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Tech News: 2018-30

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

  • When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [1]
  • Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [2]
  • Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [3]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (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 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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

  • The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [4]

Problems

  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [5][6]
  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [7][8]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (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 31 July 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 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018

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Proposed deletion of Stefan Schaal

 

The article Stefan Schaal has been proposed for deletion. The proposed deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.

Tech News: 2018-32

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

Problems

  • The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [10][11]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

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 7 August 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 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

Recent changes

  •   CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [12]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 14 August 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 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [13]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

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Bots Newsletter, August 2018
 

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM
  • Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.
BAG
  • There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
  • In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.
BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

Also

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

New things

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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InceptionBot

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi there:

I am Wikimycota, an active editor in Chinese Wikipedia (zh-wiki). I currently maintain portal:fungi (and once portal:biology as well) in zh-wiki. One of the jobs we've been doing is to go through the long list of new pages daily to look for relevant articles for these portals. I just noticed that in en-wiki, this can be achieved by your bot pretty accurately. Is it possible for us to use your bot in zh-wiki? If so, I could create a bot account in zh-wiki, which could potentially run your code (with the "rules" for each portal set in Chinese) after approved by the local community. I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you in advance.--Wikimycota (talk) 09:19, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

@靖天子: I am not interested in adapting InceptionBot for other wikis. The program code is available on GitHub. --Bamyers99 (talk) 12:38, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (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 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Pacific spiny lumpsucker

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Thanks for reverting my edits at Pacific spiny lumpsucker, I forgot that the page I had in my userspace was linked because it was moved. Embarrassing! :) †Basilosauridae❯❯❯Talk 20:48, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

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

  • You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [15]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [16]

Problems

  • Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [17]

Changes later this week

  • The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [18]
  • AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [19]
  •   Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [20]
  •   Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [21]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (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 28 August 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 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2018

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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 12

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Newsletter • August 2018

This month: WikiProject X: The resumption

Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!

-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

  • There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [22][23]
  • There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [24][25]
  • You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [26]
  • wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [27]
  • When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [28]

Problems

  • UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [29]
  • You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [30]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Recurring errors on jazz cleanup listing

Latest comment: 6 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

The Cleanup Listing for Wikiproject Jazz has articles that continue to show up on the list, but I can't find the errors after spending hours, days, weeks, who knows, going over the page, making change after change to try to fix the problems. It's Time (Michael Bublé album) is said to have a "Web citation with no URL" but I can't find that error. Billy Cobham and The Jazz Messengers are listed under "Citation with format and no URL". I've never found those errors. In fact, the Cobham and Jazz Messengers articles are always on the list with problems I can't find. Do you have any ideas about this?
Vmavanti (talk) 03:12, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

The "no URL" error in It's Time (Michael Bublé album) is in this citation: ""IFPI Middle East Awards – 2008". IFPI Middle East." The red format errors were fixed by using |medium=, as explained in the documentation for {{cite AV media}}. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:51, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
@Vmavanti: The listings are generated from hidden categories in articles. These categories are included by maintenance templates or by normal templates that detect errors in their parameters. To turn on hidden category display at the bottom of each article, go to Preferences -> Appearance -> Advanced options -> Show hidden categories. --Bamyers99 (talk) 15:03, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
OK. Thanks. Thanks also to Jonesey95 for finding the errors. They seem obvious now.
Vmavanti (talk)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [32]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [33]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [34]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [35]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [36]
  • When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [37]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

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 11 Septmber 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 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [38]
  •   MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [39]

Problems

  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [40]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [41]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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21:57, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Jazz cleanup listing

Latest comment: 6 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Does the Wikiproject Jazz Cleanup Listing usually get released today? I haven't seen the new one.
Vmavanti (talk) 13:54, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Cleanup listing errors

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I added coordinates to several of the articles which continue to be listed on the Cleanup Listing under "Coordinates Needed". Similarly, I added the title to an article which continues to be listed under "citations without title." What happened? Did I do something wrong? These fixes don't seem to be acknowledged.
Vmavanti (talk) 18:04, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

@Vmavanti: The Sept. 11 run failed while processing projects that start with the letter L. I did not notice the failure at that time. When the Sept. 18 run started it finished the rest of the projects and did not process any others. I reran the listings for all projects today, however they are as of early Sept 18, meaning it did not process any article changes made after early Sept. 18. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:12, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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Changes later this week

  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [42]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Tree of Life

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I tried entering WikiProject Tree of Life at the CleanupWorklistBot Category Test, but it says "not found." --Nessie (talk) 16:43, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@NessieVL: I have added it to the configuration page. It required a category override because the category name is different from the WikiProject name, taxonomic instead of Tree of Life. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:18, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

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Tech News: 2018-40

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

Recent changes

  • Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [43][44]

Problems

  • New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [45][46]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 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 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Errors on jazz Cleanup Listing

Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Today's cleanup listing says that four articles need coordinates, but those articles already have coordinates: Lakeside Jazz Festival, Mellon Jazz Festival, Montreux Music & Convention Centre, Montreux Music & Convention Centre. It also lists "Sugar Plum (jazz song)", although that article was deleted last week. I haven't checked for any more errors.

Is the Cleanup Listing broken?
Vmavanti (talk) 23:36, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@Vmavanti: Note the headings that those articles are listed under: "Changes since last update" -> "Resolved articles". --Bamyers99 (talk) 00:47, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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

Problems

  • There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [48]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [49]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [50]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [51]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [52]
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

InceptionBot missed my article

Latest comment: 6 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

InceptionBot didn't log my new article on Prunus carduchorum to User:InceptionBot/NewPageSearch/Plants/log and User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult but it did add it to other pages such as User:AlexNewArtBot/KurdistanSearchResult. Is this unusual behavior for the bot? Abductive (reasoning) 17:05, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

@Abductive: I have fixed the rules to match categories that begin with flora and plant. The article now scores above the threshold. --Bamyers99 (talk) 17:27, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
Cool, glad to be of assistance. Abductive (reasoning) 17:31, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
@Abductive: InceptionBot missing new articles on organisms is going to be an ongoing issue as articles are increasingly written using {{Speciesbox}} or {{Automatic taxobox}}. There are several strings in a typical manual taxobox for a plant that generate score for InceptionBot; "plant", "angiosperm", "aceae". Some of these strings may not appear in an article at all if an automatic taxobox is used (I think the main reason Prunus carduchorum got missed was it doesn't mention the family with its "aceae" string).
Bamyers99, would it be a good idea to assign a few points for "speciesbox" and "automatic taxobox"? The obvious drawback is that these strings won't be specific to plants. Maybe it would be better to initiate a new report for articles on all organisms? I'm monitoring 12 organism related new article reports already anyway, and I'm pretty sure most of the people who are monitoring any of the organism reports are monitoring more than one. It might be easier to have a single report under Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life in addition to the existing reports. Plantdrew (talk) 18:53, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
It might also be useful for the bot to check for the keywords in the references. Abductive (reasoning) 18:59, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

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 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 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 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 October 2018

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Tech News: 2018-44

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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
  •   The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [53]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [54]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [55][56]

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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