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tags) to Serif fonts, including the font in the editing window in the page namespace. It uses the same fonts as the default in the headlines used in Vector. I have been using this setup privately for a long time, and think it both looks better for this project – after all, practically all books use serif fonts – and makes it easier to edit. Go
try it out
Jon Harald Søby
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12:36, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
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There are data on the preference (not just personal but readability/legibility) of serif and sans serif fonts for print and Web. We should probably change the site CSS to generate serif fonts for print. —
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22:31, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2019-12
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When you use
rollback
you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to
opt in
to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
20 March at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can
. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can
tell the developers
[31]
Toolforge
will
shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid
. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a
list of affected tools
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Tech News: 2019-13
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The
new version of the content translation tool
will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.
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Problems
There was a problem with editing with
Safari
on
iOS
. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
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The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on
iOS
devices. This will be fixed soon.
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Wikis can
over-ride interface messages
on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (
calendar
).
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Tech News: 2019-14
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Notifications
tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about
new links to pages you created
. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this.
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The
new version
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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Lao laws
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A user has been dumping the full text of Laotian laws
into the Lao Wikipedia
, where such things do not belong. I'm not sure if they can legally be placed in any Wikimedia wiki. Does anyone here know (or would like to research) the legal status of Laotian laws (laws of Laos) and whether they can be hosted on a Wikimedia wiki? Note that we do not have a Lao Wikisource, either as a standalone "lo.wikisource.org" or as a subwiki here at the Multilingual Wikisource — although this wiki would seem to be the logical place for such texts if they can be properly licensed. Can anyone help with this? I have
told the user
to stop creating the pages, but there's no guarantee they will understand and/or take my advice. -
dcljr
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01:43, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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Dcljr
: Lao laws are
not protected by copyright
. If this user is interested in putting them here, he is more than welcome. Do you need help? —
Justin (
ko
vf
02:21, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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In that case, you should try to
contact the user directly
. If they can put them on the wrong wiki, they should be able to put them on the right one. [grin] -
dcljr
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03:06, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
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Koavf
: Have you tried contacting the user? I posted again
on their talk page
saying that the pages could be created here, but they have not replied (nor
edited any Wikimedia wikis
in the meantime). I think this may be a one-off account that has been abandoned. Do you want to try to get these pages transwiki'd to here or would you (or someone else) like to find their original source and create new pages here based on the originals? (I have no idea how many pages we could be talking about, but the user in question only created 153 pages on the laowiki. Clearly there are more Laotian laws than that. [grin]) Or should we just delete the pages from lowiki and give up on this? -
dcljr
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23:41, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
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dcljr
: I just emailed him. I would be happy to transwiki--I don't like losing things that are valid if we can avoid it. I'll make a reminder to do this in two weeks if I haven't heard back from him. —
Justin (
ko
vf
04:11, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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Koavf
: unfortunately, import from lowikisource here is not enabled. So
importer
rights are needed for that. Did you ever use XML import between wikis and do you wish to apply for this right? Or I can ask for it.
Ankry
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09:27, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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Heh, forgotten that this is Wikipedia, so only XML import remains possible. We generally do not allow configuration changes to import from Wikipedias here.
Ankry
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09:56, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite. I guess I'll have to export them. Or copy/past with attribution in the edit summary. —
Justin (
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vf
16:17, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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Koavf
: export/fix namespace list/import. For import
importer
rights are needed. This requires community support + request on
m:SRP
one week after notification here. Doing C&P is not nice as loosing the uploader info. No copyright issue, but maybe they return...
Ankry
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18:21, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
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Ankry
: Not nice? —
Justin (
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18:40, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
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Koavf
: Import is better as we rather tend to preserve uploader contribution info.
Ankry
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18:54, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
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If the pages are going to be moved to here, however that happens, I figured it would be a good idea to try to verify the texts before that happens. A quick Google search turned up
a collection of PDFs
from the
Vientiane Times
(a Laotian newspaper) purporting (based on the filename in the URL) to be Lao laws in English — although some of the PDFs are actually in Lao. I found that their English text of the "
Law on Public Roads
" appears to match (within the margin of computer translation) to the Google Translate version of
w:lo:ກົດໝາຍວ່າດ້ວຍທາງຫຼວງ 03-04-1999
, and the dates on the two documents (April 3, 1999) match exactly. Same with "
Law on National Defence obligations
" and
w:lo:ກົດໝາຍວ່າດ້ວຍພັນທະປ້ອງກັນຊາດ 08-03-1995
. So I'd say these look legit. If someone here reads Lao, they can consider, for example, "
Law on Forestry
" vs.
w:lo:ກົດໝາຍວ່າດ້ວຍປ່າໄມ້ 24-12-2007
(both in Lao), which seem to be the same law. -
dcljr
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02:59, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
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Additionally,
w:lo:ໝວດ:User en
has several users who may be able to help. —
Justin (
ko
vf
18:24, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
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Note that the user being discussed here, User:Allbooks,
started editing the Lao Wikipedia again
two days ago. They still have not responded my posts on
their talk page
about the Lao laws. In fact, they have created (at least) four new pages of Lao laws on the wiki since returning. They've also created several articles on other topics, a small sampling of which appeared to be appropriate subjects for a Wikipedia (although, of course, I cannot vouch for the quality of the articles themselves). I'm not sure what to do at this point, so I have tried (just now) leaving
a Lao version of my last talk-page post
for Allbooks (translated by Google Translate). I have also asked
two
other
users
on that wiki who claim to be knowledgeable in both English and Lao to visit that talk page (and this discussion here) in the hopes that they can provide some kind of assistance. -
dcljr
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00:30, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
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dcljr
: I've just added a message in Lao, telling him/her to stop uploading these texts. I hope the message will be read. --
Alifshinobi
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00:56, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
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Allbooks has now decided to throw a hissy fit on their talk page, apparently based on a misunderstanding of the Wikimedia landscape (i.e., that not all Lao text belongs in the Lao Wikipedia). I have just posted
another message on their talk page
explaining the situation as clearly (but perhaps not as nicely) as I could.
