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Tech News: 2019-36

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 use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [1]
• The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
• The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [2]
• The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [3]
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar).
• When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [5]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [6]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [7]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [8]
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [9]

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09:08, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

ChenzwBot

Hi Chenzw, your bot didn't edit for at least 10 days already, could you fix it? 大诺史 (Talk/留言/토론/Discussion) 14:15, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Sahara

• ChenzwBot reverted to a vandalised version of Sahara by reverting to an IP rather than last registered user. See 6 August 2019. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:11, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Unfortunately, that is a limitation of MediaWiki's rollback tool. Rollback reverts changes by one specific user. Incidentally, it also means that the bot didn't manage to detect the earlier diff as vandalism. Chenzw  Talk  11:38, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

chenzw i don't mean any offense but i'd appreciate if you picked to either be active or don't. Computer Fizz (talk) 08:13, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

I don't know what you are trying to insinuate here. Do you have a suggestion for what I should do? Chenzw  Talk  11:38, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Excuse me? Everyone is a volunteer here. We take as much activity as they can give. You have no idea what is going on in an editors life away from here. This was an extremely poor comment. -DJSasso (talk) 14:12, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Really Computer Fizz? I really think you ought to be polite and be thankful for the work they have done, there is no requirement for activity. So how about you take your disrespect and keep it to yourself! Your comment was uncalled for. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 15:12, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

I think I phrased my comment poorly. I wasn't trying to say that he needs to be more active, if he chooses not to that's fine. I meant that the wiki is in a weird situation where we "need" him. As for what I think chenzw should do, I think you should allow someone else to run the anti vandal bot. Probably not me though, i have no idea how to run a bot that complicated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Computer Fizz (talk • contribs)

I am sure if he didn't think he could be here anymore he would hand the bot over to someone like me and we would be ok. It hasn't been that big an issue so far. -DJSasso (talk) 16:47, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Computer Fizz, I can’t speak for everyone but I have full trust in Chenzw’s ability to make the right decisions when it comes to the bot. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 17:16, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

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Tech News: 2019-40

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's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all wikis from 3 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
• Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [11]

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16:49, 30 September 2019 (UTC)