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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.
Problems
- MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [1][2][3]
- The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).- User subpages ending in
.jsonwill now be protected from other people editing them, like.jsand.csspages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage likeUser:Example/mygadget.jsonto do this without concerns. [5] - Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [6][7][8]
- AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [9] [10]
- In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [11]
- You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [12]
- You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [13]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
- On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [14][15]
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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
HEMA boiling point
Hi, DMacks, This is wangwei0824, nice to meet you. I am a researcher that have worked with HEMA monomer for more than 3 years. In the standard pressure, the boiling point for pure HEMA monomer is 67 C. It my first time in Wiki edit, and I am not sure what is called a reliable source and how to add it. Maybe this link works:
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/128635?lang=en®ion=US
If you think this is fine, please add it. I just want to provide the right info for readers.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wangwei0824 (talk • contribs) 01:46, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Wangwei0824: the Aldrich catalog is a good ref. It does say 67 °C, but it says that value is at 3.5 mmHg. Using their own nomograph, 67 °C at 3.5 mmHg is 212.6 °C at 760 mmHg. That agrees with the 213 °C value, which is cited to Evonik. Do you have a source for 67 °C being specifically at standard presure? DMacks (talk) 01:51, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
This Month in Education: March 2018
Volume 7 | Issue 3 | March 2018
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Page protection
Hi DMacks, can you protect the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship page? Thanks. -KH-1 (talk) 04:11, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Semi'ed 1 week. Let me know if any other admin action is needed (blocks or fullprot at some known "good version" if there are non-new editors involved in vandalism, etc.). Thanks for working on this mess! DMacks (talk) 04:16, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Does WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship also need semi? DMacks (talk) 04:17, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, and probably WWE Universal Championship as well. -KH-1 (talk) 04:22, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Semi'ed each 1 week. DMacks (talk) 04:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, and probably WWE Universal Championship as well. -KH-1 (talk) 04:22, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
- Does WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship also need semi? DMacks (talk) 04:17, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [16]
- You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [17]
- The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [18]
- Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [19]
Problems
- The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [20]
- For a week in March rollbacks got both the
rollbackand theundotag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
- Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [22]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.
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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Article Discussion Of Kerala
Hi, I am trying to make this article a standard one by removing information that is misleading the topic. There are unwanted images on the page. There is a Necessity as the citizen of the state itself to remove irrelavant information of such "advertisements" and adding some info on the Required Contents like:
- Removing the gallery of Fauna with only required images of Endangered Species.[1]
- Adding Agriculture Information On Major Crops.[2]
The Present article is more fact than distant truth. Have a Good Day!! Stalin Sunny Talk2Me 05:46, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
References
- Hi Stalin, we are all just editors here, so it's great that you want to improve an article about your location, but you do not get any special privleges as a result. Your concept of "standard" sounds pretty far from what Wikipedia has set as its standards--for example, we try not to make heavy use of images, especially for article-navigation purposes. Or, at least your concept of "advertisements" is not quite on-target, and you have nothing beyond personal opinions of what is "unwanted". Adding content about crops and endangered species is good, but we are not trying to solely present the "official" information (what the government says)--an encyclopedia is not a tourism brochure. Look in the article's history, back to February 2016, and you will see how it looked when it earned a "Good Article" stamp. You will see there are not many image-galleries and the ones that are there add encyclopedia-content value. DMacks (talk) 14:02, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
Snooker
Note before your future action, unseeded players are not relevant to seeding section. 46.211.125.190 (talk) 12:26, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- I am acting solely on inappropriate edit behavior, not taking a position on what content you all decide, through WP:CIVIL discussion to reach WP:CONSENSUS, is best. DMacks (talk) 01:57, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi DMacks. You represent yourself as an administrator (can you tell me how to confirm this? I'm not familiar with how that works), so I will ask you to take a look at the 2018 World Snooker Championship and the 2019 World Snooker Championship pages. There is a problem with the user, 46.211.125.190, who is vandalizing the pages. mrloop (talk) 12:22, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Thomas Kirk Larsen: adjacent to where you found to post on my userpage is a box that says I'm an administrator and has a "verify" link for your convenience. All I see is inappropriate edit-warring over a legitimate disagreement about content, not WP:VANDALSIM. DMacks (talk) 02:00, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [23]
- Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (
===and!==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [24][25] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [26]
- Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [27]
- Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.
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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
- The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
- The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [28]
- The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press
Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressingPublishis not the last step. [29]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [30]
- The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).
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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
208.184.165.151
It seems that they're going to keep posting junk to their talk page, already rv'ed one personal attack directed at you already. Would it be appropriate to revoke the IP's talk page access? RA0808 talkcontribs 17:23, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- I think you have the wrong IP pasted here?
