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Tech News: 2015-05

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 software changes

This week

  • There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [2]

Future changes

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Notability / reliability of sources

Hi Lor. Just wanted some clarifications in order to improve the article about the CMCRC, given that it looks like the content of the article is supported by reliable sources and given how the work of this institution has permeated its field and beyond. Any pointers will be helpful. Thanks Rdozzz (talk) 05:05, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Huggle message

Hey Lor! You are receiving this message because you are subscribed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huggle/Members#Beta_testers

I have recently launched a new downloads for beta testers that contains nightly builds of huggle, eg. versions that are built every day from our master branch and contains latest huggle. These builds are currently provided only for Windows and Ubuntu. You can find them here: http://huggle.wmflabs.org/builds/

Please keep in mind that these don't have any automatic updates and if you download and start using nightly build, you will need to update it yourself! So don't get yourself to running old version, it's possible to install both stable and nightly huggle, which is what I suggest.

Keep the bug reports coming to phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=Huggle Many thanks! Petrb (talk) 10:08, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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about deleting my image file

Dear Lor

Iam the user "cydyoo" and I would like to Contest this speedy deletion of the image "Seoulwelfarefoundation.jpg" because it is my creation. I simply forgot to check the box that the file is owned by me.. so Please don't delete the file and I already uploaded the file.

sincerely

cydyoo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cydyoo (talk • contribs) 00:46, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Reminder - Further process

@Lor: Hi, as per your confirmation resubmitted the article [: Draft Hradyesh] on 17 Dec , request your kind attention for further necessary process. - Thanks One life to live (talk) 10:56, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News 2015—#1

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has fixed many bugs and worked on VisualEditor's appearance, the coming Citoid reference service, and support for languages with complex input requirements. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. Upcoming plans are posted at the VisualEditor roadmap.

The Wikimedia Foundation has named its top priorities for this quarter (January to March). The first priority is making VisualEditor ready for deployment by default to all new users and logged-out users at the remaining large Wikipedias. You can help identify these requirements. There will be weekly triage meetings which will be open to volunteers beginning Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 12:00 (noon) PST (20:00 UTC). Tell Vice President of Engineering Damon Sicore, Product Manager James Forrester and other team members which bugs and features are most important to you. The decisions made at these meetings will determine what work is necessary for this quarter's goal of making VisualEditor ready for deployment to new users. The presence of volunteers who enjoy contributing MediaWiki code is particularly appreciated. Information about how to join the meeting will be posted at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal shortly before the meeting begins. 

Due to some breaking changes in MobileFrontend and VisualEditor, VisualEditor was not working correctly on the mobile site for a couple of days in early January. The teams apologize for the problem.

Recent improvements

The new design for VisualEditor aligns with MediaWiki's Front-End Standards as led by the Design team. Several new versions of the OOjs UI library have also been released, and these also affect the appearance of VisualEditor and other MediaWiki software extensions. Most changes were minor, like changing the text size and the amount of white space in some windows. Buttons are consistently color-coded to indicate whether the action:

  • starts a new task, like opening the ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-savedialog⧽ dialog:  blue ,
  • takes a constructive action, like inserting a citation:  green ,
  • might remove or lose your work, like removing a link:  red , or
  • is neutral, like opening a link in a new browser window:  gray.

The TemplateData editor has been completely re-written to use a different design (T67815) based on the same OOjs UI system as VisualEditor (T73746). This change fixed a couple of existing bugs (T73077 and T73078) and improved usability.

Search and replace in long documents is now faster. It does not highlight every occurrence if there are more than 100 on-screen at once (T78234).

Editors at the Hebrew and Russian Wikipedias requested the ability to use VisualEditor in the "Article Incubator" or drafts namespace (T86688, T87027). If your community would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace on your wiki, then you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.

Looking ahead

The Editing team will soon add auto-fill features for citations. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to contribute to the Citoid service's definitions for each website, to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections.

We will need editors to help test the new design of the special character inserter, especially if you speak Welsh, Breton, or another language that uses diacritics or special characters extensively. The new version should be available for testing next week. Please contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF) if you would like to be notified when the new version is available. After the special character tool is completed, VisualEditor will be deployed to all users at Phase 5 Wikipedias. This will affect about 50 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh. The date for this change has not been determined.

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Tech News: 2015-06

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

  • There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [5]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
  • The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [6]
  • You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [7] [8]

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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

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05:57:28, 30 January 2015 review of submission by Rdozzz


Hi Lor. I'm at a loss as to why the sources and references, as well as the content of the article, do not establish the CMCRC as notable given how its work has permeated its field. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Rdozzz (talk) 05:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC) Rdozzz (talk) 05:57, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

"What did you object to in my revision concerning The Ogre?"

What did you object to in my revision concerning The Ogre?

"I need encouragement"

Hello Thanks for your edit. But you are too soon. Let me finish this. it is my first. I need encouragement. This is no encouragement. please do not edit until i am ready. and no, i do not want to try in some private area, too difficult. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heisenbergsfear (talk • contribs) 04:05, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

@Heisenbergsfear: you cannot add Copyright violations to Wikipedia, as in, you cannot just rip the text of the urban dictionary into Wikipedia. LorTalk 04:17, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors February 2015 Newsletter

Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in January's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 38 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: We were able to remove August 2013 from the general copyediting backlog and November 2014 from the request-page backlog. Many thanks, everyone!

