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Tech News: 2014-02[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
  • The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site. [1]

Problems

  • On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
  • On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes

  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [2]
  • Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [3]
  • Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [4] [5] [6]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [7] [8]
  • You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [9] [10]
  • You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [11] [12]
  • E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [13] [14]
  • Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [15] [16]

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08:34, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-03[edit]

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

You can read a recent blog post about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [17]

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [18]
  • You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [19] [20] [21]

Problems

  • For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [22] [23]
  • For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

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09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata is here![edit]

Hey everyone :)

As previously announced we have just enabled interwiki links via Wikidata for Wikisource. This means from now on you no longer have to maintain the links in the Wikitext but can maintain them together with the links for Wikipedia, Commons and Wikivoyage on Wikidata. You will still be able to keep them locally though if you want to. Local interwiki links will overwrite the ones from Wikidata. You do not yet have access to the other data on Wikidata like the date of birth of an author. That will come in a future deployment. I will let you know when I have a date for it.

If you have any questions d:Wikidata:Wikisource is a good first step. It also has a list of people familiar with both Wikisource and Wikidata who are able to help you out. That is also a good place for any issues or bugs you encounter.

I'm really excited to welcome you all to Wikidata! I hope it will become a great help for Wikisource.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:07, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]


No, Wikidata is not here. As usual, oldwikisource, son of a lesser god, has been shamefully forgotten. Bug60069 has been opened about it. Candalua (talk) 09:41, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I think part of the problem is that we don't have an ISO code as a prefix. We really ought to be renamed mul.wikisource.org (mul being the ISO code for "multilingual"). —Angr 16:13, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The problems is not about the name of the project. The problem is more that there is no URL system in place to identify the languages used for sources.
Would you accept a prefix for every source with the relevant ISO code ? Thanks, GerardM (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The name per se isn't the problem, but the fact that we don't have a prefix before "wikisource.org" the URL probably does contribute to our being forgotten about. I certainly also wouldn't object to having the codes for the languages we host here redirecting here, so that ga.wikisource.org/wiki/Séadna would lead straight to Séadna and nrn.wikisource.org/wiki/Fy_vor would lead straight to Fy vor. However, it would probably be necessary to allow the language codes to redirect to all pages here, even if they're not in the language specified (e.g. ga.wikisource.org/wiki/Fy_vor would still work), and this trick wouldn't work for the languages we host here that also have their own subdomains, e.g. the members of Category:Polski (which can't be hosted at pl-wikisource because they're still in copyright in Poland), so it will still be good to have mul.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyklopedja_Kościelna/Azja to take us to Encyklopedja Kościelna/Azja. —Angr 15:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?[edit]

I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-04[edit]

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

Recent software changes

VisualEditor news

  • In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
  • You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [34]
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [35]
  • When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [36]
  • When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [37] [38]
  • The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [39]
  • Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [40]

Problems

  • There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [41]
  • There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [42]
  • On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [43]

Future software changes

Orange bar with new messages
  • If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [44] [45]
  • You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [46]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [47]
  • You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [48] [49]

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10:21, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-05[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [50]
  • The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [51]
  • The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [52]
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems

Future software changes

  • You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [54]

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09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Access to data in Wikidata[edit]

Hey :)

(Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this for me where necessary.)

Not long ago we enabled language links via Wikidata for Wikisource. This seems to have gone rather smoothly. Thanks to everyone who helped! But as you know this was only the start. What is actually more interesting is access to the data in Wikidata like the date of birth of an author or the year a book was published. We have planned this for February 25th (unless any issues arise). You will then be able to use the data in your articles. I hope this will open up a lot of new opportunities for you.

If you have any questions d:Wikidata:Wikisource is a good place to find help.

Cheers Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:51, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was just made aware that global message delivery also posted this here while you're still waiting for language links. Sorry for that. As soon as 2 of my developers are back I will bug them to find out how complicated it is to also support you here and how long it'll probably take. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:48, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Language categories on Commons[edit]

PLease see Wikisource:Language categories on Commons Lugusto (talk) 19:20, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-06[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
  • Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [55] [56]
  • The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [57] [58]
  • You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [59]
  • There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [60]
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [61]
  • All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [62]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [63]

Future software changes

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08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Direct copy of a book on tl.wikibooks[edit]

Hi,

Doing routine maintenance on a smaller project revealed this book which seems to be in the public domain and not written by the user there. See w:El Filibusterismo. I'm not sure how to import pages like that to Wikisource, and am honestly not sure if it is in the public domain or not, but if you think that it is and import it then I can remove it from tl.wb afterwards.

