Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/14>gt;.
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>gt;.
More information on how to contribute is available at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute>gt;. You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
———————————————————————————
*Other languages:*
العربية <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/ar> • čeština
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/cs> • Deutsch
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/de> • *English* •
español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/es> • فارسی
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/fa> • suomi
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/fi> • français
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/fr> • italiano
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/it> • 日本語
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/ja> • 한국어
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/ko> • polski
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/pl> • português do
Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/pt-br> • русский
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/ru> • svenska
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/sv> • українська
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/uk> • Tiếng Việt
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/vi> • 中文
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/14/zh>
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/2017/14> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most
Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change
the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish
changes when you edit an existing page. [1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Editing/Publish>
- The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_template_loops> is
now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example
when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first
template. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160743>
- English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in
the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is
blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:_HTTP_cookie> will be set. This means
that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IP_address> the cookie will block them
again. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5233>
*Problems*
- Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters
could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161263>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.19> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all
wikis from 6 April (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 4 April at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=14&month=03&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting
will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=05&month=04&year=2017>.
See how to join
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#IRC_office_hours>.
*Future changes*
- New filters for Recent changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review>
will
come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew
Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Filtering>
, highlighting
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Highlighting_function>
and user intent prediction
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quality_and_Intent_Filters>.
User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if
the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146972>. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158332>
*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_delivery>
• Contribute
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
• Translate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/14> • 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_ambassadors>.*
//Johan Jönsson