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New template to replace magic words
Template:ISBN
I have ported over
w:Template:ISBN
and
w:Module:Check isxn
from en.wp.
Magic words
as links are being phased out and although we don't have to replace all instances of them now, they will all be removed from MediaWiki in 2017. See
mw:Requests_for_comment/Future_of_magic_links
. We currently have no entries in
Category:Pages using ISBN magic links
. —
Justin (
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03:13, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
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Pages to import
See
here
Evidently,
incubator:Category:Wq/or/wikisource
is hosting a work in Oriya which should probably be brought here. We currently have no Oriya texts. —
Justin (
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vf
00:46, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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Oriya language has been already granted with a wikisource workplace 2.5 years ago:
Oriya Wikisource
; may we ping their
village pump
--
C.R.
talk
10:12, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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C.R.
: Somehow, I had forgotten/overlooked that. How embarrassing. Thanks. —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:15, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
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Koavf
: don't worry, hehe ^^.. but if you can, please ping them, I am sure they will be very happy about arranging their old stuff--
C.R.
talk
14:38, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
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C.R.
: They were notified on their Scriptorium and I posted to the talk page of the only person with advanced user rights there. —
Justin (
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16:28, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
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OCR in Hindi
I want to do OCR in Hindi wikisource which I am doing in Bengali wikisource using python based GoogleOCR tool in Linux past 1 year.Pls help me to upload in Hindi same way. What wil be language code in config.ini? Is it 'mul' If not then pls help me.By any chance is it due to abuse filter(limitation of file upload for low contribution user)? I am new to Hindi wikisource pls help me. Its not uploading after doing OCR.
Sumita Roy Dutta
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04:35, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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moved to a separate section -
-jkb-
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09:09, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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This abusefilter entry concerns
file
uploads only. djvu/pdf are excluded from this limit. I do not know which settings you should use.
Ankry
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18:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2017-02
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Recent changes
You can now use
datasets on Commons
. You can
see an example
that is using
this source
[1]
There is a new opt-in beta feature of a
wikitext mode for the visual editor
. You can
try it out
When you update a page with translations on wikis with the
Translate extension
the existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed.
[2]
The
new version
of MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (
calendar
).
MoodBar
has been removed from the Wikimedia wikis.
[3]
The
live
option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated.
[4]
Problems
Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter
about:config
in the address bar and set
network.cookie.maxPerHost
to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox.
[5]
Changes this week
There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the
Wikimedia Developer Summit
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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
global rename for me on meta
fyi, on meta I have
requested
for the right of global renamer, which could be of good use for this project a s well. Regards
-jkb-
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19:50, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
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I have withdrawn my request, see
here
. Cheers
-jkb-
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00:40, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2017-03
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Recent changes
You can now upload
WebP files
to Commons.
[6]
Problems
video2commons
was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up.
[7]
Changes this week
There is a new
magic word
called
{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators.
[8]
When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu.
[9]
You will be able to use

to write chemical formulas. Before you could use


should be replaced by

[10]
You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on
Special:UncategorizedCategories
. The list is at
MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist
[11]
The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to
your personal CSS
#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }
You can change the number
50
to make it look like you want to.
[12]
Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as
127.0.0.1
. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from
MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason
. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on
Wikimedia Labs
, including
Tool Labs
will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in.
[13]
When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu.
[14]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (
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
January 17 at 20:00 (UTC)
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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Bot edits without a bot flag (problem and suggestion)
In last time there emerge more and more users who work (most probably) with a bot script (or bots without a flag), sometimes there are less then 100 Edits a day, but sometimes there are some more hundreds of edits a day, and on some days some two or three user are working this same way parallel. It is nice and good that we have such a edit amount and such good users, but I have more and more problems wirt it: when I have a look after this project so the recent changes are sometimes fully useless, and it possible to controll vandalism and other negative edits at all.