Alifshinobi: could you please translate that message (or at least the main points of it) into Lao, just in case they need that?
dcljr
talk
05:33, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
edit:
struck out request to Alifshinobi since that's clearly not necessary anymore]
reply
OK, well, I tried, but Allbooks has
decided to be a petulant child
. I'm washing my hands of the matter. -
dcljr
talk
08:04, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
reply
I have reported this problem in
SRM
Ankry
talk
10:05, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
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The legal texts have been imported and are listed
here
. @
Alifshinobi
: Could you, please, help us to make this page more informative (eg. by adding a header displaying the purpose of our project and maybe a section title for text list; like
here
- or in a way similar to another page in
this category
)? It is intended to be in Lao.
Ankry
talk
05:31, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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Ankry
:,
I tried adding a description and the purpose of Wikisource to
Main Page/ລາວ
, but I received this message: "Error: This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: Antispam." Who should I talk to?
--
Alifshinobi
talk
06:00, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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Sorry, it works now. I had to remove some of the text. --
Alifshinobi
talk
06:02, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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Alifshinobi
: Thanks a lot for this. —
Justin (
ko
vf
06:14, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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Alifshinobi
: Thanks also. Our antispam filter seemed to be too restrictive; I fixed this. Also, it applies only to users with less than 2 edits, so you should no longer be affected by this filter. I noticed that you added some red links to a pages with namespace name that does exist neither here nor in lowiki. Was it intentional?
Ankry
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07:55, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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Ankry
:, Those links were created because I translated the text from the main page of the Thai Wikisource which had those links and pages. I was hoping that someone (or I) would add those pages later. If you don't think this is appropriate, I will delete the links as well as the last sentence which says something like "please look at the
Wikisource:What is Wikisource?
Help:Contents
, and
Wikisource:Community portal
before writing an article." --
Alifshinobi
talk
15:01, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
reply
Alifshinobi
: I just think that we should place the pages in appropriate namespaces (Wikisource, Help), possibly creating links from Lao-prefixed names in the main namespace. But while the links are red, it does not really matter.
Ankry
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07:17, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
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Proposal
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To help kick start a solution, I propose that loWP (
w:lo:
) be added to mulWS transwiki import functionality. A community consensus will allow a phabricator ticket to be added
Technically speaking
[37]
we are requesting a modification within the section
wgImportSources
to
'sourceswiki'
to add
'w:lo'
billinghurst
sDrewth
04:19, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
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billinghurst
: I considered this alternative but comparing to XML import using import rights:
the procedure isn't faster (actually it is even slower: one week discussion and waiting for a configuration change to be applied: sometimes even more than a week)
it is not convenient for massive imports
the only advantage is that import can be done by any admin
So potentially useful for future, not for mass-import. I
Support
it in this context.
Ankry
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06:06, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
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I mind not which way it happens, though you have better control if you are doing individually. XML has its own limitations in file size so it depends on how you wish to handle it. For example, if you wish to rename as you import, transwiki works better. Whatever best suits.
billinghurst
sDrewth
07:32, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
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Personally, I think it is easier to control one multipage import than 100 separate operations (when a chance of making a mistake goes up). And lack of multipage transwiki import interface (or API) is the main problem for me. XML imports stops on first error and can be continued later from that place. There is no multi-revision large page to import that could be a problem here.
Ankry
talk
10:22, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
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Support
Import from all Wikipedias, Wikibooks, and Wikiversity. Why not? The nice thing about this is that they are public domain, so attribution to a specific editor really does not matter. It's nice, I guess but it shouldn't take up any real bandwidth--just copy and paste. —
Justin (
ko
vf
15:53, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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Read-only mode for up to 30 minutes on 11 April
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You will
not be able to edit
most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on
11 April 05:00 UTC
. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You
can see which wikis are affected
. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /
Johan (WMF)
10:56, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-15
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Recent changes
More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can
Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can
block someone from editing a page or a namespace
. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can
tell the developers
[38]
[39]
Problems
You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on
11 April at 05:00 (UTC)
. This is because of a hardware problem. You can
see a list of the affected wikis
[40]
A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back.
[41]
Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed.
[42]
Changes later this week
When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the
visual
and
wikitext
modes on desktop. It also works
on the mobile site
[43]
The Wikimedia wikis will get a
URL shortener
. This will work from 11 April. You can
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The
{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return
""
(empty string). When you read a page it will return
"-"
(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces.
[45]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
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You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like
page previews
. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia.
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The Wikidata
JSON
output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can
read more and see how to test your code
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Wikisource:News
(en): April 2019 edition
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English Wikisource's monthly newsletter;
Wikisource:News
, which seeks to inform all about Wikimedia's multilingual Wikisource.
From the Editors: Volume 3 confirmed
Xover nominated to be admin
Administrator confirmations for April 2019
Wikisource — A Wikipedia project
WikiProject Spotlight: WikiProject Validate
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23:43, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Medium-Term Plan feedback request
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Please help translate to your language
The Wikimedia Foundation has published a
Medium-Term Plan proposal
covering the next 3–5 years. We want your feedback! Please leave all comments and questions, in any language, on
the talk page
, by April 20. Thank you!
Quiddity (WMF)
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17:35, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
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import wikis
edit
When a new Wikisource is created, there is no automatic creation of importing possibility from this wiki. I suggest adding
all
Wikisources to list of wikis that any admin can import pages
from
. This is a configuration change, so requires community approval. Missing wikis that would be added includes now:
as:
be:
br:
eo:
eu:
gu:
li:
mr:
or:
pa:
pms:
sah:
vec:
zh-min-nan:
and also for two wikis that do not exist yet, bud should soon be created: hi.ws, nap.ws (after they are created, of course).
After the wikis are added, the import from the above wikis here can be done by any admin. Now it can be by importers only. The need to import from various wikis appears occasionally, and it is hard to predict where it may become urgent because of local copyright problems on another wiki. At the moment, there is a
discussion
about possible interwiki transfer from
Esperanto Wikisources
Ankry
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10:24, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2019-16
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Recent changes
All wikis now have the
TemplateWizard
for the wikitext editor.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
17 April at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
Wikidata will get a new
constraint status
called
suggestion
. This
will change
how the
WikibaseQualityConstraints
constraint checking API works.
