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Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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  The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria

  • New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

hat collector bot

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Hi Rschen, just a heads-up that hat-collector has been down (disconnected in a netsplit and didn't come back) for a few hours now. Thanks, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 03:50, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

@L235: I've restarted it, let me know if it doesn't work. BTW, I'm hoping to find a new maintainer for this, as I am not really able to keep it running that effectively. --Rschen7754 04:13, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! I'd happy to help with maintenance if I'm qualified to. Does that just involve occasionally running commands and keeping a server up, or does it also involve writing updates to the code, etc.? Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 04:35, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
You just need to have an account on Labs and know some basic Linux/Unix. If you know basic Python, you can edit the code, but you only need to do that to add new features or if WMF made a breaking change to the IRC feed. I think the latest how-to is at [1]. --Rschen7754 04:59, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Alright. I'm wikitech:User:Lixxx235; already have a tools account. (Catch you on IRC sometime and we can discuss.) Thanks, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 05:11, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
I'll send you an email since I probably won't be on IRC until after my vacation. It should be straightforward. --Rschen7754 05:21, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-25

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

  • Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [2]

Changes this week

  • The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [3][4]
  • Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [5]
  • When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [6]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Recovering Template:Jct/city

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I would like to know if there is someway to recover the Template:Jct/city page from Wikipedia. I had noticed you had deleted it since it was unnecessary when everything went to Lua. I am trying to copy the Template:Jct series to Wikia to use it for highway templates there; however, Wikia is not compatible with the new Lua system. The most recent pre-Lua version of Template:Jct requires Template:Jct/city. I hope you can help. Thanks and God bless! Matthewshill (talk) 19:42, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

I've pasted the contents below. --Rschen7754 00:18, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

{{#if:{{{city1|}}}{{{location1|}}}| – {{#if:{{{location1|}}}|{{{location1|}}}|[[{{{city1}}}{{#if:{{{areadab1|}}}| ({{{areadab1}}})}}{{#if:{{{countydab1|}}}|, {{{countydab1}}} County}}{{#if:{{{statename|}}}|, {{{statename}}}}}|{{{city1}}}]]}}|}}<!-- -->{{#if:{{{city2|}}}{{{location2|}}}|, {{#if:{{{location2|}}}|{{{location2|}}}|[[{{{city2}}}{{#if:{{{areadab2|}}}| ({{{areadab2}}})}}{{#if:{{{countydab2|}}}|, {{{countydab2}}} County}}{{#if:{{{statename|}}}|, {{{statename}}}}}|{{{city2}}}]]}}|}}<!-- -->{{#if:{{{city3|}}}{{{location3|}}}|, {{#if:{{{location3|}}}|{{{location3|}}}|[[{{{city3}}}{{#if:{{{areadab3|}}}| ({{{areadab3}}})}}{{#if:{{{countydab3|}}}|, {{{countydab3}}} County}}{{#if:{{{statename|}}}|, {{{statename}}}}}|{{{city3}}}]]}}|}}<!-- -->{{#if:{{{city4|}}}{{{location4|}}}|, {{#if:{{{location4|}}}|{{{location4|}}}|[[{{{city4}}}{{#if:{{{areadab4|}}}| ({{{areadab4}}})}}{{#if:{{{countydab4|}}}|, {{{countydab4}}} County}}{{#if:{{{statename|}}}|, {{{statename}}}}}|{{{city4}}}]]}}|}}

Thanks! I really appreciate it. Thanks and God bless. Matthewshill (talk) 16:21, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Hollywood Freeway

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Hello Rschen7754，

Do you have any idea about Talk:Hollywood_Freeway#South_End? AndyHe829 (talk) 09:48, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-26

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 ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [7]
  • The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [8]
  • A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [9]

Problems

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
  • The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [12]

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

Future changes

  • The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [13]
  • An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [14]
  • The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [15][16][17]
  •   From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [18]
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [19]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

District 4 Santa Clara County

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Are there any archive newspapers for Santa Clara County? e.g. San Jose Mercury News, etc. Kevon kevono (talk) 18:00, 18 June 2016 (UTC) 11:00 (PDT)

@Kevon kevono: I think San Jose Mercury News is available but I would have to look again when I have more time. Remind me if I forget. --Rschen7754 08:25, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-27

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

  • A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [20]

Changes this week

  • The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [21]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-28

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

  • A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [22][23][24]
  • Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [25][26][27]
  • Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [28][29][30]

Problems

  • On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [31]
  • Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (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 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