Time ago I spoke about this with User Satdeep Gill and I proposed that he requests a bot flag for his bot. He did - see
Wikisource:Administrators#User:Satdeepbot
(but: up to now there are no other votes or ideas from other users). My policy is since a very long time to grant as few wikisource bot flags as possible, but here we have a problem: the bot edits without a flag are disturbing the normal work here, if we prohibit it (or even block the accounts - omg no!), we disturb the work of good users.
Thus my proposal:
all users editing with bots or scripts limit their edits and do not more then approx 100 a day until we have a solution
all such user apply for a
temporary
bot flag at
Wikisource:Administrators#Requests for other rights
specifying for which sort of work and how long
when no objections within some 7 or 10 days, the bureaucrats will grant this bot flag for a time needed (if too short so it can be renewed) under the condition, that the flag will be used for the specified task. Bot edits without a flag will not be permited.
Satdeep Gill
Nitesh Gill
Sumita Roy Dutta
: - I hope I have all (if not so ping them pls) - for your information. OK?
-jkb-
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17:19, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
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I support.
Ankry
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12:39, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
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Unsourced vandalized(?) pages
Any hints what can we do with
such texts
? Unsourced, no author information, no copyright information,
recently vandalised
(?, or maybe it was an attempt to remove inappropriate text/copyright violation?),
the uploader
is inactive for few years.
Personally I refuse to revert last edit until I ensure the text is really free.
Ankry
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12:37, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
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Yep. Additionally the
Main Page/Oromo
is problematic as well; the probably per original research created icon hys been
uploaded
to commons by a bot, the user 3247 renamed to User:Cfaerber
SUL
stopped editing mostly in 2010: in the
Category:Oromo
there is another page -
Edipas mooticha
, the same problem. The author Chabi1
SUL
seems to stop his edits in 2014.
Just according to the policy pof the WMF we should avoid any copyvio here (and we have ten thousand!), and this seems to be one (no source, no licence ietc.). Thus I would vote for a deletion (the page, however, can be restored). Some more userful votes?
-jkb-
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14:58, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
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I agree we need to (at least) check the source and the licenses of every piece of literature here in wikisource, and to put some note on why every material is on the public domain or either published as CC-BY-SA. For the case of Oromoo:
Both are two (almost) different cases:
Mammaaksa Oromoo is a collection of proverbs in Oromoo, unless we find a book/web with the same configuration of the proverbs, being older than this, it will be difficult to claim copyright. (Probably one or two speakers can easily reproduce the list by heart)
Edipas mooticha
is a different case, since it is the full translation of
Oedipus Rex
; You can find an older translation,
here
in Oromoo; It may be subject to the sole property of the blogger, or maybe it is a copyvio from a book, who knows. But at least, that's the case where we have an older reference than the wikisource itself -potential copyvio, unless it comes from an expired copyright author, or a release under CC-BY-SA license, may we contact the blogger? or will it be better to delete it?--
C.R.
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20:37, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
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I found out that in the Oromoo wikipedia, a colleague there was arranging proverbs in this page:
w:om:Tarree Mammaaksa Oromoo
, two days ago, coincidence. I will ask if we can delete the proverbs here in wikisource (since the om.wikipedia will store an article dedicated to them) and maybe we can let some parkplace for a future wikisource on he Oromoo main page :D [I will ask also about the theater play Oedipus Rex]--
C.R.
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11:19, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2017-04
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You can see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor.
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Changes this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (
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Tech News: 2017-05
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Recent changes
The
OAuth
management interfaces now look slightly different.
[16]
Changes this week
ElectronPdfService
will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later.
[17]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (
calendar
).
Future changes
The
Community Tech team
will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools.
[18]
[19]
The Wikimedia technical community is doing a
Developer Wishlist survey
. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January
23:59 UTC
. This is soon.
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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
inactivity
We have two admins who are inactive for over a year. I intend to start the desysopping procedure due to inactivity. Any objections?