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Tech News: 2015-07

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 software changes

Problems

  • MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [10]
  • UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [11]
  • All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [12]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
  • You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [13] [14] [15]
  • You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [16] [17]
  • It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [18]
  • You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes

  • Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [19]
  • In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [20]

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16:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-08

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

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
  • On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [21] [22] [23]
  • You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [24]
  • In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [25]
  • The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​ [26]

Meetings

  • The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [27]
  • You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [28]
  • You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [29]

Future changes

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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers

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19:10:59, 9 February 2015 review of submission by ARTicle123


I have edited this article several times, and feel at this point, it is a historical/content only read from a neutral point of view. I have thoroughly read some other articles about similar companies on Wikipedia that were published, which are very much the same as this one. Can you please re-review, or please suggest ways in which I can edit in a way that will be sure to get approved for publishing?

Thank you very much for your time.

Respectfully, Julie

ARTicle123 (talk) 19:10, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

@ARTicle123: I have submitted the draft for review by another reviewer, i generally try not to review an AFC draft more than once. LorTalk 08:42, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
(Also, as a quick note, you don't have to put your name at the end of a message, and i would not recommend it anyway. As generally privacy is quite an important factor to have in mind when editing. See WP:ANONYMOUS LorTalk 08:48, 13 February 2015 (UTC))

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GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2015 Newsletter

Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the February Blitz. Of the 21 people who signed up, eight copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Progress report: The blitz removed 16 articles from the requests list, and we're almost done with December 2014. Many thanks, everyone!

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Tech News: 2015-09

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 software changes

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
  • It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [34]
  • It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [35]
  • Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [36]
  • Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [37]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
  • Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [38]

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16:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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Animal roleplay page - false vandalism charge

The only change I made at the "Animal roleplay" page was the date 1948 to 1946. Someone else left that dumb comment which was flagged as vandalism. Somehow this shows up in the history as my change but that is not true. Either there is a glitch or people know how to hack into the system and leave spam or vandalism and make it look like it was done by the previous person who made changes. I would look into that possibility -- especially if you receive similar complaints in the future. -- Ghost2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghost2011 (talk • contribs) 16:47, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

@Ghost2011: I would highly doubt it, mostly due to how much work is put in by the Developers of Mediawiki (The software that runs Wikipedia, and many other wikimedia, and non-wikimedia sites). If you really think you've found a security issue though you should read mw:Reporting security bugs. Though i highly doubt that it would do unnoticed if the history was manually changed. LorTalk 00:21, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
@Ghost2011: Hmm, just looked at the history and it seems you didn't do it after all, sorry about that. LorTalk 00:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-10

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

Recent software changes

  • A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [39]
  • You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
  • You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [40] [41]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
  • You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
  • Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [42] [43] [44] [45]
  • The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [46]
  • The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [47]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [48]

Future changes

  • You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [49]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Spanish Civil War, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Isthisuseful (talk) 22:28, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Hi Lor. Belated thanks for your help at the Teahouse. Much appreciated. Cheers. tH0r (talk contribs) 13:09, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

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Questions

As one involved in SPIs, can you answer the following questions please.

1. If a checkuser spontaneously blocks a named account as a sock, with no SPI and no other discussion at all, should the blocked account be tagged as "confirmed" or as "suspected"?

2. Should a normal administrator (non-checkuser) blocking a named account ever tag it as "confirmed" when there has been no SPI and no checkuser involvement? 94.196.210.161 (talk) 22:12, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

  1. It depends, if the block summary is something along the lines of {{checkuserblock-account}}, then it should be tagged as "Confirmed" as a check with the Checkuser tool has been preformed. Though if it's anything else, then it's "Suspected". If in doubt, contact the blocking Admin/Checkuser.
  2. No, confirmed is only when the checkuser tools have been used, so it should generally be "suspected". Though if they make a block with no SPI there's chance that they may be scrutinised for their actions.
Hope that helps, though i would not recommend posting to every clerk's talk page, as it does get annoying for most of the clerks. LorTalk 07:10, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-11

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

  • You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [50] [51]
  • VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [52] [53] [54]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
  • In VisualEditor the "Edit beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [55] [56]
  • The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [57] [58]
  • You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [59] [60]
  • You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [61] [62]
  • If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [63]

Future changes

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15:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Your message to me and your revert of my edit

Hi, Lor

Wiki Notifications informs me that you left me a message on my Talk Page, but for reasons I don't understand your message does not appear there. Was there something that you needed to say to me? Also, Wiki Notifications informs me that you reverted my recent edit of an image caption on the Forestall-class aircraft carrier page. From your Talk Page I take it that you take Wiki Vandalism very seriously and that you are used to a certain amount of 'push-back'. In my case I do a lot of copy editing and other minor edits. I consider myself to be a general reader and not an expert, therefor when I read something I don't understand I fix it so that I can understand it. In this particular case if I hadn't just visited the Kitty Hawk-class page I wouldn't have understood that I was being invited to compare the difference between two different classes of aircraft carriers in the photo caption, so I fixed the caption so future non-expert readers would understand that. Perhaps you had a reason for reverting to the previous version and can explain it to me. I also happen to be a member of the Wiki Project: Ships, I've never had complaints from them with my work before, and if you check my contributions page you will see that I have made many similar edits. It's really not a big deal to me, but perhaps if you think you might have reverted me in error, you can reinstate my previous edit. Best Regards Atani (talk) 04:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

@Atani: Actually, funny enough, it was a Mistake i made in Huggle. I was trying to press Command + Q to Close it, and as Q is the hotkey to revert an edit i accidentally reverted and warned a few people of vandalism, though this has now been reverted. LorTalk 04:53, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. RegardsAtani (talk) 05:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-12

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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [66]
  • You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [67]
  • It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [68] [69]

Problems

  • Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
  • A puzzle piece icon (icon) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [70] [71]
  • You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [72] [73]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [74] [75]
  • You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [76]
  • The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [77]

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