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Halo
Halo en:user:O Channel TV Sumut en Indonesia Wikipedia Adik Suni Wikimedia. --180.248.200.167 17:36, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but I don't understand. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:58, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
- (tps) IP sounds like Manda LTA. I remember seeing this somewhere.--Cohaf (talk) 03:58, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- Yep LTA, already blocked and checked — billinghurst sDrewth 04:19, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
- (tps) IP sounds like Manda LTA. I remember seeing this somewhere.--Cohaf (talk) 03:58, 3 March 2019 (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.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
- The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [1][2]
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16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Info
Just in case you have not come across it there is a new tool to check information about proxies/compromised IPs. It is available on the footer of the IP contribs page as "Proxy checker". Best --Herby talk thyme 12:31, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hello! I didn't knew we had it added to the footer. I had it bookmarked on my browser nonetheless & indeed very useful tool. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:33, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- I only just added it :) --Herby talk thyme 12:34, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- Many thanks then. Very useful addition :) —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:41, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- I only just added it :) --Herby talk thyme 12:34, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Banner - La científica que nunca conociste
Estimado Marco Aurelio,
¿Cómo va? Muchas gracias por ocuparte. Un abrazo grande. --Giselle Bordoy (WMAR) (talk) 14:05, 7 March 2019 (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
- Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the
mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatementsLua function or the#statementsparser function. If they do, they will now be shown using a Kartographer<maplink>if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator. - There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.
Problems
- Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
- Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [3]
- Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [4][5]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (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 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
ar.wikimedia.org
Hi! It seems that the wiki for Wikimedia Argentina is not being used that much, especially considering that they seem to have set up their own website. There is not a lot of content: [6] How would we go about getting it closed? I assume that you would have to ask the chapter's permission? --Rschen7754 08:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Giselle Bordoy (WMAR): since you just commented above. --Rschen7754 08:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Rschen7754: Normally chapter agreement is required, yes, unless it no longer exists (cf. nz.wikimedia). This is how I remember we've handled those in the past. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:16, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
- What would be the best way to handle this? Get informal agreement from someone from the chapter, create the phab ticket, and then get them to sign off on it?
- Another wiki that should be reviewed: mk.wikimedia.org - the chapter was derecognized by WMF in 2017 and all admins/crats are 2+ years inactive. @Bjankuloski06 and Brest: --Rschen7754 19:26, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Rschen7754: That chapter (in that iteration) is long dead, and the Macedonian organisation is called Shared Knowledge. This fact is known to WMF staff. The chapter name was supposed to transfer to the current organisation, but there were legal issues with that. Brest is no longer active, for a number of years now. We have not made requests for closing the wiki because we had hoped to get the name back. I think all discussions on this out to occur on mk. wiki Village pump. Cheers. B. Jankuloski (talk) 22:05, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Rschen7754: Normally chapter agreement is required, yes, unless it no longer exists (cf. nz.wikimedia). This is how I remember we've handled those in the past. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:16, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
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@Rschen7754: I'll try to do something with the ar.wikimedia chapter wiki with WMAR directly. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:22, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
Mabot
- Thread moved to es.wikiquote.
- This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 18:58, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Página web
Estimado MarcoAurelio,
Justo estuvimos planteando esos cambios con nuestro administrador de sistemas pero muchas gracias por notar eso y avisarnos. Un abrazo. --Giselle Bordoy (WMAR) (talk) 16:18, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Growth team updates #6
Welcome to the sixth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
Plans for the next three months
The Growth team has been working on features to increase new editor retention for the last seven months. We have made a lot of progress and learned a lot, and we've just finished planning for our next three months. During the next three months, we're going to focus on iterations of the help panel and the newcomer homepage. We have decided not to start the engagement emails project, because we think that we will be able to do better work by improving the projects we have already started. Specifically, these are our team goals:
- Deploy and iterate on newcomer homepage
- Continued iteration on help panel
- Make the help panel available to more wikis
- Add a fourth Wikipedia to our set of target wikis
- Publish in-depth quantitative reporting on the data from this year
- Assemble a report on what our team has learned so far about newcomers
Newcomer homepage
We have recently decided on the specifications for an initial version that we can deploy and iterate on:
- Shown in the User space
- Desktop only (mobile comes next)
- Four modules
- Help module: help links and ability to ask help desk questions
- Mentorship module: all newcomers assigned a mentor to whom they can ask questions
- Impact module: shows the number of pageviews for pages the newcomer edited
- Account completion module: gives some very simple recommendations of how to get started (add an email, start your user page)
- Layout not yet personalized for each user
We're currently running live user tests on this configuration. Future work will include adapting the homepage for mobile, working on a task recommendation module, and considering how to encourage newcomers to visit their homepage.
Help panel
During the last month, the help panel was deployed on Vietnamese Wikipedia, adding it to Czech and Korean Wikipedias.As of 2019-03-14:
- 2,425 newcomers have seen the help panel
- 422 of them have opened it
- 175 have clicked links
- 27 have run searches
- 40 have asked questions
We have been analyzing the data around usage, and we'll be publishing numbers in the coming weeks. At a high level, we see at least some users are being helped by the panel, with many clicking on links, running searches, and asking questions. We do not yet see any problems that have arisen from the help panel. Therefore, we think that the help panel is generally a positive feature – though data is still coming that will allow us to see its numerical impact. If other wikis are interested in using the help panel, please contact us on our team's talk page, in the language of your choice.
Over the past month, we have iterated on the help panel to take into account the usage patterns we are seeing. You can see in the accompanying image how the help panel currently looks.
- We added a search capability, in which users can search the Help and Wikipedia namespaces.
- The help panel was previously available whenever a newcomer was in "edit" mode. We are now also showing the help panel when a newcomer is in "read" mode on a page in the Help, Wikipedia, or User namespaces.
We want to see whether users find the "search" useful. If so, we may spend time on improving search results. We're also looking forward to learning whether exposing the help panel in "read" mode in more namespaces will increase usage.
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18:19, 18 March 2019 (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.
Changes later this week
- When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [7][8]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (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 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [9]
- Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.
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19:44, 18 March 2019 (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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [10]
Problems
- There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [11]
- The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [12]
- Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (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 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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18:05, 25 March 2019 (UTC)