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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.
Recent changes
- The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [1][2]
Problems
- Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" in your preferences and see if it helps. [3]
Changes later this week
- New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (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 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in #wikimedia-officeon Freenode. You can use the web chat. [5]
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22:14, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Requesting 2FA
Hi, I'm replying to your advice in the help page for login attemps. I would like to have the Two-Factor autentication since from 11 days someone has tried about 20 times to log in with my account. Thank you if you can do this for me. User:FrankCesco26
- @FrankCesco26: Welcome to Meta-Wiki. I've enabled 2FA for your account. Please read Help:Two-factor authentication carefully and store safely your scratch codes. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 20:22, 5 September 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 get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [6]
- The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [7]
- The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category:
tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [8]
Problems
- Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
- OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September 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 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
- New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [10]
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19:15, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:00, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Give us your feedback about some new features for the Flow:Extension
Hi MarcoAurelio,
Since you discussed about the Flow:Extension, I imagine you are using the Flow extension on your wiki.
To us, Flow discussion boards are very powerful. However, they can only be used on the discussion page of a specific page. This doesn't encourage collaboration because users usually visit the pages they watch and some discussions remains unanswered for days...
We believe a special page that gather all the discussions of the wiki will improve collaboration between users.
In the meantime, discussions boards are displayed in a separate tab. This can be confusing to newcomers. If the discussion boards were transcluded under the wiki page itself, it'd look like what users are used to see on other sites (like comments on a blog).
As Mediawiki developers, our team have apply for this Grant to develop such features.
If you think this project should be selected for a Project Grant, please add your name and rationale for endorsing at the bottom of this page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ClemFlip/Wikifab/Various_types_of_transclusions_of_Flow_discussion_boards
Of course, other constructive feedback is welcome.
Thanks a lot for your help.
ClemFlip 09:51, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind message. Unfortunately I cannot support Flow/Structured Discussions in any way. My experience has been negative and I even requested, and the community agreed, to have it removed from this Meta-Wiki. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:02, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Pashto Wikivoyage
Hei i just want to tell you that what we need to do more in this language?. we have 102 articles and I try my best, if there is something I should do for this language please tell me. https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikivoyage_Pashto Bloch khan (talk) 09:41, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
- Dear Bloch khan. The language committee will now follow-up on your request and will contact you or leave comments on the request page you made in case there's anything left to do. I am not a member of said committee so I cannot really tell how'll the process develop now, but it can take some time until the project is created. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:00, 17 September 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 contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [11][12]
- Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (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 19 September 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 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.
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15:31, 18 September 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
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with
CTRL+Forcmd+Fwhen you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [14][15] - Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [16]
Changes later this week
- You 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. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [17]
- Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [18]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (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 27 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
- You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
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15:59, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:10, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Abd stalking wikipedia users
Abd has created a hit-piece here [19] that attacks AngloPyramidologist and other users. The hit-piece Abd has created contains libellous information, accusing users of 'illegal practices', he also accuses a Wikipedia user of 'impersonation' but has no technical evidence to prove that allegation, yet he presents his opinions as factual. The page is being used as a hit-piece as Abd has had a personal war with this the Wikipedia user. He also claims dangerous things that he knows the real life identities of Wikipedia editors. Abd was warned on Wikiversity for doxing several Wikipedia users [20].. This is not acceptable 'study'. It is harassment and slander fuelled by Abd's hatred. Can you delete it? Wikimedia should not be holding misinformation or personal grudges. From a tower (talk) 00:31, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
- See an implemented global lock request. The comment above is from an acknowledged puppet master, claiming many socks, see this on my User talk page, where he explains why he "had to" create impersonation socks. This is an extremely disruptive long-term abuser, and careful documentation of the behavior is important to allow more efficient detection, to prevent further damage. The user page complained about is a draft, not yet asserted as factual, it may contain errors. This affair is being handled by Ruslik0, Vituzzu, and Tegel already, though, I'm sure, more eyes on deck could help. Thanks, and sorry for the disruption. --Abd (talk) 02:58, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
- Hello: I can see that this is being handled already so if you allow me I'd prefer to leave those with knowledge on the issue to continue managing it as they already know what's going on there. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:10, 2 October 2017 (UTC)