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User:月立龍头Help!

User:月立龍头Help: I haven't wiki spam, please help check<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global#Global_lock_for_User%3A%E6%9C%88%E7%AB%8B%E9%BE%8D%E5%A4%B4>, thank you for your help! 陈少静 | 月立龍头 (talk) 07:36, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Ola Radix,Eu sou um utilizador da wikicomons e estou bloqueiado,preciso da tua ajuda pra resolver este problema! Adilson Diniz Muata — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Adilson Diniz Muata (talk)

@Adilson Diniz Muata: Não há nenhum bloqueio vigente em sua conta. RadiX∞ 13:09, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
Oi 👋 Radix como estás?
Eu sou um utilizador dos serviços da Wiki e o meu IP foi bloqueado 🔏
Agora me encontro com problemas para acessar algumas funcionalidades dentro da wiki
Por favor ajude-me a resolver este problema.
Carlos Aidy — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Carlos Aidy (talk)
@Carlos Aidy: Você poderá me informar por email qual o seu endereço IP. RadiX∞ 17:39, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

O meu endereço IP atual é 105.172.36.195 e a faixa bloqueada é 105.172.0.0/16.. Carlos Aidy — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Carlos Aidy (talk)

Tech News: 2018-02

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

Recent changes

  • On Wikidata, the "save" button when you edit is now called "publish". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Save page" to "Publish changes". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [1][2]
  • Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [3]
  • Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [4]
  • Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [5][6]

Problems

  • Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [7]
  • With the new filters in the recent changes, "Exclude selected" in "Namespaces" did not work for "Saved filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [8]
  • The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [9]
  •   Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

  • Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [11]
  • The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [12][13]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
  •   WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [14]

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Request for User:SBerT

RadiX, please check my request! Gigadoom (talk) 12:01, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

I see no evidence of cross-wiki abuse. Please reach out to local checkusers. RadiX∞ 19:40, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

  Comment Gigadoom was a sock puppet of the same (unknown to me) master as SBarT (talk · contribs) was; not to be confused with SBerT. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 07:45, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Ip

Bom dia senhor Radix, quando tento editar qualquer artigo nas wikis vem esta notificação O seu endereço IP está incluído numa faixa que foi bloqueada em todas as wikis.'

O bloqueio foi feito por RadiX (meta.wikimedia.org). O motivo especificado foi Cross-wiki spam: This IP range has been abused for vandalism. If you are affected by this block, please contact us: stewards@wikimedia.org.

Início do bloqueio: 00h38min de 25 de novembro de 2017 Expiração do bloqueio: 03h22min de 27 de março de 2018

Pode contactar RadiX para discutir o bloqueio. Não pode utilizar a funcionalidade "Enviar correio eletrónico a este(a) utilizador(a)" a não ser que possua um endereço de correio eletrónico válido especificado nas suas preferências de conta e o bloqueio não impeça o seu uso. O seu endereço IP atual é 105.168.9.55 e a faixa bloqueada é 105.168.0.0/16. Por favor, inclua todos os detalhes acima em quaisquer co ntactos sobre este assunto.

Porfavor senhor Radix, desbloqueia só meu Ip, estou visúalizar varios artigos que carecem de fontes fiavés, correçōes de erros actografos. Por ex: o artigo de Natsu Dragneel. Não tenho crédito para enviar lhe, e-mail; porfavor senhor Radix fornece me, a oportunidade de conviver com a wiki, novamente.

Até para carregar imagem, e depois adicionar ao artigo, vem a mesma notificação de bloqueio. Guedes Slayer (talk) 10:01, 13 January 2018 (UTC) Guedes°® Slayer 09:40, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

@Guedes Slayer: Você já teve alguma outra conta, além desta? RadiX∞ 14:29, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Sim tive, a dois anos atrás meu nome era Manuel José Guédes tive 689 ediçōes constructiva em wiki pt... fiquei ausente temporariamente 7 mesês, quando voltei a iniciar sessão depois de muito tempo, encontro uma notificação dizendo que, esta conta esta bloqueado Globalmente porque era uma fantoshe de contas multiplas de fransisco.

Eu que não conheço o usuário chamado fransisco, tive que esperar muito tempo, até hoje não tenho mas aquela oportunidade de antes, até só carregar ficheiro com já fas muito tempo que não uso mas esta função, porque não sou permitido.

Eu que quase fui um revisor antes, hoje cá sou tratado como um.vandalizador.

Se tudo voltase a ser como 2016 seria melhor. Hoje pequena coisa bloqueiam o outro, por 10 mesês 1 ano.

Porfavor Senhor Radix me fornece uma oportunidade de mostrar que sou bom usuário da wiki.

Tenho muita saldades dos meus trabalhos em ptwikipédia. E commons. Guedes Slayer (talk) 17:25, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

@Guedes Slayer: Você está ciente de que o carregamento de ficheiros que violam direitos de autor podem levar ao seu bloqueio? RadiX∞ 19:39, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Eu sei disto, ja mas violei os direitos de autor. Guedes Slayer (talk) 20:29, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

@Guedes Slayer: Carregamentos indevidos de ficheiros em quase 10 wikis. Exemplos: cawiki, glwiki, ptwikisource, afwiki, mediawiki = Abuso Wikipedia Zero. Não é possível desbloqueá-lo, lamento. RadiX∞ 19:34, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Bom dia senhor Radix, quando tento editar qualquer artigo nas wikis vem esta notificação O seu endereço IP está incluído numa faixa que foi bloqueada em todas as wikis.'

O bloqueio foi feito por RadiX (meta.wikimedia.org). O motivo especificado foi Cross-wiki spam: This IP range has been abused for vandalism. If you are affected by this block, please contact us: stewards@wikimedia.org.

Início do bloqueio: 19h57min de 12 de março de 2018 Expiração do bloqueio: 19h57min de 12 de março de 2019

Pode contactar RadiX para discutir o bloqueio. Não pode utilizar a funcionalidade "Enviar correio eletrónico a este(a) utilizador(a)" a não ser que possua um endereço de correio eletrónico válido especificado nas suas preferências de conta e o bloqueio não impeça o seu uso. O seu endereço IP atual é 105.168.9.55 e a faixa bloqueada é 105.168.0.0/16. Por favor, inclua todos os detalhes acima em quaisquer co ntactos sobre este assunto.

