MediaWiki-l August 2016

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29 Aug '16

Can we get a repo for each major release that contains core, skins, and all extensions in a single checkout? Right now I am updating and with all of the sub modules, I am running into issues where I cant set a branch on the extensions/ repo for REL 1_27 and get all extensions as of that branching, Instead I am forced to go thru one by one and manually set it, if and only if a given extension has said branch set, otherwise I am out of luck. Getting everything together would cause a larger checkout, but keeps things together for those who want to pick and choose.

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Page move results in deletion
by Huji Lee 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Hi Formrely, when you moved a page to a new title that is a redirect with no other history, the history would move over and the first page would become a redirect. Recently I noticed that this results in *deleting* the target page first, i.e. a deletion log is created. It is interesting that users without delete right (i.e. not sysop) can also do this and generate deletion logs. Is this a new change? I cannot backtrack it in code. I am not sure if letting non-deleters generating delete logs is a good idea. Huji

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Managing updates of Mediawiki with git (?)
by Dr. Michael Bonert 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Are there any thoughts on managing updates of Mediawiki with git? I'm not a developer... but I have flirted with the idea a bit. I program occasionally here and there-- though my day job is totally unrelated. I have played with git and I have a couple of Mediawiki installs that are running from installs via git. I like that I can roll forward and roll back easily. Updates of the wiki in theory should be: ---- pathofwiki# git checkout 1.26.4 pathofwiki# php maintenance/update.php ---- What is opaque to me is the submodules. The skins, extensions and external libraries have to be updated with two or three commands... this is missing. I think it stems from gaps in my knowledge about git. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_Git#Download_an_extension suggests: --- cd path/to/extensions git pull git submodule update --init --recursive --- --- If I try the above I get... cd path/to/extensions # git pull You are not currently on a branch. Please specify which branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details. git pull <remote> <branch> --- Branch info # git branch * (detached from 1.26.4) master --- # git submodule update --init --recursive seems to do nothing Can someone enlighten me on this or point me to something like "git for amateurs"? Thanks in Advance, Michael

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1.23.14 to 1.23.15 - parse error on wiki afterwards - caused by Composer use?
by Alastair Sherringham 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Hello Folks, I have just updated our wiki from LTS version 1.23.14 to 1.23.15 and hit a problem. Although I seem to have found the cause, I thought I would write this in case anyone is interested. I downloaded : https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.23/mediawiki-1.23.15.tar.gz Unpacked, copied settings, images etc. , ran the maintenance/update.php script, all seemed well. But accessing the wiki gave me an error : "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'class' (T_CLASS), expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE) or '{' or '$' in /homepages/44/d450433756/htdocs/mediawiki-1.23.15/vendor/param-processor/param-processor/DefaultConfig.php on line 24" Going back to (on disk) .14 worked (thank goodness). Looking more closely, I could see that "vendor" is not a folder in the MW source but seems to come from PHP "Composer.phar". I use "Composer" because it is the recommended way to update the SubPageList extension per : https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/SubPageList/blob/master/doc/INSTALL.md So I run : php5.5 composer.phar self-update php5.5 composer.phar update and this pulls in the SubPageList extension and creates the "vendor" folder. To get the wiki working again, I reinstalled but did NOT use Composer to get the SubPageList extension (or anything). Maybe there is a problem with Composer (at least the updated version) and MW 1.23.15? I am very happy that the wiki is running again and using .15. Cheers, -- Alastair Sherringham http://www.sherringham.net

