I bet the forwarded Tech News will not appear either.
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From: Benoît Evellin (Trizek) <bevellin(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:08 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tech News (2019, week 03)
To: Wikitech Ambassadors <wikitech-ambassadors(a)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.
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;.
We are also looking for translators, as always. The next issue will be
available for translations starting Thursday, end of day UTC.
More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>gt;. You can also contact
Johan or I 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/2019/03> 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-betafeatures>and
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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