Wikitech-ambassadors April 2019

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[Breaking change] Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
by Léa Lacroix 05 Jul '19

05 Jul '19

Hello all, This is an important announcement for all the tool builders and maintainers who access Wikidata’s data by *querying directly Labs database replicas*. In May-June 2019, the Wikidata development team will drop the wb_terms table from the database in favor of a new optimized schema. Over years, this table has become too big, causing various issues. This change requires the tools using wb_terms to be updated. Developers and maintainers will need to *adapt their code* to the new schema before the migration starts and switch to the new code when the migration starts. The migration will start on *May 29th*. On May 15th, a test system will be available for you to test your code. The table being used by plenty of external tools, we are setting up a process to make sure that the change can be done together with the developers and maintainers, without causing issues and broken tools. Most of the documentation and updates will take place on Phabricator: - In this Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>, you can find a description of the changes and the process, and you can ask for more details or for help in the comments. This is also where updates will be announced if necessary. - On the Tool Builders Migration board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wb_terms_-_tool_builders_migration> you will find all the details about the migration, how to update your tool <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221765>, and you can add your own tasks. - If you need to discuss with the Wikidata developers or get more specific help, we set up two dedicated IRC meetings and a session at the Wikimedia hackathon. More information in this task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>. We are aware that this change will ask you to make some important changes in your code, and we are willing to help you as much as our resources allow us to. We hope that you will understand that this change is made to avoid bigger issues in the near future. Note that this change is not impacting Wikibase instances outside of Wikidata. A dedicated migration plan and announcement will follow. We strongly encourage you to not wait until last minute to make the changes in your code. If you have any question or issue, we will be happy to help. In order to keep the discussions in one place, please ask questions or raise issues directly in the Phabricator task and board. Thanks for your understanding, Cheers, -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Michael Schönitzer 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English & Hebrew! The Technical Advice IRC Meeting 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 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://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 27/029/42207.

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Tech News (2019, week 18)
by Johan Jönsson 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/18>. 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: English • ‎Esperanto • ‎español • ‎français • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎suomi • ‎svenska • ‎čeština • ‎русский • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎فارسی • ‎کوردی • ‎हिन्दी • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 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/2019/18> are available. *Recent changes* - The Wikipedia app <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [1] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks> [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205125> *Problems* - Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MassMessage> bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221570> *Changes later this week* - You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200353> - When you write a comment in Structured Discussions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions> but have not posted it yet your web browser <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_browser> will save it in local storage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_storage#Local_and_session_storage> instead of session storage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Web_storage#Local_and_session_storage>. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93612> - You will be able to turn off milestone notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Notifi…>. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169924> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.3> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/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 1 May at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190501T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - [image: Advanced item] The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012987.html>. You can ask for help if you need it. - [image: Advanced item] Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25227> *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/2019/18> • 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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Searching deleted page content
by Deryck Chan 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

Hello ambassadors. I can't find relevant info in the documentation so I've come to ask here - Is it possible to run a keyword search in deleted page content? I've got this situation where a few pages were deleted by mistake, and redirects to those pages were speedily deleted by other admins. Now there are no searchable traces of what redirects we should restore, and admins don't know where in the deletion log to look. Any advice? Deryck

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Tech News (2019, week 17)
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

Hi, Sorry for the delay, there was a MassMessage bug (now fixed <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221570>) preventing delivery of all newsletters. The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/17>. 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: Bahasa Indonesia <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/id> • ‎English • ‎español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/es> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/fr> • ‎polski <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/pl> • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/fi> • ‎svenska <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/sv> • ‎čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/cs> • ‎русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/ru> • ‎українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/uk> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/he> • ‎العربية <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/ar> • ‎فارسی <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/fa> • ‎کوردی <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/ckb> • ‎हिन्दी <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/hi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/zh> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2019/17/ja> 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/2019/17> are available. *Recent changes* - The advanced search <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Ad…> function URL <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL> now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Advance…> to the search interface through a hook <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hooking>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217445>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217443>[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217446> - The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [4] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-April/091978.html> *Changes later this week* - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. *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 23 April at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190423T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs <https://schema.org/sameAs> meta property <https://schema.org/Property>. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:A/B_testing>. [5] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Seach_Engine_Optimization/sameAs_test> [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209306> *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/2019/17> • 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…>.* -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Community Engagement - Documentation Wikimedia Foundation

