User talk:Bamyers99/Archive 5

Listing for AWB automation

I use your TemplateParam to clean up bad parameters. Great. Now in cases, a template has many multiple bad parameters, one at a time (|capatity=). Infobox school has dozens of such parameters, each with only one bad instance. I want to edit each bad page to have it removed from the list, usually by WP:AWB (or JS script AWB).

My request is: is there an option to copy/download a full list of all single wrong article pages? (today, I have to open a TemplateParam subpage and c/p its name into AWB). - DePiep (talk) 23:06, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

@DePiep: I have add a new page that lists articles with invalid parameters. The link is titled "Invalid parameter page list" down near the bottom of the main template page. Down at the bottom of the invalid parameter page is wikitext that can be saved to a file or pasted into a wiki page for use with AWB. --Bamyers99 (talk) 03:08, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Bull's eye! Thanks. -DePiep (talk) 11:56, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@DePiep: I have updated it to only show parameters with < 50 unique values. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Very helpful indeed (Those 10+ are OK to copy from the page list & treat separately, is my Mod of Operation). - DePiep (talk) 20:03, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Category:American management scientists has been nominated for discussion

Category:American management scientists, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:56, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [1]

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Listing for WikiProject R&B and Soul Music?

Would you please add a cleanup listing for WikiProject R&B and Soul Music? Thank you! Ziggyfan23 (talk) 15:30, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

@Ziggyfan23: It has been added. I have added a link to it at Wikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music#Tools for this listing.--Bamyers99 (talk) 16:45, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Monthly error report updates?

I don't know if you are the right person to ask, but do you know when the TemplateData monthly error reports typically update? This one is dated 2018-01-01, so I would have expected an update on 2018-02-01, but it is now two days later than that. Thanks for any help you can offer. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:00, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: The error reports are generated from a database dump. The dump is as of the 1st of the month, but it takes a couple of days for the dump to finish. The error report can't be generated until the pages-articles.xml.bz2 dump has completed. --Bamyers99 (talk) 16:52, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-06

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [2]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [3]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [4]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [5]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [6]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [7]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [8]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [9]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [10][11]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

Recent changes

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [12][13][14]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [15]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [16]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [18]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Peter Adriaens tag

Hi, I've left a message on the talk page of a page you've previously editing, the Peter Adriaens article, which my COI prevents me from editing about having the tag removed from the page. I'd love your input. Thanks! Alex Thermopolis —Preceding undated comment added 15:35, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11

Newsletter • February 2018

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Weather Radio category snafu

The revision of mine you undid has a funny situation behind it:

• I created the NOAA Weather Radio stations category (in order to keep articles about NWR from being overwhelmed by the hundreds of articles about individual transmitters), and also initially added the NOAA Weather Radio category, because as you said, it seemed right to me.
• But while I was retagging all of those NWR station articles for the new category, that NOAA Weather Radio category tag appeared as a _sub_-category, which I had never seen before, and didn't really seem right, and made the list very confusing, so I deleted it.
• Now that you've restored the category, I can find no trace of the behavior I described above in either the current article or in the version history.

Any idea what caused the behavior I was seeing?

In any case, thanks for restoring the category in a way that somehow avoided the snafu I described above.PetesGuide (talk) (K6WEB) 00:11, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

@PetesGuide: No idea. --Bamyers99 (talk) 01:24, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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

Recent changes

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [19][20]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [21]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [22]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [23][24]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [25]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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Stubs in the Signpost

Thank you for leaving your comment after the humour signpost article. I hope you know that I am not mocking you, as one editor has suggested. I find the behavior of bots entertaining and like to share that with people. Actually, I admit to being jealous of editors who know how to create bots. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐  ✉ 23:05, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

@Barbara (WVS): I found the article humorous. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:07, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for adding those categories back, I just realized I had accidently removed them when I saw you had just added them back. :) —Charles Edward ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 00:38, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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

Recent changes

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [26]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [27][28]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [29]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [30][31][32]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [33]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [34][35]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Cleaning up Jews

For a couple of weeks now, CleanupWorklistBot has been treating Category:Ashkenazi Jews as a cleanup category. I can't trace where the error crept in, but it obviously isn't a cleanup category. Thanks for your work maintaining the bot. DrKay (talk) 15:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

@DrKay: Thanks for reporting this issue. The error has been fixed and the listings regenerated. --Bamyers99 (talk) 21:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis (decision, summary).
• Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful (decision).
• A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion).

BAG

• Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity.

BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things

• WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion).
• 6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.
• Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)
• The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
• You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

Upcoming

• HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

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Template Data reports

Could you please take a look at this.

{{Sfn}} [36]

Has [37] (invalid parameters used, when <50).

