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The Signpost: 5 February 2018

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Tech News: 2018-06

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [1]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [2]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [3]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [4]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [5]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [6]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [7]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [9][10]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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 changes

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [11][12][13]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [14]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [15]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [17]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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

Recent changes

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [18][19]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [20]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [21]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [22][23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [24]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:54, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2018

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Bot

Just another poke about the bot. Any chance you could even just repost the code to a repo somewhere. I know you are totally busy with school and crap right now but you would be really helping the wiki if you could help us with this so I can get the bot/a bot running while you are away. -DJSasso (talk) 12:32, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for the extended delay, I have sent an email with further instructions about the repo. From what I remember, work on the current iteration of the bot (which was in turn derived from Chris G's and Bluegoblin7's code) started when revscoring/ORES was just recently introduced, so it relies on an extremely outdated patchwork of custom python scripts and a modified (and ancient) revscoring library. I have restarted the bot for now, and will look into locating the python dependencies. Chenzw  Talk  10:17, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

I missed seeing your bot in #cvn-simplewikis. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. _{Vermont | reply here} 11:08, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Cool good to see it back. Hope you are doing well. -DJSasso (talk) 01:09, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Hope this message from me didn't cause you to rekindle an addiction since I see you back quite a bit now. lol... -DJSasso (talk) 16:44, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Well, won't be as much of an addiction as it used to be ;) I will probably be editing within much more predictable time periods rather than randomly throughout the whole day. Chenzw  Talk  16:47, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Apparently the bot has an extra colon in its signature?? There is another user going around removing colons from the bots sigs. -DJSasso (talk) 02:34, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

That signature problem was a while ago. I'm pretty sure Chenzw fixed it a few months ago. hiàn 04:16, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, it was a change in the MediaWiki parser which led to the issue. I am not sure how many pages are affected, but will find the time to run them through AWB (w/ flag) this weekend instead, because the current series of fixes are triggering new messages banners everywhere. Chenzw  Talk  11:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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 changes

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [25]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [26][27]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [28]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [29][30][31]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [32]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [33][34]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Cutler vandal

Sorry for the attention Cutler has been paying to Simple of late. I'm not entirely sure why he shifted focus from en to here, I'm not aware of any edit filter setup to block him (although I should request one...). As a thought, nearly all of his posts include a link to a specific honorstates page. Would it be possible to add that specific link to either a spam list or bot revert list? I'm not familiar enough with this site to know what vandal tools are available here. I'm trying to search for this person's name and usually one of the case numbers a couple of times a day, but he's gone into overdrive of late. Just some thoughts. Thanks! Ravensfire (talk) 17:30, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the prod! I have finally set aside some time to create filter 70. Chenzw  Talk  00:53, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Awesome - thank you! Ravensfire (talk) 02:49, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

中文維基語錄機械人除權預告/ Notification of pending suspension of bot permissions due to inactivity from zh.wikiquote

• 經查，閣下機械人已經寂伏多年。如果一週以後，無所回應，則會提案至元維基申請除權。特此通知。
• Your bot has been inactive for years. If there's no reply by one week I'll request the removal of the permissions at Meta.
• Wong128hk (talk) 11:40, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

English

My phone is problem — Preceding unsigned comment added by Intazrosulahmed (talk • contribs) 16:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Block to 164.166.223.23

Hello. 164.166.223.23 is vandalizing Zebra many times in a short period of time. Can you block the IP address and semi-protect Zebra? Psl85 ^Talk 17:37, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Psl85: The user has been blocked for a week. There is no need to semiprotect the page. Please make this kind of report at WP:VIP instead of on individual admins' talk pages. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:28, 28 February 2018 (UTC)