Wikitech-ambassadors February 2016

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Contribute to mediaWiki.
by Prikshit Tekta 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

Hello sir/ma'am My name is Prikshit Tekta, i am a final year B.Tech student at NIT Hamirpur. This year I intend to contribute to MediaWiki as a summer intern. Since I am a new to mediaWiki, i am quite not getting the way to start from. I shall be highly grateful if you could just guide me for this summer internship 2016. Regards Prikshit Tekta Training and Placement Representative Department of Computer Science and Engineering NIT Hamirpur Mob: +91-98822-73873

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Yes
by Reuben S Guerra Sr 12 Feb '16

12 Feb '16

I am Completely Different from what we have been doing with the Register and United Kingdom an Ancestors of European Portuguese Italian Spanish Engineering and The First National Bank of my family to get a hold of the things that are important to me an my family

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[URGENT] All users will be logged out a few hours from now
by Gergo Tisza 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

As a response to a security incident, we will be logging out all users shortly. [1] We don't think the incident had real-world impact but prefer to err on the side of security. After considering various aspects (such as the effect on upcoming software deployments, and finding a time when most people are asleep), we decided to do this on very short notice. I apologize for the disruption. You can find more information at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124440 If this causes any unexpected problems (apart from having to log in again), please report them there. [1] We have actually done so progressively over the last week, but that method turned out to be unacceptably slow, and we found a way to do it all at once. -- Gergő https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tgr_(WMF) WMF Reading Infrastructure

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Technical newsletter (2016, week 06)
by Johan Jönsson 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/06>. 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>. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ————————————————————————————— Other languages: čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/cs> • ‎Deutsch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/de> • ‎English • ‎ español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/es> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/he> • ‎italiano <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/it> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/ja> • ‎Ripoarisch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/ksh> • ‎polski <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/pl> • ‎português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/pt> • ‎português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/pt-br> • ‎ русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/ru> • ‎سنڌي <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/sd> • ‎svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/sv> • ‎українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/uk> • ‎Tiếng Việt <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/vi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/06/zh> 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/2016/06> are available. *Recent changes* - Syntax highlighting <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Syntax_highlighting> support is now available for 53 more computer languages. [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-February/084695.html> - When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121808> - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] RESTBase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase> is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114620> *Changes this week* - Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124931>[5] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html> - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.13> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114662>. The meeting will be on 10 February at 22:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>. *Future changes* - Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HTTPS> in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87276>[7] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy> - Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [8] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html> [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125633>[10] <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/Identifiers> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/06> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* //Johan Jönsson

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Looking for reports of users being logged in as someone else
by Gergo Tisza 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Hi all, we had reports of a serious authentication error that resulted in people being logged into the wrong account. We are trying to collect information about what happened, and how many users it might have happened to. Please reach out to users on your wikis and ask them if they have experienced anything like that in the last two weeks. If someone did, please tell us here or at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126069 (where you can also find more information about the issue). To be on the safe side, we are in the process of logging everyone out (which takes a while, so it might have happened to you this week, or it might happen in the next few days). Apologies for the inconvenience. Thanks, Gergő [[User:Tgr_(WMF)]]

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Dead links/Wayback Machine bots?
by Johan Jönsson 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Hi everyone, Because of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120433 I'm trying to create a list of bots that in some way handle dead links, especially if they in some way move them to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. I'm aware of bots on the English, German, French, Spanish and Italian Wikipedias. If you know of any others, I'd be grateful if you'd let me know. (You can reply to me privately.) Thanks. (: //Johan Jönsson --

