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Tech News: 2015-44

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 this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [1]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [2][3]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [4][5]
  • Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [6]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Learning Quarterly: October 2015

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.

The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee is pleased to introduce the launch of the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list, which is basically a place for all the affiliates (chapters, thematic organizations, user groups) to discuss issues related to affiliates, make announcements to other affiliates, and collaborate on activities and community-wide events. The idea is to help facilitate the dialogue affiliates across our movement, plus collaborative discussions like community-wide activities, joint edit-a-thons, regional conferences, blog/report posts, or other communications from affiliates.

Each Wikimedia movement affiliate is allocated three spots on the mailing list. All affiliates may contact the Affiliations Committee to request additional spots if needed.

Please find a bit more information on Meta-Wiki and do not hesitate to contact the Affiliations Committee if you have further questions.

Thank you - Wikimedia Affiliations Committee

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, 07:51, 27 October 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

Wikidata weekly summary #182

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Tech News: 2015-45

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 see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [7]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [8]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [9]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [10]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [11]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [12]

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16:42, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Unlocking

How many more will continue holding the name of a popular artist Alexander Tatarnikov? It's chaos, even persecution, this author did not do anything bad to anyone. It was not spam. Works of this artist is very strong and show good. There is a personal dislike for this man? We ask unlock this name............ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Title_blacklist/Log/2015

The name given to that person at birth wrong? It does not contain anything wrong. Please help remove this block in the creation of articles. Josepher444

I was not involved with this decision. You will want to bring it up on the talk page for the title blacklist. Thank you. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 23:21, 5 November 2015 (UTC)


I'd really like to see this issue resolved in a positive way. Here are pictures of this author:http://storage1.static.itmages.ru/i/15/0628/h_1435525587_3159872_9a1ff5874e.jpg, http://s7.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2015/01/c7678b2b1d3d23a8719f80712585a5f8.jpg - also good, these pictures are not anything bad. This is because they now can not write articles? Due to the fact that it shows the Mother of God? Move to blacklist discussion is possible, but will it help?

You are welcome to try. --Varnent (talk)(COI) 23:32, 5 November 2015 (UTC)


I moved the discussion in the black list. There may of course refuse to release, may not like man for personal reasons and did may not be important that this good picture in the Christian version.

Josepher444

Wikidata weekly summary #183

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

Tech News: 2015-46

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

  • Superprotect has been removed. [13]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [14]
  • JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [15]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [16]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [17]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Highlights from October 2015

Here are the highlights from the Wikimedia blog in October 2015.
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Wikidata weekly summary #184

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Tech News: 2015-47

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 this week

  • You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [20]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [21]
  • The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
  • Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [22]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [23][24]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Tech News: 2015-48

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

  • A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [25]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly Translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:38, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Update version of Free Bassel marked for translation?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free_Bassel&oldid=14849498 has an edit removing a phrase Bassel's family considers dangerous. I believe a translation administrator is needed to update the version marked for translation and that you are one; apologies for bothering if I'm wrong! Mike Linksvayer (talk) 15:54, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Done Thank you for the edits! --Varnent (talk)(COI) 18:50, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Tech News: 2015-49

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

The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

  • On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [26]
  • Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [27]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [28][29]
  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [30]
  • Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [31]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

What future IdeaLab campaigns would you like to see?

Hi there,

I’m Jethro, and I’m seeking your help in deciding topics for new IdeaLab campaigns that could be run starting next year. These campaigns aim to bring in proposals and solutions from communities that address a need or problem in Wikimedia projects. I'm interested in hearing your preferences and ideas for campaign topics!

Here’s how to participate:

Take care,

I JethroBT (WMF), Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation. 03:34, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-50

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

  • Revision scoring will help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [32]

Problems

  • Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This will happen later. [33]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [34]
  • IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [35]
  • You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you want it to be. [36]
  • It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know LaTeX. You can use symbol buttons instead. [37]
  • You will be able to use syntax highlighting when you write math with LaTeX in the visual editor. [38]
  • UploadWizard will look a bit different. [39]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar).
  • New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays. [40]

Meetings

Future changes

  • A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [41]

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17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

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