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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
- IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [1]
Changes later this week
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [2]
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [3][4]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55as well as the1.2.3.4/27syntax for IP ranges. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Future changes
- Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [6][7]
- Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.
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22:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐
File:Travel Deep Inside a Leaf - Annotated Version - California Academy of Sciences.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project. |
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 8 February 2021 (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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [8]
Changes later this week
- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [9]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Future changes
- When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [10][11]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [12]
- Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [13]
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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Please participate in the Universal Code of Conduct consultation on Commons
Hi,
Hope you are well. I have seen that you have recently active in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems. This page is currently the only page where user problems (conduct issues, and other unacceptable behavior, etc.) get reported.
I am working on facilitating the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement discussion on Commons which focuses users’ conduct. That is why I am inviting to participate in the discussion to give your valuable opinion.
You can do so by participating in the public on-wiki discussion on Commons: Commons:Universal Code of Conduct consultation. There are a few questions regarding enforcement you can answer. Please feel free to include anything you find relevant.
I also encourage you to participate in the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK7gTSZ2PSNiekEKPcC2UvnkJaQt8iVPWRXZbk27U9E8fOIQ/viewform
The survey has a different set of questions, and you can response to them anonymously. It is not a long survey and should take around 10 minutes to complete.
I want you to know that your input is very valuable and it will help to us better shape the UCoC enforcement pathways for our beloved Commons community. I hope you participate. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you! Wikitanvir (WMF) (talk) 08:34, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐
File:(EXID(이엑스아이디)) 아예 (Ah Yeah) Music Video (Official MV).webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project. |
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 15 February 2021 (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
- There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [14][15]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [16]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
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17:53, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐
File:NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Animations-rzmd7RouGrM.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project. |
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 18 February 2021 (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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [17]
- The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [18]
Problems
- Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [19]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.
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00:15, 23 February 2021 (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
- Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
- A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.
Problems
- There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [20]
- Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).
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19:05, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Dude
I literally put the signature and timestamp in my message on here and you just straight up added "— Preceding unsigned comment added by TheLeaf321 (talk • contribs) 14:03, 5 March 2021 (UTC)" like i didn't put the signature and timestamp — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheLeaf321 (talk • contribs) 17:47, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @TheLeaf321: You are supposed to sign in the same edit as your post, for every post, not in a separate edit two lines lower. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 03:10, 14 March 2021 (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
- Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
- Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [22]
- When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [23]
Problems
- Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [24]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
- The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [25]
Future changes
- There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
- Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [26][27]
- New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.
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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Are u a IT staff of Press Information Bureau Government of India as per your GODLBot?
TTP1233 (talk) 14:58, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
- No, I don't. -- Eatcha (talk) 11:53, 24 March 2021 (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
- Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
- Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [28]
Problems
- Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).
Future changes
- You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [29][30]
- You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
- You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database
JOINSwill no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [31]
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23:20, 15 March 2021 (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 Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
- The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Discussion tools" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
- Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [32]
Future changes
- Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [33][34]
- Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from
wg*tomw.config.wg*will soon no longer work. [35]
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16:50, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Thanks, I Real
Haiti 1904 (talk) 19:27, 26 March 2021 (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
- Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [36]
- IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to
irc.wikimedia.organd not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [37]
Problems
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [38]
- Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [39][40]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).
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17:28, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐
File:Stonehenge at Sunrise - by Drone..webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project. |
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 1 April 2021 (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
- Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [41]
Changes later this week
- The citoid API will use for example
2010-12-XXinstead of2010-12for dates with a month but no days. This is because2010-12could be confused with2010-2012instead ofDecember 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [42] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).
Future changes
- PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database
JOINSwill no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.
