User talk:MarcoAurelio/Archives/2017-06
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FLOW archive
Hello, as you know, the flow cannot be moved during global renaming. zh:User:HazelnutBread, who was just renamed by you, has a flow archive page. Could you please move it to the right place. Regards,--J.Wong 15:16, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
- I don't know if it is a good idea to have a notice on the renaming interface in order to remind those stewards and global renamers that there is a bug in zh.wikipedia and have their awareness on the flow pages. Regards,--J.Wong 15:21, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
- I have renamed the archive. Hope that this is right. I think it'd be better if the Flow team could be pressed on Phabricator to fix this
damn thingannoying bug as soon as possible. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 15:36, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
- I have renamed the archive. Hope that this is right. I think it'd be better if the Flow team could be pressed on Phabricator to fix this
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 see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [1]
- When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [2]
- You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [3]
- New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [4]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [5]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [6]
- You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [7]
- When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [9]
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 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [10][11]
- Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [12]
- The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.
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19:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Number of locks by month and reason
Here you go: quarry:query/19479. (You can get more detailed counts by decreasing that HAVING condition.) --Nemo 19:48, 11 June 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
- Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [13]
- When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [14]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 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 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [15]
- Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [16]
- Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding
&fuzzy=1to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [17][18]
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15:29, 12 June 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
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.orghas to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [20]-
Special:PageDatawill be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [21] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 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 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.
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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Global bot policy
So I had this idea for a RFC: amend the global bot policy to automatically opt in all new content wikis, while still leaving them the option to opt out. But I'm not familiar enough with the policy to write such a RFC up. Any thoughts? --Rschen7754 20:20, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
- I had the same thinking, yes. Unfortunately RFCs I open are often tagged as unclear, etc. so I'm not sure if it should be me who takes that path but I'll ask around. I still have in mind doing at least a survey on how we can better the global bot policy to be useful today as interwikis are being deprecated on Wiktionaries as well via Cognate. Regards, —MarcoAurelio 09:39, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Notifying Spanish Wikipedia about cross-wiki search results
I see that Spanish Wikipedia has cross-wiki search results, i.e. Discovery Search, implemented. May I notify the community at w:es:Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Miscelánea/Actual in English, or may you do it in Spanish instead? Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 03:30, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- @George Ho: I can notify eswiki in Spanish if you wish, otherwise I'd suggest the "News" section of our village pump that can be found at es:Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Noticias/Actual. Regards, —MarcoAurelio 09:40, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, please do. Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 12:29, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- @George Ho: Okay. Sorry if it sounds a bit silly but what do I have to say to them exactly? Is there an announcement or draft I can use? Regards, —MarcoAurelio 12:31, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- I guess I'll announce this in English there then. Therefore, you can translate. Deal? --George Ho (talk) 12:50, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- Here's my draft:
Any suggestions for improvements, or should I post it there immediately? --George Ho (talk) 14:36, 25 June 2017 (UTC)Hola, Spanish Wikipedia. The cross-wiki search results are now live. Therefore, for example, if you type either "España" or "México", you'll see results at the right side from the following sister projects—Wikiviajes, Wikiversidad, Wikinoticias, Wikcionario, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikilibros, y multimedia results from Wikimedia Commons. You won't see results from Wikispecies or Wikidata, but the plan to include those search results in Spanish Wikipedia is under development. Feel free to share your thoughts about this. If you like to propose which sister projects to include and to exclude from cross-wiki search results, please use es:Wikipedia:Café/Archivo/Propuestas/Actual. Gracias.
- George Ho: Looks good to me. If you wish, feel free to post the translated version of your announcement directly:
- Translation: "Hola comunidad de Wikipedia en español. La función de búsqueda de resultados cross-wiki ya está disponible. Así pues, por ejemplo, si escribís "España" o "México" veréis, además de los resultados en la wiki local, de los siguientes proyectos hermanos: Wikiviajes, Wikiversidad, Wikinoticias, Wikcionario, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikilibros y resultados de archivos alojados en Wikimedia Commons. De momento no veréis los resultados de Wikispecies o Wikidata, pero el plan es incluir dichos resultados de búsqueda en la Wikipedia en español en el futuro, para lo cual ya se está trabajando. Nos encantaría saber vuestra opinión acerca de esta nueva función. Si tenéis alguna propuesta en relación a esta nueva funcionalidad o deseáis incluir o excluir ciertos proyectos hermanos del listado de los resultados que se obtendrán, podéis comentarlo en esta página. Muchas gracias."
- —MarcoAurelio 17:17, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- Forgot the header: "Cross-wiki search results now live". Needs translation also. --George Ho (talk) 17:20, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- La búsqueda interwiki de resultados ya está activada —MarcoAurelio 17:25, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- Forgot the header: "Cross-wiki search results now live". Needs translation also. --George Ho (talk) 17:20, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- @George Ho: Okay. Sorry if it sounds a bit silly but what do I have to say to them exactly? Is there an announcement or draft I can use? Regards, —MarcoAurelio 12:31, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
- Oh, please do. Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 12:29, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Done. --George Ho (talk) 18:52, 25 June 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 <inputbox> has a new
searchfilterparameter. You can add values likesearchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [22]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
- Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [23]
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 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [24]
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15:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Synchbot
Hello, I saw that Synchbot not working since along time, so can any steward do things manually? --Alaa :)..! 20:45, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
- Hi @علاء: Synchbot operates a proprietary script by Pathoschild which is not public due to the huge ammount of harm it if not operated properly. I'll ask him and see if he can take care of them. Regards, —MarcoAurelio 10:49, 28 June 2017 (UTC)