Thanks, Ajraddatz (talk) 00:27, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We're also not sure if it is just the text for the book, or also about interpreting the book. If you reply, please let us know at m:User talk:Ajraddatz or my talk page on Meta. PiRSquared17 (talk) 00:29, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-07[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
  • The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [74] [75] [76] [77] [78]
  • You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [79]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [80] [81]
  • The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [82] [83] [84]

Problems

  • On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [85]
  • On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

Future software changes

  • Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [86] [87]
  • You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [88]
  • You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [89] [90]
  • The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [91]
  • Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [92] [93]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [94]
  • You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [95]
  • You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [96] [97]
  • If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [98]
  • Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [99]
  • bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [100]
  • The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [101]

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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-08[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
  • You can now use the list of active users again. [102] [103]
  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [104]
  • You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [105]
  • You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [106]

Problems

  • On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [107]
  • On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [108]
  • On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
  • There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
  • On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.

VisualEditor news

  • The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [109]
  • You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [110]
  • Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [111]
  • You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [112] [113] [114]
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08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014[edit]

On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

Раздел на башкирском языке[edit]

Здравствуйте, уважаемые. Как вывести раздел на башкирском языке из Инкубатора? Какую процедуру и как надо выполнить? --Рөстәм Нурыев (talk) 15:59, 20 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Amendment to the Terms of Use[edit]

Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 22:00, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Renewed application on Commons[edit]

Hi Wikisorcerers,

If you wish to support my admin's request on Commons (to go on protecting djvu and pdf files), you can find it here. Thanks if you can help. --Zyephyrus (talk) 09:17, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-09[edit]

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

Recent software changes

VisualEditor news

  • You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [117] [118] [119]
  • You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [120] [121]
  • You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [122] [123]

Future software changes

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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

You can now access the data on Wikidata[edit]

Hey folks,

We have just enabled data access to Wikidata for Wikisource (except old-wikisource). This means you can now access data like the date of birth of an author or the ISBN of a book. You can do this in two ways. The first one is a parser function. You can use it like {{#property:capital}} or {{#property:P36}}. The second one is Lua. The documentation for that is at mw:Extension:WikibaseClient/Lua

If you have any questions you will find help at d:Wikidata:Wikisource and its talk page.

I hope you'll use this to do some kick-ass things on Wikisource ;-)


Cheers Lydia Pintscher 19:54, 25 February 2014 (UTC)


Lydia Pintscher, here on oldwikisource we are still waiting for Wikidata Phase 1. Any news about it? Are there any plans to support oldwikisource some day or the other? What is exactly the problem here? Candalua (talk) 22:24, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Has anyone heard any news yet ? Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 07:28, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments[edit]

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make Wikisource better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 19:44, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-10[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
  • When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [130]
  • You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [131] [132]
  • You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [133]
  • The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [134]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [135] [136] [137]
  • If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [138]
  • Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [139]
  • VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [140] [141] [142]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [150]

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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-11[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
  • You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [151] [152]

VisualEditor news

  • It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [153] [154]
  • It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [155]
  • VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [156]
  • We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [157]
  • You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [158] [159] [160]

Future software changes

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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment[edit]

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 21:56, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wymysorys (wym) language[edit]

In plwikisource we have few texts (books) that are in Wymysorys (Vilamovian; ISO 639-3 code: wym) language (partially bilingual: Wymysorys-Polish) which in my opinion should belong to multilingual wikisource. What do I need to do to add support for this new language to multilingual wikisource? Ankry (talk) 22:33, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You would probably need a Main Page and a language category for wym (plus list the main page on {{languages}}). That way there will be somewhere to put the texts. After that, ask an admin to import the texts. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 23:43, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Ankry (talk) 22:24, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bot flag request for AkBot[edit]

I request a bot flag for my bot

  • Operator: Ankry
  • Purpose: Make massive fixes, mainly template & category fixes after import.
  • Script used: Python, pywikipedia.
  • Already has the bot flag on: plwikisource, plwiki and commons.

