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
Dear Users,
I have the great honour to inform you that the Call for Proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is now open. WikiIndaba 2018 is the 3rd conference of African Wikimedia movement and will give to participants the opportunity to share their Wikimedia-related experience and skills with a wide and active African Wikimedia audience. The conference will be held in Tunisia from 16 to 18 March 2018. If you want to participate to WikiIndaba and share your works and thoughts with African Wikimedians, feel free to submit your proposal in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for giving proposals will be January 15th, 2018.
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Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
Felix Nartey
Isla Haddow-Flood
Hello everyone.
For some of you, this is a "cross post".
You may recall previous emails from me a few months ago, inviting to
conversations about the roles of tech ambassadors (and tech
translators; although we are temporarily focusing a bit more on the
first group, as an outcome of those conversations).
Now that the pool of interested people has become larger, we can dive
into those again.
You're from a smaller community, or you haven't given your
availability as currently active ambassador yet? So what, we still
want to hear from you.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors/List
1) Are there further thoughts on the role itself? I hope the questions
on Meta can help spark them. Please weigh in at
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/Ambassadors/List#Tech_ambassadors,_take_2
*.
2) How about we try and organise future collective work in a
Phabricator workboard?
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/Ambassadors/List#A_Phab_workboard_for_us?
* has all the details to explore this proposal.
3) Finally, you are welcome to comment at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177923 if you happen to have
suggestions for the Community Liaisons team, currently wondering how
to measure "Wiki projects requesting beta features and other early
deployments".
We hope to be able to host a live discussion in early 2018; until
then, we're looking forward to hearing from you on Meta!
All the best,
Elitre (on behalf of the Community Liaisons)
PS: More on the "take" concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take#Film
--
Erica Litrenta
Senior Community Liaison
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)
Become an active tech ambassador and/or translator!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors/List -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Translators/List
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
**Please note:** We will do a two week break due to the holiday season!
This will be the last Meeting for 2017, the next meeting after this will be
on January 3rd 2018!
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:
I signed, the past week, the list of Tech Ambassador for Spanish Wikipedia.
My username is Superzerocool, a veteran user (over 12 years) in Wikimedia
movement, and in the real life I being an Engineer Informatic. I live in
Chile and I am currently part of the Board of Wikimedia Chile.
In some chapter off-wiki talk (Telegram), an user share us a possibly
fake-news about the usage of blockchain to avoid the vandalism.
As I see the article[1] (in Spanish), the news talks about Everipedia, a
startup related with Blockchain technology and how they use the blockchain
in English articles(?).
As I see the article, the news is fake.
Kindly,
[1]
https://www.cuartopoder.es/innovacion/tecnologia/2017/12/09/la-wikipedia-ya…
--
Dennis Tobar Calderón
Ingeniero en Informática UTEM
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **today, 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
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.
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