User talk:MarcoAurelio/Archives/2017-12
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Blacklist removal request
Blacklist removal request I request removal of the names Giovanni Prinzi and Giuseppe Prinzi from the blacklist here, there is no reason that these names are blocked, please remove them, the inclusion of these names was certainly an error.
This is the blacklist, please, remove Giovanni Prinzi and Giuseppe Prinzi --> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Title_blacklist --Alice pasquini80 (talk) 18:35, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
- They asked at my user page, and I have directed them to the correct place. — billinghurst sDrewth 12:22, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
- So I do. Please direct your requests to Talk:Spam blacklist or Talk:Title blacklist where they belong. This is to have a track of requests made and because this way all admins can act on them and not just the people that might be watching this page or myself. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:00, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
Subpages of Devoxx4kids
Hi MarcAurelio, I know. Sorry for that, we supposed to create more valid subpages but the training switched more in an experiment. We acted with young people (13-15 years old) who started to experiment Visual Editor and have create a lot of no sense content. All subpages can be cancelled. Thank you. --Ilario (talk) 16:12, 2 December 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
- It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [1]
- You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [2]
- There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).- Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [4]
Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. 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. [5][6]
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 December 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 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
- The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [7]
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17:50, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
uikipedi'as:Community Portal/Messages.php
Hola MarcoAurelio. Te escribo porque sé que entiendes mejor que yo de las cosas técnicas. En jbo:uikipedi'as:Community Portal/Messages.php hay una copia de lo que parece ser un archivo de configuración del software Mediawiki, obviamente tanto su título como su contenido no tienen nada que ver con la Wikipedia en cuestión ni cumple ninguna función. Empezando porque está en inglés cuando hoy la wiki ya tiene su interfaz traducida, además no se enlaza en ningún sitio, lo que dificulta comprender su existencia. No la mencionan en discusiones y parece que olvidaron su existencia tan pronto como se creó (¿fue creada por error?). El punto es que no tengo idea por qué en el pasado remoto alguien crearía un archivo .php como página wiki ni si se corresponde con alguna funcionalidad, hoy abandonada, de los comienzos de Wikipedia. Para mí debería borrarse, pero te escribo por si conoces algún motivo para lo contrario (¿en el pasado tenían alguna función las páginas wiki .php?). Agradeceré tu respuesta. Saludos, Metrónomo-Goldwyn-Mayer 14:58, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hola Metrónomo. Entiendo que ese archivo fue puesto allí para que los usuarios tradujesen la interfaz y luego su contenido se subiese manualmente a la repo de MediaWiki. Con la existencia de translatewiki esas prácticas han quedado largamente obsoletas. He borrado la página. Un saludo. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:05, 11 December 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
- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8Finstead ofhttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [8] - A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [9]
- If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [10]
- Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "View new changes since $1" link is now more prominent. [11]
- Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [12]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (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 12 December 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 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.
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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
Fiestas....
Queridísimo MarcoAurelio (germanet ;)), eres el primero! Me hace ilusión :).
Muchas gracias y que pases tu también muy buenos días de fiestas y sobretodo, un magnífico 2018. Un abrazo muy fuerte i mil petons. --Yeza (talk) 15:55, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
My IP block exemption rights don't work
Hi! Thanks for giving me the IP block exemption rights here. But after editing a few articles, I started seeing this message again:
"The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be a web host provider. To prevent abuse, web hosts may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You will not be able to edit Wikipedia using a web host provider. Since the web host acts like a proxy, because it hides your IP address, it has been blocked. To prevent abuse, these IPs may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. If you do not have any other way to edit Wikipedia, you will need to request an IP block exemption."
It says I should request an IP block exemption, which I already did as you know. I would be really happy if you fix the problem ongoing. Thanks.--Emir Özen (talk) 18:44, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
- There's no longer a problem, thanks.--Emir Özen (talk) 16:51, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
- Sorry Emir Özen I've been traveling. When that happens it is usually resolved assigning too a local IP block exemption on the project where you get the message. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:45, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
- Not problem, thanks for explaining. Hope you're having a good time while travelling!--Emir Özen (talk) 17:32, 15 December 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.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.
Problems
- When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [13]
- Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
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 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
- The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.
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15:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Invitation to Blocking tools consultation
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting all Wikimedians to discuss new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools in December 2017 for development work in early 2018.
We are specifically contacting you for your ideas because you are one of the top users of the blocking tool on Meta. We think that your comments will help us make better improvements. You can post to the discussion in the language that you are most comfortable expressing your ideas.
- Other ways that you can help
- Spread the word that the consultation is happening; this is an important discussion for making decisions about improving the blocking tools.
- Help with translation.
- If you know of current or previous discussions about blocking tools that happened on your wiki, share the links.
- Help summarize the discussion to share back to your wiki.
If you have questions you can contact me on wiki or send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team.
- I apologize for posting in English.
- Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team.
For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 20:21, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
Just FYI...
I saw you locked Laysta54 - thanks for that. I'm trying to get that spammer patterns documented at c:User:-revi/ProstitutionKoreanSpam. That patterns have been around even before I edited Korean Wikipedia, and they're slowly turning 'xwiki'. Thanks anyway — regards, Revi 11:17, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks for the info. Let me know if I can assist you with anything else. Regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:24, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- You can add Asdasdasd48456 (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date (alt) • CA • gblock • ST • lwcheckuser) to the list. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:26, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, that guy is interesting, frwiki. Such wow. The term itself is bit generic that titleblacklisting that will cause big side-effect.
— regards, Revi 11:40, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, that guy is interesting, frwiki. Such wow. The term itself is bit generic that titleblacklisting that will cause big side-effect.
Merry Christmas
Hello dear talk page watchers and occasional visitors. Please let me wish you all a happy Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2018, hopefully better than the year we're about to leave in some weeks. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:29, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
- Happy New Year) ---Hayordi (talk) 19:39, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:01, 9 January 2018 (UTC)