Wikitech-ambassadors February 2018

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by Deryck Chan

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

4 years, 10 months

Ready for translation: Editing News #1—2018

by Erica Litrenta

Hello everyone! Assuming that I did everything right (it's been a while...), the first issue of the year of the Editing newsletter is now open to translations! Current issue: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2018/February Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-V… This will be delivered to hundreds of curious community members around the world (wanna get it as well? See [1]), in addition to a list of relevant pages on most WMF wikis [2]. I plan to send it on Friday, at the end of my work day in Central Europe. Best, Elitre (WMF) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/Wikis_with_VE -- Erica Litrenta Manager, Community Liaisons https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)

5 years

Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

by Michael Schönitzer

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 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.

5 years

Tech News (2018, week 9) in Bangla

by Sandipan Banerjee

Hello, Tech News 2018 week 9 translation 100% completed for the language Bangla. <Tech/News/2018/09|প্রযুক্তি/সংবাদ/২০১৮/০৯> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2018/09/bn> Thank you Sandipan Banerjee <User:Jhalmuri>

5 years

Tech News (2018, week 9)

by Johan Jönsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/08>. 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. ——————————————————————————— العربية • ‎বাংলা • ‎čeština • ‎English • ‎español • ‎فارسی • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎magyar • ‎italiano • ‎日本語 • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎українська • ‎Tiếng Việt • ‎粵語 • ‎中文 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/2018/09> are available. *Recent changes* - Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160357> *Problems* - Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089550.html> [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187942> - Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time>, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187757> - Special:Statistics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics> did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [5] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/411400/>[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187845>[7] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News/2018/09> *Changes later this week* - Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187869> - [image: Advanced item] The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RemexHtml>. This is to replace Tidy <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy>. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188000>[10] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy/FAQ#What_will_editors…> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.23> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> 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/2018/09> • 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 --

5 years, 1 month

Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

by Michael Schönitzer

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 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.

5 years, 1 month

Tech News (2018, week 8)

by Johan Jönsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/08>. 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. ——————————————————————————— العربية • ‎čeština • ‎Ελληνικά • ‎English • ‎español • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎magyar • ‎italiano • ‎日本語 • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎українська • ‎中文 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/2018/08> are available. *Recent changes* - The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182156>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184165> - You can now see statistics <https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects> for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [3] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089518.html> *Problems* - Linter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Linter> is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184280> - Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187495>[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52769> *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.22> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6714>. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185948> - Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts/Feedba…> . *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> 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/2018/08> • 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 --

5 years, 1 month

Tomorrow: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

by Michael Schönitzer

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 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.

5 years, 1 month

Mobile web settings is getting an update

by Chris Koerner

Hi, I sent this to wikitech-l, but I wanted to make sure you were all included as well. With over half of Wikimedia traffic coming from mobile devices, even small changes like this will have an impact. Please share with your mobile-loving friends and communities. Some improvements to viewing and managing user settings on the mobile website (Extension:MobileFrontend) will be available this week. Here is a short update on what is changing. == User Features == * Font changer - This is an accessibility feature to increase font size of articles to read. A lot of mobile browsers do not include this feature. Accessibility is important to our readers and the feature has been in Beta mode for a while. The team improved the way to change the font size and promoted it to stable. [0] * Expand sections by default - For avid readers and editors, opening up sections every time on articles can be taxing. Now there is a setting that will expand all sections by default. [1] * Showing what changes are applied if a user enables Beta mode - Beta mode on mobile did not communicate to users what changes were getting applied to their experience. [2] This was a transparency issue in what was happening to user's experiences. It also helps to encourage more people sign up for beta features by showing which features are available to test. This will help us collect feedback from more people about our experiments. == Technical features == * Use of modern UI library - Wikimedia Design has developed a style guide and UI library under the OOUI framework. MobileFrontend will use these components which are standard across other Wikimedia products. The components use accessible color palettes and UI states. For more information and feedback, check out the project page on MediaWiki.org [3] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109363 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169257 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67079 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Settings Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

5 years, 1 month

Tech News (2018, week 7)

by Johan Jönsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/07>. 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. ——————————————————————————— العربية • ‎čeština • ‎English • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎magyar • ‎italiano • ‎日本語 • ‎नेपाली • ‎polski • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎українська • ‎中文 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/2018/07> are available. *Recent changes* - TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Temp…> . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176082>[2] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:TemplateStyles>[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=Temp…> - Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spambot_detection_via_registration…> . *Changes later this week* - You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Diffs> on history pages. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185708> - The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52769> - The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [6] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter/Rul…> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=30&sec=0&…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - The settings page and beta options <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Settings> for the mobile website are being improved. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67079> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> 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/2018/07> • 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…>.*

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