Talk:Tech/News/Archives/2018
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New years wish: A brief look into the future
Since the last Tech News requested for improvements wishes, here is mine: Tech News informs you great about what happened in the last week but it's still hard to keep an overview of bigger projects that are running. Maybe you could introduce a category in the Tech News where you keep a list of links to the ongoing/planned changes of the next year or so? -- MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 12:14, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks MichaelSchoenitzer. I'll spend some time over the next few months trying to figure out how to improve Tech News; I'll add this to the things to think about how to do better. (: /Johan (WMF) (talk) 17:22, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
أعجبتني. أريد الإشتراك.. Sahraoui bouzidi (talk) 16:46, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Add all 2018 tech news into your watchlist
As 2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Watchlists/Automatically watch pages containing specific string was not supported enough, you must manually add all this years' tech news' into your watchlist. Here is a list that you can copy to your raw watchlist (Special:EditWatchlist/raw):
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Tech/News/2018/01 |
What links to Tech/News?
I actually thought the "What links here" page for Tech/News would contain pages of every single page subscribed to Tech news as every single edition of Tech news links to Tech/News. To my surprise there were less than 250 entries in the "What links here" page! Why aren't the pages that subscribe to Tech news not found in the "What links here" page? At least I could find my talk page in the list though I subscribe for Tech news to be delivered to that page. I don't think it's because the link has the wikitext of [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]] as I thought it's not different from [[Tech/News|tech news]]. - - Kaartic correct me, if i'm wrong 05:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
- It's because of
Special:MyLanguage/. See for example Special:WhatLinksHere/User:Johan (WMF)/Test, which lists only User:Julle/Test1 ([[User:Johan (WMF)/Test]]) but not User:Julle/Test2 ([[Special:MyLanguage/User:Johan (WMF)/Test]]). /Johan (WMF) (talk) 07:30, 16 January 2018 (UTC)- Just as I suspected. But, shouldn't it at least show User:Julle/Test2 in Special:WhatLinksHere/Special:MyLanguage/User:Johan (WMF)/Test? Why are links prefixed with
Speecial:MyLanguagetreated so differently ? - - Kaartic correct me, if i'm wrong 13:58, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
- Just as I suspected. But, shouldn't it at least show User:Julle/Test2 in Special:WhatLinksHere/Special:MyLanguage/User:Johan (WMF)/Test? Why are links prefixed with
education extention
regarding removing education program extension is there is any discussion about that? to me i benefit very much from it. can i request exempt for Arabic wikipedia?--مصعب (talk) 21:07, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
- مصعب, the very Tech News item links to the Education mailing list where you could post. However, the extension isn't just being removed, it's being replaced by a new system. You can also write to dashboard@wikimedia.org, per Vahid's message. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:04, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Elitre (WMF): Thanks. I know that there is a new system but the professors at my University are familiar with the previous one--مصعب (talk) 17:36, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Comments can also be made on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186325 --VMasrour (WMF) (talk) 18:02, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
My simple wish for future
Please keep a stable, unchanged version of software, for a very long time (1-2 years), and activate an option to choose such stable version ignoring any update. Find and replace is broken from months into wikisource nsPage, but hironically its icon has been updated. I'd like to use old running version of it.... giving up icon update :-) --Alex brollo (talk) 05:18, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
- Alex brollo: While some of us who create Tech News are also available in the software development process in one way or another, this isn't really up to us. (: wikitech-l or IRC are probably better venues. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 10:58, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
minor error in 2018 #19
The MediaWiki update item links to MediaWiki 1.32/wmf.3 as the new version, but the "calendar" link points to the deployment roadmap for version 1.31. Not a serious error, just making you aware it's something to check next time. Thryduulf (talk: meta · en.wp · wikidata) 11:42, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks Thryduulf, I've fixed it in the skeleton source. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 01:25, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
minor error in 2018 #19
The MediaWiki update item links to MediaWiki 1.32/wmf.3 as the new version, but the "calendar" link points to the deployment roadmap for version 1.31. Not a serious error, just making you aware it's something to check next time. Thryduulf (talk: meta · en.wp · wikidata) 11:42, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks Thryduulf, I've fixed it in the skeleton source. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 01:25, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
Quelques outils pour traducteurs dans un module Lua
- Désolé si je ne propose pas au bon endroit.