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[49]
You can test the
depicts
property
for structured data on Commons.
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Notification about request for rights
edit
I intend to request for
importer
rights here due to some work needed:
import from lo.wp
discussed above
possibly import of EU-copyrighted works from eo.ws (
discussion
possibly import of FR-copyrighted works deleted from fr.ws (
discussion
possibly import of works with unclear PL copyright status from pl.ws (
discussion
As this work needs some time, I intend to request for the rights for longer period, at least for few months, if granting permanent right is not possible. Or, maybe, somebody else wishes to do the job (@
Koavf
Ooswesthoesbes
Jusjih
:)? Your opinions are welcome. Sometimes decissions concerning transfer here need to be urgent as works might be speedy deleted in other wikis as copyvio there (but still PD-US).
Ankry
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10:21, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
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While I have import access myself, I think it would be best for me not to intermingle too much with this, as my knowledge of international copyright is - well, I'll admit it - practically non-existant. So, a
support
from me :) --
Ooswesthoesbes
talk
11:43, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
reply
I have got this right for 6 months.
Ankry
talk
05:32, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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Proposal to modify the Wikimedia Language Proposal Policy
edit
There is a proposal on Meta to modify the
language proposal policy
. The proposed changes can be found
here
, with discussion on that page's talk page.
StevenJ81
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19:54, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2019-17
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Recent changes
The
advanced search
function
URL
now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also
add new fields
to the search interface through a
hook
[50]
[51]
[52]
The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version.
[53]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
23 April at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
Wikipedia articles will have the
sameAs
meta property
. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an
A/B test
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broken language list
edit
Something is broken with language list on the main page; please fix it.
94.78.176.72
12:01, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2019-18
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Recent changes
The
Wikipedia app
for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits.
[56]
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Problems
Tech News was late last week because of a
MassMessage
bug. Other newsletters had the same problem.
[58]
Changes later this week
You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are.
[59]
When you write a comment in
Structured Discussions
but have not posted it yet your
web browser
will save it in
local storage
instead of
session storage
. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow.
[60]
You will be able to turn off
milestone notifications
. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits.
[61]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
1 May at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
The Wikidata
wb_terms
table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can
. You can ask for help if you need it.
Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated.
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Wikisource:News
(en): May 2019 Edition
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English Wikisource's monthly newsletter;
Wikisource:News
, which seeks to inform all about Wikimedia's multilingual Wikisource.
Administrator confirmations for May 2019
2019 Wikimedia Summit to discuss movement strategy
A lot of Newsletters
Playing with m:Special:UrlShortener
2019 affiliate-selected Board seats process
Read this issue of
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19:58, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2019-19
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Latest
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Problems
Special:Watchlist
can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem.
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Changes later this week
The
new version
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The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019
has been published
. Communities are invited to
start phase 2 of the consultation
on their wikis.
Problems
File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed.
[64]
[65]
Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments.
[66]
[67]
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The
new version
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The
content translation tool
on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can
tell the language team
[68]
The Wikidata
wbeditentity
API
endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June.
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Big changes to the
replica database
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Cloud Services
will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user.
[70]
[71]
The
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A proposal for WikiJournals to become a new sister project
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Over the last few years, the
WikiJournal User Group
has been building and testing a set of peer reviewed academic journals on a mediawiki platform. The main types of articles are:
Existing Wikipedia articles submitted for external review and feedback (
example
From-scratch articles that, after review, are imported to Wikipedia (
example
Original research articles that are not imported to Wikipedia (
example
Proposal:
WikiJournals as a new sister project
From a Wikipedian point of view, this is a complementary system to Featured article review, but bridging the gap with
external experts
, implementing
established scholarly practices
, and generating
citable, doi-linked publications
Please take a look and support/oppose/comment!
Evolution and evolvability
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04:25, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
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Evolution and evolvability
: How is it related to Wikisource?
Ankry
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10:25, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
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Ankry
: In general, I wanted to avoid any of the sister projects being omitted from discussion if people have opinions or insight on the proposal. For the wikisource community, there is often an overlap in librarianship interests between archiving and publishing.
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You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version.
[72]
There is now a field called
depicts
on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development.
[73]
Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema.
[74]
[75]
Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on
19 June at 05:00 (UTC)
. This is to fix a hardware problem.
[76]
Changes later this week
Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited.
[77]
The
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Update on Wiki Creation
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I am sure that the communities working on
Neapolitan
and
Hindi
Wikisources are anxious about when their already-approved projects will be moved to their own wikis. Unfortunately, there still seems to be a problem with wiki creation; see
phab:T212881
. If and when I get an update on this, I'll let you know. In the meantime, please continue to work here.
StevenJ81
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14:56, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
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And what's the actual status of
lzh wikisource test
? Will this be eligible? Or rejected? Or on hold for another one or two years judge? --
Liuxinyu970226
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02:19, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
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Please read
m:Requests for new languages/Wikisource Literary Chinese#Proposed rules for LZH in Multilingual Wikisource
that makes this portal to host classical or literary Chinese.--
Jusjih
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When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by
Proton
. Before this we used
Electron
. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them.
[78]
[79]
The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment.
[80]
Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable
User-Agent
may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly.
[81]
Problems
Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please
report it
[82]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on
19 June at 05:00 (UTC)
. This is to fix a hardware problem.
[83]
Changes later this week
MIDI
files can soon be played without the
Score extension
. You can then add them with
[[File:Filename.midi]]
. Later
override_midi
and
override_audio
will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score.
[84]
A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in
your preferences
. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems.
[85]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (
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Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old
wgEnableAPI
and
wgEnableWriteAPI
values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday.
[87]
Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced.
[88]
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The
new version
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calendar
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Meetings
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Wikimedia Language showcase
. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on
26 June at 13:00 (UTC)
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झाँसी की रानी
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Can a Hindi speaking user check the content and history of this page? I suspect some vandalizm or inappropriate content, but unsure.
