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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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New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

(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?

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)

 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)

 Support --Zyephyrus (talk) 07:59, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

 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

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [1]

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

• 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

• 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.
• 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

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

• 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

• 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.
• 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

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

• 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.

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. [6]

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Enable arbitrary Wikidata access for oldwikisource

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)

 Support Absolutely! Candalua (talk) 14:48, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

 Support --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 18:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

 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)

 Support, looks very good for me too. --Nigmont (talk) 21:02, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

 Support Ankry (talk) 15:41, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

 Support--Jusjih (talk) 00:14, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

New Phab task for mul.ws subdomain

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

(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

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. [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]
• 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]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [13]
• 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)

Setting languages of pages

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)

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

Tech News: 2018-36

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

• 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. [23]

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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

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

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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)

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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

• 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

• 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.
• 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

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism

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)

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

Recent changes

• The 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]
• 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]
• 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

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

IP vandal creating bad user and talk pages

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)