Ankry (talk) 22:25, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ankry, could you give more precisions about (for instance):
1. What will be these fixes,
2. Scope (namespace, limitations, and which languages),
3. Automated or semi-automated
4. Other indications if necessary
Thanks and regards, --Zyephyrus (talk) 18:10, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ad. 1: That are mainly template translations after migration, namespace renaming, possibly category move, file renaming without leaving a redirect
Ad. 2: Generally all namespaces, but mainly main and Page; at the moment wym, maybe later also pl language
Ad. 3: Only semi-automated (under my supervision)
Ad. 4: I intend to use the bot as a helper, to simplify changes that may by done (semi-)autoamtically faster and with avoidance of typos and omissions.
Example changes are here. If you wish I can do the changes further without the bot flag. However, possibility to avoid captcha would be nice. Regards, Ankry (talk) 19:51, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
 Support --Zyephyrus (talk) 21:26, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
As it takes so long time to process my request, I already did the work manually. So the bot rights are no longer needed.
Please, treat this request as withdrawn. Ankry (talk) 16:46, 13 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisource_vision_development/Internet_Archive[edit]

Just to let you know that I opened a "stub" page about Internet Archive - Wikisource relationships, to share a recent, ongoing experience of it.wikisource. Alex brollo (talk) 14:11, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-12[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
  • You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [166]
  • You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [167] [168]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [169]

VisualEditor news

  • Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [170] [171]
  • Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [172]
  • Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [173]

Future software changes

Problems

  • VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue. [177]

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07:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Interlanguage links[edit]

Hi all. I would like for la:Carmina Burana on the Latin wikisource to link to Swaz hie gat umbe. Does anyone know what prefix I have to use? Thanks. Abjiklam (talk) 20:00, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

oldwikisource:Swaz hie gat umbe, -jkb- (talk) 00:18, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Abjiklam (talk) 03:46, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-13[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [178] [179]
  • Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [180]
  • You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [181]
  • You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [182]

Future software changes

  • Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
  • You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
  • You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [183] [184]

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18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the year 2013[edit]




The glass bulb of the lightbulb has been opened, causing the inert gas inside to escape. When turned on, the tungsten filament burns with a flame, due to oxygen entering the light bulb. The light bulb was screwed into a socket, which was replaced with the lamp base using image processing.
The glass bulb of the lightbulb has been opened, causing the inert gas inside to escape. When turned on, the tungsten filament burns with a flame, due to oxygen entering the light bulb. The light bulb was screwed into a socket, which was replaced with the lamp base using image processing.




Other results here: all of them are wonderful! --Zyephyrus (talk) 01:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-14[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
  • Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
  • CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [185] [186]

VisualEditor news

  • Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [187] [188]
  • The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [189]
  • New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [190]
  • VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [191]

Future software changes

  • You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [192]
  • CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
  • You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [193]
  • Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [194]

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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon[edit]

This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

  • April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
  • April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team

Tech News: 2014-15[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
  • Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [195]

Future software changes

  • A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [196] [197]
  • All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8. [198]
  • The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [199] [200]
  • You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [201]
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
  • You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language. [202]

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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-16[edit]

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

We are looking for contributors to help write new issues every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [203] [204] [205]
  • Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [206] [207]

VisualEditor news

  • You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click. [208]
  • The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
  • The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [209] [210]

Future software changes

  • The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [211] [212]
  • Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [213]
  • You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [214] [215] [216] [217]
  • Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [218]
  • You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [219] [220]
  • The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [221] [222]
  • An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [223]

Problems

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07:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Temporary bot+sysop flag request[edit]

be.wikisource and gu.wikisource have been created back in 2012, but this wiki still hosts theirs incubator pages: Category:Беларуская (1,5k pages) and Category:Gujarati (1k pages). In order to help cleaning things out, I'm asking for temporary bot+sysop flags on User:Delete.Bot, an alternate account that I've managed to do mass deletions and restorations on pt.wikisource in the past years. Any objections? Lugusto (talk) 23:48, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-17[edit]

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

Tech News updates

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [226] [227]
  • Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [228] [229] [230] [231]
  • The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [232]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [233]

