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Muchas gracias por otorgarme el flag. Es como viajar en el tiempo, ¿verdad? Un abrazo, --Góngora (T•ES) 21:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [1]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [2]
There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [4][5]
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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
romanian translations
Hello! I translated all the Inspire Campaign and Grants:IdeaLab messages in romanian. Can you pubilish them?--MSClaudiu (talk) 07:54, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
- @MSClaudiu: Hello. Do you have a link to them? I can't locate them in the CentralNotice group of translations. Thanks. —MarcoAurelio 21:41, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks. Done now. Please check [6] and [7] if you wish to make a modification in those messages and switch the status to ready once done, so we can see which ones are pending to be published. Thanks. —MarcoAurelio 10:51, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks. I think they are good now.--MSClaudiu (talk) 12:36, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks. Done now. Please check [6] and [7] if you wish to make a modification in those messages and switch the status to ready once done, so we can see which ones are pending to be published. Thanks. —MarcoAurelio 10:51, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
Srg
I made a request about a IP you blocked at srg. Please review it. Thanks! Fire McCarthy (talk) 15:30, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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
- EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now it works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. [8]
Problems
- The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [9]
- Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [10]
Changes this week
- The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [11]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [12]
- The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.
Review
- You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.
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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
Oauth for samwilson-ia-upload
Hi, could you please re-enable the samwilson-ia-upload Oauth consumer? It's got a different callback to the ia-upload one, and I use it for local development. Thanks! Sam Wilson 10:30, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Samwilson: Sure, which version do you want re-enabled again? Regards, —MarcoAurelio 10:31, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
- The 1.0 one: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:OAuthListConsumers/view/2a2d525a65c6423015a6e3a290a62db0&name=samwilson-ia-upload&publisher=&stage=-1 Thanks. It doesn't have to actually be approved, it can just stay as pending (or whatever it's called); it'll still let me use it, but no one else (which is what it's for). :) Sam Wilson 10:34, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
- Okay, approved. There's no way to put the consumer back to "pending" status, so I had to approve it. Otherwise if the consumer is pending for a long time, the system automatically rejects it as expired. Regards, —MarcoAurelio 10:36, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
- Ah cool, no worries. Thanks. Sam Wilson 10:44, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
- Okay, approved. There's no way to put the consumer back to "pending" status, so I had to approve it. Otherwise if the consumer is pending for a long time, the system automatically rejects it as expired. Regards, —MarcoAurelio 10:36, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
- The 1.0 one: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:OAuthListConsumers/view/2a2d525a65c6423015a6e3a290a62db0&name=samwilson-ia-upload&publisher=&stage=-1 Thanks. It doesn't have to actually be approved, it can just stay as pending (or whatever it's called); it'll still let me use it, but no one else (which is what it's for). :) Sam Wilson 10:34, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Would you mind adding .chez.com to the abuse filter. A free website that new users don't need to be adding. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:41, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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 edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [13]
Changes this week
- Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [14]
- There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options:
typeandpeers. Thetypeoption solves this problem. You can usepeersto create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [15] - OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [16]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
It seems a patch of yours went missing from the schedule. :) Given phabricator:T154816#3048705, you can probably restore it. Nemo 13:06, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
- @Nemo bis: I tried but they refused to do it. —MarcoAurelio 09:29, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Una pequeña cuestión
Hola, desafortunadamente mi actividad se ha reducido en febrero debido a problemas personales, pero ya he vuelto a estar un poco más activo. Veo que solicitas añadir 'OTRS-member' a algunos usuarios (obviamente el permiso global es solo para la cola de permisos, no para info). Mi duda es la siguiente: Si tú eres administrador de OTRS (y a la vez un Steward) ¿Por qué no lo haces tú? Eso siempre me ha parecido extraño. Supongo que tal vez tendrá que ver con Stewards policy, donde no se puede actuar en la homewiki. Saludos. --Ks-M9 [disc.] 13:32, 27 February 2017 (UTC).
- Sabía que tarde o temprano me harían la pregunta. Simplemente prefiero evitar la remota posibilidad de conflicto de intereses, si bien inexistente en tanto que dicho permiso sólo se añade o revoca a petición de los administradores de OTRS y no está sujeto a ningún tipo de discusión. No obstante, en tanto que la mujer del César no sólo ha de ser honrada sino también parecerlo, prefiero dejarle el trabajo a mis compañeros. —MarcoAurelio 14:53, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [17]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use
<chem>to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [18] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [19]
- The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [20][21]
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19:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
Documentation template
Hi MarcoAurelio! I think you are one of the main adminstrators here, so I ask you in front of. While my maintenance work I hit on {{Documentation}}. To remove errors, I patched this template, but this is not how I am working. Now I want to resolve this problem, but there are a lot of imports to do, additional difficult updates on outdated pages (you know what I mean), before it will work correctly. See my chain of thought; due this I have a few questions:
- Why are so less documentations imported? And if they exist, why are they outdated?
- Is history of an import not needed? There are many copies of wp content without history or revision info.
- Do you think, if I request a temporary adminship for this job, I will receive this? Import rights are not enough, at first some pages are protected and in second I want to protect some of the imported pages.
Thank you for a reply and a hint how to resolve this problem. --Plagiat (talk) 22:30, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- Dear Plagiat. Thank you for your kind message. You're raising an interesting question. Indeed many stuff at Meta is outdated, and maybe
{{documentation}}is one of them.
- Answering your first question, I think we lack wikignomes that cover that important area of this project :o) Any help will certainly be welcome.
- With regards to the import, I don't think we need to do a full import of the history. According to our Terms of Use an hyperlink to the permanent link to the source is enough attribution. I personally prefer that as well since imported histories are confusing as it appears that some editor did something here when it's not true, although I can understand people making transwiki imports.
- Third, I think that our community would be sympathetic to any request for limited adminship with good reasoning and scope, and maintenance is IMHO a good reason.
- Having looked at your subpage, it looks great. However, do we really need to import everything from there? I mean, we know enwiki has a lot of templates and nice things but I'm not sure we need all of those here. There's also a proposal to develop a central repository for Lua modules, templates, gadgets, scripts; that will make having copies of everything outdated. I am not good when it comes to complex syntax or Lua, so while I appreciate you contacting me, I'd also prefer that you consult your roadmap with an experienced editor in advanced wikisyntax et al. so we're sure that everything goes well.
- Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 22:51, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you for this pleasant response. I will request my limited WikiGnome adminship today. I know it is a long list of imports. When I stumble upon this loose carpet edge {{Documentation}} I wouldn't thought that either.
- --Plagiat (talk) 08:11, 1 March 2017 (UTC)