- Dans les dernières Tech News: 2018-26 vous signalez:
- Nous allons demander aux utilisateurs de la traduction de contenu qui travaillent sur deux langues parmi l'arabe, l'anglais, le français, le japonais et le russe, de faire partie d'un projet de recherche. Ceci a pour but de créer de meilleurs outils pour la traduction de contenu. [398]
- Au cas où vous seriez interéssés, je voudrais vous proposer quelques outils du module Lua Centralizer.
- Il peut utiliser toutes les lagues présentes dans un fichier de traductions Centralizer/I18N.
- Il suffit d'ajouter une langue dans ce fichier sans aucune autre configuration. --Rical (talk) 15:37, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- Bonjour Rical et merci pour cette information.
- L'outil auquel Tech News fait référence est un outil pour un projet de recherche. Le but est d'alimenter un logiciel auto-apprenant, qui suggère d'ajouter une section à un article quand une personne le développe ou le traduit. Il est demandé aux communautés d'identifier les éléments synonymes dans les deux langues afin de permettre au logiciel de comprendre ces cas et d'extrapoler.
- J'ai du mal à voir comment vos modules peuvent aider vu que je n'en comprends pas le fonctionnement. :) Pouvez-vous en dire plus sur ma page de discussion ?
- Merci, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 06:57, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
- Par rapport à ce projet de recherche, mon outil est complètement hors sujet.
- Les modèles et modules actuels servent à faires des boites d'infos, des tables améliorées, des statistiques ... dans une langue et un projet.
- Les codeurs capables de les maitriser sont rares et les "petits" wikis n'ont personne pour profiter de tous ces progrès.
- Interêt des modules multilingues : Le Module:Central permet aux codeurs de rendre les modèles multilingues et accessibles même pour les petits wikis.
- On peut même ajouter des langues dans un fichier annexe /I18N sans toucher au module lui-même.
- Le Module:Central actuel compte les traductions dans les langues qu'il a pour repérer des manques.
- Il cherche aussi les différences entre les traductions internes et celles en annexe /I18N.
- C'est ça qu'on voit dans les tables déroulantes juste après Library:langs. --Rical (talk) 10:21, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Distribution on July 24
Hello
Due to Wikimania and some vacations Tech News will be distributed on Tuesday July 24 instead of Monday as the usual. Johan is coordinating the redaction as usual, I'll handle the distribution when I come back.
User contribution link doesn’t work for a red-link user
For checking Contributions by a user without Userpage (red-link user), it does not work as noted in Tech News 2018/week 28 as to date 15:47, 8 July 2018 (UTC). When I tap on the username (red link), the editor opens to create a Userpage. Any hint? —Omotecho (talk) 15:47, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
- Tech/News/2018/28 will be sent tomorrow (Monday), so "Changes later this week" means the week starting tomorrow. Stryn (talk) 15:51, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
- Case closed. Thank you, confirmed. ----Omotecho (talk) 16:13, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Could en:WP:BOTNEWS get a shoutout?
en:Wikipedia:Bots/News/201808 was sent on the 18th. This might be worth mentioning, as well as a link to en:Wikipedia:Bots/Spam to subscribe. Something like
- The 6th Bots Newsletter was sent on 18 August 2018 on enwiki. Those interested can subscribe at en:Wikipedia:Bots/Spam.
Headbomb (talk) 17:32, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
- I had somehow missed this until now. Don't know how – my sincere apologies. Thank you for your suggestion, it's always appreciated when people suggest things for the newsletter.
- One thing Tech News tries to do is to not write about things that are specific for one wiki, unless that wiki is Commons or Wikidata (which we all depend on). It's more effective to reach out to that wiki directly, than to put something in a newsletter that goes out to a very large numbers of wikis. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 16:16, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Commons and GFDL
m:Wikimedia Forum#Commons will soon stop accepting some GFDL-only media
Can some information about this be included in the next issue? Alexis Jazz (talk) 16:18, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Added it myself. Alexis Jazz (talk) 19:32, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
2018-51
For the <ref> it is ambiguous what will be fixed. Will warnings be issued or will more parameters no longer be ignored? Ainali (talk) 21:21, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
- Hi @Ainali: According to the linked task (phab:T211576), and if i understand correctly, the key part in the description there is "the best solution is to remove the
>2check entirely and rely on the later check for unknown parameters", so therefor more parameters will no longer be ignored (?). If that doesn't clarify things, I suggest asking in the task itself. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:48, 17 December 2018 (UTC)