Ankry
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17:54, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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Ankry
: I certainly don't. If the community needs replacements, please ping me. —
Justin (
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21:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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after one year is OK, I just regret that
user:Dovi
doesn't participate any more here as he belonged to the first users on wikisource I met. OK
-jkb-
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21:31, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2017-06
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Problems
The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed.
[20]
Changes this week
Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of
before
and
after
[21]
There are some changes to the
OOjs UI
. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change.
[22]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (
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
7 February at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Tidy
will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This
will cause problems
on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix
here
for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about
more problems
[23]
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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
ia-upload tool update
The
IA Upload tool
can now create DjVu files for Internet Archive items that don't have them, before uploading to Commons.
Sam
Wilson
03:46, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
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An outpost for Wikilivres
Assistance requested
As some of you may know,
Wikilivres(.ca)
is a complementary site to Wikisource and
Commons
. It has a history with
Wikimedia Canada
but there is no formal relationship between the WMF or WM-CA and Wikilivres, just some overlap in userbase and scope. The project was originally handled by
User:Yann
and then
User:Eclecticology
. The latter died last year and the fate of Wikilivres is uncertain. While that community tries to transition past the loss of someone who was very important in the WikiSphere and figures out the logistics of what we do next, we have experienced some downtime in our hosting. If the site goes dark again, do you think it would be possible for us to have a noticeboard hosted here for the purposes of communication and coordination? Possibly at
Wikisource:Wikilivres
? I figured I would ask mul.ws since Wikilivres more-or-less grew out of this project and there is less activity here than at en.ws (plus Wikilivres is multi-lingual as well). —
Justin (
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07:59, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
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ping
- ing here, since the wikilivres site isn't loading tonight. i'm a contributor there, & this was our designated "meet up" place, if there's a problem/if the site is down. any news?
Lx 121
talk
04:05, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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Lx 121
: I can confirm that it's down. I'm checking with the hosting company now. It's not an issue of an unpaid bill. —
Justin (
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04:27, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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ty, good to know, even if it's not good xD we should set up a permanent community page someplace in the userspace here.
Lx 121
talk
05:16, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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Lx 121
Wikisource talk:Wikilivres
. —
Justin (
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05:30, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2017-07
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Recent changes
EventStreams
is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace
RCStream
. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July.
[25]
Problems
The
Firefox add-on
Firefogg
can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg.
[26]
Tool Labs
and
Wikimedia Labs
databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at
17:00 (UTC)
and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this.
[27]
Changes this week
The
TwoColConflict
extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later.
[28]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (
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
14 February at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Page Previews
will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring.
[29]
The
Developer Wishlist
is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at
14 February 23:59 (UTC)
. This process is only for developers.
Review
You can read the
2016 product summary
from the Wikimedia Foundation
Product group
to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the
annual plan
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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
Regular updates are being sent to the
Wikimedia-l mailing list
, and posted
on Meta-Wiki
. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well.
to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:
Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(15 December 2016)
Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(23 December 2016)
Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(8 January 2017)
Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(11 January 2017)
Introduction of williamsworks
Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(2 February 2017)
The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(10 February 2017)
Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks
More information about the movement strategy is available on the
Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal
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Nemo
14:02, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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Nemo_bis
: We are having some trouble getting the domain transferred still. I thought that it would be wrapped up this past week but several calls and emails to the host were not returned. —
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18:01, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2017-08
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Recent changes
The edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the
Wikimedia design guide
[30]
Changes this week
Page Previews
will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the
Beta Feature
called Hovercards.
[31]
There has been a problem where the
CSS
of
gadgets
has been loading twice. The
Gadgets extension
has two new options:
type
and
peers
. The
type
option solves this problem. You can use
peers
to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about
type
and
peers
[32]
OAuth
will handle blocked users in a more consistent way.
