Hello everyone,
For a long time now, we have had the default behaviour of admins can
unblock themselves if blocked.
In my opinion, this is a poor default. In the event of a compromised
admin account, the compromised account can just unblock themselves and
continue being malicious.
To that end, and in light of some recent admin accounts being
compromised, we now disallow admins to unblock themselves. This
doesn't apply to self blocks - Admins who block themselves can still
unblock themselves. However admins who are blocked by other admins can
no longer unblock themselves.
I'm still open to communities who want to continue to have the old
behaviour to opt out of the new behaviour - The primary thing here is
that the default has now changed, so that anywhere that was using the
old behaviour for no other reason then it was the default is now using
the new behaviour.
--
Brian Wolff ([[User:BWolff_(WMF)]])
Wikimedia Security Team
// Sorry for cross-posting
Hi everyone,
the Advanced Search interface is now available as a default feature on all
wikis. That means you, logged-in or not, can carry out advanced searches
even if you don’t know any search syntax.
The new feature provides some existing advanced search options in a visual
interface. This can help you find pages that contain a particular template,
search in page titles, for a specific sequence of characters, and much
more. Plus, the way namespaces can be selected has been redesigned. Among
other things, you can now select several namespaces with one click, e.g. to
search in all talk namespaces. More detailed information is on the project
page. [1]
The feature was developed by Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes Team.
[2] The idea for it was born in 2016 in workshops with editors, followed by
prototypes, several feedback rounds on dewiki and Meta, and finally the
beta function, which 43,000 people across all wikis used. During the beta
phase, bugs were fixed, the namespace selection was revised, and more
search options were added.
Many thanks to everyone who took the time to give feedback (onwiki, in
discussions, at the dev summit and more), to test or to translate. A big
thank you also goes to the Discovery team at the WMF for their support, by
making backend adjustments and implementing a new search parameter for deep
category searches.
The development team hopes that the new feature will help you find what
you’re looking for more easily. People who prefer to keep the previous
search interface can deactivate the new feature in their user preferences.
[3]
As always, feedback is welcome on the central talk page. [4]
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team
-- Johanna Strodt Project Manager Community Communications Technical
Wishlist, Wikimedia Deutschland
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/AdvancedSearch
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchop…
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:AdvancedSearch
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// sorry for cross-posting
Hello everyone! I’d like to draw your attention to a software change coming
to wikis this week:
When you click on a footnote which is referenced multiple times in an
article, it can be hard to find your way back to your reading position in
the text.
This will soon become easier: If you have jumped to a multi-referenced
footnote and want to go back to your previous reading position,
1) you can now click on the *jump mark* at the beginning of the footnote
(in most wikis it's an arrow, in some, like enwiki, it's a caret ^). The
tooltip says "Jump back up".
2) or you can click on the *superscript jump mark* in the footnote. The one
leading you back to your original position is now highlighted *bold*.
This second part of the change doesn’t work for wikis where these
superscript jump marks are bold by default, e.g. enwiki. If those wikis
want this highlighting as well, they would need to change their default
style for these superscript jump marks to regular.
Deployment of this change is scheduled for this week’s train [1].
Originating from the German community’s Technical Wishlist, it was made by
Wikimedia Germany’s Technical Wishes team [2].
Feedback is always appreciated. The best place for it is the project talk
page [3]. More information is available on the project page [4] and on
Phabricator [5].
Best,
Johanna for the Technical Wishes team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Footnote_highlighting…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Footnote_highlig…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Footnote_highlighting
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194511
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Sorry for cross posting.
The Technical Wishes team has released a new version of the beta feature
“two-column edit conflict“ on all wikis.[1] In order to make edit conflict
solving even easier than the first beta feature, the new interface allows
to solve edit conflicts line by line.
To try the new interface, activate the beta feature two-column edit
conflict in your preferences. If you were already using the old beta
feature, you’ll get the new interface automatically.
Let us know what you think on the central feedback page.[2]
Thanks,
Michi for the Technical Wishes team
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View
PS: This morning there was a problem after enabling the new version, this
has been fixed. For background on this issue see
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-November/091103.html
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.