VisualEditor news

  • If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [234] [235]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [236] [237]
  • You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [238] [239] [240]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [241]
  • Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [242] [243]
  • The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [244] [245] [246] [247]
  • You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [248] [249]
  • You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [250] [251]
  • It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [252]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [253]

Problems

  • For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
  • There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [254]

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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-18[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
  • You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [255]

VisualEditor news

  • You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [256]
  • VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [257]
  • VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [258]
  • The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [259]
  • CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [260] [261]
  • You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [262]

Problems

  • For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [263] [264]
  • On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [265] [266]

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07:22, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-19[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
  • The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [267]
  • It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [268]

VisualEditor news

  • External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [269]
  • The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [270]
  • You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [271]
  • There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [272][273]
  • Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [274] [275]
  • You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [276] [277]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [278]
  • You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
  • If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [279] [280]

Problems

  • For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-20[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [281]
  • Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [282]

Future software changes

  • It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [283] [284]
  • You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [285] [286] [287] [288]
  • You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [289] [290]
  • The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [291]
  • The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [292] [293] [294]
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [295]
  • Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [296]

Problems

  • There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [297] [298]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikisource meetup at Wikimania 2014[edit]

Wikimania 2014 will be held in London this August and it will be a great opportunity to discuss how to use the recently created Wikisource Community User Group to coordinate and to better promote Wikisource. We would like to invite the participants of each Wikisource language community to showcase the projects has been working in the past year and, of course, learn from each other experiences. See you there? Sign up in the meeting page.
—The preceding MassMessage was sent by Micru on behalf of the Wikisource Community User Group.--06:59, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-21[edit]

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

Tech News updates

  • Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
  • The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [299] [300] [301]
  • MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [302] [303]
  • VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [304] [305]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [306] [307]
  • VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [308] [309]
  • VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [310] [311]
  • VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [312]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [313] [314]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [317]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer[edit]


Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2014-22[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [318] [319] [320] [321]
  • A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [322] [323]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [324] [325]
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [326]
  • VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [327]

Future software changes

  • Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [328]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [329] [330]
  • Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [331] [332] [333]
  • You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [334] [335]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-23[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [336]

VisualEditor news

  • Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [337]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [338] [339]
  • VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [340]
  • There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [341]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [348]

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08:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-24[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [349] [350]

VisualEditor news

  • You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [351] [352]
  • The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [353] [354] [355]
  • You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [356] [357]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [358]
  • You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [359]
  • On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [360] [361]
  • You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [362] [363]
  • Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [364] [365] [366]
  • You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [367] [368]
  • Hovercards will no longer flicker. [369]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-25[edit]

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

Reminder

  • You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [370]
  • When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [371] [372]
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [373] [374] [375] [376]
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [377] [378] [379]

Future software changes

  • Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [380]
  • You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [381]
  • You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [382] [383]
  • It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [384] [385]
  • Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [386]
  • The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [387]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
  • You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [388]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Media Viewer is now live on this wiki[edit]


Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2014-26[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [389] [390]
  • When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [391] [392]
  • You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [393] [394]
  • You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [395] [396]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [397] [398]
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [399]
  • CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [400]
  • You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [401] [402]
  • An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [403]

Problems

  • On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
  • Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [404]

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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-27[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [405] [406]
  • A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [407] [408]
  • VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [409] [410] [411] [412]
  • Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [413] [414]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [415] [416]
  • Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [417]
  • All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [418] [419]
  • Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [420]
  • You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [421] [422]
  • You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [423]

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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-28[edit]

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

Tech News updates

  • We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [424]
  • It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [425] [426]
  • You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [427] [428]

VisualEditor news

  • Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [429] [430]
  • You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [431] [432] [433]
  • When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [434] [435] [436]
  • The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [437]
  • Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [438] [439] [440]

Future software changes

  • Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
  • A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [441]
  • If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [442] [443]
  • Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [444] [445]
  • Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [446] [447]

Problems

  • Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [448] [449]
  • For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [450] [451]

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07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Licenses[edit]

It's still empty, though we just won't close our Special:Upload. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 00:53, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-29[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
  • It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [452] [453]
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
  • You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

  • The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [454] [455]
  • The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [456] [457] [458]
  • References will now be shown in the default font size again. [459]

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [460]
  • The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [461] [462]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [463]
  • Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [464] [465]
  • Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [466] [467]
  • Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [468] [469]
  • Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [470]

