A recent change to MediaWiki software seems to have broken templates
everywhere. The syntax
[[:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]
used to work on a template to generate a link to a page in the same
namespace, typically used on templates related to move (rename) discussions.
However this has stopped working as of last month, causing lots of
[[::ABC|ABC]] to be displayed in plain-text everywhere when this syntax is
used in the main namespace.
We figured for now at yue.wp that
[[{{NAMESPACE}}:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]
(notice the deletion of the colon at the beginning) works and would like to
know if this is the recommended solution. This doesn't seem to have been
picked up by Linter.
Related discussion on yue.wp:
https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3A%E5%9F%8E%E5%B8%…
Deryck
[[User:Deryck Chan]]
Sysop & ambassador, yue.wp
Hello,
As mentioned a few months ago there has been a significant update to
the design and layout of printed articles.[0] [1] This impacts both
PDF's created from the "Download as PDF" feature and from printing
directly from the web browser.
The feedback and discussion have been incredibly helpful. The team is
now ready to enable these styles as default across all projects. The
deployment is scheduled for Monday, October 9th. If you have used the
feature recently, not much has changed. If you haven't used it
recently we encourage you to check out the new styles. A few features:
* New layout to reduce paper usage
* Clear printing of tables and infoboxes
* Better headings
* Project-specific branding
For more information, please visit the project page on MediaWiki.org.
Comments and feedback can be left on the talk page there.
[0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088565.html
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles#Desktop_Pr…
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
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"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki
/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
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are: @Thiemo_WMDE & @Amir1.
Hope to see you there!
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Hey everyone,
The voting phase of the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now started.
Read the proposals and support the ones you want to support to make the
wikis better:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey
Click on the categories to find the proposals. The voting will close on
December 10.
The Community Wishlist Survey decides what the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Tech team will work on over the next year. The team is responsible
for addressing the top 10 wishes on the list, as well as some wishes from
smaller groups and projects that are doing important work, but don't have
the numbers to get their proposal into the top 10. The Wishlist is also
used by volunteer developers and other teams, who want to find projects to
work on that the community really wants.
Come help set the agenda.
If you want to see what the team has done in 2017, see the status report
from last month:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_
Survey/Status_report_1
But most importantly, we need your help to spread the word. We really want
people to find this, of course, and we'll work on finding the best balance
between spreading the news to everyone and not being annoying, but please
do help to spread the information in your local community – Village Pump
equivalents, IRC channels, social media groups and so on. Make sure the
Wikimedians on your project don't miss this.
//Johan Jönsson
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(sorry for cross-posting ...)
Hello all,
we're really happy to announce that the new AdvancedSearch interface got
deployed as a beta feature to Mediawiki.org and test just 2 hours ago. [1]
AdvancedSearch enhances Special:Search through an advanced parameters form
and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for
everyone. [2]
The feature is a project by WMDE's Tech team and originates from the
Technical Wishes project. Many other people and teams helped making this
project happen, so stay tuned for the thank you section at the end of this
email :-) [3]
*Why AdvancedSearch*
The Search has great options to perform advanced queries, but often even
experienced editors don't know about it - this is what we found out when we
were conducting a workshop series on advanced search in several cities in
Germany in 2016. Together with contributors from German Wikipedia we've
discussed their desired search queries, explained how the syntax works and
how keywords like "hastemplate", "filetype" or "intitle" can be used and
combined to get the desired results.
The idea for the AdvancedSearch feature results out of these workshops,
where we not only discussed search but also designed first mocks for an
advanced search interface. [4]
*The first version, more deployments and other next steps*AdvancedSearch
supports some of the special search options the WMF's search team has been
implemented in the last years. The way the interface works, users don't
have to know the syntax behind each search field, but they can learn about
it if they want to. The first version of the feature comes with a first
selection of advanced search options, e.g. including support for
"hastemplate" or "intitle". The WMF's search team has started to work on a
'deepcat' functionality to make sub category search happen. We plan to add
support for this in the future, too.
If all goes well, we plan to deploy the beta feature on German and Arabic
Wikipedia by Wednesday, Nov 29. [5]
In the next 2-3 months we'd love to invite everyone to test the new feature
on those wikis: Comments, thoughs, bug reports ... - any feedback is much
appreciated!
Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch for how to
use AdvancedSearch.
Deployments to other wikis can follow later.
*Thank you (finally!)*
This project was developed with the support from many different people from
the start, and this makes it very special to us: We would like to thank the
folks from the German Wikipedia community who participated in the workshops
and who were discussing and designing first ideas together with us. We
would like to thank all other people who gave valuable feedback on
Phabricator, onwiki and in real life. We would like to thank the Arabic
Wikipedia community for getting interested in AdvancedSearch, and for
offering to test this feature in an early stage. The credit for the
development work on AdvancedSearch goes to our FUN team, supported by the
team that usually works on Technical Wishes. Last but really not least we
would like to thank the great folks from the WMF's search team who have
supported this project from the start and who have done (and still do) the
necessary backend work that now got supported by the AdvancedSearch
extension.
Sorry for the long email, and thanks for reading :-)
Birgit (for the Technical Wishes team)
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180147 (Deployment ticket group 0)
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:AdvancedSearch
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch/Worksh…
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180128 (Deployment ticket arwiki and
dewiki)
--
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Community Communications Manager
Software Development and Engineering
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
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Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **tomorrow, Wednesday 4-5 pm
UTC** on #wikimedia-tech.
The Technical Advice IRC meeting is open for all volunteer developers,
topics and questions. This can be anything from "how to get started" over
"who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/
wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
This meeting is an offer by WMDE’s tech team. Hosts of tomorrows meeting
are: @Lucas_WMDE & @Thiemo_WMDE.
Hope to see you there!
Michi (for WMDE’s tech team)
--
Michael F. Schönitzer
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi Everyone,
Back in May I started working on Cyrillic ↔︎ Latin transliteration of
Crimean Tatar (Phab ticket T23582 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T23582>)
as a hackathon/10% project. Since August I've had a working transliterator,
based on a 2009 draft from user DonAlessandro, who provided all the
language smarts for the transliteration.
Using parallel corpora and recent speaker feedback (also from
DonAlessandro!) I was able to assess and refine the quality of the
transliteration
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Crimean_Tatar_Transl…>:
99.6% from Latin to Cyrillic, and 97.4% in the other direction.
In October, still without any code review, I asked my colleagues on the WMF
Search Platform team to do reviews for generic code quality. They made
several useful suggestions and I've made the changes and submitted them.
The most up-to-date patch is on Gerrit
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/372479>.
Since there was some discussion about changes to language converters here a
few days ago, I was hoping someone here could help me figure out who to
ask, or what to do to get code review from someone who is familiar with
language converters and has +2 rights on mediawiki/core.
The ticket was about seven and a half years old when I started looking into
it, and it will be eight years old this coming Monday! It'd be great to get
it some code review for its birthday, and even better for the Crimean Tatar
community to have working transliteration.
Thanks!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
Hey everyone,
As you might be aware, this year's Community Wishlist Survey is
currently taking place. This is the process through which the
Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community
Tech team should work on during 2018.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey
If your community isn't aware of this, please help spread the word so
in the last few days – the proposal phase ends on 18:00 UTC Monday, 20
November.
//Johan Jönsson
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