(@
अविनाश कुमार सिंह
अम्बिका साव
अनिरुद्ध!
अजीत कुमार तिवारी
सीमा1
:@
रोहित साव27
नीलम
: pinging few active users who, I suspect, may speak Hindi; unfortunately none of you declared so, and no active admin speaks Hindi...)
Ankry
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18:57, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi @
Ankry
:, thanks for letting us know about this vandalism. I have edited that. You may semi-protect that page also. The guy who vandalized the page should be blocked as he seems to be just a spammer and advertising himself only. All of us (other than सीमा1 pinged here by you) are Native Hindi users and working as a team. Further, if you suspect such vandalism, feel free to reach us. --
अजीत कुमार तिवारी
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02:03, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
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Done
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The development of
Wikidata Bridge
has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia.
[89]
Problems
Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress.
[90]
Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed.
[91]
Changes later this week
You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database.
[92]
There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (
calendar
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Wikisource:News
(en): July 2019 Edition
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English Wikisource's monthly newsletter;
Wikisource:News
, which seeks to inform all about Wikimedia's multilingual Wikisource.
From the Editors: Let's hear from you
Administrator confirmations for July 2019
Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results
Special report: Controversy at En.wiki
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For event organizers, if you
request a temporary lift of the IP cap
for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck.
[93]
Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new
partial blocks
feature.
[94]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (
calendar
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The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools.
[95]
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Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch.
[96]
There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July.
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Tech News: 2019-29
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The mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback.
[98]
Changes later this week
The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called
Abuse filter
and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You
can read more
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (
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The
Wikipedia app
for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can
and
leave feedback
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Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check
the conditions and the request process
The
Coolest Tool Award 2019
is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania.
[100]
Problems
The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2.
[101]
Changes later this week
Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected.
[102]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (
calendar
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Future changes
Some items in the visual editor
will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile.
[103]
[104]
With
advanced search
turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search.
[105]
[106]
Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a
request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation
will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please
let us know
The variable
user_wpzero
will be removed from AbuseFilter.
A list of filters needing a fix is provided
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Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch.
[107]
Changes later this week
The
new version
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Update Wikisource Logo to use LinuxLibertine font.
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Tracked in
Phabricator
Task T229769
retouned, kerning adjusted to match original
File:Wikisource-newberg-de.png
For consistency with Wikipedia logo.
Viztor
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02:30, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
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Viztor
: You should post this as a ticket on
phab:
. —
Justin (
ko
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04:32, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
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Koavf
: Community consensus is still required. We have to decide on a svg before they can process the technical change.
Viztor
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05:04, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
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I like it. —
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09:44, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
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Updated.
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The
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calendar
).
Problems
A change in
RelatedArticles extension
accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed.
[108]
[109]
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Today everyone can see
IP addresses
if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can
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Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new
advanced features
via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated.
[110]
Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin.
[111]
Changes later this week
Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week.
[112]
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The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21.
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18:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Neapolitan Wikisource created
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Hello all! Yesterday, the
Neapolitan Wikisource
was finally created.
Reedy
did it partly to test what is still wrong with the script to add new wikis (turns out: many things that took a lot of effort to fix, so it might take a little while for Hindi Wikisource to be created unfortunately). I have spent the day today here at the Wikimania Hackathon to export all the Neapolitan content from here and import it on the new wiki. This should be done now (assuming that all content is in fact in
Category:Napulitano
). There are still a lot of general templates (such as
Ping
rh
center
, etc) that are still missing. I will see if I can make a list of the missing ones to export those too. In the meantime: Neapolitan editors, you can start editing on your new wiki instead of here at the multilingual Wikisource. Congratulations!
Jon Harald Søby
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14:54, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
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Ruthven
Alex brollo
: Please ping other editors as well! :-)
Jon Harald Søby
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14:57, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
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Jon Harald Søby
: Thanks a lot! I'll ping there the other users. Jon, we can see each other here in Stockholm, and figure out together what are the next steps. Thanks again :)
Ruthven
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07:59, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
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Jon Harald Søby
Ruthven
: Thanks! Neapolitan texts teached me so much, I'll contribute for sure to the new project, even if I'm at a level 1 for neapolitan language... :-) --
Alex brollo
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09:05, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
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Jon Harald Søby
Ruthven
: I usually wait to announce the opening of a wiki for public editing at
m:Wikimedia News
until after it has been marked as "imported" at
incubator:Incubator:Site creation log
. Given the discussion above, though, I feel like I should go ahead and announce the opening of napwikisource now, even though the importing technically might not be finished (e.g., in the template and module namespaces). Any objections? -
dcljr
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02:48, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
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I don't object but we
may
want to wait until nap.ws is added to
d:
. Otherwise, we should direct everyone there, delete the nap content here, and turn the main page into a link to nap.ws. —
Justin (
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03:49, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
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Koavf
Dcljr
Jon Harald Søby
: We are organising the newly created community on
Wikisource:Porta d' 'a cummunetà
, and at least the Italian community has been notified of the creation of the project. Jon and other users are importing/creating pages and templates (this work is still in progress: as you noticed below, there's still stuff that needs to be imported, but mass importing seem to have some difficulties. Thus I would give more time to Jon to perform this task). When we've double checked that everything is in place in all the namespaces, it will be the right moment to remove everything from here and add redirects. I'm temporarily admin on nap.source, but any help is more than welcome! Cheers --
Ruthven
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08:47, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
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Ruthven
: As you can see, I've done some maintenance things on nap.ws but my Italian is very bad. Grazie for the heads-up and please let me know if you think an English-speaker can be of assistance with the basic maintenance at that community. —
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Koavf
: If you can help us importing the right modules and templates (and everything you consider useful), it would be great! Maybe you can coordinate with @
OrbiliusMagister
: to see what's missing (he has a lot of experience on it.source, our "brother" project). Actually, there are some extension missing (e.g.
poem
). We've first to figure out what's missing and then to whom we've to ask to install them. --
Ruthven
talk
18:01, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
reply
Ruthven
: If someone gives me advanced rights (at least importer), then I will be happy to help. —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:06, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
reply
Koavf
: It's something you should ask to the stewards for a temporary extended importer rights (I cannot give such rights myself). @
OrbiliusMagister
: you should do the same. I'll support. --
Ruthven
talk
07:07, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
reply
Importing
edit
Jon Harald Søby
: Is there a reason why talk pages such as
Talk:’O sole mio
were not imported? —
Justin (
ko
vf
03:51, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
reply
Koavf
: I only imported what was in
Category:Napulitano
– that would exclude talk pages since they normally aren't categorized there. I can do a new pass in a day or two to include talk pages, as well as the mainspace pages
Ruthven
mentioned on my napwikisource user talk.