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19:37, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
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File:Webcast • Drive By Contributions on GitHub.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project. |
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
FM Promotion
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The file File:NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Animations-rzmd7RouGrM.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Animations-rzmd7RouGrM.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so. |
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/FeaturedMediaBot (talk) 21:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
No worries about the overwrite: it looks like your copy was smaller than the one that I uploaded, so if they are identical-ish otherwise, it may be worth having your upload be the one that is live on the Web. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:40, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
$ ffprobe -v error -show_format -show_streams koavf.webm
[STREAM]
index=0
codec_name=vp8
codec_long_name=On2 VP8
profile=0
codec_type=video
codec_time_base=1001/30000
codec_tag_string=[0][0][0][0]
codec_tag=0x0000
width=1280
height=720
coded_width=1280
coded_height=720
closed_captions=0
has_b_frames=0
sample_aspect_ratio=1:1
display_aspect_ratio=16:9
pix_fmt=yuv420p
level=-99
color_range=unknown
color_space=unknown
color_transfer=unknown
color_primaries=unknown
chroma_location=unspecified
field_order=progressive
timecode=N/A
refs=1
id=N/A
r_frame_rate=30000/1001
avg_frame_rate=30000/1001
time_base=1/1000
start_pts=0
start_time=0.000000
duration_ts=N/A
duration=N/A
bit_rate=N/A
max_bit_rate=N/A
bits_per_raw_sample=N/A
nb_frames=N/A
nb_read_frames=N/A
nb_read_packets=N/A
DISPOSITION:default=1
DISPOSITION:dub=0
DISPOSITION:original=0
DISPOSITION:comment=0
DISPOSITION:lyrics=0
DISPOSITION:karaoke=0
DISPOSITION:forced=0
DISPOSITION:hearing_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:visual_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:clean_effects=0
DISPOSITION:attached_pic=0
DISPOSITION:timed_thumbnails=0
TAG:DURATION=00:02:19.005000000
[/STREAM]
[STREAM]
index=1
codec_name=vorbis
codec_long_name=Vorbis
profile=unknown
codec_type=audio
codec_time_base=1/44100
codec_tag_string=[0][0][0][0]
codec_tag=0x0000
sample_fmt=fltp
sample_rate=44100
channels=2
channel_layout=stereo
bits_per_sample=0
id=N/A
r_frame_rate=0/0
avg_frame_rate=0/0
time_base=1/1000
start_pts=0
start_time=0.000000
duration_ts=N/A
duration=N/A
bit_rate=N/A
max_bit_rate=N/A
bits_per_raw_sample=N/A
nb_frames=N/A
nb_read_frames=N/A
nb_read_packets=N/A
DISPOSITION:default=1
DISPOSITION:dub=0
DISPOSITION:original=0
DISPOSITION:comment=0
DISPOSITION:lyrics=0
DISPOSITION:karaoke=0
DISPOSITION:forced=0
DISPOSITION:hearing_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:visual_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:clean_effects=0
DISPOSITION:attached_pic=0
DISPOSITION:timed_thumbnails=0
TAG:language=eng
TAG:title=Stereo
TAG:DURATION=00:02:18.984000000
[/STREAM]
[FORMAT]
filename=koavf.webm
nb_streams=2
nb_programs=0
format_name=matroska,webm
format_long_name=Matroska / WebM
start_time=0.000000
duration=139.005000
size=22228009
bit_rate=1279263
probe_score=100
TAG:creation_time=2021-04-06T11:29:04.000000Z
TAG:ENCODER=Lavf58.29.100
[/FORMAT]
$ ffprobe -v error -show_format -show_streams eatcha.webm
[STREAM]
index=0
codec_name=vp9
codec_long_name=Google VP9
profile=Profile 0
codec_type=video
codec_time_base=317/19001
codec_tag_string=[0][0][0][0]
codec_tag=0x0000
width=1280
height=720
coded_width=1280
coded_height=720
closed_captions=0
has_b_frames=0
sample_aspect_ratio=1:1
display_aspect_ratio=16:9
pix_fmt=yuv420p
level=-99
color_range=tv
color_space=bt709
color_transfer=bt709
color_primaries=bt709
chroma_location=unspecified
field_order=unknown
timecode=N/A
refs=1
id=N/A
r_frame_rate=19001/317
avg_frame_rate=19001/317
time_base=1/1000
start_pts=0
start_time=0.000000
duration_ts=N/A
duration=N/A
bit_rate=N/A
max_bit_rate=N/A
bits_per_raw_sample=N/A
nb_frames=N/A
nb_read_frames=N/A
nb_read_packets=N/A
DISPOSITION:default=1
DISPOSITION:dub=0
DISPOSITION:original=0
DISPOSITION:comment=0
DISPOSITION:lyrics=0
DISPOSITION:karaoke=0
DISPOSITION:forced=0
DISPOSITION:hearing_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:visual_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:clean_effects=0
DISPOSITION:attached_pic=0
DISPOSITION:timed_thumbnails=0
TAG:language=eng
TAG:DURATION=00:02:19.022000000
[/STREAM]
[STREAM]
index=1
codec_name=opus
codec_long_name=Opus (Opus Interactive Audio Codec)
profile=unknown
codec_type=audio
codec_time_base=1/48000
codec_tag_string=[0][0][0][0]
codec_tag=0x0000
sample_fmt=fltp
sample_rate=48000
channels=2
channel_layout=stereo
bits_per_sample=0
id=N/A
r_frame_rate=0/0
avg_frame_rate=0/0
time_base=1/1000
start_pts=-7
start_time=-0.007000
duration_ts=N/A
duration=N/A
bit_rate=N/A
max_bit_rate=N/A
bits_per_raw_sample=N/A
nb_frames=N/A
nb_read_frames=N/A
nb_read_packets=N/A
DISPOSITION:default=1
DISPOSITION:dub=0
DISPOSITION:original=0
DISPOSITION:comment=0
DISPOSITION:lyrics=0
DISPOSITION:karaoke=0
DISPOSITION:forced=0
DISPOSITION:hearing_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:visual_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:clean_effects=0
DISPOSITION:attached_pic=0
DISPOSITION:timed_thumbnails=0
TAG:language=eng
TAG:DURATION=00:02:19.041000000
[/STREAM]
[FORMAT]
filename=eatcha.webm
nb_streams=2
nb_programs=0
format_name=matroska,webm
format_long_name=Matroska / WebM
start_time=-0.007000