Porfavor senhor Radix, desbloqueia só meu Ip, estou visúalizar varios artigos que carecem de fontes fiavés, correçōes de erros actografos. Por ex: o artigo de Natsu Dragneel. Não tenho crédito para enviar lhe, e-mail; porfavor senhor Radix fornece me, a oportunidade de conviver com a wiki, novamente.

Até para carregar imagem, e depois adicionar ao artigo, vem a mesma notificação de bloqueio. PedroBlog (talk) 09:05, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Bom dia senhor Radix, quando tento carregar ficheiros aparece uma faixa a dizer que eu estou bloqueado em todas as wiki. Faripy só 9dades (talk) 00:44, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

checkuser on enwikinews

Hello, Back in July, Brian@enwikinews lost his checkuser privileges due to inactivity and per global policy, Wikinews' only other checkuser, Tom Morris was removed per the rule of 2. We are considering nominations to have local checkusers again.

My question is, if we successfully nominate and elect one user for checkuser, can Tom Morris be reinstated without going through the entire process? Cheers, --SVTCobra (talk) 18:37, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

@SVTCobra: If you nominate and elect another user for CU then Tom Morris will get his rights back. RadiX∞ 18:41, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Thank you. --SVTCobra (talk) 18:43, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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

Recent changes

  • Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [15]
  •   There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [16]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [17][18]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •   You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [19][20]

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18:46, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Add More Files Beveni do Chaine (talk) 09:08, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2018

 
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Much Thanks

You are awesome. A+ --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 19:25, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Reminder about Blocking consultation

Hello again,

The discussion about new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools is happening on meta now and is in the final days.

We contacted you because you are one of the top users of the blocking tool on this wiki. We think that your comments will help us make better improvements. There is still time to share your ideas. You can post to the discussion in any language.

Thank you if you have already shared your thoughts. You can also help out by sharing a link to the meta discussion with users on other wikis. Or you can translate the summary of the discussion and share it on another wiki.

If you have questions you can contact me on wiki or by email.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 23:21, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Ok Alexandreantoniomanuelzua (talk) 08:14, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [23]

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 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [24]

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23:55, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Impressive

I wanted to drop a note. I was reading User:Matanya/stewstats and saw your stats. Impressive. :) --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 17:25, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. RadiX∞ 17:15, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

User talk page

Please protect my user talk (edit autoconfirmed, move autoconfirmed) page on 1 year. --Kolega2357 (talk) 07:02, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@Kolega2357: done. RadiX∞ 16:21, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. --Kolega2357 (talk) 20:47, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

User:Lucas Ulpiano de Souza Gonçalves Tavares Nogueira Itagiba

Caro, favor eliminar PU. Aviso que usuário vandalizou minha PU. @Lucas Ulpiano de Souza Gonçalves Tavares Nogueira Itagiba:. Por favor, qual procedimento aqui para PE? Agadeço, Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 15:36, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@Felipe da Fonseca: eliminada. RadiX∞ 16:10, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

PU

Vc poderia, concomitantemente proteger minha PU. Creio que sou autoconfirmado. Há autorevissor aqui? Como peço o status? Obrigado, Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 15:38, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@Felipe da Fonseca: adicionado. RadiX∞ 17:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

One more

Thanks for the protection on my talkpage. You did miss one, if you can fix that also? [25] Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 01:31, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

  Done by other admin. RadiX∞ 16:59, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

SRCU

Hello RadiX, I was suggested by EVinente to call on you. I'd like to report a problem which need a checkuser: here or here (I don't know which one is the correct place to report such a problem) you can read what I've noticed about a cross-wiki vandal who uses proxies and socks to edit the same pages in different languages. So far, nobody has even answered yet, and I added the topics on tuesday... Perhaps an IP user isn't often listened to as a registered user is, but the problem is real, and started a month ago, and is still going on... The user who made this report is the last and least problem here, am I wrong? Please, let me know what you can do about that and, if you can't deal with that, please tell me whom I should call on. Thank you in advance! 151.64.162.24 17:18, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Please let me know whether this user is abusing multiple accounts. I don't see any diffs from the links you provided above, just a few IP ranges instead. RadiX∞ 17:24, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
The only 2 accounts I could find are Myeuurn and Baka Líte, while most of the IPs he's used are from proxies (AS6939 HURRICANE - Hurricane Electric, Inc., US). It would be needed just a check to proove the relation between the proxy IPs, the normal IPs and the socks. 151.64.162.24 18:01, 11 January 2018 (UTC) P.S. "151.68.113.104" new IP found: he's not going to stop...
Your request is now under review. RadiX∞ 00:53, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Excuse me for disturbing you again RadiX, but are you sure that my request is under review? Nobody has modified it, and the line "In progress" was there since I posted it. It seems strange to me that after 5 days nobody among sysops and bureaucrats on meta.wikimedia has taken care of such a request yet, a request involving proxies and socks used cross-wiki which normally are checked and blocked even too easily and quickly, while instead the very likely one user behind all this is still freely going on using them in different projects. I've reported this problem because I wanted to do a good thing for this project, but maybe it's something nobody really cares about and I risk becoming annoying for admins, which is the last thing I want. If it's so, please tell me, I don't want to be "the" problem. 151.64.178.93 18:49, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Dear user, bureaucrats/sysops have nothing to do with this. Your request is being reviewed by stewards. Once we are done with this we will come back to you. Regards, RadiX∞ 18:56, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind answer, now I feel more relieved! 151.64.178.93 19:01, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
In the meantime you'd better provide us with more specific information. Diffs demonstranting a bad behavior across multiple projects would be of some help on this regard. RadiX∞ 19:03, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Yes, I'll select some disruptive edits to bring as examples. Almost all edits involve Italian stuff. Anyway, the fact he's using open proxies (as proven, for example, by EVinente, one of the admins who blocked and reverted the user behind the proxy) and sock puppets (to deceive, mislead, avoid sanctions and evade blocks) is itself a violation of wikipedian rules. 151.64.178.93 19:15, 13 January 2018 (UTC) P.S. I'm asking just to have an idea: more or less how long will it take my request?
It may take a little while. It also depends on how quickly you'll provide us with the required information. The request you filed at SRCU is missing with some necessary details. For instance, it's harsh to look at those wide IP ranges and draw a conclusion based on it. RadiX∞ 04:24, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
You're right, in that page I've written just the IP ranges because the highest number of users to check is 10, while in the other I could insert all the single IPs I managed to find. Today I'll add more information, please have a look later to verify it's what stewards need to know to proceed. 151.64.180.18 10:49, 14 January 2018 (UTC) P.S. done :-)
Ok then. RadiX∞ 19:35, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Do you know who is/are the steward(s) checking my request? If you know please point out that I've inserted more information in that box at SRCU and that the full list of IPs I'm updating daily is at RFCU, and if it's possible please also ask how much longer will it take (I've made the request a week ago). Sorry for disturbing you again with this stuff. 151.64.163.232 14:15, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Please be patient, I'm a bit busy at the moment. We usually do not match users to IP addresses. I'll look at this later. RadiX∞ 17:39, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Okay, thank you. I won't interpellate again till at least next week. 151.64.164.185 18:12, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi RadiX. 15 days have passed, and no answer has arrived yet. What have I done wrong in this request? Is there a technical quibble preventing it from being checked? Is there a serious reason such a request can't be accepted because of policies? Please don't just tell me stewards are working on it, unless you know which stewards actually are. It all started from the block of a proxy in pt.wikipedia, and I've been spending a long time after this problem, reporting daily new proxies, socks and normal IPs connectable to the same user, who's still continuing with the same cross-wiki edits. What can you tell me about all this? What do you suggest me to do? Opening a new request on SRCU from my registered account but this time making it in the most correct and clear way possible? Give me a hand please! 151.64.176.18 15:55, 23 January 2018 (UTC) P.S. both my requests have just been closed...

