This last one went through! In order to achieve that, I had to forward without adding any comment and then remove a line of dashes that was added as a separator in the middle of the body text. You can see the original email being forwarded at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2019-January/0020...
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 6:39 PM Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Benoît Evellin (Trizek) bevellin@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:08 PM Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 03) To: Wikitech Ambassadors wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org
The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019 /https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/0303 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/03>. Below is the English version.
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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/2019/03 are available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now use Google Translate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Google_Translate in the content translation tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90208[2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/01/09/you-can-now-use-google-translate-to-translate-articles-on-wikipedia/
- You can now add captions
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:File_captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
- Earlier a quoted HTML attribute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Attribute_(computing) had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uqhg1it7nojfnjfg[4] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/59bb8864a23f3df120789c7619ef07acefa27b9c
- [image: Advanced item] Templates with <templatestyles>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sandbox_(software_development) version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200441
*Problems*
- When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of
a page some of them have tags https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212703
*Changes later this week*
- You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the
file history with the new FileExporter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons. It will be a beta feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Features on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeaturesand check your wiki's configuration file https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons/Configuration_file_documentation .
- Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over
their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/481115/
- [image: Advanced item] The AbuseFilter
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter.
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 January. It will be on all wikis from 17 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/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 16 January at 16:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190116T16. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Future changes*
- [image: Advanced item] In the future users can be blocked from
editing a page or a namespace. What a "block" means will change. This means that you might have to update tools you maintain that handle blocks. [8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2019-January/002047.html
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