[33]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (
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
21 February at 20:00 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2017-09
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Problems
On 22 February the
wikipedia.org
portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file.
[34]
Changes this week
You will be able to use

to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor.
[35]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (
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
28 February at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are
AMF
and
STL
. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later.
[36]
The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia.
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19:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Sheet music
I'd like to have some scores transcribed with the score extention. Would like to begin with
File:Sérénade Français.pdf
and
File:Olympic Anthem Score.pdf
by
Spyros Samaras
. I had originaly uploaded the Olympic Anthem at
Greek wikisource
since it has greek lyrics, but deleted it as the first version of the score had pages missing. (a part of the transcription is here:
el:User:Ah3kal/Πρόχειρο
) But I think multilingual wikisource would be a better place.
I suppose this the right place, given this past RFC (
meta:Requests for comment/Musical score transcription project proposal
What language code am I supposed to add (if any) to the index?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Ah3kal
talk
06:37, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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The language code should be probably "zxx". At least according to ISO 639-2,
Ankry
talk
21:02, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
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As above, yes,
zxx
is explicitly for non-linguistic information. If we have documents that don't have a human language in them, then that is the appropriate code. —
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Tech News: 2017-10
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Recent changes
You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the
diacritics
. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't.
[39]
When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view.
[40]
Problems
Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed.
[41]
Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's
Special:Contributions
will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately.
[42]
Changes this week
The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view.
[43]
The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the
abuse filter
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Wikisource vision development
Why are its subpages in the main namespace? How about renaming to "Wikisource:Vision development"?--
Jusjih
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Jusjih
: Agreed. This is not a source document... Actually, it may even be better suited to the thematic group on Meta but for now, I will move its namespace. —
Justin (
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21:46, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
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Meta has three
importers
. Asking them may move the relevant pages there.--
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Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.
Regular updates are being sent to the
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to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:
Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(16 February 2017)
Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(24 February 2017)
Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process
(2 March 2017)
Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions
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tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use

tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
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JavaScript
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We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
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Gregory Varnum
on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by
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Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups)
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Track B (individual contributors):
On Meta
or your
local language or project wiki
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
Find out more about the movement strategy process
Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator
Sincerely,
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engagement support teams
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Publish page
is when you save a new page and
Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
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DMOZ
no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to
archive.org
or another
mirror
. DMOZ has been removed from the
RelatedSites extension
on Wikivoyage.
[51]
You can see monthly page views when you click on
Page information
in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
[52]
The
Linter extension
is now on
smaller Wikimedia wikis
. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later.
[53]
The
MediaWiki-Vagrant
portable development environment has been updated to use
Debian Jessie
. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers.
[54]
Problems
On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please
report it
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Changes this week
When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut
Ctrl
Shift
on PCs or
Cmd
Shift
on Macs.
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When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes.
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Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed.
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will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki
on March 28
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progressively
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fr:Livre:Reboux-Müller - À la manière de, sér1-2, 1921.djvu
fr:Wikisource:Pages à supprimer
has a request to move the index here, so I just imported it and
Page:Reboux-Müller - À la manière de, sér1-2, 1921.djvu/1
. Is there a way to massively import rather to manually import each page?--
Jusjih
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03:29, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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Jusjih
: As you have import rights, you can use
XML export
to file and XML import from a file here. But the exported file needs to be adjusted before import: The frwiki namespace definitions (names, numbers) should be replaced by sourceswiki's ones, as well as namespace names in pagenames may need to be fixed (Livre -> Index, Page is the same, so no problem). My previous experience shows that importing too many pages fails sometimes (only first N is imported then). But I don't have import rights already.
Ankry
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14:26, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for the hint. I have successfully imported the rest. Please check. If concerned of failed mass import, I would limit to 100 pages at a time in XML export. Considering
Wikisource:Subdomain coordination
about whether to allow pre-1923 works still copyrighted at home at language subdomains, perhaps French Wikisource is considering tightening its policy.--
Jusjih
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Publish changes
on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.
