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Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
- Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
- Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
- The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
- The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
- It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" Beta feature). [1][2][3][4]
Problems
- The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [5][6]
- On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed. [7]
- Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed. [8]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of
YesorNoit saysThankandCancel. It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public. [9] - A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts. [10]
Problems
- Between week 7 and 20 February, 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. [11]
- Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed. [12]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message. [13]
- It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed. [14]
Problems
- On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.
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11:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Discusión de las confirmaciones de Stewards
Hola. Hay algo que no me queda claro. Todos los años se discute las confirmaciones de Stewards (como aquí). Pero después de la elección de 5 Stewards, la discusión no comenzó aún. ¿Sabes en qué momento comienza? Es para ver quienes se confirman o no. Y hay que recordar que Avraham pidió renunciar como Steward en su declaración de confirmación. --Stïnger （会話） 12:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC).
- El comité está terminando de elaborar los resúmenes para que los stewards podamos votar. No te preocupes, que no nos hemos olvidado. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:42, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
- Ok. Gracias. --Stïnger （会話） 12:45, 5 March 2018 (UTC).
Tech News
Hi, due to a technical error, Tech News wasn't delivered to your talk page yesterday, so I wanted to tell you that the new issue is available at Tech/News/2018/10. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 08:14, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Quick Question
I had noticed you requested the removal of permissions for several Basque speakers. Do you speak the language yourself? --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 01:50, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- No. But local bureaucrat Theklan and myself both speak spanish and as you can see here this was the result of a community process that started after I posted the AAR17 notice there. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:00, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
WM:RFA
This user request for regular adminship is unlikely going to be pass, the candidate discussions ending date have been expired, it seemed should be close right now. SA 13 Bro (talk) 01:01, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- It seemed have been done by Matiia, thank you. :) SA 13 Bro (talk) 01:26, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
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. [15]
- 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. [16]
- 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. [17]
- 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. [18]
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). [19]
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. [20]
- 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. [21][22]
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. [23][24][25]
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)
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. [26]
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. [27][28]
- 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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15:04, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 22:28, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Meta:Changing username
Hello Marco, Is there any useful uses for Meta:Changing username? or it should redirected to Steward requests/Username changes? I know it's a local page, but no edit since 2015! --Alaa :)..! 22:06, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
- Page is good for me as it stands. It has some useful info I'd rather keep. Thanks. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 22:27, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Buenas Tardes
Hola, le saluda Manuel Rodríguez desde México, tal vez no soy grato hacia usted, pero siento la necesidad de expresarme en mi idioma materno (el español); le cuento mi caso.
Yo edito en Incubator sobre lenguas nahuas y otros idiomas indígenas de mi país, en una página se me pidió que respondiera tres preguntas, las cuales nunca las vi porque no tengo seguimiento del lugar donde se redactaron dichas preguntas, mientras yo estaba editando se me bloqueó por un lapso de 72 horas (las cuales todavía no se cumplen) Incubator:Category talk:Incubator:Nahuatl languages. Considero que si realmente se hubiera tenido la intención de preguntarme de buena fe, lo habrían hecho en mi página de usuario; yo con gusto habría contestado inmediatamente a dichos cuestionamientos. Eso me generó molestia y de manera inmediata respondí en castellano como allí mismo designaba el interrogatorio Incubator:User talk:Marrovi, pero el plazo del bloqueo no se cumple aún y temo que me dejen bloqueado para siempre y que esto haya sido una mala jugada para argumentar bloqueos.
Yo entiendo que no soy una persona grata para muchas personas, tampoco lo quiero tomar tan a pecho ni mucho menos pensar que StevenJ81, Ooswesthoesbes y Akapochtli les guste el juego sucio o se diviertan con las personas haciendo uso de su poder. A mi si me molestó mucho porque sentí como un puñal por la espalda y al voltear atrás no viera a nadie; ya están respondidas las preguntas que me hacen, pero no gusta la manera en como Akapochtli se burla de mi en inglés, como si ya fuera bloqueado yo para siempre en incubator y esto estuviera planeado por él con anterioridad asesorándose con otros usuarios y hacerme esta jugada. La verdad tengo una paranoia fuerte, imagino demasiadas cosas y me molesta que la gente se burle de mí haciendo uso de su poder. Yo estimo mucho a StevenJ81 y sigo creyendo es una gran persona, pero la forma en como está redactado todo en inglés parece que cayera en una especie de trampa y eso me hace rabiar mucho. Yo acabo de notificar User talk:StevenJ81 y a User talk:Ooswesthoesbes sobre las respuestas que me piden porque no quiere que mañana cuando se acabe el plazo siga yo bloqueado como si fuera un payaso con el que se pueden divertir, allí les muestro a ellos que tengo conocimientos de lo hago en la incubadora y les pongo fotos para no crean que soy un usuario amateur. Gracias por permitir redactar mi mensaje a usted y a los otros usuarios que aún les sigo teniendo estima y confianza y que además no quiero creer que esten actuando de mala fe.--Marrovi (talk) 19:34, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.
Map improvements 2018 [More information]
- Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey. [29]
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
- Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [30]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented. [31]
- Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed. [32]
Future changes
- An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team. [33]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions. [34]
Problems
- It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [35]
Future changes
- The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [36]
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12:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
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. [37] [38]
- 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. [39]
- TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [40]
- 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. [41]
- 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)