However, the parameter |nopp= is Not legal, and has 448 usages (so >50). Stil, many are listed in the invalids-list. Is this a because the number of pages (not transclusions) is below 50? In that case it makes some sense, but the page listing has some 80+(?). Or is this a counter misinterpretation (write the first 50 in the <50 list?). - DePiep (talk) 22:40, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

@DePiep: |nopp= only has 3 "unique" values: y, y., and yes. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:15, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

I see. - DePiep (talk) 19:05, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

• No big issue, but maybe in case you want perfectionism:

About {{Cquote}}. It lists page God-fearer for having parameter |first1= etc. However, these are parameters inside a <ref>{{cite book|...}}</ref> construct that renders OK. - DePiep (talk) 19:05, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

@DePiep: If you are referring to reference 10, I don't see a cite book in there. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

OK. Sorry, sloppy bad bug report I made. - DePiep (talk) 19:35, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

CWGC Wikidata edits

Hi there. I noticed the edits you made on Wikidata relating to the CWGC properties. I have been (slowly) working on the pages on Wikipedia that use links to the CWGC site. Would it be possible to co-ordinate the work on this? It will take me time to pull together links to previous discussions, but the comment I made here is a starting point. Carcharoth (talk) 12:14, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Bit puzzled. The list I have of 'people' pages using CWGC links (which I know is not all the Wikipedia articles that could have links, as some are missing the links) is 'only' 1626, and that includes some indeterminate number of relatives where the casualty link is not the person who the article is about (the Wikidata listing, if complete, is 1708, some of which are only in other language Wikipedias). One of the motivations for doing this was to work out which people in the CWGC database have Wikipedia articles. I thought that the way I was approaching this (starting from the use of CWGC external links) was one way to work that out (at least in part), but it seems that you are matching articles and CWGC ids in a different way? For Lancelot Holland you created the CWGC person id claim, but there is no indication in the en-Wikipedia article about the CWGC id. Did you maybe get the id from another language article, or are you matching direct with a different list? Carcharoth (talk) 12:57, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Am currently trying to match (in an Excel spreadsheet) the two lists (1626 and 1708) and it is throwing up some corrections that are needed. For example, Angus McLeod (footballer) shows up on the list of articles with an external link to their casualty details, but they don't appear on the list of articles that have the CWGC person ID. You added the CWGC person ID as the CWGC burial ID. I changed that here. I did five other corrections: [38], [39], [40], [41], [42]. I think I found all the corrections needed - is there a way to double-check? Carcharoth (talk) 15:09, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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

Recent changes

• You can now make longer edit summaries. [43]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [44]
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [45][46]
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [47]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Eddie Jones

Thanks for fixing that. Somehow I deleted most of the article, must have been daydreaming. --hippo43 (talk) 00:22, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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

Recent changes

• 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [48]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [49]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [50]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [51]

Problems

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [52]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [53]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [54][55]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [56][57][58]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

I don't know what I'm doing

I'm trying to add a feed for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement with Portal:Civil Rights Movement in the History section. I'm very lost. Thanks. Mitchumch (talk) 23:29, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

@Mitchumch: I have created the User:AlexNewArtBot/CivilRightsMovement rules with some civil rights keywords. Feel free to add more. Note that a space is replaced with \s and the rules are case-insensitive. Rule changes can be tested here. --Bamyers99 (talk) 23:49, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

TemplateData monthly report: template not in report

• Q1. I have a metatemplate that has documentation with TemplateData ({{Infobox element}}). That template is used in e.g. {{Infobox gold}}, the meta documentation page is transcluded into that template. The template is transcluded in article Gold (it has only 1 transclusion).

Now the TemplateData is visible in {{Infobox gold}} (I can not check if to-me infamiliar Visual Editor is working). But the template does not appear in the monthly report.

Could it be that the staged transclusion is causing this absence? Or the fact that it only has one tc? (This example is trivial, I don't need to check that infobox. But in another template set, {{HMS}}, I would like to transclude the TemplateData some 50 times. I hope the TD mer picks those up!).

@DePiep: {{Infobox gold}} doesn't take any parameters. No parameters = no report. The bot only scans template usage in the Article namespace, and not template usage in the Template namespace. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:46, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Wow. I just did not see that. thx - DePiep (talk) 21:54, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

• Q2. Another question. I plan to create a template that returns a link to the TD monthly report (~same as you build in {{TemplateData header}}). I suggest name {{TD monthly error report}} but shortcut {{TD mer}}. Would that be OK or do you have a better suggestion? It cold also be used for some project page: WP:TD mer. - DePiep (talk) 18:10, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

@DePiep: Is {{Template error report}} what you are looking for? --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:46, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Yes! Why did you keep this a secret? ;-) -DePiep (talk) 21:54, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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

Problems

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [59]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [60][61]
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [62] [63]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [64]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [65]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [66]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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Tech News: 2018-14

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

Recent changes

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [67][68][69]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [70]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [71]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [72][73][74]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [75] [76]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [77]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [78]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [79]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [80][81]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

Recent changes

• Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [82]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [83]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [84]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [85]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [86]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [87]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [88]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Assistance adding CleanupWorklist bot to Project

I knew this tool had to exist! Alas, I'm stuck on the project test tool phase. I'm trying to add the bot to the Private Equity WikiProject and it simply can't be found by the test tool. Do I just... add it to the Master project list myself? I don't want to encroach. Let me know as you can, this seems like a fantastic mechanism! Thank you :) Pegnawl (talk) 03:30, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

@Pegnawl: I have added Private Equity to the bot master list. --Bamyers99 (talk) 13:56, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! It still isn't being recognized by the tool - anything else I'm missing? Do I need it to be recognized by the tool before I add the template to the project page? Pegnawl (talk) 16:47, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

@Pegnawl: I had to specify WikiProject_Private_Equity_Articles for the category override because the Private Equity WikiProject does not use the usual quality/importance ranking categories. You can add the template to the project page. The cleanup listing is available. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:32, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed! You are awesome, so many thanks! Pegnawl (talk) 02:39, 15 April 2018 (UTC)