RadiX: please, PLEASE, will you lend me a hand about this story? I've made a new request, from a registered account, in the right page, without listing all the dozens of IPs which are collected in my talk page... You yourself are a steward, the troll I've been reporting for all this time has started on pt.wikipedia where he was blocked and reverted, and there's actually nothing to investigate because I've done all the work and already explained everything clearly, we just need a steward to confirm that those accounts and IPs are linked to each others so that this cross-wiki abuser can be blocked by all his socks, proxies and ranges to prevent him from further disrupting. Can you do this, RadiX? 151.64.163.127 16:55, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello. I dropped a comment there. RadiX∞ 21:44, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, I've read it and replied. Do you think that my request can't be checked because of its nature? I've asked on meta because it's about IPs and accounts editing cross-wiki, I hope it can be taken charge of by stewards... 151.64.187.180 14:41, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Ok, thank you. I still haven't managed to read what you wrote there. I'll check this later. RadiX∞ 17:45, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
Meanwhile, I've requested CUs in a pair of single wikis and they're positive. Since it's a cross-wiki problem, it'd be better to deal with it here on meta, anyway... When you have some time, please read what I've written in SRCU. 151.64.162.204 16:14, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
I was under the impression that none of those accounts had been blocked before. Please point me to the links regarding these CUs. RadiX∞ 02:06, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
RadiX, I was under the impression that having a blocked account wasn't a pre-requisite for a check, as I've written in SRCU, it'd be rather a consequence if the check confirms the use of sockpuppets and proxies, which are forbidden... The CUs I've talked about, so far didn't produce a block but just confirmed the use of socks or proxies, since the real problem is that this user is using a number of IPs and accounts "cross-wiki", and those CUs concerned just single wikis, where the number of his contributions is obviously much lower. Answer this question, please: the use of proxies and the abuse of socks is still against Wikipedian conditions or not? If it isn't, then my request has no meaning to be (even if I've reported examples his of inappropriate and disruptive edits, some of the which were rollbacked by admins, who also blocked a few of his ranges). If it is, then I really don't understand why all stewards, apart from you, are ignoring my request despite I've opened it almost one month ago. 151.64.167.110 13:31, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Not necessarily. There should be clear evidence that actions had been aimed at mitigating both bad behavior and sockpuppetry at any level with regards to a measure such as blocking, protecting etc. Btw I have replied to your comment there. RadiX∞ 02:17, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
About what happened this morning, I left a message in your Portuguese talk page with an account I've created for that, Metharinan. But this morning something else, and much better, happened: account Myeuurn was blocked in fr.wikipedia with an expiration time of indefinite for sockpuppetry abuse. I think that finally you've got what you demanded, an evidence that all I've said from the very beginning a month ago about this proxy user and sockpuppet abuser was true. I hope that now you can proceed with the cross-wiki check over the related accounts sharing the same IP ranges and showing similar edits. 151.64.176.203 17:45, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

I'd like to know what you think about this story. RadiX, I'm not the troll who made that edit in it.wikipedia, and if it wasn't for this misunderstanding the CU request would be probably processed, since in fr.wikipedia the sock and proxy ranges were blocked after a local CU request and this is the overwhelming evidence. The problem is real, my accusation was true, French sysops now know it and for this they blocked the vandal in fr.wikipedia. On these bases, what are we waiting for to check these accounts and IPs globally and take measures? I repeat: I'm not the troll I was accused to be, I've never done that edit which had nothing to do with all this, there's no connection between me and the troll, you're a checkuser and you can verify it by yourself, even better, I'm asking you to check, if I were guilty I woudln't ask you to do that. We just shared the same IP range, but I bet I can find tons of vandalisms made over that range, are all of them linkable to me? Counterexample: the same admin who yesterday blocked me has recently blocked also an IP who made some vandalisms in it.wikipedia, 151.18.35.251 (belonging to IP range 151.18.0.0/16, one of the ranges used by the vandal I've been reporting): does this mean it was him too? No, of course: these vandalisms have nothing to do with Italian accents, they're not linkable to the proxy user and sock abuser... As I have nothing to do with the troll who edited a page (lokum ) which has absolutely nothing to do with his story. The problem here isn't "my CU request", but "the object of my CU request", a cross-wiki vandal who for 2 months has been anonymising himself behind open proxies and sockpuppets. I mean: even if, for absurd, I actually had been that troll, would this mean the cross-wiki vandal is unguilty because I've accused him? After a French sysop has verified I was saying the truth? Tell me what you think sincerely, even if you don't trust me please tell me. And excuse me for writing this much. 151.64.182.54 15:24, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

  • It may take some time before I manage to complete reading everything you mentioned in that wall of text and finally come to a conclusion. Regards, RadiX∞ 01:42, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm reassuming here:

  • First, I said I'm not the same person who made that vandalism in it.wikipedia which, as far as I understand, had absolutely nothing to do with me, my CU request and the users involved, it seems that the only common ground that my blocked account and the troll had in commmon was the IP range, with 1 chance over 65536 that when I logged in on 2/2 my IP was the same that the troll had on 31/1...
  • Second, I was wondering how come a user who's been using cross-wiki both proxies (proven) and socks (proven), and whose true identity is certainly an old Italian registered user, is even now free to continue behaving like that, anonymising himself to deceive admins, since it seems the fact that the signaler (me) was accidentally exchanged for a troll and then blocked would automatically make the signaled (him) innocent without a check and, overall, after checks in other wikis had already proven he was culpable...