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.08 release
by Kartik Mistry 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.08. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.26 and 1.27 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above. Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]]. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2016.08.tar… * sha256sum: aba09ead5f2c646e5960ce2aecc36866ee092079f51598d0aab461c7655410da Quick links: * Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB * Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n * Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ * Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode Release notes for each extension are below. -- Kartik Mistry == Highlights and upgrade notes == * Translate extension now requires Elastica extension for ElasticSearch support. Wikimedia search plugin needs to be installed for ElasticSearch 2.x series. * Special:Translate now has a summary field. * Special:Translate is much more robust thanks to improved error handling and to many small bugs having been fixed. * Page translation is much more robust. * The sandbox feature of Translate extension requires MediaWiki 1.27 or newer. * Translate's export functionality is now on separate special page called Special:ExportTranslations * The style of ULS's dialogs have been updated and polished to be more streamlined. * The default geoip service for Universal Language Selector is changed because the old service is discontinued. * Major update on webfont formats: woff2 format added, eot and svg formats dropped. == Babel == * Ricordisamoa changed language categories to be formatted consistently following the BCP47 standard. == CLDR == * Thiemo Mättig changed "Multiple Languages" and "Unknown Language" to "multiple languages" and "unknown languages" in English. == CleanChanges == * Niklas Laxström fixed a JavaScript error in Special:WatchList. T138702 * Brian Wolff improved the way we invoke JavaScript for click handlers. == LocalisationUpdate == * Maintenance updates only. == Translate == * Kunal Grover's patch to update translation pages upon deletion of translation units was merged with the help of Glaisher. * David Causse made translation memory and translation search work with new ElasticSearch version. * Pratik Lahoti's improvements to the user interface of Special:PageMigration was merged with help of Federico Leva. * Glaisher fulfilled a long requested feature to have summary field on Special:Translate. * Glaisher fixed bugs and improved stability of the page translation feature. * Glaisher added a log subtype selector for the page translation log on Special:Log. * Glaisher fixed false warnings about bad translation in Special:Translate when the source text contained discouraged html or had smileys. * Glaisher moved export functionality from Special:Translate to Special:ExportTranslations. * Niklas Laxström improved message group selector on Special:Translate. * Niklas Laxström improved display of Special:Translate for small screens. * Niklas Laxström fixed flash of unstyled content on many of Translate's special pages. * Niklas Laxström changed JSON file format handler to always output a metadata section. T118205 * Niklas Laxström fixed multiple issues related to statsbar updates on Special:Translate. T62949 * Niklas Laxström improved the refresh-translatable-pages.php maintenance script so that it creates missing source language pages. * Niklas Laxström updated Translate's sandbox feature to use AuthManager. T111486 * Federico Leva made characterEditStats.php to able to scan history further than the recent changes table. T64833 == UniversalLanguageSelector == * Compact language links feature is much improved, and can now be enabled without being a beta feature. * Santhosh Thottingal added support for browser provided language preferences for compact language links. * Lots of styling updates. * Niklas Laxström did cleanups to language name search which might affect search results. * Niklas Laxström fixed style issues for input method listing. * Niklas Laxström updated the default geoip provider. * Fonts: ** Santhosh Thottingal added support for WOFF2 format for web fonts. Niklas Laxström dropped support for EOT and SVG formats. ** Kartik Mistry updated Skiers II font for Gothic language. T124785 * Input Methods: ** Added Khmer NiDA standard Unicode keyboard. ** Added Akan language keyboard. ** Added Enhanced Ol Chiki InScript and Sarjom Baha phonetic keyboards for Santali language. ** Various fixes for Punjabi, Urdu keyboards. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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Localisation fallback between Slovak and Czech languages
by Sébastien Santoro 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hello, Until MediaWiki 1.27, any message not translated in Slovak or in Czech is printed in English. For MediaWiki 1.28, we plan to offer a fallback between Slovak and Czech languages, as these languages are easier to understand to contributors than English. The fallback is currently committed on our master branch. Than means any message not translated in Slovak on a MediaWiki installation in Slovak will be printed in Czech and inversely. This change has been prepared by Federico Leva. If you approve this change or has concerns with it, your opinion is welcome at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143474. If you don't have a Phabricator account, you can use e-mail and I'll forward your opinion. -- Best Regards, Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] [ED] Values split if non-ASCII
by christian.ludt＠isceco.admin.ch 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Any news on that? Cheers Christian

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by goldy2010 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

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21 Aug '16

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Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?
by Greg Sabino Mullane 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

John wrote: > Running every 60 seconds can cause an issue if you end up with multiple > instances of the script. Setting it at 5-10 minute intervals ensures that > tasks get completed in a reasonable time frame without causing collateral > issues. I maintain that is too long, and leads to users wondering why the template changes they made are not affecting other pages. If the queue is so large it causes overlaps, one can always add the -maxtime option. -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg(a)endpoint.com End Point Corporation PGP Key: 0x14964AC8

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