duration=139.041000
size=16901434
bit_rate=972457
probe_score=100
TAG:ENCODER=Lavf58.45.100
[/FORMAT]As you can see the probe's results. The video I uploaded is using VP9 video codec and VP9 has better quality/bit-rate factor compared to VP8 but is more resources intensive. As you have no issues with my version, I'm restoring the video I uploaded. Thank you. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:39, 9 April 2021 (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
- Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [43][44]
- If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [45][46][47]
- Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use
mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles')to go back to how they looked before. [48] - The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
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16:47, 19 April 2021 (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
- Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [49][50][51]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).
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File:A Close Look At Pluto.ogv
Hello Eatcha. Your bot somehow reviewed File:A Close Look At Pluto.ogv without noticing that there was no license template on the file. Please fix this. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:46, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
- @AntiCompositeNumber I don't understand. The bot doesn't looks up the license on file page but the license on external webpages. All CC licenses except NC and ND are okay, the file is licensed CC BY 2.0 on Flickr. The bot reviews the file if the license is acceptable and the videos have similar frames. -- Eatcha (talk) 06:02, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- Consider the following: someone uploads a file and doesn't put a license on it, the bot confirms "that it was available there under the stated license on that date.", and then the Flickr file was deleted. How would we know what the correct license is? Checking that the source is under a free license is only half the task of license reviewing -- ensuring that the file description page has the correct license is just as important. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 21:05, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
- @AntiCompositeNumber Fixed -- Eatcha (talk) 18:14, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you! AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:55, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
- @AntiCompositeNumber Fixed -- Eatcha (talk) 18:14, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
- Consider the following: someone uploads a file and doesn't put a license on it, the bot confirms "that it was available there under the stated license on that date.", and then the Flickr file was deleted. How would we know what the correct license is? Checking that the source is under a free license is only half the task of license reviewing -- ensuring that the file description page has the correct license is just as important. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 21:05, 2 May 2021 (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
- Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.
Problems
- The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [52]
- Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [53]
Changes later this week
- Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [54][55]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).
Future changes
- The CSS classes
.error,.warningand.successdo not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [56]
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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Copyright status: File:Watch- Drone captures Maoists herding hundreds of villagers through Chhattisgarh’s Sukma jungle.webm
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Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).
Future changes
- You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 12 May 2021 (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 toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [57] [58] [59]
- Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from
UTF-8toutf8mb3. [60][61] - An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [62]
Changes later this week
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MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklistwill be renamedMediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [63] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).
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13:47, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
Eatcha bot error?
Hello, sorry to bother you. I don't think it is a big deal, but your bot User:EatchaBot is behaving weirdly in this page related to me User:EatchaBot/Files-requiring-license-review-gallery-uploaded-by/Lulusword. If you look at its history, it keeps adding and deleting the same images, I don't know if that is normal or an error. Also, I have added a few new images requiring license review but it wasn't updated there automatically, so I wonder if this is related. Can you look into it? Thanks for your help :) Lulusword (talk) 16:02, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
- I apologize for late reply, but I'm on a break right now. The issue can not be fixed right now because of a bug in pywikibot, the API interface to commons' mediawiki installation. I will probably fix the issue later when I have time. -- Eatcha (talk) 14:30, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).
