Think's, Best Regards Youssef Massour Elaoud

2017-01-16 23:32 GMT+00:00 Johan Jönsson jjonsson@wikimedia.org:

Hi,

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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/2017/03 are available.

*Recent changes*

• You can now upload WebP files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WebP to

Commons. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27397

*Problems*

• video2commons https://tools.wmflabs.org/video2commons/ was down

for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153488

*Changes this week*

• There is a new magic word

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59603

• When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give

a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T34950

• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before

you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153606

• You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown

on Special:UncategorizedCategories https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist&action=edit&redlink=1 . [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126117

• The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing

tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T26430

• [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake

are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:localhost. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason&action=edit&redlink=1. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Labs, including Tool Labs https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Tool_Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154698

• When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top

of the page options menu. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74399

• [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.8 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/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 January 17 at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=17&month=01&year=2017. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

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