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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
- You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences.
- There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites.
- You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login.
- If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code.
- You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript.
- All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org.
- You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles.
- You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS.
- Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account.
Future software changes
- There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
- When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed.
- New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. .
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden.
- You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool.
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08:22, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
Johannes Kepler
Pre-emptive blocking of articles is not allowed. 86.31.13.150 (talk) 18:37, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 December 2013
- Recent research: Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments
Analyzing edits to the-then 46 largest Wikipedias between July 9 and August 8, 2013, a study identified a set of about 8,000 contributors with a global user account who have edited more than one of these language versions in that time frame.
- Featured content: Drunken birds and treasonous kings
Five articles, two lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia.
- Discussion report: Draft namespace, VisualEditor meetings
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...
- WikiProject report: More Great WikiProject Logos
We saved one last special report for 2013. After our well-received review of great WikiProject logos a couple years ago, it was only a matter of time before we collected a new batch of interesting iconography that showcases the creativity of the Wikipedia community. Hopefully, these logos will also inspire other projects to liven up their drab pages.
- News and notes: IEG round 2 funding rewards diverse ambitions
A significant move by the Wikimedia Foundation has been to broaden the types of activities it funds to develop several different programs for judging and allocating that funding, and to set up volunteer committees that initially assess applications for funding.
- Technology report: OAuth: future of user designed tools
Last month, the OAuth extension was deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. OAuth is a standard used for allowing users to authenticate third-party applications, also known as consumers, to take actions on their behalf.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch).
- With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis.
VisualEditor news
- Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5
<figure />elements. Comments are welcome. - You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.
Problems
- On December 23, Wikimedia Labs was broken for 4 hours due to an NFS problem.
Future software changes
- CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
- AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports.
- It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account.
- It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits.
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08:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
I fixed a bug you never reported :)
rev 9829 introduces Arabic comma when both replaced and removed are used. I need you to test it for me. you need some kind of replacement ("a" → "b") and some kind of removal ("c"→ "") in the F&R. Please test it for both Arabic and English cases. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:22, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem. Using rev 9832 to change "فيلم" to "فلم" and remove "في" gives the following erroneous edit summary: As you can see the removal of "في" is not recorded in the summary and there are two English commas. --Meno25 (talk) 06:57, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- What about rev 9833? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:29, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: The English commas are still there but the removal of "في" was recorded in the summary. --Meno25 (talk) 07:42, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- What about rev 9834? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:16, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: One of the two English commas was localized. The other is still in English. --Meno25 (talk) 08:30, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- What about rev 9835? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:03, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: Nope. The comma is still there. --Meno25 (talk) 12:45, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- Is it complete wrong or it should be Arabic comma there? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:57, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: Nope. The comma is still there. --Meno25 (talk) 12:45, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- What about rev 9836? At least I see now comma -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:00, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: Summary is correct when you use only "Find and replace" feature. However, I am using a combination of both "Find and replace" and "Regex typo fixing" features. Find and replace changes "فيلم" to "فلم" and removes "في" while Regex typo fixing changes "أستمرار" to "استمرار" and "إبنه" to "ابنه". The summary is currently "clean up، استبدل: فيلم ← فلم (12)، أزال: في (15), الأخطاء المصححة: أستمرار ← استمرار، إبنه ← ابنه باستخدام أوب (9836)" whereas it should be "clean up، استبدل: فيلم ← فلم (12)، أزال: في (15)، الأخطاء المصححة: أستمرار ← استمرار، إبنه ← ابنه باستخدام أوب (9836)" (Notice the English comma after "(15)".) --Meno25 (talk) 13:15, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- You are very cunning. :) Thanks for your patience. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:17, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: Summary is correct when you use only "Find and replace" feature. However, I am using a combination of both "Find and replace" and "Regex typo fixing" features. Find and replace changes "فيلم" to "فلم" and removes "في" while Regex typo fixing changes "أستمرار" to "استمرار" and "إبنه" to "ابنه". The summary is currently "clean up، استبدل: فيلم ← فلم (12)، أزال: في (15), الأخطاء المصححة: أستمرار ← استمرار، إبنه ← ابنه باستخدام أوب (9836)" whereas it should be "clean up، استبدل: فيلم ← فلم (12)، أزال: في (15)، الأخطاء المصححة: أستمرار ← استمرار، إبنه ← ابنه باستخدام أوب (9836)" (Notice the English comma after "(15)".) --Meno25 (talk) 13:15, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- What about rev 9837? Nobody mentioned combined F&R and TypoFix before. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
- @Magioladitis: Bingo! Summary is correct on both Arabic and English Wikipedias. Thank you dearly for your effort and sorry for bothering you with so many bug reports. --Meno25 (talk) 13:36, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Woo! Woo! Finally!!! No bother at all. This was a bug I discovered by myself. I can't wait for the next one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:38, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 01 January 2014
- Traffic report: A year stuck in traffic
In fact, the majority are relatively evenly split between three themes: people of interest, television, and websites.