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17:04, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐
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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 choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [64]
- You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [65]
- Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [66]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [67]
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
- There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [68]
- Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the
watchlisttowatchwill still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [69] - Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [70]
- CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [71]
- There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).
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15:40, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
{{!}}
special:diff/440433375 caused an error because your bot replaced {{!}} with |.--RZuo (talk) 10:14, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- fixed in this commit. Thanks for reporting. -- Eatcha (talk) 14:08, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi Eatcha, you bot removes messages posted by others: [72]. You should make sure that this cannot happen. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 09:38, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
- @AFBorchert, I have made changes that would make the bot wait for atleast 5 minutes after the deletion. Thanks.-- Eatcha (talk) 12:35, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Eatcha, well that would lessen the probability of vanishing messages due to edit conflicts. But I think it would be best if you could make sure that this does not happen. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 13:08, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
- @AFBorchert It's hard to believe but I don't think this mess could have been avoided. The script grabs old text here and on this line the script is saving the page with the new-text. All of this is done in less than 5 seconds(worst network delays/problems), usually 1 or 2 seconds. I can't fix it and keep using pywikibot, faster read-write access is required. The diff you provided shows that both the edits were made at 09:13. More interesting fact is Mediawiki failed to raise Edit Conflict Error and instead accepted the bot's problematic edit.
TL;DR : I can't fix it. I've optimized the code, but still no guarantees. Sorry. -- Eatcha (talk) 17:01, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
- @AFBorchert It's hard to believe but I don't think this mess could have been avoided. The script grabs old text here and on this line the script is saving the page with the new-text. All of this is done in less than 5 seconds(worst network delays/problems), usually 1 or 2 seconds. I can't fix it and keep using pywikibot, faster read-write access is required. The diff you provided shows that both the edits were made at 09:13. More interesting fact is Mediawiki failed to raise Edit Conflict Error and instead accepted the bot's problematic edit.
- Hi Eatcha, well that would lessen the probability of vanishing messages due to edit conflicts. But I think it would be best if you could make sure that this does not happen. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 13:08, 18 January 2021 (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 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).
Future changes
- The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [73]
- MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.
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16:08, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Problematic youtubereview
special:diff/440449718 this edit changed the author info wrongly.--RZuo (talk) 10:02, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- @RZuo IIRC, these were cache errors. The problem has been fixed. I was under impression that I had manually reverted all the erroneous bot edits, but I was wrong. -- Eatcha (talk) 10:38, 25 January 2021 (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
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [74][75]
Changes later this week
- Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [76]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
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18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
Deletion notification bot
At User_talk:Fæ#File:View of Istanbul with sailboats on the water and Galata Tower in the distance LCCN2010650595.tif, the bot has left a badly substituted notice using template transclusion syntax only for use within templates. Consequently the edit tab in the subtitle does not enable me to edit my own page, but redirects to the template.
Can you fix this please, it is misleading and corrupts user talk pages. --Fæ (talk) 20:21, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- I've stopped the bot for a while. I will let you know when this is fixed. Thanks for reporting -- Eatcha (talk) 08:18, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Problematic youtubereview
special:diff/440449718 this edit changed the author info wrongly.--RZuo (talk) 10:02, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- @RZuo IIRC, these were cache errors. The problem has been fixed. I was under impression that I had manually reverted all the erroneous bot edits, but I was wrong. -- Eatcha (talk) 10:38, 25 January 2021 (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
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [77][78]
Changes later this week
- Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [79]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
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18:29, 25 January 2021 (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
- Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page
Special:EditGrowthConfig. [80] - Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add
.ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; }to your common.css page. [81]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [82][83]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting,thumbnail sizeandauto-number headingscan be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.- A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [84][85]
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16:30, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 2 July 2021 (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.
Tech News
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.
Recent changes
- AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON.
Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPagehas moved toWikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSONandWikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config.Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Versionhas moved toWikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [86]
Problems
- InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from
archive.istoweb.archive.org. [87]
Changes later this week
- The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [88][89]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [90]
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17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
File: Stada.jpg
Please remove all your complaints about this file, since it is officially registered as a free work: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stada.jpg AKU-47 (talk) 14:08, 21 June 2021 (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
otrs-membergroup name is nowvrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [91]
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [92]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).
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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
- Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [93]
- Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [94]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
- German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [95]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [96][97]
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File:Amit shah official portrait.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that.
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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 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).