The last paragraph I've added concerned a portrait of the cross-wiki vandal psychology, I've added it just because of his silken attempt to coax you. 151.64.164.38 14:09, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank godness, you've removed the protection! I'm removing my message on yout Portuguese talk page too. Okay, I'd like to know if you could tell me any news about my CU case and what I've told you about what I wrote to you after my account was blocked because of a misunderstanding. I've also heard from another checkuser that there should be a discussion in the private mailing-list of checkusers about this issue... May you confirm or deny it please? If you confirm, is it about my CU request (with all the evidences I brought) or about the accusation about me? Thank you! 151.64.185.21 12:48, 10 February 2018 (UTC) P.S. RadiX, read at least this last message of mine and answer my doubt, please, if you haven't read yet my "wall of text" nor the reassumed version...

The IP ranges you provided are likely too wide for an effective range check, so that there is no way to assure they have been sharing IPs with a well-known or established user. That's the reason why your request was declined. I can look at the proxy IP ranges and block them at some extent to prevent further abuses though. RadiX∞ 03:46, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer RadiX. Well, apart from all the evidences (identical differences between revisions), if those socks logged in with at least one of those IP ranges, which were used for nothing but edits about final accents in Italian names lately and whose edits were coincidentally restored by these socks, wouldn't it mean that they're actullay all "socks"? Anyway, in this moment I'd like to ask you if you knew anything about that CU discussion on the international mailing-list (either about the cross-wiki vandal, or about the accusation towards me of being the troll who made that vandalism in it.wikipedia). If you know, please let me know when admins have taken a decision, please. 151.64.170.29 14:24, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Not immediately responding to your messages does not mean I am ignoring you. I've been pretty busy with other stuff lately. Indeed there is confidential information I am not allowed to disclose publicly so that I'll not be responding to some of your questions. It may take a little while. RadiX∞ 03:53, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
I didn't think you were ignoring me, not at all! Once I said you're the only one who's not ignoring me. So, thank you for the time you're spending on my requests, and thank you for taking care of 2 of the socks I've reported. That's what I wrote yesterday on your other talk page (plus a little advice in the end...) :-) 151.64.184.23 11:20, 17 February 2018 (UTC) P.S. have you got any not confidential news about the case?
Yes, those two accounts are now locked. I've also blocked their proxy ranges globally. RadiX∞ 03:16, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
Yes, I know, and I want to thank you again for taking care of the sockpuppets and the open proxies! Do you mean this was the decision about the case in the internarional mailing-list of checkusers or it was you who detected the link among these identities? Do you also know (in case you can talk about it) whether it was established that blocking my account was a mistake because I wasn't connected to the Italian troll who made that old vandalism? One last thing: in your other talk page I've also mentioned one more sockpuppet's and the sockmaster's names, they've shared for sure either at least one of the proxy IP ranges or at least one of the Italian IP ranges I'd written in my old request. You've done enough already so I won't insist if you don't want to do it, but this is a tip-off about the sockmaster which deserves to be taken in consideration, on my opinion... 151.64.177.81 14:14, 22 February 2018 (UTC) P.S. I'm going not to disturb you again, but can you please answer my last question?
Hello. I've got your point, but, sorry, I can't share this information with you. Thank you for bringing this up to our attention. However, any further action in this case should be done privately, if needed. RadiX∞ 04:18, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Okay, I understand you can't tell other users such information, no problem. My opinion about the cross-wiki vandal is that either somebody has checked the sockpuppets but couldn't find a link with the sockmaster because he's been too careful not to be discovered, or that somebody forbid checkusers to investigate that user because the person who tipped off to check him was me with the (false) accusation to be the troll who made a vandalism in Italian wiki (even if the real reason would be the "omertà" among Italian admins, getting rid of me to protect one of their comrades from truthful accusations); I don't know which one would be the worst... I know you can't tell me anything, I'm not asking in fact. I'm just telling you this: in case what I've just said is wrong (i.e. in case nobody has checked my suggestion yet and in case nobody forbid checkusers to do this check), you, RadiX, could really verify that the sockmaster of all those sockpuppets, that is the user behind the proxies you blocked and behind the Italian IPs, that is the cross-wiki vandal's true identity is that Italian admin from Lombard wiki whose name I've written in your other talk page (together with the name of another of his socks). If, unlike in my nation, law is the same for everyone here, then whoever broke the rules using open proxies and socks has to be punished like everyone else even if he's a bigwig. Anyway, I think this is the last message I'll write here, you've done enough blocking his socks and open proxies and I'm grateful to you for that, you're the only one who take this problem seriously instead of ignoring me and so you found out I was saying the truth, so now I'm leaving you alone, you have many other things to do I guess. Thanks again and good bye! Obrigado & Ciao :-) 151.64.170.98 15:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
Sorry for not being able to reply properly. The workload has increased these days so I'm trying to catch up with stuff whenever is possible. As a quick note: I've read your messages and I know what you meant. I am not ignoring you. Thank you. RadiX∞ 01:54, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
And I know you aren't ignoring me, you're the only one I think, that's why it's me who thank you and you don't have to be sorry! When your workload decreases, just remember that you might consider to check also the user I'm accusing to be the sockmaster, his sockpuppets were blocked for "Long-term abuse" and so should be done to the original "Long-term abuser" on my opinion... 151.64.179.246 15:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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17:07, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Request

Hello. This ip[27] is a likely proxy considering this info on iphub[28] and their suspicious edits. Can you please check this? Regards. 95.105.0.125 16:17, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

All ports are likely filtered/blocked by firewall etc. RadiX∞ 02:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Unblock request

I´m back to the Wiki, and I want to use my count. You have blocked my count, and I ask now to turn it unlock, if you please. Dom Erineu Bless II (talk) 19:53, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Your account is neither locked or blocked locally. Regards, RadiX∞ 05:30, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Pedido de desbloqueio indeferido

Olá, como vai? Eu gostaria de reaver a minha página,ou seja, o direito de editá-la. Estou tentando mudá-la para estar mais adequadamente encaixada dentro dos padrões wikipedistas. Peço o especial favor de desbloqueâ-la.

