MediaWiki-l August 2022

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Recent parser change regarding tildes in comments?
by Thomas Dalton 17 Aug '25

17 Aug '25

Has the parser just been changed with regards to tildes (~~~~) inside HTML comments? It appears they used to be ignored, and are now suddenly being replaced en masse the next time someone edits the page (and can't be easily reverted - it just changes the sig to the reverter's instead). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/2006-06-02-ear… for an example.

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Lis tes messages avant qu'ils ne soient effacés!
by Badoo 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

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MediaWiki 1.39-alpha will be branched as a beta on 5 September 2022
by Tyler Cipriani 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Hey all, This is a quick note to highlight that in six weeks' time, the REL1_39 branch will be created for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git, with some (the 'tarball') included as sub-modules of MediaWiki itself[0]. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.39, which should be out in November 2022, approximately six months after MediaWiki 1.38. The branches will reflect the code as of the last 'alpha' branch for the release, 1.39.0-wmf.28, which will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis in the week beginning 12 September 2022 for MediaWiki itself and those extensions and skins available there. After that point, patches that land in the main development branch of MediaWiki and its bundled extensions and skins will be slated for the MediaWiki 1.40 release unless specifically backported[1]. If you are working on a new feature that you wish to land for the release, you now have a few days to finish your work and land it in the development branch; feature changes should not be backported except in an urgent case. If your work might not be complete in time, and yet should block release for everyone else, please file a task against the `mw-1.39-release` project on Phabricator.[2] If you have tickets that are already tagged for `mw-1.39-release`, please finish them, untag them, or reach out to get them resolved in the next few weeks. We hope to issue the first release candidate, 1.39.0-rc.0, two weeks after the branch point, and if all goes well, to release MediaWiki 1.39.0 a few weeks after that. Tyler Cipriani (he/him) Engineering Manager, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation [0]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bundled_extensions_and_skins> [1]: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backporting_fixes> [2]: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5694/>

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Reminder about WMF board elections - People who develop mediawiki extensions are eligible to vote
by Brian Wolff 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

I haven't seen too much discussion about this, but i just wanted to remind everyone that people who participate in mediawiki development (including many third party extensions) are eligible to vote in the current Wikimedia foundation board of trustees election, even if you don't edit any wikimedia wiki. You just have to have made one commit. Commits to third party mediawiki extensions not used by Wikimedia wikis count (including some hosted at github). The Wikimedia Foundation is the largest contributor to MediaWiki core, and the trustees control the direction of the Wikimedia Foundation. Hence your vote (indirectly) determines the direction of MediaWiki software! There is an unofficial list of eligible developers at https://i-want-to-vote.toolforge.org . I encourage anyone who participates in development of software in the mediawiki ecosystem to check if they are on the list. Even if you are not on that list you may still be eligible. You can learn more about the candidates at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida… . In particular, many of you might already know legoktm who is one of the candidates and is very active in the mediawiki developer community. You can vote now up until september 6 (however some eligible people must register to vote before sept 2). The link to vote is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/393 . People who are eligible to vote due to software development must pre-register via email before that link works for them and they must do so 4 days before the end of the election. See https://i-want-to-vote.toolforge.org for details. The full official list of eligibility criteria is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Voter_e… . The key point for software developers, is you only have had to make 1 commit between Jan 5 and july 5, to any gerrit repo, any toolforge tool repo (including those outside gerrit), or any mediawiki extension/skin on MWStake's list of mediawiki extensions/skins developed outside of gerrit. If the above doesn't describe you, there are also other criteria that can make you eligible, like if you have made lots of edits to https://mediawiki.org or https://translatewiki.net, maintain or contribute to "tools, bots, user scripts, gadgets, and Lua modules on Wikimedia wikis", or "substantially engaged in the design and/or review processes of technical development related to Wikimedia." or are employed by the Wikimedia foundation or an affiliate of Wikimedia. Check the official rules for the full list. Anyways i encourage everyone to vote who is eligible. People who are voting by virtue of being a software developer MUST register 4 days before the end of the election (i.e. sept 2), so if that's you, be sure to do it in time. See the official rules or https://i-want-to-vote.toolforge.org for details. -- Bawolff p.s. Just to clarify, this isn't an official email, i just wanted to ensure that the wider mediawiki developer community was aware of this as i suspect many eligible developers may be unaware they are allowed to vote.

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Proposed change to the MediaWiki database policy
by Amir Sarabadani 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Hello, We have a proposal to make small adjustments to the MediaWiki database policy which would make abstract schema an explicit requirement. Abstract schema was approved by TechCom in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191231 and now core and all WMF-deployed extensions have migrated to abstract schema. You can find the proposal in here. Please take a look and comment: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki_database_policy If there are no major objections by the end of August 2022, I will codify this into the policy. Best -- *Amir Sarabadani (he/him)* Staff Database Architect Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Create an account for another user
by Jeffrey Walton 27 Aug '22

27 Aug '22

Hi Everyone, We disabled account creation due to too much spam and bots. I am trying to manually create an account for a user. I read the docs at [1] and visited Special:CreateAccount. I then entered the user's details. I have not submitted because I'm getting a message: Your username will be adjusted to "XXXXXX" due to technical restrictions. I am not sure why I am getting that message. I am trying to create an account for another user. I am not trying to change my user name. I have all the wiki privileges and rights. They include bureaucrat and administrator. Does anyone know how to proceed? Thanks, Jeff [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Account_creation

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Is there a template / function to remove line breaks (newlines)?
by Patrick Schleizer 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

Hello, Is there a template / function to remove line breaks (newlines)? Purpose? Quote https://lnf-wiki.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/Help:Templates > To improve readability, usually programmers like to split the code with newlines and indent it. Indeed. > Unfortunately MediaWiki software does not allow this functionality and in many instances these purpose-built newlines are treated by the software as content. One possible workaround is to add  after it. That probably works but is still not pretty. Related to a similar report of mine: extraneous newlines caused by templates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314593 Hence my question... Is there some template or function to remove newlines? Example: ``` {{no_new_lines| {{Header}} {{Title|title= wiki page title }} {{#seo: |description=wiki page description |image=image.png }} [[File:image.png|thumb|100px|[[Dev/Logo|description]]]] {{intro| introduction text here }} {{Anchor|anchor}}  }} ``` In result, none of the following should add any newlines. No line breaks from the templates (which aren't supposed to add line breaks) and no new lines where were only used to separate the different items in the wiki source code (such as {{Header}}, {{Title|...}, ...) to make the wiki markup easier to read. Cheers, Patrick

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MediaWiki Installation.
by Alexander Prendas Solis 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Hello. Is there any pdf, or video guide for install MediaWiki?

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Cannot upgrade past 1.33.4
by Xavier Humbert 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

Hi, I've been asked to upgrade a very, very old wiki : it was version 1.25.6. I decided to do it step by step, ie release by release. I carefully backup-ed the database between each iteration, and ran maintenance/update.php Everything went fine until 1.34.4, when the vast majority of links were broken (Page does not exist yet) There were some stopper between 1.33 and 1.34 ? I read the release notes, update.php is intended to do the right job Thanks for help, Cheers, Xavier -- Xavier Humbert CRT Supervision et Exploitation de Niveau 1 Rectorat de Nancy-Metz 03 83 86 27 39

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invalid csrf token
by Bruno Dapei 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Hello. Can please someone help me? I have installed Mediawiki 1.38.2 for my site www.wikimilano.it today, same problem with different pc and users, when trying to login or logout, doesn't work and say "invalid csrf token"

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