- Arbitration report: Examining the Committee's year
In 2013, the arbitration committee closed 10 cases, 9 amendment requests, and 26 clarification requests.
- In the media: Does Wikipedia need a medical disclaimer?
On New Year's Day, an article by Tim Sampson published in The Daily Dot and republished shortly after on Mashable covered the currently ongoing medical disclaimer RfC.
- Book review: Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
Dariusz Jemielniak's book is the newest about Wikipedia, published in Poland in 2013 and with an English edition forthcoming in 2014.
- News and notes: The year in review
This was the year in which one journalist described the flagship site, Wikipedia, as "wickedly seductive". It was the year Wikipedia's replacement value was estimated at $6.6bn, its market value at "tens of billions of dollars", and its consumer benefit "hundreds of billions of dollars". But it was also the year in which one commentator forecast the decline of Wikipedia—that the project is in trouble from its shrinking volunteer workforce, skewed coverage, "crushing bureaucracy" and 90 percent male community.
- Discussion report: Article incubator, dates and fractions, medical disclaimer
Current discussions on the English Wikipedia and around the Wikimedia movement include...
- WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Fifth Edition
The year 2013 has come and gone, adding 50 new WikiProject Reports to our long list of projects we've had the privilege to meet. Last year saw the continuation of our Babel series, featuring WikiProjects from other languages of Wikipedia. We also expanded our selection of special reports, offering readers a growing collection of helpful tips and tools as they participate in WikiProjects.
- Featured content: 2013—the trends
Over the past year 1181 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured picture candidates (FPC), which promoted an average of 46 pictures a month. This was followed by featured article candidates (FAC; 32.5 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 18 a month).
- Technology report: Looking back on 2013
2013 saw a lot of changes to MediaWiki software and Wikimedia infrastructure.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
- The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site.
Problems
- On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
- On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.
Future software changes
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6.
- Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options.
- Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed.
- You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages.
- You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages.
- You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups.
- E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their
From:line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing theMediaWiki:Emailsenderpage. - Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster.
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08:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Could you talk to a person.
I was very tempted to do a 24-hour block on user Yalladar. They are working on Jordanian football pages. They are reverting people. Adding unsourced material. Adding external links wrong. Adding facebook links that don't go to the right people. Just some general mayhem. I don't think they doing it with bad intent. Maybe their English isn't the greatest. Could you talk to them? Their Jordan national football team edits are the most worrisome. They are removing material for unknown reasons then keep reverting people. Bgwhite (talk) 08:58, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- @Bgwhite: I left him a message in Arabic although I believe, based on his contributions, that his English is not bad. Thank you for notifying me. --Meno25 (talk) 12:14, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you. Whatever you left didn't work. They promptly reverted Jordan national football team for the 7th time this month and 17th time overall. I placed a 48-hour block. Hopefully they will get the message. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bgwhite (talk • contribs)
The Signpost: 08 January 2014
- Public Domain Day: Why the year 2019 is so significant
Public Domain Day—January 1, 2014—gives me an opportunity to reflect on this important asset, mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
- Traffic report: Tragedy and television
The various maladies that befall humanity got some well-known faces this week: the death of the well-liked actor James Avery topped the list, but Michael Schumacher, who is in a coma after a skiing accident, also drew attention.
- Technology report: Gearing up for the Architecture Summit
MediaWiki developers will be meeting in San Francisco on January 23–24 for an Architecture Summit.
- News and notes: WMF employee forced out over "paid advocacy editing"
On 8 January, the Wikimedia Foundation notified the Wikimedia-l mailing list that Sarah Stierch, a popular Wikimedian and the Foundation's Program Evaluation Community Coordinator, was no longer an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of being paid to create articles on the English Wikipedia.
- Op-ed: WikiCup competition beginning a new year
At the very start of the new year, 2014's WikiCup—an annual competition which has been held on Wikipedia in various forms since 2007—began.
- WikiProject report: Jumping into the television universe
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Television.