Ontem notei que deixou uma mensagem dizendo que já tinha feito, a constatação depois foi diferente. Acho que os seus motivos para me bloquear não foram tão claros, pois vandalismo constituíu um termo muito vago, visto que não sei a que se referia especificamente como vandalismo. Espero que defira mui brevemente quanto possível!

--João Kunga (talk) 10:52, 3 February 2018 (UTC)JOÃO KUNGA∞

Olá. Não existe nenhum bloqueio vigente em sua conta. RadiX∞ 01:07, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Devem desbloquear Sony Ventura (talk) 05:38, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [29]
  • The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [30]
  • Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [31]

Problems

  • Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [32]

Changes later this week

  • When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [33]
  • When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [34]
  • The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [35]
  • Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [36]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

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  • TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [39][40][41]
  • Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

  • You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [42]
  • The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [43]
  • The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [44]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi, RadiX! I'm RaymondSutanto, admin on id.wikipedia, id.wikibooks, and id.wikisource. I'm sure you know me pretty well because I often request global lock for Manda langsa spam accounts. I read at your user page that you're a steward, so can I ask you for some help? Can you help me monitoring Bugis Wikipedia (bug.wikipedia) to deleting some articles that have been written there? All these articles were not written in Bugis language, but in Indonesian language (I know enough about Bugis because Bugis is an ethnic group in Sulawesi, Indonesia). All these articles were also written by Manda langsa spam accounts (either IP or logged-in accounts). I ask you for help because bug.wikipedia doesn't have any local administrator. Thank you. RaymondSutanto (talk) 18:32, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@RaymondSutanto: I do not comprehend any of those languages properly. Either way you can surely ping me here (or any other Steward at Steward requests/Miscellaneous) whenever you find something out of place there. I am familiar with their socks through my work as a steward so that I can easily identify them. Regards, RadiX∞ 03:34, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [46][47]
  • You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [48]

Problems

  • Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [49]
  • Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [50][51]

Changes later this week

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22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [53]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [54][55]
  • Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [56]
  • Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [57][58][59]

Changes later this week

  • Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [60]
  •   The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [61][62]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

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19:53, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Much thanks

For the locks. Can we elect you as king? --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 01:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

LoL. Thanks for reporting. The sock farm has now been blocked. :) RadiX∞ 02:05, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Travar globalmente faixas de proxys permanente de web service?

Olá RadiX, o senhor Luciano David retornou na Wikipédia lusófona com estilo, já está ofendendo qualquer criatura viva. Seria possível travar globalmente a faixa de ip 34.201? Trata-se de proxys abertos permanentes da Amazon. Edmond Dantès d'un message? 01:38, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Olá. @Conde Edmond Dantès: Você pode me mostrar quais são as contas? RadiX∞ 01:46, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
São ips, abusando de serviços webs da Amazon. Os mesmos são permanentes, por isso que o bloqueio por tempo indeterminado parece-me válido, mas não importo se bloquei por um ano. Apenas para pará-lo na pt.wiki é o suficiente. Ele já editou com os seguintes ips: 34.201.30.24, 35.190.139.152 (serviço do Google, poderia bloquear esta faixa também), 34.201.42.189, 34.201.29.246, 34.201.32.132.
Ele irá continuar abrindo tais proxys para atormentar. Edmond Dantès d'un message? 01:54, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
@Conde Edmond Dantès:   Done, 34.201.0.0/16 & 35.190.0.0/16. Sem dano colateral. RadiX∞ 02:35, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • You can now make longer edit summaries. [63]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [64]
  • On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [65][66]
  •   Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [67]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Global Lock request for an active LTA

Hello. Can you please Globally Lock the listed sock accounts of ROXELANA22 at m:SRG? No one has Locked the accounts for almost a month now, but ROXELANA22 is re-using (or respawning) older, blocked accounts on different Wikimedia sites (where his accounts are unblocked) in order to vandalize there. He recently did this using RAAM43, a sock account that was indeffed back in September 2017, to vandalize my Commons talk page (BlueHypercane761) just a few days ago. ROXELANA22 has been vandalizing multiple Wikimedia sites and attacking other users for 12 years now (and that's not even close to accurately describing the severity of his vandalism). The accounts with Cross-wiki privileges are currently listed in 2 separate requests at SRG. Can you please Lock the accounts? If no one locks them, he will probably begin reusing them to continue vandalizing different Wikimedia sites. Thank you. LightandDark2000 (talk) 07:08, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Ok, I'll look at this, RadiX∞ 15:00, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
@LightandDark2000: Is there evidence of recent activity for any of the listed accounts? RadiX∞ 17:25, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Nevermind. I just saw this. RadiX∞ 19:26, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

It turns out I missed some socks. Can you please Lock them as well? The reasoning is pretty much for the same as the previous accounts, and these accounts also have cross-wiki privileges. A lot of them are surprisingly recent. By the way, the Meta Blocks account suggests that he is aware of what the Stewards are doing to his accounts. Some of the newer account naming patterns could indicate possible article targets, or an attempt to evade scrutiny. Thank you. LightandDark2000 (talk) 09:07, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