Future changes
- The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [98][99][100]
- Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for
Beduszdoesn't findBęduszon German Wikipedia. The characteręisn't used in German so many would writeeinstead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [101] - The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [102][103]
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20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
-- Eatcha (talk) 18:10, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
DRBot - Issue on VP
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=589066179#Lack_of_deletion_notifications -- Eatcha (talk) 07:23, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Done -- Eatcha (talk) 15:11, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Archival of this page
Hi again. This page is watched by me and 68 others. The next time you go on an archival spree, please consider using a bot account, or at least making the edits minor. Thank you. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 15:11, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
- Ok -- Eatcha (talk) 15:13, 14 October 2021 (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
- Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
- 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
- Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (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 Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).
Future changes
- Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [104]
- The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [105]
Meetings
- You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.
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20:06, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
FPCBot
I believe you are able to make fixes or improvements to FPCBot. I've been running my own code on the FPC archives, which is C# but I stole some of the FPCbot regexp and logic. The FPCbot strips out text between the <s> tags and <nowiki> tags. However, I have seen some rare variants where people used <strike> and <del>. The former is technically deprecated but still works, and the latter has different semantics but mostly looks identical. In this FAC the bot failed to notice the neutral vote had been struck. I fixed it manually. -- Colin (talk) 15:24, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
- @Colin Thanks for reporting the issue. Fixed in https://github.com/Zitrax/FPCBot/pull/29 -- Eatcha (talk) 09:42, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
- Wow, that was quick for something rare. I'll let you know if there are any other issues I find. I have discovered even more support/oppose/templates that have been used in the past, and could be added if we wanted to catch them in future. But I think most people have settled on the standard ones. -- Colin (talk) 10:05, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Deletion Notification Bot
I have a question specifically about this bot; surely the Help Desk is not the place to go, so I came here.
I notified an uploader of a mass deletion request by copying the markup provided in the deletion request instructions. The bot then notified the uploader again. What happened? Brianjd (talk) 09:46, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
- Fixed. See https://gitlab.com/Bd9a119b5d05019d7c923207398ef3c3/DeletionNotificationBot/-/commit/7039a4574cced9cc2891a29ef28d2ec4b0ebfa3f -- Eatcha (talk) 10:04, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Bot eating assessments
Hi again, can you do anything about your bot eating assessments like in this edit? — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 16:58, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for notifying, I'm busy and can't fix the bug. I've commented out the cronjob. -- Eatcha (talk) 18:42, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks, and you're welcome. Enjoy your break. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 18:57, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
- DO NOT ARCHIVE NOW Eatcha (talk) 15:17, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [106]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).
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20:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
FM Promotion
This file has been promoted to Featured media!
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FM Promotion
This file has been promoted to Featured media!
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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
- Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [107][108]
Changes later this week
- Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [109]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.
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20:34, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐
File:Drone video Nijmegen bgm libvpx-vp9 libopus.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project. |
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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
- Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "
stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.
Problems
- Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [110]
- There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [111]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).
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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐
File:Mating dragonflies - nosound - stabilized.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project. |
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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 21 November 2021 (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
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.
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20:00, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedia Sound Logo project
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Hello, the Wikimedia sound logo project is in an early development phase -- this stage is for asking all kinds of questions, developing and fielding ideas, finding themes and shaping the direction of the project. Here is a link to the meta page for the project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo Your input is welcome. Thank you. | |
VGrigas (WMF) (talk) 19:01, 29 November 2021 (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 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (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
- MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
- At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at
Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project. - The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008),
action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [112] - An old ResourceLoader module,
jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch tomediawiki.storageinstead. [113]
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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
SignBot
Hi again. SignBot has been silent since this edit 17:00, 29 November 2021 (UTC). Please check on it. — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 05:23, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Jeff G. I notice that in SignBot's absence, users have been adding {{Unsigned}} without a timestamp. With no timestamp, the reply tool does not work. I notified one user, then noticed another; I can't warn everyone. Do you have any better ideas? Brianjd (talk) 07:12, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Brianjd: I have made the following example edits: 1 2. When making an addition, we could include in the Edit Summary something like "|11:05, 7 December 2021 for User:Example". — Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me 11:05, 7 December 2021 (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 are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,
[[WB:]]will go to the local language default for the[[Project:]]namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [114]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).
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22:25, 13 December 2021 (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.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.
Recent changes
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (
<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [115]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
- The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [116]
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22:03, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy holidays 2021/2022!
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