API change will break your bot

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User:HWY Shield Bot was using http:// (instead of https://) to access the API over the weekend. This is going to completely break soon (~12 to 24 hours from now). You can find more information in this e-mail message from May. If you need help updating your code to use https:// , then you might be able to find some help at w:en:Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard or on the mailing list. Good luck, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:13, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

@Whatamidoing (WMF): I fixed this about halfway through the run. In the future though, there has to be some better way to publicize this change, because I was only able to figure out what was going on after doing some digging in mailing list archives because I suspected that there was some breaking API change that I didn't know about. --Rschen7754 18:12, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
The mailing list announcement is the "official" method, but most editors (including me) don't keep up with the mailing lists. It's been on WP:BOTN for about two months, but I know a lot of bot operators don't watch that (especially people who don't edit the English Wikipedia regularly). I think it was mentioned once in Tech News (but not this week? That's probably my fault). What's a good way to reach people like you? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:47, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Part of the problem is that this is a Commons bot, so I had no reason to look at the enwiki bot noticeboard. Maybe next time run the error message for longer, and link to an explanation of the change in the error message? --Rschen7754 00:36, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
That's a great idea. I'll find out if Ops can do that.
My feeling overall is that most of my time on Commons seemed to end up on Fæ and Steinsplitter's talk pages. (Fæ is unfortunately losing some bots over this, and Steinsplitter was awesome about helping people fix things.) Does Commons have the equivalent of WP:BOTN? It's not linked in the sidebar here (but that doesn't prove anything). Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:49, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
A link has been added to the error message. Thank you again for this idea; I hope that it saves someone else some frustration.
I'm also looking for a good place to record this suggestion, in the hope that the next time something affects the API, someone will have seen your idea and will follow the suggestion. If you've got ideas about where to document this, then please "Be bold" and add it yourself. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:42, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-29

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

  • On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [35][36]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
  • Special:Log now has a help link. [37]
  • The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

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 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  •   You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [38]

Future changes

  • User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [39][40]
  •   Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [41]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Rschen. A summary of a Featured Article you nominated will appear on the Main Page soon. The TFA text mostly follows the lead section; how does it look? - Dank (push to talk) 20:11, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

It looks fine, though I suspect some talk page stalkers may catch stuff I didn't. --Rschen7754 04:19, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Congratulations Dave (talk) 17:21, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

FYI

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[42] I agree with this edit, IMO the speed limits section is getting wily and needs to be pruned. May I ask what was the reason for reverting this? Dave (talk) 00:44, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps there's some in between that would be better. I agree that it is getting long, but I don't think the solution is to remove all the roads entirely. --Rschen7754 00:55, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 July 2016

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Honest question

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Will there be another role call at USRD? Some of the listed members have been inactive for at least a year, accounts banned, accounts renamed, etc Cards84664 (talk) 04:47, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

@Imzadi1979: who usually handles this sort of thing. --Rschen7754 04:49, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
It might be worth doing again sometime in the future, Cards84664. The last time we did it, we sent out a special edition of the newsletter to every project member asking them to confirm their status. We had done that in the process of consolidating the various subproject membership lists into the single main project list though.
Accounts which have been renamed can be changed at any time by anyone willing to check them. Accounts which are indefinitely banned can also be removed, although bans with a definite end point should not be removed as they'd need to be restored once the ban ends. Inactives, well, anyone could switch the status and leave them in the list, again if someone were willing to volunteer to go through the list. Imzadi 1979 → 05:29, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-30

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

Problems

  • Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [44]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
  • It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [45]
  • Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [46]

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 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  •   You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [47]

Future changes

  • The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [48]
  • Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [49]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

SoCal Wiki-Dinner August 4

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You can sign up here: Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/10.--Pharos (talk) 16:25, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-31

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

  • A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [50]
  • The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

  • Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [51]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 August 2016

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Tech News: 2016-32

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

  • In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon ( ) to a tray icon ( ) for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [52]

Problems

  • If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [53]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [54]
  • On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [55]
  • When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [56]
  • The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [57]
  • When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [58]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
  • A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [59]

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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Template:NLinttop missing description details

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Dear editor: The Template you made as Template:NLinttop is missing a Template Documentation and/or other details on its Template page. If possible, please add this information. This will help other editors to make better use of the template, and it will be more informative for readers. If you have any questions please see Wikipedia:Template documentation. Thank you.