He's back again. And this time, he even used a 3 year old Sleeper Account, ZiguratEnki. Can you please Lock all of these accounts? Thank you. LightandDark2000 (talk) 21:29, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Can you please also apply Global Rangeblocks to a couple of his IP Ranges? The ranges are the most recent ones that he has used in the last 6 months (a CU block on Wikipedia indicates that he is currently on the 2nd range, via the local block for 181.57.244.205), and unless his ranges are Globally Blocked, it's likely that he will continue mass socking and vandalizing across multiple sites. At this point, I seriously believe that given the amount of cross-wiki vandalism and trolling, the blocks are worth it, despite the collateral damage. The IPv6 Rangeblock applied for the Dog and Rapper Vandal LTA has a comparable amount of collateral damage (2607:fb90::/32) on Wikipedia, and yet, it's been blocked for 3 years. At this point, if anyone from ROXELANA22's ranges want to contribute positively to the Projects, they need to request an Account Creation at ACC instead of editing while logged out. It's not worth keeping any of the ranges open now, especially since ROXELANA22 also has an extensive history of IP socking as well (esp. on the English Wikipedia and Commons). LightandDark2000 (talk) 21:45, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Doing... RadiX∞ 03:26, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much!   Hopefully we'll get a break from his nonsense. I actually forgot to include 2 of his cross-wiki socks (which I've listed below). Can you please Lock them as well? Again, I'm very grateful for everything you've done. LightandDark2000 (talk) 08:47, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! LightandDark2000 (talk) 04:57, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Sysop

Olá RadiX, não sei se o português é permitido no Meta, mas poderia atender meu pedido de sysop em Steward/Permissions? Micael D. (talk) 15:08, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

  Feito. Como você nunca foi administrador em outras wikis, o padrão é atribuir o estatuto por 3 meses. RadiX∞ 18:21, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

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Recent changes

  • 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [68]
  • Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [69]
  • Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [70]
  • Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [71]

Problems

  • The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [72]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [73]
  • It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [74][75]
  •   A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [76][77][78]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Unblock IP Swanlea School

I am logging this request on behalf of Swanlea School. We got below reason for blocking and we are using web based proxy by RM Broadband UK. Proxy we are using is sslfilter.proxy.rmplc.co.uk and it is secured one.

This user is currently blocked. The latest block log entry is provided below for reference:

00:49, 27 July 2017 RadiX (talk | contribs) blocked 194.154.22.170 (talk) with an expiration time of 1 year (account creation disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (Open proxy)


We intend to edit the Swanlea School wikipedia page only and We are unable to update our wikipedia page because of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanlea_School

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  • On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [79]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

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Future changes

  • From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [80][81]
  • In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:04, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

User:Leon103102

This user hasn't been socking recently so can you unlock him. please? 73.158.81.251 (talk) 03:06, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

IP Address blocked, needed for Edit-a-thon

Hi, the guest-wifi IP address for the UMN Wilson libraries is currently blocked by you due to abuses. Would it be possible to unblock the IP address for the day? I realize this is such short notice, apologies.

Current IP Address is 64.62.149.52, range is 64.62.128.0/17. Block started Feb 14, 2018, until Feb 14, 2019. Thanks. MidwayKaty (talk) 18:21, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

  • Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [82] [83]
  •   The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [84]
  • TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [85]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [86]
  • Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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Notification of suspension

For overuse of blacksmithing and changes in group membership, with respect to ban-hammars and locks, you have made steward policy in use. Your access to steward tools have been suspended for the 1st of April.

Best regards, --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 14:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

Recent changes

  • Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
  •   The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

  • MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [87][88][89]
  • The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [90]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
  •   User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [91]
  •   Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [92][93][94]
  •   AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [95] [96]
  • In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [97]
  • You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [98]
  • You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [99]

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
  •   On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [100][101]

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19:29, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Can you please globally lock me and my socks for 6 months RadiX?

so you can enforce the standard offer for me? Effective tomorrow. thanks Eltomas2003 (talk) 02:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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Recent changes

  • Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [102]
  • You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [103]
  • The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [104]
  • Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [105]

Problems

  • The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [106]
  • For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [107]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
  • Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [108]

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:09, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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

Changes later this week

  • Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [109]
  •   Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [110][111]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Import user right on the WMPT wiki

Hi there RadiX. User:Alchimista and I are working on the migration of Wikimedia Portugal's wiki contents from a self-hosted server, at wikimedia.pt, to the one now hosted by the WMF at pt.wikimedia.org. When the latter was recreated, we were granted temporary import rights so that we could upload XML files exported from the older wiki, but unexpected work related to the chapter kept us busy, and we didn't manage to complete the transition before the user right expired. Could you reassign us to the importer user group, so that we can finish the transition? Thanks! Waldir (talk) 18:27, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

@Waldir and Alchimista: I'll be granting you importer rights on pt.wikimedia.org for 1 year as you both held this permission before. Should you no longer need the rights in the meantime, please let me know. RadiX∞ 00:00, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! That should be more than enough indeed. I'll make sure to let you know once we're done with the migration. Cheers, Waldir (talk) 14:13, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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

Recent changes

  • All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
  • The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
  • The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [114]
  • The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [115]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [116]
  • The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Solicitação de desbloqueio

Boa noite, Radix! Inicialmente peço mil desculpas por utilizar este espaço para solicitação de desbloqueio. O que me levou a isto foi o fato de meu número de IP ter sido bloqueado por Stuckkey na Wiki-pt no dia 11h12min de 22 de abril de 2018 com previsão para terminar em 11h12min de 6 de maio de 2018 e o motivo apresentado foi: "Contas múltiplas". Estou impedida da funcionalidade de contatar usuários ou administradores por meio de minha página de discussão ou e-mail. Utilizei então a única possibilidade colocada à minha disposição para contestar o bloqueio em unblock-pt-l@lists.wikimedia.org, mas infelizmente até o momento não obtive retorno. Sou usuária ativa na Wikipédia-pt há mais de oito anos e venho diariamente contribuindo com esta enciclopédia e com outros projetos Wikis estando sempre logada como Usuária:Clarice Reis. No último dia 22, minutos após eu realizar mais uma edição (após uma série de continuadas edições nesse dia) fui surpreendida com o aviso do bloqueio. Não sei se o que gerou isso foi um erro do sistema ou do administrador que o aplicou. Tenho apenas a certeza de que trata-se de uma falha de uma das partes e peço-lhe a gentiliza de analisar esta solicitação para que eu possa continuar contribuindo com o Projeto Wiki-pt. Desde já o meu muito obrigada pela atenção. --Clarice Reis (talk) 02:49, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