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07:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-30[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [471] [472] [473]
  • The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [474]
  • Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [475] [476]
  • A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [477]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [478]
  • All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [479]
  • You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [480]
  • Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [481] [482] [483] [484] [485] [486]

Future software changes

Problems

  • Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [490]

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07:41, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Guidance transcribing my first book[edit]

Links I'm transcribing en:The Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist by en:Author:Ammon Hennacy now and I've inserted links into the text essentially to serve as explanatory notes without interfering with the flow of text itself. I realize that proper annotations belong on Wikibooks but is it generally considered a good idea to make internal links in documents here? E.g. when someone who is an author here is mentioned, I'll add an Author: link; the same goes for a work that is hosted here. But if there is an event, I'll link to a Wikipedia article or a possibly confusing term, I'll link to Wiktionary. Thoughts? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:37, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here is en.Wikisource answer:
User annotated versions of works on Wikisource must:
  • Be clearly marked as annotated by Wikisource.
  • Have an unannotated "clean text" elsewhere on Wikisource.
  • Maintain neutrality and objectivity in all annotations.
More elaborately annotated works may be created on Wikisource's sister project Wikibooks.
Works that have been published elsewhere with annotations may be deannotated on English Wikisource, subject to certain restrictions.
Does this suit you?
Regards, --Zyephyrus (talk) 22:03, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Zyephyrus: I saw that documentation already but I thought that it referred to new text put into the document, such as footnotes. I'm not changing the text itself, just adding links inside of it. Does that make sense? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:06, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps something might be done with this? Is it possible? Would it solve the problem? --Zyephyrus (talk) 08:25, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Zyephyrus: I can't understand what that does. Can you show me an example? Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:58, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You can find screenshots here. --Zyephyrus (talk) 17:44, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Zyephyrus: That looks good but maybe not enough--e.g. I'd like to include maps or maybe audio/video recordings. I've just decided to start b:Annotations to The Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist. Thanks, though! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:40, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Transfer to commons[edit]

Good morning. As you may have seen I have parked here some books I wanted to save from my library that may require some investigation to determine if they are in the public domain in Italy (source country). Those books are certainly in the public domain in the US for various reasons. Those are (e.g.):

  • Published in the US <1923 with compliance (in the Copyright Entries register).
  • Published before 1909 abroad
  • (also) I have the question on what should I do for books that are in the public domain in Italy (when I am not sure if they are the US)

How do I proceed with the transfer? I am not sure if in commons they will be accepted. At the moment I upload those here and I add some wording to every book I upload. Thanks a lot. --C.R. (talk) 06:15, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@C.R.: Books which are not public domain (or CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, or GNUFDL) in the United States cannot be uploaded to Commons. They may be public domain in Canada, in which case, you can upload them to wikilivres:Main Page. This site acts as a combination of Commons and Wikisource for public domain in Canada media. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:19, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Italian copyright expiration See w:en:List of countries' copyright lengths. I don't know if the EU has some law which supersedes this. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot @Koavf: - Justin. I need to filter all the material and leave here only the ones that are in PD in Italy as well as in the US. I'll be happy to proceed with all the works that may be wrongly placed here... now I am aware of this. Sorry for the mistake. Do you know how can I transfer complex sets of work (e.g. -here the author died in 1928- 1, 2, etc... ) to wikilivres?. By the other hand, any ideas on the works that are PD in the US and still need to be clarified in Italy?... where can I park those books so anybody can use them in the US? (I imagine if some of them were registered in the US they were originally meant to be used there as well). Thanks!--C.R. (talk) 11:22, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@C.R.: Happy to help! Wikilivres uses similar technology to Wikisource, so uploading is more-or-less the same. I'm not sure of any works that would be PD in the States but not Italy, nor am I sure how to determine whether they are PD in Italy. If they were on Wikilivres, then they would definitely be accessible to Americans. I recommend adding links to Wikilivres from Wikimedia projects as well, to give readers greater access to them. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:45, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-31[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
  • You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [491] [492]
  • The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [493]
  • If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [494] [495]
  • You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [496] [497]

Future software changes

  • You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [498] [499]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [500]
  • It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [501] [502]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Updates to Wikidata documentation for Wikisource[edit]

