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Tech News: 2016-31

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

Recent changes

• A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [1]
• The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

• Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [2]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• The next CREDIT showcase will be on 3 August at 18:00 (UTC). This is to present and comment on new gadgets, small projects and works in progress. See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "notifications in core". The meeting will be on 3 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Archiving

I've noticed that WP:AN hasn't been archived in some time. I know that the bot doesn't run constantly, but the page has settings that appear to set the archive time at 21 days. It has been 29 days since any changes were made to one of the topics, and more than a month on another. Did something happen to the bot? Etamni | ✉ | ✓  09:40, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Indeed, the bot seems to have stopped around late-July. For now, I have initiated one round of archiving with ChenzwBot to clear the archiving backlog. Poking Barras. Chenzw  Talk  10:36, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

LOL, I couldn't recall which bot did the regular archiving -- but figured you'd know. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  10:45, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Woops, restarting it now. I forgot to check the status. For some reason I need to make it re-logging in every months... -Barras talk 16:34, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

The bot is working again, thanks for the ping, Chenzw :) -Barras talk 16:55, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 August 2016

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Editorial: Wikipedia policy suppresses sharing of information

• News and notes: Foundation presents results of harassment research, plans for automated identification; Wikiconference submissions open

• In the media: Paid editing service announced; Commercial exploitation of free images; Wikipedia as a crystal ball; Librarians to counter systemic bias

• Obituary: Kevin Gorman, who took on Wikipedia's gender gap and undisclosed paid advocacy, dies at 24

• Traffic report: Summer of Pokémon, Trump, and Hillary

• Featured content: Woman and Hawaii

• Recent research: Easier navigation via better wikilinks

• Blog: All-new notifications page helps Wikimedians focus on what matters most

• Technology report: User script report (January to July 2016, part 1)

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 23:34, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Typo fiixing progress

I finished the first and second files on the list you told me about. The next time I work on them, I will start on the third one, unless you want to tell me different. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:41, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Oh, please go ahead! I haven't had much time lately to process the typos, and am still stuck on the last list... Chenzw  Talk  08:00, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

ChenzwBot

Seems like, ChenzwBot is encountering some cosmetic bugs [3] [4] Could you please fix the problem? — MBlaze Lightning 17:19, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Chenzw, I think Mblaze is referring to the seemingly broken messages left by the bot, not to anything the bot reverted. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:42, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

yes! — MBlaze Lightning 17:49, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for alerting me to this! I am glad the bot hasn't reverted a lot of edits yet. This problem is related to the recent migration to using bot passwords; I have fixed it now. Chenzw  Talk  02:46, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-32

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

• In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [5]

Problems

• If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [6]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [7]
• On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [8]
• When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [9]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [10]
• When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [11]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
• A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [12]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:40, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Thank You!

Thank you for moving the page 'Ninjago:Masters of Spinjitzu' into 'Lego Ninjago:Masters of Spinjitzu'. Even though I created the page but thanks for your contributions. Beni Bavuwu Lunkeba (talk) 17:49, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Template:Pokeinfoboxsmall

An editor has requested deletion of Template:Pokeinfoboxsmall, an article you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Please comment on the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2016/Template:Pokeinfoboxsmall and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also change the article during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns. But you should not remove the requests for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you very much. Auntof6 (talk) 06:15, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Liederbach

Is there a direct contact to the nights of the round table with the liederbach name. I have documents of my family in house and may have used a different name for a cover on secret meetings. Let me know Thanks Marc

Mliederb (talk) 04:21, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

@Mliederb: Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about. Please try Talk:Knights of the Round Table or WP:ST. Chenzw  Talk  05:13, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Jutland‎

thank you bro. can u please tall what kind of information is considered as genuine and can be posted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nishannt (talk • contribs)

They must be supported by reliable sources, especially when multiple editors have disagreed with the information that you added. Chenzw  Talk  13:58, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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

• Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [13]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [14]
• For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [15][16]

Changes this week

• The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [17]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [18]
• In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [19][20]
• The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [22]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for pointing out the attack names. All now suppressed.--Peterdownunder (talk) 00:56, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

< nowiki > ?

Uhh... do you mind if I remove the < nowiki > tag from that education section of the article about Arkansas? --Turkeybutt JC (talk) 14:13, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

I don't understand your question. The nowiki tag has already been removed (by me). Chenzw  Talk  14:19, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Oh, I see it now; looks like I missed one. Please feel free to remove it anytime you wish. Chenzw  Talk  14:24, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Is chewez-bot opensource?

Where can I submit pull requests?

What do you want to change? Chenzw  Talk  04:13, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Carmelo B. Pisani

I have to express such a deep dissappointment: it was a clear-cut totally unrealiable text added by someone who uses hundreds of sockpuppets at simple.wiki also. But the worst part was this: a long-term abuser sockpuppet were left free to insult and vote, without being reported for lock. Finally such a crappy text was left untouched, with such bright howlers like " the "Black shirt" (Camicie Nere) movement" or "Map of Malta in the XVI century, when Italian was declared the official language by the Knights of Malta" to illustrate a XX century historical fact. Finally the title: it was simply fictional: just a way to escape from watching list(s). --Vituzzu (talk) 00:02, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

I am sorry that the situation has come to this, but the deletion policy does not provide for deletion of such an article without having achieved consensus first. While I can't comment (and don't know a thing) about the sockpuppeting, I should note that the local community is largely unaware as well, and we need the guidance of other editors who are familiar with the situation and to point out and explain the problems. Had ForPisani's vote been struck out in the RFD, it is likely that there would still have been a consensus to keep the article. Chenzw  Talk  05:28, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [23]
• The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [24]
• The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [25]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [26]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [27]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [28][29]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [30]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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

• Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [31]
• When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [32]

Changes this week

• The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [33][34]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:59, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

User talk:69.115.64.208

Hello, my name is Sjoerddebruin and I'm sysop on Wikidata. I'm wondering if you have more information about the above user for me, as he's doing the same stuff on our project, adding sensitive unsourced information to items. Sjoerddebruin (talk) 17:24, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I have sent you an email with some information. Please let me know if there's anything else that I can help with. Chenzw  Talk  00:00, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Patrol request

Hello Chenzw, you might wanna check this out. Thank you! Oluwa2Chainz (talk) 00:07, 31 August 2016 (UTC)