Jon Harald Søby
talk
09:12, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
reply
Jon Harald Søby
: Let me know once you feel like you're done and I'll start deleting locally. Grazie! —
Justin (
ko
vf
17:23, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
reply
Koavf
: I think I'm done now. There might be a few things still missing, but I posted a quick little jQuery on your user talk that will check for you. :-)
Jon Harald Søby
talk
09:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
reply
Update on the consultation about office actions
edit
Hello all,
Last month, the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust & Safety team
announced
a future consultation about partial and/or temporary
office actions
. We want to let you know that the
draft version
of this consultation has now been
posted on Meta
This is a
draft
. It is not intended to be the consultation itself, which will be posted on Meta likely in early September. Please do not treat this draft as a consultation. Instead, we ask your assistance in forming the final language for the consultation.
For that end, we would like your input over the next couple of weeks about what questions the consultation should ask about partial and temporary Foundation office action bans and how it should be formatted.
Please post it on the draft talk page
. Our goal is to provide space for the community to discuss all the aspects of these office actions that need to be discussed, and we want to ensure with your feedback that the consultation is presented in the best way to encourage frank and constructive conversation.
Please visit
the consultation draft on Meta-wiki
and leave your comments on the draft’s talk page about what the consultation should look like and what questions it should ask.
Thank you for your input! -- The
Trust & Safety team
08:03, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-34
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Latest
tech news
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Tech News
There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.
Problems
Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can
to see how to fix the filters.
Only six accounts can be created from one
IP address
per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again.
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Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one
IP address
. An IP address can be
whitelisted
so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show
CAPTCHAs
when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (
calendar
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New tools and IP masking
edit
Hey everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.
We have an idea of what tools
could
be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project
on Meta
and
post comments and feedback
. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.
You can post in your language if you can't write in English.
Johan (WMF)
14:19, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Importing nap files
edit
It seems like uploaders of Neapolitan files (e.g.
File:Storia vecchia - Assassina - Pergolesi - Carlo Netti .djvu
) have argued that we shouldn't port them to
s:nap:
. First off, indexes won't work at our sister project without a local copy of the file or a version on
c:
. Secondly, we can't get around copyright law with magically changing "mul.wikisource" to "nap.wikisource"--that's not how copyright works and the servers are all in the United States anyway. Is there something I'm missing here? —
Justin (
ko
vf
17:23, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
reply
C.R.
Alex brollo
Ruthven
Jon Harald Søby
: You seem to be the users most closely related to the issue Justin is raising here (as the uploaders, importers, and/or potential deleters of that file).
Off-topic bit:
Why is the filename linked to above the only one with a page
listed in the "File" namespace
of napwikisource? @
Koavf
: Did you use that example
because
it was the only page in the "File" namespace there? Or is this just a weird coincidence? [Note that the rest of the DjVu pages from that work are
in the "Page" namespace
.])
dcljr
talk
04:39, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Dcljr
: Not sure that I understand your question--it was just a rando file. —
Justin (
ko
vf
04:43, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
OK, but it's the only thing listed at
s:nap:Special:PrefixIndex/File:
. Quite a coincidence. -
dcljr
talk
04:45, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Dcljr
: Oh sorry. I
imported the file history
but didn't upload the actual file itself. I saw what was written there and thought, "That seems like hogwash" so I posted here. Seems like I was right. —
Justin (
ko
vf
04:49, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
I presume that the file has been wrongly uploaded locally - it should be moved to Commons.
Alex brollo
talk
04:55, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
No, it
should not
be moved to Commons, as noted
in the License section of the file page
. Files such as this should be left here (AFAIK). Note, BTW, that only some works are problematic.
File:'E campagnuole.djvu
, for example, is (was) OK to transfer. Looks like this will require checking every work individually. (So, obviously, do not delete anything here until that has been done.) -
dcljr
talk
05:02, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Actually, it looks like
different subdomains handle copyright differently
, so this is only a problem if napwikisource is a wiki that "excludes pre-1924 works copyrighted at home" (quoting from License section linked to in my last comment). -
dcljr
talk
05:05, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Darn it…
File:'E campagnuole.djvu
says it's OK to transfer
to Commons
, not napwikisource. OK, I'm just going to stop talking now. -
dcljr
talk
05:14, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Your instinct is a good one but Commons has a double public domain test where everything has to be public domain in the States (just like all WMF projects)
and
where it was originally created. It's just a rule that they have there. (With the caveat that works with explicitly free licenses are also allowed.) —
Justin (
ko
vf
05:20, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Dcljr
Koavf
: Right: it's difficult to upload
File:Storia vecchia - Assassina - Pergolesi - Carlo Netti .djvu
on Commons, and nap.source hasn't the hability to host files (nor a copyright policy, that ideally should be the same as oldsource). On the single cases:
Carlo Netti wrote his first works in the first decate of the 20th century, and disappears after 1928. A victim of the war? In any case, no files on Commons before 2030 (PD-old-assumed).
Edoardo Pignalosa (not born in 1817 as an online biography says), was active in 1898, still alive in 1959, and died "at a very old age". Files can be uploaded on Commons in 2040 (PD-old-assumed).