Hi all,
I am a current Wikimedia OPW intern working specifically on Wikidata outreach and just wanted to let you know that the Wikidata documentation for Wikisource has now been updated and hopefully will prove useful for the Wikisource community and encourage further collaboration. If interested, please have a look at Wikidata:Wikisource. You can also leave any feedback on the talk page.
Cheers, -Thepwnco (talk) 19:51, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-32[edit]

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

Tech News updates

  • Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [503]
  • You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [504] [505] [506]
  • You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [507]
  • New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [508] [509]

VisualEditor news

Future software changes

  • You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [521] [522]
  • All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [523]
  • Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [524]

Problems

  • Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [525]
  • Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [526]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-33[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [527]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [528]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [529]

Future software changes

  • Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [530] [531] [532]
  • If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [533] [534]
  • You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [535] [536]
  • An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [537]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-34[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
  • There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [538] [539] [540]
  • You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [541] [542]
  • You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [543]
  • You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [544]
  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [545]

Problems

  • There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [546] [547]

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07:16, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

wikidata helps keeping up-dated... :)[edit]

Hello,

while working on Paul Verlaine on Wikidata, I found : Category:Поль Вэрлен and be:Катэгорыя:Поль_Вэрлен, which should be merged, as it seems... or is there something I don't get ?

If you want to contact me, thanks to do it on my fr page, as I don't get here very often. :) --Hsarrazin (talk) 06:53, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions[edit]

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

-- JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Process ideas for software development[edit]


Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2014-35[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.

VisualEditor news

  • There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [548]
  • You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [549]
  • If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [550] [551] [552]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
  • After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [553]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-36[edit]

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

Recent software changes

  • You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [554] [555]
  • You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [556] [557]
  • A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [558] [559]
  • If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [560]

VisualEditor news

  • You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [561]
  • We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [562] [563] [564]
  • VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [565]
  • We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [566]
  • You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [567]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
  • There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [568]
  • You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [569]
  • You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
  • You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [570]

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07:48, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project[edit]

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

Tech News: 2014-37[edit]

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VisualEditor news

  • From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [571] [572] [573]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
  • You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [574]
  • You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [575]

Problems

  • There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Change in renaming process[edit]

Single-user login (SUL) finalisation's goal is so that every Wikimedia editor has a single, recognized global account with one username across all projects. As you may know, after a long delay, it's now underway as an effort between bureaucrats, stewards, and Wikimedia Foundation engineers. This will also allow for development of cross-wiki tools like global notifications and watchlists. There is no set date for the completion of single-user login finalization at this time.

The process involves changing all rename processes into one global renaming process. The ability for local bureaucrats to rename users on this wiki will be turned off on Monday, 15 September 2014, as one of the first steps. Global renamers are in the process of being created to make sure projects and languages are represented by the time this occurs. I sent a note to every bureaucrat about this process three weeks ago with an invitation to participate and many have begun requesting to be a part of the group. Together with the stewards, the global renamers will be empowered to help editors work through the often difficult process of getting a global name.

In parting, visit Special:MergeAccount to unify your account if you have never done so. If your local pages about renaming still need to be updated, please do so and consider pointing people to m:SRUC for future rename requests, especially if this project does not have bureaucrats that hold global renamer permissions. If you have any questions, you can read more on the help page on Meta. You can also follow the technical progress on mediawiki.org. Contact me on Meta any time with questions as well. Thank you for your time.

-- User:Keegan (WMF) (talk) 16:23, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OCR not available on multilingual Wikisource?[edit]

I do not see the OCR button on any transcription page even though the "Disable OCR button in Page: namespace" option is unchecked under my preferences. I tried using different browsers, but to no avail. Do I have to do something to enable the OCR feature, or is it not available on this wiki? --Ixfd64 (talk) 19:23, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Ixfd64: I also do not see it. I checked Special:Random and came upon this page which lacks OCR. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:42, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-38[edit]

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Recent software changes

  • You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [576] [577]
  • There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [578] [579] [580]
  • New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [581]

Problems

  • There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [582]

VisualEditor news

  • If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [583]
  • The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [584] [585]
  • You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [586]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
  • These changes are coming with the new version:
    • If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [587] [588] [589]

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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Uploads and UploadWizard[edit]

Hello! It was noted that on this wiki there is little community activity around uploads: less than 50 deletions actions in namespace File last year.