@Clarice Reis: Adicionei a isenção local de bloqueio à sua conta. RadiX∞ 01:37, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Muitíssimo obrigada RadiX! Eu acho que o que ocorreu comigo (e muito provavelmente já ocorreu e ocorrerá com outros usuários) deveria ser levado para análise e discussão pelos programadores e administradores da Wiki-pt. Modéstia a parte, eu sou uma das usuárias(os) que mais contribui diariamente com aquela enciclopédia, tanto na criação de artigos, manutenção e reversão de vandalismos e poderia agora estar banida do Projeto se me fosse aplicada uma punição mais severa por total falha operacional ou do sistema sem ter a chance de me defender, uma vez que me encontrava impossibilitada de alertar outros usuários e administradores do ocorrido tanto em minha página de discussão quanto via e-mail e por ser o espaço unblock-pt-l@lists.wikimedia.org muito lento ou ineficiente no atendimento das solicitações. Enquanto estive na "geladeira" me ocupei de outros projetos Wikis, como o Commons, mas esses dias foram para mim extremamente frustrantes pela injusta punição recebida. Mais uma vez muito grata pela atenção a mim dispensada e continue com seu ótimo trabalho. --Clarice Reis (talk) 02:06, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
@Clarice Reis: O bloqueio não deveria ter sido estendido a usuários registrados, mas agora já está resolvido. Abs, RadiX∞ 02:42, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-18

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

Recent changes

  • The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [117]

Problems

  •   We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [118]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [119]
  • When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [120]
  •   You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [121]
  •   There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
  •   All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [122][123][124]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Some sitting reports

Hello again. Can you please check my reports on LTA User:Vandyrandy and some spambots, at m:SRG? They've been sitting there for a while now. The Vandyrandy report is near the top of the Global (un)lock list, and the spambots report is near the bottom. Thanks. LightandDark2000 (talk) 03:57, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19

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

Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [125]

Problems

  •   The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [126]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [127]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  •   All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [128][129]

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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

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

Recent changes

  • Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
  • The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [130]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 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 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
  • The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [131]

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22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-21

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

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 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 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.
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17:33, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Bloqueio de IP

Boa tarde Radix! Pesso desculpas por te contactar aqui, só faço isso por meu ip esta bloqueio em todas as wikis o motivo especificado foi Cross-wiki vandalism: This IP range has been abused for vandalism. If you are affected by this block, please contact us: stewards@wikimedia.org. Início do bloqueio: 20h57min de 12 de março de 2018 Expiração do bloqueio: 20h57min de 12 de março de 2019 Eu sei que possuo mutiplas contas as alguns não estão a ser utilizadas por mim e como posso ver o motivo é vandalismo mais na minha conta principal Laxus Dreyar não tenho feito vandalismo agradeceria si mim ajudares a resolver este caso obrigado pela atenção.Laxus Dreyar (talk) 13:17, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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Seria caso de bloqueio global?

Olá RadiX. Foram criadas duas contas de ataque com nomes ofensivos na pt.wikipedia e que já foram bloqueadas localmente.

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Seria caso de um bloqueio global? Pensei em requisitar o bloqueio em Steward requests/Global‎‎, porém fiquei em dúvida se é cado de um travamento ou não. Aproveito para perguntar os seguinte: caso eu fique sabendo de um bloqueio de uma conta fantoche de algum fantocheiro que esteja bloqueado globalmente, devo solicitar o bloqueio global da mesma aqui no Meta? --Editor D.S (talk)  21:34, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

@Editor D.S: Olá. Sim, travei e suprimi a conta. Você pode reportar esses casos diretamente no IRC, a um steward ou em SRG se preferir. Evite deixar o nome da conta visível, como fez aqui, em se tratando de nomes de usuário que demandam oversight. RadiX∞ 02:48, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Entendi RadiX. Muito obrigado! Abraços. --Editor D.S (talk)  03:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-22

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

Recent changes

  • You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [132][133]
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [134]
  • Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [135]
  • Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [136]
  •   There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [137]

Problems

  • Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [138]

Changes later this week

  • There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [139]
  • A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [140]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
  •   Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [141]

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [142]
  • A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [143]
  •   Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [144][145]

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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Eliminação da Minha Conta

Olá Radix! Eu quero eliminar a minha conta do Wikipedia, mas o meu ip está bloqueado. O que é que eu faço?

Tech News: 2018-23

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

Recent changes

  • The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [146]
  • Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [147][148]
  • Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [149]

Problems

  • You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
  • MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [150]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Steward requests/Global‎‎

Hello.
LTA socks showing up on the page make catching of the abusers easier. You may deem edits on this talk page to be implicit global lock requests. What did you achieve with the protection? Sock puppets will go make disruption elsewhere, resulting in necessity to submit explicit global lock requests – consuming time of anti-LTA volunteers. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 07:45, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

If a page is subject to significant/persistent vandalism, then it should be (semi-)protected temporarily to preserve its history. There is no point in allowing such disruption to continue in order to get "implicit global lock requests". Global abuse filters and/or LTA fighters will catch those LTAs anyway. RadiX∞ 03:42, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

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

Recent changes

  • In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [153]
  •   There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [154]

Problems

  • The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [155]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [159][160]
  • The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [161][162]
  •   All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [163]

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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [164][165]

Changes later this week

  • Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [166]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:10, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Editor cannot edit

Could you please have a look at ticket:2018062610007561, and give them a reply? Ronhjones (talk) 16:20, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. RadiX∞ 02:18, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-27

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

Recent changes

  • The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [167]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [168]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:46, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

Recent changes

  • WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [169]
  • The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [170]
  •   All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [171]

Problems

  • When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [172]
  • Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [173]

Changes later this week

  • When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [174][175]
  • On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [176]
  • When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [177]
  • Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [178]
  •   When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [179]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [180]
  • Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [181]

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23:10, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

unblock

Hi @Radix: I am user Atra tori tam on english wikipedia was blocked globally by mistake i want to rename my account and please check my account and unblock on globe lockset. Regards, 202.69.15.230 09:56, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Renaming will not be granted without unblock in en.Wikipedia first – it is a guideline the global renamers follow. Also, what is the merit of renaming an account without a single useful action recorded? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 10:24, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

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Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [185]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
  • You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:01, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

