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From: Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:40 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 04)
To: Wikitech Ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/04>gt;.
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>gt;.
More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>gt;. You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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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/2019/04> are
available.
*Tech News*
- Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was
because of a problem with MassMessage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage>. If you
did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/03>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213942>
*Recent changes*
- The content translation tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> can
now use version 2
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation/V2>
as
the default version for users who turned on the beta feature
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Beta_Features>. For
example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to
translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the
problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in
Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
-
https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of
up to 800 pages to PDF <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PDF>, EPUB
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:EPUB> or ODT
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:OpenDocument>. Previously this was 200
pages.
*Problems*
- When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes
put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for
editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see
what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17
January and is now fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213922>
- MassMessage
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MassMessage> is used
to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some
messages have not been posted to everyone. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213942>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139380>
- Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you
could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This
has now been fixed. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213858>
*Changes later this week*
- You will be able to use template styles
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles> in
the Module namespace. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200914>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.14> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all
wikis from 24 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 23 January at 16:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190123T16>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*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_delivery>
• Contribute
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/04> • Get
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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
//Johan Jönsson
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