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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 see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers. [1]
- Everyone can now see Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [2]
- ORES can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES to recognize damaging edits. [3]
Changes this week
- You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page.
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18:06, 5 December 2016 (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
- Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use Special:EmailUser to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it. [5]
- You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [6]
- Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [7]
Problems
- Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [8]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (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 December 13 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
European Handball Championships
changeHello Chenzw,
I only make the wiki better with this results of the European Handball Championships, Why it's an problem? Europeanfret (talk) 08:43, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- You cannot directly copy and paste text from the English Wikipedia. Chenzw Talk 09:05, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Can someone please block these users? They're continuing to vandalize others' talk pages. Also, semi-protect my talk page please. Angela Maureen (talk) 22:09, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delay. Looks like Auntof6 attended to it while I was away. Chenzw Talk 03:00, 17 December 2016 (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 9 January 2017.
- The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!
Recent changes
- Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English. [9]
Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function {{#statements: }}to get formatted data. You can also use{{#property: }}to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua. [10]
Problems
- Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [11]
Changes this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
- The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results.
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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Any help?
changeDo you know where I can get some help editing these Kanye West articles? Thanks. Wackslas (talk) 11:46, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- What kind of help do you need specifically? You might want to try asking on WP:ST. Chenzw Talk 11:56, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- All the album articles need fixing and expanding. I think whoever created them just copied and pasted from English Wikipedia because there's loads of dead links. Wackslas (talk) 15:45, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 December 2016
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- Year in review: Looking back on Wikimedia's 2016
- Special report: German Wikipedia ArbCom implodes amid revelation of member's far-right political role
- Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues
- Featured content: The pre-Christmas edition
- Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
- Recent research: One study and several abstracts
False positive
changeThis edit was a productive one. Without it, the page is actually false. 2602:306:B89C:A000:C49:2694:15BF:DD96 (talk) 18:08, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for reporting this! I will add this to the bot's database. Chenzw Talk 18:13, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- It's probably worth pointing out to User:2602 (etc.) that under most circumstances, "number" would be preferred to "integer" on this wiki as being considered simpler. Cases like this where integer is, well, integral to the meaning (sorry) are relatively less common. StevenJ81 (talk) 19:47, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- I considered that, but it really does only work for integers. That's why I made a wikilink. 2602:306:B89C:A000:A9FC:17A7:554B:5BD4 (talk) 05:25, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- No, you're 100% right in this case. I'm just suggesting why Chenzw's bot would tend to find something like this here. No worries. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:51, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Oh! Okay, I misunderstood. It's just that "integer" wasn't actually in the edit that got reverted; here's the diff between it and the previous. All I did was clarify that 'n' has to be positive, which I think is even more simple than "integer". 2602:306:B89C:A000:C86C:5831:AF6F:A30F (talk) 01:27, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- No, you're 100% right in this case. I'm just suggesting why Chenzw's bot would tend to find something like this here. No worries. StevenJ81 (talk) 16:51, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- I considered that, but it really does only work for integers. That's why I made a wikilink. 2602:306:B89C:A000:A9FC:17A7:554B:5BD4 (talk) 05:25, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- It's probably worth pointing out to User:2602 (etc.) that under most circumstances, "number" would be preferred to "integer" on this wiki as being considered simpler. Cases like this where integer is, well, integral to the meaning (sorry) are relatively less common. StevenJ81 (talk) 19:47, 28 December 2016 (UTC)