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

Recent changes

  • When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [186]
  • Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [187]
  • Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [188]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (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 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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

Recent changes

  • The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [189]

Problems

  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [190][191]
  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [192][193]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

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123.136.118.121

Please block user:123.136.118.121 for vandalism on Language committee and other articles. He is also vandalizing Wikipedia. Also be advised there is a user who created an account called user:Lauren Jauregui is cute as a butt. 2602:306:3357:BA0:E819:CABA:DE75:B335 00:26, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

The IP address is now stale. I´ve locked the account. RadiX∞ 00:44, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

User:Lauren Jauregui is cute as a butt does not look locked. 2602:306:3357:BA0:E819:CABA:DE75:B335 00:51, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

It's hidden from public view. RadiX∞ 00:57, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Bloqueo

Hola, me sale la info que me ha bloqueado, no sé si es algo merecido, si fue por un error, porfa, podría desbloquearme? --Dschehhutimes Aleksander (talk) 02:54, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [195][196]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

Recent changes

  •   CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [197]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [198]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (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 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

E-mail

Hello RadiX. Please check your e-mail. Poohclaps (talk) 16:46, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

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

Recent changes

  • You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [200]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [201]

Problems

  • Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [202]

Changes later this week

  • The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [203]
  • AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [204]
  •   Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [205]
  •   Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [206]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-36

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

Recent changes

  • There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [207][208]
  • There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [209][210]
  • You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [211]
  • wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [212]
  • When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [213]

Problems

  • UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [214]
  • You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [215]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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16:48, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

Recent changes

  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [217]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [218]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [219]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [220]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [221]
  • When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [222]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:36, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [223]
  •   MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [224]

Problems

  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [225]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [226]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Spambots

Could you globally lock these spambots? Thanks. 2601:1C0:4401:24A0:1CA3:1509:F03E:DAC2 06:15, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for reporting. RadiX∞ 11:27, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Bureaucrat rights

Hello RadiX! I asked a question on the talk page of the RFP, but no one replied. Last time i requested CheckUser access it was denied because no one else applied + I didn’t get the required 20 votes. This time I’m considering opening a discussion so we can elect a local bureaucrat at ckb wiki, I’m wondering if there are any specific requirements? Must two users be elected? Is there a specific number of votes you must get? Thanks in advance.--▸ ‎épine talk♬ 02:20, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

@Épine: It depends on the needs of your project. A reasonable support ratio from local community members is generally expected. Some projects are far too small to need local bureaucrats (I don't know about ckbwiki). Either way, requests for "temporary" bureaucrat access are not granted. Regards, RadiX∞ 20:08, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
@RadiX: thanks and sorry for the delay in my response. As a steward yourself, would you expect them to give us bureaucrat rights? To a user like myself if I gained community support? There are 7 admins and we believe it’s time to handle the admin requests locally. Thanks.--▸ ‎épine talk♬ 03:31, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Épine: Sorry for the late reply. I personally don't think there is a need for that given the size of the project. But you may try if you wish. However I can't guarantee it will pass. Regards, RadiX∞ 01:55, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Felipe da Fonseca

Please delete my PU to hide previous edits with personal information.--Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 14:43, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

@Felipe da Fonseca: feito. RadiX∞ 14:49, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks.--Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 15:35, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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Changes later this week

  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [227]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:23, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Emergency in KaWiki

Dear steward,
Please read my explanation thoroughly. It is about an inexorable situation in the Georgian Wikipedia, the long-established. Every attempt to solve the problem locally fails again and again. So, please, do not be indifferent.
The requests are extraordinary, so I do not write on a general page, but personally.
Best regards, Deu. 18:05, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

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Recent changes

  • Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [228][229]

Problems

  • New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [230][231]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 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 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:35, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

It got a lot quieter. Drmies (talk) 02:56, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

  • And now it started back up again. Also on the Kazach wiki... Drmies (talk) 23:38, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Drmies: What is this wiki? RadiX∞ 01:12, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
This one... Drmies (talk) 14:32, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

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Problems

  • There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [233]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Zombie hacker

Hey Radix, 82.212.123.241 was used by someone who, on en-wiki, gets a kick out of inserting stupid shit in Michigan articles, and they tried to reset my password here on Meta. We've been having some trouble on en-wiki with password resetters, like 109.102.105.211, but that account is linked to User:Daciproteasa09, globally blocked by User:Stryn. Apparently this is a hip thing; maybe this information is helpful to some of you. Thanks to all of you for keeping it clean, Drmies (talk) 17:21, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

@Drmies: I've blocked it as an open proxy. Thanks for reporting. Sorry for the late reply. RadiX∞ 01:59, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Radix. No need to apologize--we're all busy, and you are doing all these things all over the place, which I appreciate. I do wish that one of you with superpowers would just semi-protect all of Drmies all over the WMF sister projects, since they are just an invitation to abusers. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 14:30, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Strange block

Hi I just learned that I can not edit s:en:Module talk:Plain sister due to "Your IP address is in a range which has been blocked on all wikis." while being logged in. My IP was 12.129.159.194. I understand blocking un-logged-in users but that is the first block like that I encountered. Is this intentional? --Jarekt (talk) 03:20, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

@Jarekt:   Resolved. Sorry for the late reply. I've been kind of sick, but I'm now trying to catch up with things. :) RadiX∞ 02:09, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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Problems

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [234]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [235]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [236]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [237]
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:41, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

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Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 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 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:12, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

An older one

Hey RadiX, can you re-protect my page and revdel this Thanks. Montanabw (talk) 20:14, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

@Montanabw: done. RadiX∞ 18:37, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-44

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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 16 November to 30 November.
  •   The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [238]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [239]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [240][241]

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:09, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

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Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [243]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 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 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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Recent changes

  • Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [244]

Problems

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [245][246][247]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [248]

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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47

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Recent changes

  • You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
  •   There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [249]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [250]
  • The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [251]

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23:29, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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Recent changes

  • On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [252]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [253]
  • Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [254]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  •   The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [255]

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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-49

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Recent changes

  • Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [256]
  • Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [257]
  • You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [258]
  • When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [259][260]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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16:13, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-50

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Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [261][262]
  • When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [263]

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17:34, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51

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Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

  • Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [264][265]
  • Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [266]
  •   The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

  • <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [267]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
  •   tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [268]

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20:35, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

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