On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi,
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the
symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it
now looks like this: [image: Octicons-tools.svg]. You can give feedback
on this change <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News>.
*Problems*
- On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on
small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector>.
Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want
to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment
on Phabricator task T119206 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119206> until
December 21 2015. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150930-enwiki-readonly>
- Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to
recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not
updated. It has now been fixed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113721>
*Changes this week*
- Wikinews, Wikispecies,
MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use
information from Wikidata. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109780>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117524>
Because of start of the fundraiser, it looks like we need to postpone this
for Meta-Wiki, so not to risk any problems at all with where the banners
are hosted. We still would like to enable data access for the other wikis.
We will update the the ticket(s) when we know more, and sorry for any
inconvenience this causes. :/
Cheers,
Katie
- There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 December at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=12&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118517> for media. The meeting
will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=02&month=12&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9148>
- Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you
will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114350>
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