Please ping me if you have any doubt: it'll be easier for me to perform searches in Italian. Cheers --
Ruthven
talk
08:30, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
The take-away here is that nap.ws needs local uploads. Copyright policy and law should be no different on mul.ws than nap.ws--that's just asinine. We should have importers and uploaders at nap.ws who have the ability to take files that Commons won't accept which are public domain in the States but not public domain in their countries of origin (considering Neapolitan, Italy). —
Justin (
ko
vf
09:37, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Ah… I (think I) see that I misunderstood what you were saying in your initial post here. I thought you were
acceding
to the suggestion of the "uploaders of Neapolitan files" and
choosing
not to move the files to napwikisource. But now I see that you're saying the complete opposite: that those files
belong
at napwikisource because they
cannot
go to Commons (and the fact that they have not gone to napwikisource yet is because it's currently technically not possible to do so). I'm still not entirely sure what you meant by "
we can't get around copyright law with magically changing 'mul.wikisource' to 'nap.wikisource'
"… but whatever. So you're saying that someone needs to ask at Phabricator to give napwikisource the ability to accept local uploads so those files can be moved there? Doesn't that completely contradict the footnote in the "Pre-1931 works still copyrighted in source country allowed" header cell at
Wikisource:Subdomain coordination
? ("
This column indicates whether such works are allowed on a Wikisource subdomain when considering
wmf:Resolution:Licensing_policy
with respect to the laws of any countries where any project content is predominantly accessed. If not allowed, ws.org
hosts
these works until transferring them to the subdomains when appropriate…
") Although nap: is not yet in that table, wouldn't it be a "no" when it's added because, as with cs: and de:, for example, the Italian law is life of author + 70 years? I'm confused. -
dcljr
talk
11:17, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
My point is that there is no reason for this distinction (plus it's breaking several works at nap.ws). First off, copyright restrictions somehow don't vanish when you go from one subdomain to another. Secondly, even tho I am certain that almost all Neapolitan works were composed in Italy, not all of them were. Why do we act like everything in Polish was written in Poland? This is a nonsense rule. —
Justin (
ko
vf
16:17, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Copyright restrictions aren't necessarily mandated by law. A subdomain can choose to have stricter rules for local uploads (or no local uploads at all) simply to reduce the workload on the community.
Nemo
20:22, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
OK, well, FYI: I'm bowing out of this discussion now (since this never really had anything to do with me in the first place). -
dcljr
talk
11:58, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Copyright rules are partially established by a local community, which often takes into account the low of area where most project readers resides. Eg. de.ws works should be PD in Germany, Austria & Switzerland; fr.ws works should be pd in the country of origin (like in Commons) (but this rule is not strict so some PD-US works are uploaded there and sometimes later deleted which (and it is not good IMO to have such a "floating" policy).
However, noting, that a real community is needed to establish the policy. Esperanto Wikisource case shows that this is a problem sometimes.
Ankry
talk
07:29, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Well, this proves a real problem for things like having scan indexes which is a fundamental feature of Wikisource. If (e.g.) pl.ws exists, there should not be Polish texts here: that's the whole point of graduating to a subdomain. All that should be here is multilingual works, languages that are working to build a community, and languages that have too small a corpus to ever be a subdomain. This is a frustrating scenario and one we really should have comprehended
before
creating nap.ws. —
Justin (
ko
vf
08:08, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Wikisource:News
(en): September 2019 Edition
edit
English Wikisource's monthly newsletter which seeks to inform all about Wikimedia's multilingual Wikisource.
From the Editors: New retention standards
How WikiLaw can support Wikisource
English administrator confirmations for September 2019
International administrative discussions
Wikisource track at Wikimania 2019
Current
Archives
Discussion
MJL
talk
23:02, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Scanning centre in Bangalore
edit
I'm not sure it has ever been mentioned on Wikisource yet, but the Internet Archive (thanks to Carl Malamud) has donated a Scribe scanner to Bangalore, which is being operated by a group of people who call themselves the "Servants of Knowledge" (several of which are Wikisource users, as I understand):
They already managed to scan over 800 books of which some 200 each for Malayalam and Kannada.
Nemo
20:26, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Tech News: 2019-36
edit
Latest
tech news
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Translations
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Recent changes
You can use the new
termbox
interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues.
[117]
The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute.
[118]
The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the
Project:
or
Wikipedia:
namespaces. But it will include changes happening on
Project talk:
or the
Wikipedia talk:
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (
calendar
).
When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the
Password policy
. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to
change your password
for a
stronger password
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Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 September at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on
September 10 at 05:00 (UTC)
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You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes
September 17 at 05:00 (UTC)
. You can
see which wikis
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You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes
September 24 at 05:00 (UTC)
. You can
see which wikis
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You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on
September 26 at 05:00 (UTC)
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Update on technical issues and other things interfering with getting the project approval and creation process moving again
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Please read the update at
m:Talk:Language committee#Update on technical issues and other things interfering with getting the process moving again
StevenJ81
talk
16:35, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Image format for Page:
edit
Tracked in
Phabricator
Task T38597
On
Page:
pages, why does the
Image
tab link to images in the JPEG format?
mw:Extension:PdfHandler
(which is installed here) can render PDF and DjVu to either JPEG or PNG, where the latter usually has superior quality, and chooses the image format independently of MediaWiki configuration (
$wgPdfOutputExtension
). That is, only interface change on Wikisource is required for transition from .jpg to .png link; moreover,
both
links can be shown there.
By the way several months ago
developed
a script
showing PDF and DjVu in PNG on wiki pages, although major Wikimedia sites such as en.Wikipedia and Commons were not interested. The same thing was requested in
phab:T219863
server-side, but no volunteer is willing to edit the extension. The script successfully shows in PNG here on Page:s, although does not change for the Image tab.
Incnis Mrsi
talk
15:07, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Does the Volapük anthem count as a national one?
edit
I wonder whether
Hüm Volapüka
should be included into
Category:National Anthems
? ;) --
Shruggy
talk
21:26, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
No, as the speakers of that language aren't a people. —
Justin (
ko
vf
23:47, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Importing to hi.ws
edit
Now that
s:hi:
is live, I'd like to understand the importing process and who is doing it, so we don't have some of the hiccups that we had with
s:nap:
. E.g. Who is responsible? What schedule do you have for importing? Will hi.ws have locally-hosted files? etc. —
Justin (
ko
vf
18:36, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Jon Harald Søby
: Are you doing this? Is @
StevenJ81
:? —
Justin (
ko
vf
20:48, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
We need to wait for
phab:T233365
to be solved before we start importing. Once that is done either I or
MF-Warburg
will do it, depending on who has time then.