Publish page
is when you save a new page and
Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
[60]
The tracking category
Category:Pages with template loops
is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.
[61]
English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a
will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new
IP address
the cookie will block them again.
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Problems
Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed.
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new version
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5 April at 16:00 (UTC)
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New filters for Recent changes
will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include
filtering
highlighting
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user intent prediction
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Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the
2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections
The
Board of Trustees
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on Meta-Wiki
. Please read the
letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates
The
candidacy submission phase
will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20.
You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the
three community-selected seats
on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are
inclusive
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April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) –
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April 7 – April 20 –
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May 1 – May 14 –
Board voting period
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Board vote checking
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Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
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There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available
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Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available
on Meta-Wiki
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found
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would cause problems
on a number of wikis. There is now a
ParserMigration extension
on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can
read more about how you can use it
[65]
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Some older
web browsers
will not be able to use
JavaScript
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[66]
New filters for Recent changes
will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the
user intent prediction filters
for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis
will get it later
[67]
The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
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Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May
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The
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They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on
Wednesday, 19 April 2017
On
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Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
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You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at
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If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
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Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can
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List of most translated works
Hi,
There is an ongoing discussion on
wikisource-l
where we talked about a « list of works that every Wikisource should
have » (« should » maybe it seems to pushy). It could include the Bible (one of the most translated work of the World) and it can point to online text (or even better scans) and clear copyright problems.
What do you think of the idea? Anyone interested in helping write a
Wikisource:List of works that every Wikisource should have
Cdlt,
VIGNERON
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17:45, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
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PS: For information, a
Wikidata querry
says that the text present on the greatest number of Wikisources is
d:Q23393
(Pater noster, 39 Wikisources) followed by
d:Q7813
(Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 34 wikisources, but here there is maybe copyright issues).
Hello
VIGNERON
, I have started such a list on my subpage
s:fr:Utilisateur:Consulnico/Textes vitaux
just a month or two ago. The goal of this list is to have two texts by language and maximum 20 texts for the big languages, for an almost total of 1000 texts. But it is very long to enumerate everything, especially fot the small languages. I wanted to improve it a little before asking for help, but we can discuss about it, in french on
my talk page
if we are the only two people interested for the moment ^^. I have lots of ideas about that. --
Consulnico
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15:37, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
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A list has been created
here
too :-) --
Zyephyrus
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16:08, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
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CSS
and
JavaScript
. Example:
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
[69]
You can now see a list of all autoblocks on
Special:AutoblockList
[70]
The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from
[[File:Wiki.png]]
. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
how to request a configuration change
. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.
[71]
Problems
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
You can read more about this
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Changes this week
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stats.wikimedia.org
will be replaced. You can
see the new prototype
. You can
leave feedback on this change
Page Previews
will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature
can give feedback
[72]
From next week, user scripts using very old
deprecated
wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see
examples of how to upgrade scripts
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19:31, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Copyright policy, non US works published before 1923 and before 1909
Hello, in
Wikisource:Copyright policy#Works that are in the public domain in the US only
, is stated that works published before 1923 can be uploaded here even if they are not yet public domain in their home country. Is this still valid, even after Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA)? Is there a difference between works publoshed before 1923 and before 1909. My current practice in el.wikisource, where I transcribe journals, is to censor any text from authors that died after 1946, wich are not yet PD in Greece. (e.g.
el:Βιβλίο:Εστία Αριθμός 520.djvu
: censored page:
el:Σελίδα:Εστία Αριθμός 520.djvu/1
, author died in 1951, the journal was published in 1885). Thank you for your time.--
Ah3kal
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04:56, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
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Heavily used
suggests that works published before 1923 are in the public domain in the USA through copyright expiration even if still copyright-restricted at home, but those published since 1 July 1909 outside the USA may sometimes be considered "unpublished" in the 9th Circuit.--
Jusjih
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02:26, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
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Jusjih
Thank you very much for your answer. So for pre 1909 published works, there is no restriction, uploading them here. But may I upload works published between 1909 and 1923, and under what conditions?
