User talk:Pkbwcgs/Archive/June 2018

Tech News: 2018-23

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 MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [1]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [2][3]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [4]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (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 5 June 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 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [6][7]

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21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British Rail Class 700

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article British Rail Class 700 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RonaldDuncan -- RonaldDuncan (talk) 14:40, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi I have carried out a review, and have a number of minor improvements that I have suggested. Please let me know when you have a chance to look.RonaldDuncan (talk) 15:13, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

@RonaldDuncan: Hi. I carried out some minor improvements to the article including fixing a bare URL and adding a link. I will continue to check this article. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:17, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

thanks for the changes. Just ran the link checker Some are broken see https://dispenser.info.tm/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webchecklinks.py?page=British_Rail_Class_700 RonaldDuncan (talk) 16:20, 5 June 2018 (UTC) PS some of the issues are just bugs in the linkchecker :( RonaldDuncan (talk) 16:25, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

@RonaldDuncan: I have pressed 'fix dead links' on the view history page so I'm hoping most of them should get fixed by InternetArchiveBot. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:04, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

With that edit, four links have been fixed but there are still a few dead links that have been detected by link checker which haven't been fixed. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:10, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: Thanks for the changes ref 14 ( ref name="bom" / ) still has links to rail.co which is now a spam site. There is also the link to the archived version of the article, please can you remove the links to the originalRonaldDuncan (talk) 11:14, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@RonaldDuncan:  Done Pkbwcgs (talk) 17:01, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: Thanks for the article I have reviewed it as a good article. ( I put back in the bom link but with the archive links :) ) RonaldDuncan (talk) 17:56, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@RonaldDuncan: Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 17:59, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of British Rail Class 700

The article British Rail Class 700 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:British Rail Class 700 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RonaldDuncan -- RonaldDuncan (talk) 18:01, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Australian road articles using deprecated parameters

Thanks for your interest in fixing deprecated parameters. I have actually reverted your three edits that removed |length_rnd=, as in those cases (road lengths greater than 10 mi) it isn't actually deprecated – the tracking was temporary to see how it was being used, and probably should have both used a separate category, and been removed much sooner than just now (which was my fault, since I was the one who added it). Thanks again, - Evad37 [talk] 01:41, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

@Evad37: Thanks for flagging this up. I thought of using AWB for this task but I held back because I didn't want to mess it up so I tried seeing if manual fixing it would work but if it didn't that's fine. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:32, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

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 the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [8]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [9]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [10]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [11][12]

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 12 June 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 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Pkbwcgs/Archive, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Tech News: 2018-25

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

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [13]

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 19 June 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 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [14][15]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [16][17]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [18]

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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Self-cleaning cats

Just as felines clean themselves, so Wikipedia cleanup categories do the same. It was totally unnecessary to send this and this to WP:CfD - by some mechanism that I do not understand, they seem to send themselves to CAT:CSD when they become empty. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 14:51, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

@RHaworth: Yesterday, the categories I sent for deletion were tagged for six years. Surely, this can't be right. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:13, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

No, they were not tagged for that long. Maintenance categories use Template:Monthly clean-up category, and they are automatically marked as G6 when they become empty. Primefac (talk) 15:26, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

@Primefac: Understood. I am still going through clean-up categories and found Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from August 2007 which looks like it is automatically tagged. However, why are already deleted maintenance categories recreated by a bot? Also, when these categories are tagged for deletion, which category do they come into. I tried looking at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion but it is not there. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:32, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

It's a maintenance category. If there's a page in the category, the cat should exist. If there are no pages in the category, the cat should be deleted. The bot does this automatically so that users don't have to. See User:AnomieBOT#Current (DatedCategoryCreator) and the related BRFA. Primefac (talk) 15:54, 24 June 2018 (UTC)