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Update to syntax highlighting extension adds support for more languages
by Ori Livneh 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Hello, I am writing to let you know that Pygments, the library we use for syntax-highlighting, has been updated to the latest release (version 2.1) in the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension and across Wikimedia wikis. This release includes support for 53 new languages and language variants. They are listed below, with the lexer name (the string to use as a value for the 'lang' attribute of <syntaxhighlight lang=...> tags) in parenthesis: - ABNF ("abnf") - ADL ("adl") - Arduino ("arduino") - BC ("bc") - BNF ("bnf") - Boogie ("boogie") - CAmkES ("camkes", "idl4") - CPSA ("cpsa") - CSS+Mako ("css+mako") - Component Pascal ("cp", "componentpascal") - Crmsh ("pcmk", "crmsh") - Csound Document ("csound-csd", "csound-document") - Csound Orchestra ("csound", "csound-orc") - Csound Score ("csound-score", "csound-sco") - Earl Grey ("earlgrey", "earl-grey", "eg") - Easytrieve ("easytrieve") - Elm ("elm") - Ezhil ("ezhil") - Fish ("fishshell", "fish") - FortranFixed ("fortranfixed") - HTML+Mako ("html+mako") - Hexdump ("hexdump") - J ("j") - JCL ("jcl") - JavaScript+Mako ("js+mako", "javascript+mako") - LessCss ("less") - MSDOS Session ("doscon") - Mako ("mako") - ODIN ("odin") - PacmanConf ("pacmanconf") - ParaSail ("parasail") - PkgConfig ("pkgconfig") - PowerShell Session ("ps1con") - Praat ("praat") - QML ("qbs") - QVTO ("qvt", "qvto") - Roboconf Graph ("roboconf-graph") - Roboconf Instances ("roboconf-instances") - Shen ("shen") - SuperCollider ("sc", "supercollider") - TAP ("tap") - Tcsh Session ("tcshcon") - Termcap ("termcap") - Terminfo ("terminfo") - Terraform ("terraform", "tf") - Thrift ("thrift") - TrafficScript ("trafficscript", "rts") - Turtle ("turtle") - TypeScript ("typescript") - X10 ("xten", "x10") - XML+Mako ("xml+mako") - cADL ("cadl") J and BNF were previously supported by mapping them to other languages with close-enough syntax: Objective-J and Extended BNF, respectively. Each of those now has a dedicated lexer, so the highlighted output should hew more closely to the language definition. For more information on SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi and Pygments, see: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi - http://pygments.org/ Ori Livneh Perf Team

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Technical newsletter (2016, week 05)
by Johan Jönsson 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/05>. 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>. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ————————————————————————————— Other languages: čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/cs> • ‎Deutsch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/de> • ‎Ελληνικά <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/el> • ‎English • ‎ español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/es> • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/he> • ‎italiano <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/it> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/ja> • ‎Ripoarisch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/ksh> • ‎português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/pt> • ‎português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/pt-br> • ‎ русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/ru> • ‎svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/sv> • ‎українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/uk> • ‎Tiếng Việt <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/vi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2016/05/zh> 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/2016/05> are available. *Problems* - Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [1] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160126-Wikimed…> - Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [2] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160123-Session…> [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123451> - Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [4] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-February/084669.html> *Changes this week* - The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Page_history> on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124885> - Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123657>[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121935> - The Universal Language Selector <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Select…> input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51569> - The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88694>[10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85791>[11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123826> - The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121754>[13] <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&language=…> - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.12> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is expiring watch list entries <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E138>. The meeting will be on 3 February at 22:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>. *Future changes* - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [14] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-January/084566.html> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/05> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* //Johan Jönsson --

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enabling in other projects sidebar on all wikis in January
by Lydia Pintscher 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hey folks :) The in other projects sidebar is a feature that adds links to articles on other projects to the sidebar. So for example on the Wikivoyage article about Berlin it links to the respective content on Wikipedia, Commons and so on.This works similar to the language links that you already have in the sidebar of an article. It is intended to make more content available to our users and bring our projects closer together. The in other projects sidebar has been around for many months now. It has been a beta feature on all wikis and default on a handful. It can't stay a beta feature forever and we should decide on its faith now. I am happy with the reactions we have been getting about it and believe it adds significant value for our readers and editors on smaller projects. I therefor want to enable it on all projects. This will happen in January. The exact date is still being decided. If for some reason your project decides it does not want this feature please let me know and we'll disable it for you. The ticket for tracking this is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102 Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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