- Featured content: A portal to the wonderful world of technology
Twelve articles, three lists, seven pictures, and a portal were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia in the last two weeks.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can read a recent blog post about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
- Searching in the
File:namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue.
VisualEditor news
- VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13.
- You can now add and remove
__NOTOC__,__FORCETOC__and__NOEDITSECTION__in the page metadata menu.
Problems
- For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error.
- For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.
Future software changes
- Wikidata will be added to all Wikisource wikis on January 14.
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to test it by adding it in your Beta Features options.
- You will soon be able to export page collections into other formats than PDF.
- It will soon be possible to upload groups of photos from Flickr using UploadWizard.
- The Wikimedia Foundation has shared a multimedia vision for 2016. You are invited to comment.
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09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 January 2014
- News and notes: German chapter asks for "reworking" of Funds Dissemination Committee; should MP4 be allowed on Wikimedia sites?
Wikimedia Germany, the largest national affiliate, has authored an extensive critique of the Funds Dissemination Committee's process for issuing funding recommendations for the various large organizations in the movement.
- Technology report: Architecture Summit schedule published
The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.
- Op-ed: Licensed for reuse? Citing open-access sources in Wikipedia articles
It is heavily ironic that two decades after the World Wide Web was started — largely to make it easier to share scholarly research — most of our past and present research publications are still hidden behind paywalls for private profit. The bitter twist is that the vast majority of this research is publicly funded, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide each year.
- In the media: Is Google hurting Wikipedia traffic?; "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times
Wikipedia's recent decline in readership, possibly due to Google's Knowledge Graph. ... Judith Newman in the New York Times asks "What Does Judith Newman Have to Do to Get a Page?"
- Traffic report: The Hours are Ours
We now can get a far more accurate picture of which short surges in popularity are likely natural and which are not.
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Sociology
This week, we studied human social behavior with the folks at WikiProject Sociology.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).
- You can now see relatively recent results on special pages like Special:DoubleRedirects, Special:UncategorizedPages or Special:WantedCategories. They were disabled before because they were very slow. The results are now updated once a month.
- As of January 16, you can make and use guided tours on the Asturian, Farsi and Russian Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla.
- You can give comments on an idea to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.
- You can watch a video to learn how to report problems in Bugzilla.
VisualEditor news
- In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (
). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little. - You can now edit
<gallery />tags with a very basic tool. - You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu.
- When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page.
- When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*).
- The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers.
- Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData.
Problems
- There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results.
- There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem.
- On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours.
Future software changes
- If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again.
- You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis.
- You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page.
- You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages.
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10:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Nomination of Kat Walsh for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kat Walsh is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kat Walsh until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jinkinson talk to me 15:54, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 January 2014
- Book review: Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse
A particularly esoteric anthology of speculative fiction, filled with imaginary Wikipedia entries from, as the introduction puts it, "the many Wikipedias across the Multiverse."
- News and notes: Modification of WMF protection brought to Arbcom
The Wikimedia Foundation's Director of Community Advocacy's application of pending changes level two on the article Conventional PCI—an action taken under its rarely used office actions policy—has escalated to the Arbitration Committee after an editor upgraded it to full protection.
- Featured content: Dr. Watson, I presume
Fifteen articles, nine lists, twenty pictures, and one topic were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia over the last two weeks.
- Special report: The few who write Wikipedia
On 15 January, Wikipedia turned thirteen years old. In that time, this site has grown from a small site that was known to only a select few to one of the most popular websites on the internet. At the same time, recent data suggests that there is a power curve among users, where the comparative few who are writing most of Wikipedia have most of the edits. The result of this is that there is going to be bias in what is created, and how we deal with it as Wikipedians is indicative of the future of the site. Furthermore, this brings up what we have to do in order to combat this bias, as there are many ideas, but the question is whether they will work or not.
- Technology report: Architecting the future of MediaWiki
This week we're interviewing Brion Vibber about the then-upcoming Architecture Summit. Brion is a long time Wikipedian, the first employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and currently the lead software architect working with the mobile team.
- In the media: Wikipedia for robots; Wikipedia—a temperamental teenager
An article in USA Today announced that a European-funded project called RoboEarth that is designed to give robots a mechanism by which to access information to dispense.
- Traffic report: No show for the Globes
While the 71st Golden Globe Awards, held on 12 January, had an impact on the top 25, their presence was largely absent from the Top 10. With the exception of Best Actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the only Golden Globe entrants in the Top 10 are films that would have been there anyway.