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Latest comment: 5 years ago by MediaWiki message delivery in topic The Signpost: 31 March 2019

Tech News: 2019-10

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

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
  • The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [1][2]

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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

  Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
    • paid-en-wp wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
    • checkuser-en-wp wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

  Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2019-11

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

Problems

  • Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
  • Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [3]
  • Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [4][5]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Possible error with bot?

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Hello! I'm looking at the dashboard for relisted AfDs and it seems the bot doesn't like the attempt I made to capitalize internet to Internet for the right AfD category - [[:Category:AfD debates (Web or Internet)|Web or Internet]]. – The Grid (talk) 21:15, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @The Grid: Presumably you refer to this edit which was nullified one minute later. It is pointless amending a bot-built page, the bot will only overwrite it again with what it believes to be the correct content. The category was renamed three years ago; it would appear that the people who agreed on the move (see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 January 6#Category:AfD debates (Web or internet)) and who carried it out (Black Falcon) didn't consider that Legobot would need to be reconfigured. If Legoktm is unwilling to amend the bot, the category should be moved back to its previous name, and ancillary amendments performed. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:53, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
@Redrose64: Thank you for the response and the history of the category. All I noticed was the different capitalization and how it didn't point directly to the respective AfD categories. – The Grid (talk) 13:04, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Redrose64, thank you for pinging me. You are correct, we didn't consider the fact that Legobot uses this category.
Legoktm, would you kindly reconfigure Legobot to reflect the name change: Category:AfD debates (Web or internet) → Category:AfD debates (Web or Internet)? Thanks, -- Black Falcon (talk) 20:04, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Friendly ping. -- Black Falcon (talk) 20:02, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12

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

Changes later this week

  • When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [6][7]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [8]
  •   Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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19:43, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Legoktm, just pinging to be sure that Legobot won't be affected by the Ubuntu shutdown and migration to Debian mentioned under "future changes", which in this case is only next week. Both DYKUpdateBot and WugBot have had to move, and there were some minor bumps, so if Legobot also is, I hope the move goes smoothly. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:49, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Women in Red April Events

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Tech News: 2019-13

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

Recent changes

  • The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [9]

Problems

  • There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [10]
  • The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [11]
  • Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [12]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2019

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