I guess this wiki doesn't have the interest or energies to maintain complex templates and metadata, especially for EDP files. I propose to

so that no new work is needed on this wiki and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons.

All this will be done around 2014-09-30.

  1. If you disagree with the proposal, just remove this wiki from the list.
  2. To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.
  3. In all cases, existing files will not be affected, but everyone is welcome to join m:File metadata cleanup drive. The goal is to give better credit to the authors who provided us their works.

Nemo 19:25, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Support. Tpt (talk) 09:47, 19 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
 Oppose I'm afraid some files are in the public domain ONLY in the United States, i.e. {{PD-US-1923-abroad}}. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:16, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And are those files helped by staying here? --Nemo 08:45, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. These files are unacceptable at Wikimedia Commons if still copyright-restricted in their source countries.--Jusjih (talk) 05:06, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Any other comments? Sorry for trolling (maybe): @Doug, Eclecticology, Ooswesthoesbes, Zyephyrus, វ័ណថារិទ្ធ: --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 02:32, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
slightly oppose: if there are some licence problems on commons, so the files should stay here; more over, filesd for the wikisources are something else like photos for wikipedias - they are documents that (mostly) should not be changed even if the uality is not high. On commons there is a huge amount of tough users hurriing around and changing everything they think to be changed, also cropped versions etc. On commons you would need an army of users who controll all the documents for wikisource the whole time. Here it is more or less secure (sure: supposed, they are well categorized, the licence is OK etc.). -jkb- (talk) 11:40, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
So I've removed that. m:Special:Diff/10540376 --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 00:42, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. --Good afternoon (talk) 12:36, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Additionally, I've modified that template. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 05:07, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-39[edit]

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Recent software changes

Problems

  • There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
  • Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
  • There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [591] [592]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
  • If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[593] [594]
  • In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [595] [596]
  • The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [597]
  • The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [598]
  • There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [599] [600]
  • In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [601]

Future site changes

  • You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [602]

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09:04, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Applying lang attributes[edit]

Hi,

This wiki has content in multiple languages. Technically, however, this is a wiki with English content, because MediaWiki doesn't have a proper structure way to mark the language of a page.

Because of the technical limitation, all pages have lang="en" on the main content element. This causes bugs such as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70929 , and probably others.

As a hack, the correct language attribute could be set in a user script by checking whether the page belongs to a language-based category. I tried doing something like this in User:Amire80/common.js. It's far from robust, and because I am not a frequent user of the multilingual Wikisource, I may be missing something important, but it's a first little step.

If a reasonably robust way to do it is found, it should be probably be added to the site's common.js.

Thanks for any help with this. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:12, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Amir for posting this. I would like to draw attention of sysop Angr (talk • contribs) once again to look into this matter. A lot of languages are getting affected because of this problem. Please help us with sorting this out. Thanks. --Psubhashish (talk) 06:00, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Why me? I don't know anything about this. —Angr 20:52, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Announcement — mul: interwiki now exists[edit]

It quietly happened in the mediawiki release last week git #f0d86f92 - Add additional interwiki links as requested in various bugs (bug 16962, bug 21915) that the mul: interwiki has appeared for the wikisources to be able to point to wikisource.org. So the other wikis can now do mul:Scriptorium/Archives/2014 and it appears in interwiki links as "More languages". We will have a number of places, especially in the project namespace where we need to do some additions.

I am in the process of spreading this marvellous news to the broader community. I would like to thank @This, that and the other, Tim Starling: for their coding and review to get this through and to @Rdicerb (WMF): for listening to thoughts about Wikisources' place in the WMF-sphere. Now to see how we can get mul: working for Wikidata. billinghurst sDrewth 03:41, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In case anyone is wondering on en.ws, using an interwiki link such as "[[mul:XXX]]" creates the text "More languages" in the sidebar. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:46, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Big big thanks to all the makers of this! --Zyephyrus (talk) 06:59, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This is indeed good news. It took years, but now at least something is being done to improve this long-forgotten place and make it fully functional. Anyway, it seems that from Wikidata it's not yet possible to add a link to "mul"... so in the end we are still "one step behind", as always :D Candalua (talk) 12:09, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-40[edit]

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Recent software changes

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
  • Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [606] [607]
  • You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [608]
  • If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [609] [610]
  • The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [611]

