitano has been approved to graduate to its own domain. See phab:T210752. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:15, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

That is great news! :) --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 13:38, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
It's by far our largest collection here and very active. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:48, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Congrats from me as well! -jkb- (talk) 16:51, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Congratulations from me too! (I'm sorry that I saw this topic only recently and hadn't noticed it before, thus I hadn't respond quickly and I am commenting only just now). And I feel some pity that the Neapolitan project hadn't been approved much earlier, since, in my opinion, it for a long time had already deserved that approvement. As well I wish good luck to all the contributors to Napulitano! --Nigmont (talk) 01:28, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49[edit]

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  • Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [72]
  • Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [73]
  • You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [74]
  • When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [75][76]

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  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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Selection of the Wikisource Community User Group representative to the Wikimedia Summit[edit]

Dear all,

Sorry for writing in English and cross-posting this message.

The Wikisource Community User Group could send one representative to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 (formerly "Wikimedia Conference"). The Wikimedia Summit is a yearly conference of all organizations affiliated to the Wikimedia Movement (including our Wikisource Community User Group). It is a great place to talk about Wikisource needs to the chapters and other user groups that compose the Wikimedia movement. For context, there is a short report on what happened last year. The deadline is short and to avoid the confusing vote on the Wikisource-I mailing list of last year, we created a page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit.

The vote will be in two parts:

  1. until December 7th, people can add their name and a short explanation on who they are and why they want to go to the summit. Nomination of other people is allowed, the nominated person should accept their nomination.
  2. starting December 7th, and for a week, the community vote to designate the representative.

Please feel free to ask any question on the wikisource-I mailing list or on the talk page.

For the Wikisource Community User Group, Tpt (talk) 15:15, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements[edit]

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The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.

These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.

These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikisource Community User Group representative vote[edit]

Dear all,

Sorry for writing in English and cross-posting this message.

Following the previous message, the vote for the representative of the Wikisource Community User Group to the Wikimedia Summit 2019 is now open.

There is two great candidates on page on meta to decide who will be the representative of the user group to the Wikimedia Summit. You can support a candidate now. All active Wikisource users can vote. The vote is ending on December 14, 2018.

Feel free to ask any question on the wikisource-I mailing list or on the talk page.

Thank you!

For the Wikisource Community User Group, Tpt (talk) December 8, 2018 at 18:53 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50[edit]

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

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  • New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [77][78]
  • When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [79]

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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