User talk:DatGuy/Archives/2018/April

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. [1][2][3]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [4]

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. [5]
• 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. [6][7][8]
• 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. [9] [10]
• 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. [11]
• 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. [12]
• 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. [13]

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. [14][15]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

AIV reports

Hi, DatGuy, I noticed lately that sometimes the AIV filter report does not link properly. This is the last one (in wikicode)
* {{Vandal|Owain1980}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/859|filter 859]] (LTA #859) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|details=20844741}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 17:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Clicking "Details" will just display the full error log, One has to paste in the user name into the box (Owain1980) for the correct display. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

I'll check it out soon (if I even still have the ssh key). Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 23:17, 6 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. [16]
• 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. [17]
• 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. [18]
• 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). [19]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [20]
• 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. [21]

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. [22]

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)

AIV reports

Hi, DatGuy, I noticed lately that sometimes the AIV filter report does not link properly. This is the last one (in wikicode)
* {{Vandal|Owain1980}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/859|filter 859]] (LTA #859) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|details=20844741}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 17:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Clicking "Details" will just display the full error log, One has to paste in the user name into the box (Owain1980) for the correct display. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

I'll check it out soon (if I even still have the ssh key). Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 23:17, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

@Ronhjones: Do you have any idea what its supposed to be for it to work? Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 12:33, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

As it happens there is a good report at present

* {{Vandal|Ropside}} - Tripped 5 abuse filters in the last 5 minutes: ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|wpSearchUser=Ropside}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 12:35, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Shows the filters tripped by user:ropside, compared to above

* {{Vandal|Owain1980}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/859|filter 859]] (LTA #859) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|details=20844741}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 17:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC) details])

Which should show the filters for user:Owain1980, but just gives the full log. If I changed that entry to

* {{Vandal|Owain1980}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/859|filter 859]] (LTA #859) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|wpSearchUser=Owain1980}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 17:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC) details])

Then it works OK. So "details=20844741" does not work and "wpSearchUser=Owain1980" does. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 13:35, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

DatBot 6

Looks like it stalled yesterday. Do note that we are changing the files in Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests. It will now include SVG files, as I'm waiting on final approval of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RonBot 4. You might need to add a bit to skip SVG files, like it does with GIF files Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:56, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Forget last bit - it's easy to make a new category for the svg - done that, they should move out soon. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:28, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [23]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [24][25]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (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 17 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 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [26]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [27]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

AIV reports

Hi, DatGuy, I noticed lately that sometimes the AIV filter report does not link properly. This is the last one (in wikicode)
* {{Vandal|Owain1980}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/859|filter 859]] (LTA #859) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|details=20844741}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 17:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Clicking "Details" will just display the full error log, One has to paste in the user name into the box (Owain1980) for the correct display. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 17:52, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

I'll check it out soon (if I even still have the ssh key). Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 23:17, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

@Ronhjones: Do you have any idea what its supposed to be for it to work? Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 12:33, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

As it happens there is a good report at present

* {{Vandal|Ropside}} - Tripped 5 abuse filters in the last 5 minutes: ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|wpSearchUser=Ropside}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 12:35, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Shows the filters tripped by user:ropside, compared to above

* {{Vandal|Owain1980}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/859|filter 859]] (LTA #859) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|details=20844741}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 17:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC) details])

Which should show the filters for user:Owain1980, but just gives the full log. If I changed that entry to

* {{Vandal|Owain1980}} - Tripped [[Special:AbuseFilter/859|filter 859]] (LTA #859) ([{{fullurl:Special:AbuseLog|wpSearchUser=Owain1980}} details]). [[User:DatBot|DatBot]] ([[User talk:DatBot|talk]]) 17:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC) details])

Then it works OK. So "details=20844741" does not work and "wpSearchUser=Owain1980" does. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 13:35, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

DatBot 6

Looks like it stalled yesterday. Do note that we are changing the files in Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests. It will now include SVG files, as I'm waiting on final approval of Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/RonBot 4. You might need to add a bit to skip SVG files, like it does with GIF files Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 18:56, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Forget last bit - it's easy to make a new category for the svg - done that, they should move out soon. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:28, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [28]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [29][30]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (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 17 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 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [31]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [32]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)