Wikitech-ambassadors August 2018

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Invitation to participate in an RFC on Meta
by Huji Lee 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Hello, Hoping that it is an okay use of this mailing list, I would like to invite you to participate in m:Requests for comment/Creating abusefilter-manager global group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Creating_abusefilter-m…> Best, Huji

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Interface Administrator rollout
by Deryck Chan 31 Aug '18

31 Aug '18

Well, the Interface Administrator right got rolled out and thousands of admins lost their rights to edit the MediaWiki namespace overnight, without any prior notice on their user talk page nor any known process on how to regain that right. This has completely wreaked havoc on the English Wikipedia, to say the least. If this was rolled out in a way such that existing admins could've applied to get the Interface Administrator flag before the right to edit interface messages was stripped from the Sysop group, this mess could've been avoided. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Interface_administrators Deryck

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, German, Hungarian. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- 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.

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Wikimedia Foundation Readers Roadmap Review - 27 August 2018
by Adam Baso 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

Hello - We recorded a roadmap review this morning for the Wikimedia Foundation's Readers team. This covers material about efforts on the web, native apps, multimedia, infrastructure, and parsing. Enjoy! YouTube* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZeL0rBDJ3s&t=20 PDF https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadma… As a reminder, you can find our department (Audiences) annual plan on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2018-2019/… . Thanks! Adam Baso Engineering Director Wikimedia Foundation - Readers * I'm converting the video for WebM VP9 on Commons as well.

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Tech News (2018, week 35)
by Johan Jönsson 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/35>. 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: العربية • ‎čeština • ‎English • ‎فارسی • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎日本語 • ‎মেইতেই লোন্ • ‎polski • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎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/2018/35> are available. *Recent changes* - You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199800> - Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Interface_administrators> user right. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202298> *Problems* - Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197157> *Changes later this week* - The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159302> - AWB <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser> will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags> that says AWB. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111663> - [image: Advanced item] Some abuse filter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter> variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter/Rules_format#Variables>. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173889> - [image: Advanced item] Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T30844> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.19> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/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 28 August at 18:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180828T1830>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Recurrent item] [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 29 August at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180829T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=00&sec=0&d…>. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2018> . *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/2018/35> • 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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Tech News (2018, week 34)
by Johan Jönsson 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/34>. 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: العربية • ‎čeština • ‎Ελληνικά • ‎English • ‎فارسی • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎日本語 • ‎한국어 • ‎মেইতেই লোন্ • ‎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/2018/34> are available. *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.32/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - [image: Recurrent item] [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 22 August at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180822T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2018_Community_Wishlist_…> begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November. - [image: Advanced item] Legacy JavaScript global variables <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals> have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia <https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> or mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki>. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_(users)#Globa…> to fix old scripts. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72470> *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/2018/34> • 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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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, German, Persian. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- 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.

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Bulgarian & Persian. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- 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.

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Tech News (2018, week 33)
by Johan Jönsson 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2018/33>. 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: العربية • ‎English • ‎فارسی • ‎suomi • ‎français • ‎עברית • ‎हिन्दी • ‎italiano • ‎日本語 • ‎한국어 • ‎মেইতেই লোন্ • ‎polski • ‎русский • ‎svenska • ‎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/2018/33> are available. *Recent changes* - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets> in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles>. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090481.html> *Changes later this week* - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. *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 14 August at 18:30 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180814T1830>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editing_team/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Recurrent item] [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 15 August at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180815T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_health_initiat…>. You can leave feedback on the talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative/Per-user_p…> . [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-August/090842.html> *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/2018/33> • 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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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! 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 the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- 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.

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