Wikitech-ambassadors September 2018

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Tech News (2018, week 37)

by Johan Jönsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/36>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ——————————————————————————— Other languages: العربية • ‎čeština • ‎English • ‎español • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎日本語 • ‎한국어 • ‎মেইতেই লোন্ • ‎polski • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎中文 Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/37> are available. *Recent changes* - When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200834> *Problems* - Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197157> - Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121930> - <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203427> - {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203583> - When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203661> *Changes later this week* - Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=00&sec=0&d…>. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2018> . - Because of the data centre test <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2018> there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead. *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] 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 11 September at 18:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180911T1830>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180912T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - The developers <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Team> work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Recommendations_for_mobil…>. You can add things to the page and ask others to help. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/37> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* //Johan Jönsson --

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Switchover reminder

by zppix e

Services: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 14:30 UTC Media storage/Swift: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 15:00 UTC Traffic: Tuesday, September 11th 2018 19:00 UTC MediaWiki: Wednesday, September 12th 2018: 14:00 UTC Switchback: Traffic: Wednesday, October 10th 2018 09:00 UTC MediaWiki: Wednesday, October 10th 2018: 14:00 UTC Services: Thursday, October 11th 2018 14:30 UTC Media storage/Swift: Thursday, October 11th 2018 15:00 UTC Thanks, Zppix Volunteer Developer for WMF Volunteer Support for Mozilla www.enwp.org/User:Zppix

5 years, 8 months

Fwd: [Engineering] [FYI] Documentation on managing and filtering Phabricator mail notifications

by Benoît Evellin (Trizek)

If you are watching changes on Phabricator, that page may interest you! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org> Phabricator is noisy. Some folks don't have time to figure out best practices on their own. I can imagine some folks ignore Phab mail notifications instead. So I've created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help/Managing_mail Edits and further discussion on its talk page are very welcome (as I do not use the Gmail web interface), for example if you have set up filtering and want to share your setup for others. I'd also be interested to hear from you if you mostly ignore Phab mail. Gerrit would probably also welcome such a documentation page but I don't have sufficient knowledge, I'm afraid. Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Engineering mailing list Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering -- Benoît Evellin (Trizek) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting (Two time slots this Wednesday!)

by Michael Schönitzer

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday at 3-4 pm UTC AND 11-12 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Tech News (2018, week 36)

by Johan Jönsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/36>. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next>. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ——————————————————————————— Other languages: العربية • ‎čeština • ‎English • ‎فارسی • ‎suomi • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎日本語 • ‎মেইতেই লোন্ • ‎polski • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎Tiếng Việt • ‎中文 Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/36> are available. *Recent changes* - There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS> and JavaScript <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Interface_administrators>. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190015>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200176> - There will be an A/B test <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing> on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200792>[4] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues> - You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TemplateStyles> . [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197617> - wp10 in ORES <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES> is now called articlequality. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196240> - When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58845> *Problems* - UploadWizard <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard> had problems with campaigns <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard/Campaigns>. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202760> - You can get a notification <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications> when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200119> *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.20> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180905T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers> will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadma…> about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadma…> . - The RelatedSites extension <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:Keegan_(WMF)/Relate…> will be removed from Wikivoyage. - [image: Advanced item] Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS> will be removed <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_VPS_2018_Purge>. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [10] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090735.html> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/36> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* //Johan Jönsson

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