Ah3kal
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06:32, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
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Ah3kal
: California (where WMF is located) is not in the 9th Circuit. So, unless a contrary US court decission appears, we consider pre-1923 published works to be PD in US and not falling under URAA.
Ankry
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20:23, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
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Publication in 1885 and death in 1951 would equal to
s:template:PD-old-60-1923
, relaxed to PD-old-70-1923 in 2022. Those in the 9th Circuit may have to check some works published between 1909 and 1923 if the authors are known not to have died for at least 70 years.--
Jusjih
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04:12, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
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Ankry
: I am confused! You say California is not in the 9th Circuit, but in the link provided above (copyright.cornell.edu) I read in Special Cases of Works Published Abroad section "
In Alaska, Arizona,
California
, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands ONLY. Published in a language other than English, and without subsequent republication with a copyright notice
".
Ah3kal
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07:36, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
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If seems I have misread. I am also confused.
Ankry
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08:30, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
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I don't know anyone who pays attention to the 9th Circuit rules. It's a widely mocked decision, and it's possible the WMF would take it to the Supreme Court to get them to overrule it. Neither Commons nor the English Wikisource worries about it.--
Prosfilaes
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14:32, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
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If I am correct, Wikimedia used to be in Florida, USA with its server, but relocating the office to San Francisco, California, USA has not also moved the server, so the server is not subject to the 9th Circuit.--
Jusjih
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04:03, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
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Local language namespaces on Norwegian Wikisource not working
Hi. On the Norwegian Wikisource, we have translated the
Index
and
Page
namespaces into
Indeks
and
Side
respectively (see
no:MediaWiki:Proofreadpage namespace
). Since the last few days or weeks this translation doesn't seem to work anymore, as all Proofreadpage pages show up as English
Page
in the
recent edits
. And when trying to create a new index, I have to write
Index:Something
instead of
Indeks:Something
. Could anyone help us find out what is wrong here? The last time we had problems with the Proofreadpage extension on the Norwegian Wikisource, it had something to do with the
nb
versus
no
language codes (see
Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/Jan 2016 - Dec 2016#Proofreadpage on the Norwegian Wikisource
Kåre-Olav
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13:55, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
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I got some help from a user on Norwegian Wikipedia who reported the bug to Phabricator:
phab:T163647
. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Kåre-Olav
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21:34, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
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are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can
turn it on in your preferences
. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
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When
administrators
bureaucrats
and
stewards
make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time.
Special:UserRights
will have new options for this. You can
read more about user groups.
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Problems
Since the
data centre test
last week the
content translation tool
has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.
[77]
Changes this week
The
GuidedTour extension
will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
[78]
Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The
Cognate extension
will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can
read more about this
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (
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
25 April at 19:00 (UTC)
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Deletion of Eastern Punjabi pages
Hello admins, after the creation of
pa:
, I have now imported there all the pages which are listed on
User:MF-Warburg/pa
. They can now be deleted here. --
MF-Warburg
talk
15:09, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
reply
Satdeep Gill
: can you tell us which pages should be deleted? If there are too many, so we can ask @
DerHexer
: who has a script for it. Thanks,
-jkb-
talk
07:44, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
reply
Some pages have not be imported yet. Let me check that with MF-Warburg. --
Satdeep Gill
talk
07:46, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
reply
OK. FYI: Main pages will not be deleted, they stay.
-jkb-
talk
16:23, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
reply
I have imported more pages now, which I also listed on the page.