MorbidEntree - (Talk to me! (っ◕‿◕)っ♥)(please reply using {{ping}}) 18:03, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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

Problems

  • Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [60]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [61]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [62][63]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [64]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [65]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [66][67]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [68]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [69]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 August 2016

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Proposed FAC mentoring scheme

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Following discussions on the WP:FAC talkpage and with the agreement of the FAC coordinators, Mike Christie and I have finalized a "page of instructions" relating to the proposed voluntary mentoring scheme for new FAC nominators. The final draft can be viewed here.

We hope to begin the scheme shortly, on a trial basis. However, I think it would be unwise to go live until we have around a dozen or so potential mentors signed up – I hope many more than that will sign eventually. As your contribution to the discusssion indicated that you generally favoured the idea of a voluntary mentoring scheme, I am now inviting you to add your name to the list of possible mentors on the instruction page. I emphasize that the extent to which you commit yourself to this scheme is entirely a matter for you; you incur no specific obligation by adding your name. If anything about the scheme is not clear to you, please drop me a note and I'll try to explain. Brianboulton (talk) 11:41, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

@Brianboulton: Thanks for letting me know! I mainly review road articles (which are served by WP:HWY/ACR), so I'm not sure that adding my name to the list would be too helpful. I would love to mentor other subjects, but sadly I don't feel that I have the time. --Rschen7754 18:03, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
I fully understand. However, I would point out that you and you alone would decide when you mentor. Your name would be a valued addition to the list, even if you are not active immediately. Brianboulton (talk) 19:24, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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

Recent changes

  • The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [70]
  •   The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [71]
  •   The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [72]

Problems

  • Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [73]
  • When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [74]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [75][76]
  • How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [77]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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

  • Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [78]
  • When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [79]

Changes this week

  • The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [80][81]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

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16:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Portal:California Roads

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Portal:California Roads has been promoted to Featured Portal status per the discussion at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:California Roads. Thanks for your work in expanding the portal. North America1000 03:57, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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  The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

  • New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
  • Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
  • TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
  • OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

Read the full newsletter

The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-36

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

  • Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [82]
  • Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [83]
  •   When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [84]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [85][86]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [87][88]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 September 2016

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Tech News: 2016-37

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

  • The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [90]
  • <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [91][92]

Changes this week

  • The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [93]
  •   A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [94][95]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [98]

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22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

 

Hello, Rschen7754. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

  • Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
  • A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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Tech News: 2016-39

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

  • If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [99]
  • When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [100]
  • Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [101]

Problems

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [104]

Meetings

Future changes

  •   Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [105]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Activity note

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For the next several weeks I will have reduced activity due to real-life matters. I will check in every few days, but anything time sensitive should be sent elsewhere. --Rschen7754 05:34, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 September 2016

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Tech News: 2016-40

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

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [106]
  • <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [107]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikiconference

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Hi RSCHEN,

Are you attending the Wikipedia conference in downtown San Diego this weekend?

AndyHe829 (talk) 18:32, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

@AndyHe829: I was unable to make it due to some personal matters, but I do know other USRD members are there. --Rschen7754 18:41, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
@AndyHe829: I'm here at the library now attending the conference. Imzadi 1979 → 23:13, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
@Imzadi1979 (public): Sorry I missed your message today and for personal reason I will not attend the conference on Sunday. I just wanted to say Hi to you guys. But let us keep in contact in the future in Wikipedia and make highway articles better! AndyHe829 (talk) 04:55, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-41

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

  • You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using {{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using {{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [108]
  • The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [109]
  • Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [110]

Changes this week

  • Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor. <!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. --> [111]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [112]

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20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 October 2016

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [113]
  • Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [114]

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [115]

Future changes

  • The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-43

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

Problems

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
  • The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [117]
  • About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [118]
  • Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.

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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-44

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

  • Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [119]
  • Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [120]
  • The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [121]

Changes this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
  • Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" field when editing templates. [122]
  • Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [123]

Future changes

  •   New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [124]

Miscellaneous

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 19

  The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
  • New Library Card Platform and Conference news
  • Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

Read the full newsletter



19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Double redirect task

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I am a bit puzzled how you reached the conclusion you posted on the permissions request. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 04:38, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

It's reflective of a typical pattern I've seen on this wiki and globally, where people think that they are doing this invaluable task, are using it as an excuse to get high-powered rights, and won't take no for an answer or don't respond to criticism well. (Think Technical 13, Betacommand...) Seeing your exchange with Savh only confirms my feeling. --Rschen7754 05:18, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
I do not agree but hey, you are entitled to your opinion. I merely answered Savh's questions. Savh does not wish the problem to be resolved by bots or humans. You can imagine how that is counter productive. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 13:29, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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