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Tech News (2019, week 16)
by Johan Jönsson 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/16>. 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: English • ‎español • ‎français • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎suomi • ‎svenska • ‎čeština • ‎русский • ‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎فارسی • ‎کوردی • ‎हिन्दी • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 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/2019/16> are available. *Recent changes* - All wikis now have the TemplateWizard <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:TemplateWi…> for the wikitext editor. *Changes later this week* - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.1> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/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 17 April at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190417T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - Wikidata will get a new constraint status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal#Constraint_s…> called suggestion. This will change <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012911.html> how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012910.html> [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204439> - You can test the depicts property <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…> for structured data on Commons. *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/2019/16> • 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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URL shortener for the Wikimedia projects will be available on April 11th
by Léa Lacroix 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

*(apologies for crost-posting - feel free to share this announcement in your communities)* Hello all, Having a service providing short links exclusively for the Wikimedia projects is a community request that came up regularly on Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085> or in community discussions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Crea…>. After a common work of developers from the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Germany, we are now able to provide such a feature, it will be enabled on April 11th on Meta. *What is the URL Shortener doing?* The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks or on wikis. The feature can be accessed from Meta wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:URLShortener> (will be enabled on April 11th). On this page, you will be able to enter any web address from a service hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, to generate a short URL, and to copy it and reuse it anywhere. The format of the URL is w.wiki/ followed by a string of letters and numbers. You can already test an example: w.wiki/3 redirects to wikimedia.org. *What are the limitations and security measures?* In order to assure the security of the links, and to avoid shortlinks pointing to external or dangerous websites, the URL shortener is restricted to services hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. This includes for example: all Wikimedia projects, Meta, Mediawiki, the Wikidata Query Service, Phabricator. (see the full list here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>) In order to avoid abuse of the tool, there is a rate limit: logged-in users can create up to 50 links every 2 minutes, and the IPs are limited to 10 creations per 2 minutes. *Where will this feature be available?* In order to enforce the rate limit described above, the page Special:URLShortener will only be enabled on Meta. You can of course create links or redirects to this page from your home wiki. The next step we’re working on is to integrate the feature directly in the interface of the Wikidata Query Service, where bit.ly is currently used to generate short links for the results of the queries. For now, you will have to copy and paste the link of your query in the Meta page. *Documentation and requests* - If you have any question or requests, feel free to leave a comment under this Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44085> - The user documentation is available here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>: please help us to translate it in your language! - See also the technical documentation of the extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UrlShortener> Thanks a lot to all the developers and volunteers who helped moving forward with this feature, and making it available today for everyone in the Wikimedia projects! -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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[Train] 1.33.0-wmf.24 status update
by Dan Duvall 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

The 1.33.0-wmf.24 version of MediaWiki is blocked[0]. The new version is deployed to group0[1], but can proceed no further until these issues are resolved: * Citoid should only usurp "<ref" / ctrl+shift+k shortcuts if full configured - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219510 * RefreshLinksJob::runForTitle: transaction round 'RefreshLinksJob::run' already started on commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220037 The first issue was deemed noncritical for group1 but the second caused a large spike in DBTransactionError rates. The second issue already has a proposed fix but had not yet merged at the closing of the train deployment window. If both issues are resolved by tomorrow's train window, group1 and group2 will be promoted in succession at that time (barring further issues). Thank you for your help resolving these issues! Your humble train toiler, Dan [0]. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206678 [1]. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/> -- Dan Duvall Software Engineer, Release Engineering Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org>

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Tech News (2019, week 15)
by Johan Jönsson 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2019/15>. 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: Bahasa Indonesia • ‎English • ‎español • ‎français • ‎polski • ‎português do Brasil • ‎suomi • ‎svenska • ‎čeština • ‎русский • ‎українська • ‎עברית • ‎العربية • ‎فارسی • ‎کوردی • ‎हिन्दी • ‎中文 • ‎日本語 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/2019/15> are available. *Recent changes* - More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor_on_mobile/Se…> . - Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/Partial_blocks>. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative/Partial_bl…> . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219327>[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219218> *Problems* - You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190411T05>. This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220080>. [3] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-April/091900.html> - A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217087> - Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97891#5079408> *Changes later this week* - When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/User_gu…> and wikitext <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_wikitext_editor> modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor_on_mobile>. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50274> - The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL_shortening>. This will work from 11 April. You can read more <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener> . [7] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012893.html> - [image: Advanced item] The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137900> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/wmf.25> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/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 10 April at 15:00 (UTC) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190410T15>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>. *Future changes* - You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Page_Previews>. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [9] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews> [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67114> - [image: Advanced item] The Wikidata JSON <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JSON> output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012891.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/2019/15> • 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 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Persian, Hindi & Kannada! ⏰ Please note: due to European summer time change the meetings now start at 3 pm UTC! ⏰ The Technical Advice IRC Meeting 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 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://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 27/029/42207.

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