Future changes

  • You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
  • JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [612]

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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-41[edit]

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Recent changes

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
  • If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [620] [621]
  • We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [622]
  • On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [623] [624]
  • You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [625]
  • 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [626]

Future changes

  • You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [627]
  • More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [628] [629]

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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

How to make Chinese Wikipedia show 'Display options'?[edit]

There is Display options in the en.ws' left-sidebar's menu which can turn on links to the scan page. There used to be links to the scan page in zh.ws, but it is gone now and there isn't Display options in left-sidebar's menu. How to make Chinese Wikipedia show 'Display options'? Thank you.--維基小霸王 (talk) 02:41, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid you have to ask on the en:wikisource, it will be a local script. Cheers, -jkb- (talk) 05:46, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I asked here because Scriptorium on enws states "For discussion related to the entire project (not just the English chapter), please discuss at the multilingual Wikisource." It's done now.--維基小霸王 (talk) 10:13, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Parsoid backend for PDF coming soon[edit]

mw:Parsoid is the new thing to make HTML out of our pages' wikitext and it's used by the new backend for Special:Book. At the moment it's missing on this wiki, so any PDF export fails. Will probably be fixed tomorrow or so. Report is bugzilla:71824. --Nemo 06:13, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-42[edit]

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Recent software changes

Problems

  • 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [632]
  • Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [633]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
  • 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [634]

Meetings

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08:53, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-43[edit]

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.

Recent changes

  • You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
  • You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [638] [639]

File information cleanup

Problems

  • Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [641]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
  • 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [642]
  • If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [643] [644]

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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups[edit]

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:04, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-44[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.

Problems

  • There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [645]
  • There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [646]
  • There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [647]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [648]
  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [649] [650] [651]
  • VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [652]
  • VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [653]
  • The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [654]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-45[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 software changes

Problems

  • There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [658]
  • Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [659] [660] [661]
  • HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
  • Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [662] [663]
  • VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [664]
  • The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [665] [666] [667] [668] [669]
  • After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [670] [671] [672]

Future changes

  • The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [673]

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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-46[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 software changes

  • You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [674] [675]
  • The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [676]

File information cleanup

Problems

  • Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [677]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [678] [679]
  • The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [680]
  • The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [681]

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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Global AbuseFilter[edit]

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:34, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-47[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.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
  • The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [682]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

  • The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
  • You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
  • You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
  • Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
  • You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [683]

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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Foxavier and Plinka[edit]

I believe Foxavier and Plinka is a self written story, without wide audience, does this fall in scope? Mvg, Basvb (talk) 00:43, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here I can read All rights reserved 2013, so at the end, I delete it now. Thanks -jkb- (talk) 13:54, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-48[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 move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [684]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [685]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
  • You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [686]
  • VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [687]
  • You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [688]
  • VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [689] [690]

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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Search engine visibility of wikisource content question[edit]

Hi, I am wondering why wikisource content is not at the top of search results. I have this experience from my language search results but I doubt there will be much difference in different language search results. Why does major search engine after input of exact name of a book, that is fully published on wikisource gives instead of a link to the books text here on wikisource (which I would expect since I didnt state "where to buy exact name of the book or something else) some other results such as bookshops to buy it and articles on the author etc. I know that exact algorhytms for ranking pages are known only to employees of the search engine companies, but I wonder if there is any information publicly known about this "problem". Thanks. --Wesalius (talk) 15:02, 3 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-50[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 software changes

  • All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [691]
  • You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [692]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [693]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [694]
  • You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [695]
  • It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [696] [697]
  • The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [698] [699] [700]
  • (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [701] [702]

Future changes

  • Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [703]

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17:10, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Some copy violations[edit]

See please Wikisource:Possible copyright violations#Works of Firuza Abdullina and Wikisource:Possible copyright violations#Works by User:CoderSIBot and some IPs for a discussion what to do. -jkb- (talk) 16:36, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2014-51[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 software changes

  • You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [704]
  • You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [705]
  • You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [706]
  • You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [707]
  • VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [708]
  • The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [709]

Future changes

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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-52[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 software changes

  • The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [714]

Software changes this week

  • There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [715]

Future changes

  • The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [716]
  • A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [717]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-01[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.

Software changes

  • There are no technical changes this week.

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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

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