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Hi. Archiving cases just 40 minutes after they are closed is too soon. Wait a couple of days at least. -- Tegel (Talk) 16:44, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- What did I say about archiving after a short time? -- Tegel (Talk) 19:05, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- now at the request it says to be already marked as done. Why I should wait a lot time? Web Source Self-Management System (talk) 05:40, 17 July 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
- When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [1]
- Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [2]
- Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
revertion
Glad to see I'm not a vandal - just trying to make the examples somewhat clearer. Happy continuations, Micheletb (talk) 09:54, 27 July 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
- The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [4]
Problems
- Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [5][6]
- Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [7][8]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (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 31 July 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 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.
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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Don't edit war with a vandal
Hi, just a reminder that it's not nice to see someone edit warring with a vandal, at least not on user talk pages. I know many users do it, but just wanted to let you know that without your reverts there would have been possibly only one new talk page message to the user, after reverting and reverting the user got many more talk page messages, it's quite dispruptive if email notifications are turned on. Usually if you don't have rights to block/lock vandals it's better to wait until admin/steward stops user. Stryn (talk) 19:25, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Stryn: I understood. Web SourceContent Management System 19:27, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
re removing complaints on my user talk page
Please do not remove complaints on my talk page. In fact, you should not be removing anything that approaches legitimate comment from another user's talk page, that is overstepping boundaries. Users, especially users with advanced rights, should not be not immune from complaint and criticism, whether we like it, feel it is warranted, or whatever. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:20, 6 August 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
- Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [9]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [10][11]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
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 7 August 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 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: July 2018
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Not vandalism
Things like Special:AbuseFilter/examine/log/437355 are not vandalism. Please only look to mark clear vandalism, and clearly outside Meta:scope rather than things that you don't like. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:42, 9 August 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
- CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [12]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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 14 August 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 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [13]
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17:53, 13 August 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
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (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 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
- Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [14]
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16:46, 20 August 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
- You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [15]
- Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [16]
Problems
- Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [17]
Changes later this week
- The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [18]
- AWB will stop adding
using AWBin the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that saysAWB. [19] - Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says
Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example isarticle_textwhich is nowpage_title. [20] - Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is
page_age. [21] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (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 28 August 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 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
Timeless Newsletter • Issue 2
The second issue of the Timeless newsletter is out.
The news: Themes are coming to Timeless! Your infobox and navbox templates in particular are probably going to look absolutely horrible in the new built-in night mode.
For more information, background, plans and progress updates, please see the full issue on Meta, complete with a ridiculous list of phabricator task links, gratuitous mention of other skins, and me complaining about the current state of MediaWiki skinning in general.
Do not edit war with vandals
Hi:
Edit war with vandals on user talk pages may be disturbing, as the user could get tons of web and emails notifications. It is best to just report they and wait for someone who can clean the mess. As of me, I stopped reverting they when I noticed they wouldn't stop. Regards, Esteban16 (talk) 02:06, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
- Wow! I just to say to revert contribs made by LTA. I was able to defend User talk pages from one vandal known, because the user (User:Гиляна Эренджепова) has advanced ability to rapidly make blatant vandalism on Wiki-project pages, and not only user talk namespace. Thanks! with regards, Web SourceContent Management System 02:22, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
- Seriously. Listen to Esteban's advice. Reverting a non-blocked currently active vandal only gives him the opportunity to make yet another vandalistic edit by reverting you. --MF-W 22:23, 3 September 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
- There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [22][23]
- There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [24][25]
- You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [26]
wp10in ORES is now calledarticlequality. [27]- When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [28]
Problems
- UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [29]
- You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [30]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (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 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
- The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
- Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [31]
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16:48, 3 September 2018 (UTC)