User:Satdeep Gill
: Is it complete now? --
MF-Warburg
talk
19:32, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
reply
Yes, everything is okay now. Let's delete these pages. --
Satdeep Gill
talk
19:07, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
reply
OK, here the ping for @
DerHexer
:, do you think you can help here again with your script? In this case I would propose to use a bot flag; is it possible to delete the all pages in a category (I've just forgotten it); @
Satdeep Gill
: pls see here in next days as you probably would have to coordinate it a bit (where the pages are to be found etc.). Best regards
-jkb-
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22:54, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2017-18
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Recent changes
The
content translation tool
works again. It was turned off because of a database problem.
[80]
Scripts using very old
deprecated
wikibits functions show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see
examples of how to upgrade scripts
. This is the same thing as Tech News wrote about in issue
2017/16
You need to add
mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or add
mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition
[81]
[82]
Problems
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at
14:00 (UTC)
. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
You can read more about this
Changes this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.
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
2 May at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a
will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new
IP address
the cookie will block them again.
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The
Publish changes
Show preview
and
Show changes
buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI
look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding
&ooui=1
to the URL.
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Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
This is a message from the
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
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Voting has begun
for
eligible voters
in the 2017 elections for the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
The
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14.
Click here to vote
More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the
2017 Board of Trustees election page
on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
Katie Chan
, Chair,
Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland
, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
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Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View
From May 9, the
Two Column Edit Conflict View
will be available as a
beta feature
on all wikis. The Two Column Edit Conflict View is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page. It highlights differences between the editor's and the conflicting changes to make it easy to copy and paste pieces of the text and resolve the conflict. The feature fulfils a request for a more user-friendly edit conflict resolution from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well!
Birgit Müller (WMDE)
14:41, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
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Problems
Some users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on
Hide categorization of pages
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off
Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw
[85]
There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a
CAPTCHA
. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May.
[86]
Changes this week
When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say
Visual editing
and
Source editing
instead of
Switch to visual editing
and
Switch to code editing
. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
[87]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (
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
9 May at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users.
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Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If
-{
is used in
transclusions
or
web addresses
it has to be
escaped
appropriately. You can use
-{
for transclusions and
%2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use
-{
in a template:
{{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor
and affects all wikis.
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Tech News: 2017-20
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Translations
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Recent changes
You can now use
ISBNs
to automatically generate citations in the visual editor. This works on wikis that have
enabled Citoid
[92]
The
Two Column Edit Conflict View
is available as a
beta feature
on all wikis. It is a new interface for the edit conflict resolution page.
[93]
Problems
The
mediawiki.util
library does not load automatically any more. Your
Special:MyPage/common.js
may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding
mw
loader
using
'mediawiki.util'
).
done
function
(){
as the first line in the file and
});
as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/18
issue.
[94]
Changes this week
The
RevisionSlider extension
will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.
[95]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Administrators will soon be able to search through deleted pages.
[96]
[97]
Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If
-{
is used in
transclusions
or
web addresses
it has to be
escaped
appropriately. You can use
-{
for transclusions and
%2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor
and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem
and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives
. You can
read more about what to fix
[98]
[99]
Older unreported changes
Your
Meta user page
is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word
__NOGLOBAL__
to your Meta user page to stop this.
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RevisionSlider
RevisionSlider
will be available as a default feature for all users on all wikis from May 17. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page so that you can easily move between revisions. The slider view is collapsed by default, and will load by clicking on it. It can also be turned off entirely in the user preferences. RevisionSlider has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia for 6 months and a beta feature on all wikis for 8 months. The feature fulfills a wish from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Thanks to everyone who tested RevisionSlider and gave valuable feedback to improve the feature! We hope that RevisionSlider will continue to serve you well in your work.
Birgit Müller (WMDE)
14:44, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
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Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)
Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki
The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified
5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations
- each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.
You are invited to
join the online and offline discussions taking place
on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.
Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
Healthy, Inclusive Communities
The Augmented Age
A Truly Global Movement
The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem
On the
movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki
, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.
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Tech News: 2017-21
Latest
tech news
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Changes this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (
calendar
).
There will be a