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Good to see your name

It is very good to see your name again on my meta watchlist :) TonyBallioni (talk) 23:29, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

@TonyBallioni: Thank you for the kind words. I've had to prioritise my work life but will try to be on a lot more in the future. Green Giant (talk) 22:47, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Block

Hello I don’t now how and why but I tried to log on into Wikipedia and it says that my IP got blocked by you!? Why did you block me?? Best regards Paul Ullrich Goonpu (talk) 19:43, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

@Goonpu: Hi. I don't know which IP you were trying to log in from (although I can find this out but curiosity on my part is not an acceptable reason to do so). In order to protect Wikimedia projects from anonymous vandalism, sometimes we have to block ranges of IP addresses. Due to the dynamic nature of IP addressing, these blocks sometimes affect innocent users such as yourself. The block you mention is not directed at you personally, and the reason why you cannot login is that your IP, or the range in which your IP falls, was previously used by someone to vandalize one or more Wikimedia projects and was blocked to protect that project(s).

If you have another account already (and I'm just guessing you do), please contact the local administrators of your project and ask whether or not you are eligible for the ipblock-exempt group. If they assign you that group, please log in to your account and check if you can edit. If you still cannot edit, please get back to me with your wiki username so it can be investigated further.

Please also see the Global blocks/FAQ for more information. I hope you find this information useful, and please do not hesitate to ask if you have further questions or inquiries. Green Giant (talk) 20:37, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [1]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3]
• On several wikis, an account named "Abuse filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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 use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [5][6]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [7][8]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [9]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [11]
• The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 17:55, 14 January 2019 (UTC)