Jon Harald Søby
talk
20:55, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Jon Harald Søby
MF-Warburg
: Are you going to be importing files? There is still a huge problem at nap.ws. —
Justin (
ko
vf
22:02, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Koavf
: What's the problem at nap.ws? This is the first I hear about it.
Jon Harald Søby
talk
22:11, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Jon Harald Søby
: Missing files like
s:nap:Fiùra:Storia vecchia - Assassina - Pergolesi - Carlo Netti .djvu
. Kind of surprised that this is just popping up now--I've mentioned it above here. Indices were moved to nap.ws but files weren't, so the indices there are broken because the files are here. —
Justin (
ko
vf
00:58, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Koavf
: Oh, right, I missed that discussion (even though I see now that I was pinged). I'll take a closer look up there.
Jon Harald Søby
talk
10:12, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Coming soon: FileExporter becomes a default feature on this wiki, making imports to Wikimedia Commons easier
edit
The
FileExporter and FileImporter extensions
make moving files from a local wiki to Wikimedia Commons easier. Together they allow to move files with all their original data intact, while documenting the move in the version history. The feature originates in a
top wish from the Technical Wishes survey
on German Wikipedia.
The FileExporter has been a beta feature on first wikis, including this one, for a while now, and it’s available on all Wikimedia wikis since January 2019. Currently,
15,000 people on the Wikimedia projects have activated the feature
, and more than
12,000 files were imported successfully
with this new tool. The first version from June 2018 was improved continuously, based on feedback by its beta testers. Thanks to everyone who gave feedback!
Now, the FileExporter will become a default feature
on the first few wikis
, including this one. This means that as an auto-confirmed user on these wikis, you'll see a link “Export to Wikimedia Commons” on local file pages. If you click on this link, the FileImporter then checks if the file can in fact be moved to Commons, and whether any replacements need to be made. These checks are performed based on the wiki’s configuration file which is defined by the local community.
The planned date for this deployment is September 24th, 2019. Deployment on more wikis is planned for later this year.
As always, feedback on this feature is very welcome
on this talk page
. -- Best,
Johanna Strodt (WMDE)
talk
08:59, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
Tech News: 2019-40
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Problems
Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all wikis from 3 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
2 October at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
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The Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech team
is working on a
watchlist expiry feature
. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for
feedback on the questions they have
Special:Contributions
will get the standard
OOUI look
. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other
Special:
pages. There is a
script
you can use to make the form smaller if you want to.
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The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started
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Hello,
In a
recent statement
, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
requested that staff hold a consultation
to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".
Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians
to join this consultation and give their feedback
from 30 September to 30 October.
How can you help?
Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);
Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or
Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.
We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!
--
Kbrown (WMF)
17:14, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
reply
IP spam
edit
I added an abusefilter that limits IP edits to one per two minutes, giving warning if editing faster.
Hoping, this may stop recent IP spammers here.
Ankry
talk
14:41, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
reply
Tech News: 2019-41
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Latest
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Translations
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Recent changes
The
abuse filter function
now has a faster
parser
. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit.
[127]
Problems
There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon.
[128]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
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The
Community Wishlist Survey
has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can
leave feedback
The
URL
of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example
would be
instead. You can
tell the developers
if this would cause problems for your wiki.
There is a new
technical community newsletter
. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community.
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Outreachy
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Tech News: 2019-42
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Recent changes
You can now use
more advanced editing tools
on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
16 October at 15:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
Internet Explorer
6 and 7 are no longer
supported
. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You
can't read
Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else.
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Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project
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Please help translate to your language
Hello. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some
improvements to the desktop interface
over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.
We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.
We would like individual feedback on the following:
Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far
We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.
When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:
Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
Put things in logical and useful places
Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
Eliminate clutter
Plan for future growth
As well as the following constraints:
Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors
Please give all feedback (in any language) at
mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements
After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.
Thank you!
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Recent changes
The
API
sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as
internal
. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.
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Problems
There is a
translation tool
we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed.
[132]
The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed.
[133]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (
calendar
).
Reference Previews
will be a beta feature on
all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages
. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
23 October
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Recent changes
You can post proposals for the
Community Wishlist Survey
. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can
about the format for this year.
Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
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You can share feedback and ideas on the
Desktop Improvements
project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI
now allows using
px
(pixels) instead of
em
em
) for some specific cases.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
30 October at 15:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
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Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named
wg*
to
mw.config
. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can
know more about it and tell the developers
if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
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Recent changes
At
Special:Contributions
you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the
URL
. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.
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Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry
can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip
to set a different default block length for IP editors.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
6 November at 15:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
MediaWiki2LaTeX
can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a
PDF
. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
13 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
Wikimedia will take part in
Google Code-in
. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can
. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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22:02, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
multilingual wikisource
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hi, sorry to bother you,
there seem to have been quite a few changes in the last few days in the page editor of the multilingual wikisource
now when i try to transcribe a page, the picture of the page is not anymore side by side with the text box, but it lies below, which is not very convenient
is there any work in progress or is it going to stay that way? would it be possible to make it again the way it was before?
thanks!
G.Musso
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16:41, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
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G.Musso
: Hi, I see no issues on this side. Can you show us an example? --
Ruthven
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12:38, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
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PS: If you've turned on the
Syntax highlighting
evidenziatore della sintassi
) it is a bug of the software. See
phabricator:T232918
The solution is not to use this gadget. --
Ruthven
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12:41, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
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that's what it was, sorry to waste your time! thanks!
