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Translation
There was a request to have this RfC translated. Why did you remove the translation tags? Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:12, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
- Hey. See the talk page of the RfC. We're going to do it differently. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 16:12, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Hausa Wikipedia - Help page
Hi,
We talked recently on the Hausa Wikipedia. I was wondering if you could help me with something. "Taimako" ("Help" in Hausa), sixth link from the top on the left of Hausa Wikipedia pages currently redirects to this page, which is pretty useless given there is no content in Hausa there. I would like to change it into a link towards a proper help page/desk for Hausa speakers willing to contribute to the project. The link could be [[Wikipedia:Taimako]].
Do you think it is possible to do that ?
Thanks a lot, kind regards, --DonCamillo (talk) 20:29, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
- Hello @DonCamillo:: Simply put in
Wikipedia:Taimakowithout brackets in ha:MediaWiki:Helppage. That should change the link to the page you'd like. Regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:28, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! --DonCamillo (talk) 09:51, 7 August 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
- You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [1]
The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [2]
Problems
- You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to. [3]
- The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).
Future changes
- Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [5]
- Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like
.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [6][7] - Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [8][9]
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21:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
unblock hetzner
Hi! It says the block is global. The message says it was created by User:Vituzzu (meta.wikimedia.org) with motivation Open proxy: hosting on hetzner.de + spam from 176.9.44.163 on march30 2013, 02:37AM and will be valid until march 30 2018 02:37AM. The blocked interval is 176.9.0.0/16. Thanks for your help! --Urticante (talk) 21:08, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Urticante I think Vituzzu can grant you a local IP block exemption at it.wikipedia so you can edit there. Unfortunately the Hetzner range you operate on has been abused by other users for spamming our sites so we've been forced to block it. Vituzzu will follow up. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 21:24, 13 August 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
- Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [10]
Problems
- The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [11][12]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
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23:28, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
Global renames suspended at meta
At the moment, there are 13 global rename orders being suspended at meta. The first rename being suspended is Special:GlobalRenameProgress/Kathmandu2017 which was started at 16/8/2017 06:33 (UTC). Do we need to have a look to this issue? Regards, --J.Wong 14:18, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
- Hi Wong128hk. I have emailed the list asking fellow global renamers to stop renaming people until the queue is empty. Thanks for pointing this out! Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:22, 16 August 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
- You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [13][14]
- Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [15]
- If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [16]
- The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.
Changes later this week
- Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [17]
- The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [18]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 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 23 August at 15:00 (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 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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18:00, 21 August 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
- Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [19][20]
- You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [21]
Problems
- Some pages show the error
Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [22]
Changes later this week
- You can block users from sending you notifications. [23]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 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 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [24]
- New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [25]
- The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.
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22:10, 28 August 2017 (UTC)