G.Musso
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Problems
You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes
on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC)
. You can
see which wikis
. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauth
database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or
global renames
[141]
Changes later this week
You can soon vote on proposals for the
Community Wishlist Survey
. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can
about the format for this year.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
20 November at 16:00 (UTC)
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20:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia link from the main page of the Wikisource
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Hi to all! Today I noticed a strange appearance on
the main page of the Wikisource
: on the left pane I see section "In other projects" having one link named "Wikipedia", which links to en-Wikipedia article
w:en:Oromo language
. Could any experienced users (perhaps admins) investigate — why it is so displayed, and why the Oromo language is considered so distinguished that its article is presented on the main page of the Wikisource which contains also many other languages? --
Nigmont
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19:46, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
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That's interesting indeed. For some reason Wikidate sends me to
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when I edit the interwiki's, but I can't find our main page there... Must be somekind of bug. --
Ooswesthoesbes
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08:13, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
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I reported it to
Wikidata
. --
Ooswesthoesbes
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08:24, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
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Ooswesthoesbes
: thank you very much for your assistance, after your reporting to the Wikidata the problem apparently has been fixed, which was also mentioned in the topic that you created there. --
Nigmont
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21:28, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
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Yes, they removed a link, so it is good now :) --
Ooswesthoesbes
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08:17, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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Changes later this week
The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the
desktop improvements
project. You can turn on
advanced mobile contributions mode
if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a
gadget or user script
[143]
Parsoid
is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can
report them
[144]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (
calendar
). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
27 November at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.
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Recent changes
Mix'n'match
is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 December at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
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Future changes
There will be a new schema for
XML dumps
. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
[146]
The
{{REVISIONID}}
magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns
""
(empty string). When you read a page it returns
"-"
(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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Recent changes
Wikimedia projects use
Translatewiki
to translate the wiki interface. You can now use
WatchTranslations
to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
[148]
There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can
read the documentation
and
download the dataset
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 December at 16:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
Future changes
You can test a new
reference tool
. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the
beta cluster
. You can see
an example article
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Problems
The
Linter extension
helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an
API
problem. It is now working again.
[150]
Special:Watchlist
can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.
[151]
Changes later this week
You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
[152]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
18 December at 16:00 (UTC)
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Future changes
The
partial blocks
feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact
NKohli (WMF)
if you don't want it now.
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Request for an interface admin to edit
MediaWiki:OCR.js
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Hi!
In order to workaround
OCR bug which annoys a lot of people
, can an interface administrator edit
MediaWiki:OCR.js
to use the fallback slower OCR, please? The secondary OCR system is already an automatic fallback when hOCR fails, but with the current bug, the script doesn’t see hOCR have failed, so it isn’t used.
The solution I propose is to force slower OCR using until someone fixes hOCR. You only have to comment the if condition in hocr_callback function, the return statement will prevent else block to execute.
Turn
function
hocr_callback
data
if
data
error
// Fallback to the slow way.
disable_input
false
);
do_ocr
();
return
else
// Checking if tb is disabled is required with chrome as ESC doesn't kill
// the query.
var
tb
document
getElementById
"wpTextbox1"
);
if
tb
disabled
localStorage
ws_hOCR
data
text
var
text
data
text
).
text
();
// Ugly as hell.
text
text
replace
/[ ]*\n[ ]*/g
'\n'
replace
/\n\n\n\n/g
'@_@_@_@_@_@'
replace
/\n\n/g
'\n'
replace
/@_@_@_@_@_@/g
'\n\n'
replace
/\n\n\n/g
'\n\n'
);
tb
value
trim
text
);
disable_input
false
);
into
function
hocr_callback
data
// if (data.error) {
// Fallback to the slow way.
disable_input
false
);
do_ocr
();
return
// } else {
// Checking if tb is disabled is required with chrome as ESC doesn't kill
// the query.
var
tb
document
getElementById
"wpTextbox1"
);
if
tb
disabled
localStorage
ws_hOCR
data
text
var
text
data
text
).
text
();
// Ugly as hell.
text
text
replace
/[ ]*\n[ ]*/g
'\n'
replace
/\n\n\n\n/g
'@_@_@_@_@_@'
replace
/\n\n/g
'\n'
replace
/@_@_@_@_@_@/g
'\n\n'
replace
/\n\n\n/g
'\n\n'
);
tb
value
trim
text
);
// }
disable_input
false
);
Pols12
talk
19:41, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
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-jkb-
Ooswesthoesbes
Zyephyrus
: If you'll give me the rights, I'll do it. —
Justin (
ko
vf
00:54, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
no objections as far,
-jkb-
talk
07:06, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
If it works, why not :) @
Koavf
: you already have admin access, so you should be able to edit that page. --
Ooswesthoesbes
talk
08:22, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
Ooswesthoesbes
: "You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: Editing of sitewide CSS/JS/JSON files has recently been limited to members of the
Interface administrators
group. See
m:Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS
for more information." —
Justin (
ko
vf
09:47, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
Done
. Let's tool around with it and see how it works. —
Justin (
ko
vf
18:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
Koavf
: Oh, that seems to be somthing new. I see Zyephyrus already fixed that for you :) --
Ooswesthoesbes
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19:36, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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Ooswesthoesbes
: Interface administration is fairly new--several months old but yes, it's a new division of user rights. —
Justin (
ko
vf
19:43, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
Probably missed that I guess. Don't use interface editing that often, so that might be the reason. --
Ooswesthoesbes
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20:24, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
Oh, I had only copied a short part of the code: the rest should stay. In order to facilitate update, I just have created a sandbox:
User:Pols12/OCR.js
which can replace full content of
MediaWiki:OCR.js
Koavf
or other interface admin, can you fix again the message, please?
Sorry for being unclear previously. —
Pols12
talk
21:53, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
Pols12
Done
You didn't do anything wrong--very helpful. —
Justin (
ko
vf
05:11, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
It works now, thank you! —
Pols12
talk
13:01, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
The "Interface administrators group": in the German WP this group is about one year old, but it wasn't introduced to all projects at the same time, I guess.
-jkb-
talk
23:14, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
reply
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Because of the
holidays
the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
Recent changes
All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "
advanced mode
".
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
You can use
setlang
in the
URL
to change the
user interface language
. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if
Javascript
is not working in your browser.
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