- 208.184.165.151 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- hasn't posted to any talkpage and nobody has posted to its talkpage. DMacks (talk) 19:17, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- Ahah, it was
- 206.174.207.42 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
- Talkpage access revoked. Thanks for all your work on cleanup! DMacks (talk) 19:21, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
- Oh geez, sorry for the confusion. I must have had the wrong tab open when I copied. Either way glad it got dealt with! RA0808 talkcontribs 01:17, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!
- please help translate this message into your local language via meta
|
The 2017 Cure Award |
| In 2017 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs. |
Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:45, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [31]
Problems
- We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [32]
Changes later this week
- You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [33]
- When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [34]
- You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [35]
- There is a new abuse filter function called
equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare
wikimedia.org to leave private feedback. - All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [36][37][38]
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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
This Month in Education: April 2018
Volume 7 | Issue 4 | April 2018
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [39]
Problems
- The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [40]
Changes later this week
- The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [41]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [42][43]
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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
You are being a mentor`
|
Mentor |
| Sir you are being a mentor can you describe a little bit how to add links to Wikipedia and why you didn't approve mine, Rohitme78 (talk) 16:36, 9 May 2018 (UTC) |
- The main use of links is to support new text that is added to an article rather than just added in a loose list of links (see WP:EL guideline). A link used as a reference needs to be a reliable source (see WP:RS guideline). That is, the goal is to assist with the verifiability policy for article content. DMacks (talk) 19:37, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
your revert of my change to "Robotic Process Automation" page
Hello,
Please explain why do you think my addition of "Kryon" to the list of RPA vendors is not legit. Kryon (AKA "Kryon systems") is a very known RPA vendor, and also appears in the list of RPA vendors in reference #6 in the "Robotic Process Automation" page (Forrester Waiver): https://www.forrester.com/report/The+Forrester+Wave+Robotic+Process+Automation+Q1+2017/-/E-RES131182 (in the Forrester article it appears as "Kryon Systems".)
If you agree, please re-add "Kryon" to the list. if not, please let me know why, and what proves can I provide you to convince you "Kryon" should be on that list
Regards,
Oren. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Orenk9 (talk • contribs) 19:47, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
- The link you added was to an article that says:
- Lee Carroll is an American channeller, speaker and author. Carroll has authored thirteen books on channellings from an entity he calls "Kryon", and has co-authored three books on what he terms indigo children, a new generation of children he says represents an evolution in human consciousness.
- And as I said on your talkpage:
- organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline.
- That is, without an actual article on the topic of this company, WP:CONSENSUS seems to be that it should not be listed. Instead write the article first and see if others think the topic is notable (see WP:CORP for guidelines on what that means in this context). DMacks (talk) 19:55, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
- The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [44]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
- The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [45]
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22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
Comment about edits
In my revision of Blackboard Bold, I wrote "Very standard symbol for" instead of "represents" because the letters N, Z, Q, R, C are completely standard in mathematics usage, and can only mean one thing. The other usages are occasional or optional. I think this is a useful distinction.
Other than that, I shortened the phrasing in several places. Magyar25 (talk) 20:04, 19 May 2018 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Magyar25 (talk • contribs) 20:01, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
- A standard is a standard--an absolute idea--no need to be more wordy unless there is any weakening (contradictory or non-adopted standard): I dispute that "very" adds anything. So I think "Very standard symbol for" is wordier and not really more meaningful than "Represents". I could go with "Standard symbol for" (omitting "very"). None of the three pieces you changed look shorter (two even look longer). And the one you did shorten became less clear (it's not just that Hamilton discovered quaternions, but that the H actually represents his name. DMacks (talk) 03:03, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.
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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [46][47]
- It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [48]
- Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
- There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [49]
- Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [50]
- There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [51]
Problems
- Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [52]
Changes later this week
- There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [53]
- A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [54]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
- Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [55]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [56]
- A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [57]
- Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [58][59]
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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Hii
I would like to create this article on this Company Named Novotech Australia Pty Limited (https://novotech-cro.com/). I request administrator's permission to write this article. I also request protection of this article from getting vandalized or tagged for speedy deletion.Veilplot (talk) 10:42, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, D! Seems many administrators are enjoying the summer weather. Almost all the noticeboards are dead. I've got the above at both RPP and another editor has it at ANEW. An IP is repeatedly inserting a 12,000 bit addition to the article that is pretty much completely unacceptable, and while posting at the talk page, saying nothing constructive. Since this guy just died in the last month, this is a pretty visable article. Could you please semi it for a week? Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 14:16, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Done. I'm taking a mostly-unplugged day or three but stil obviously am failing to do it completely. DMacks (talk) 19:36, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks. Enjoy your holiday. John from Idegon (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Why ? No ?
Am I a criminal to not create. Answer me. Veilplot (talk) 13:12, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
- Honestly, Veilplot, if you have no better command of written English than the above sentence indicates, you have no business editing here at all. You should probably try to contribute to your native language Wikipedia. John from Idegon (talk) 13:55, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
English is not a skill, it is a language. Check my last edit on Novotech Australia Pty Limited. Gone are the days, when English is considered a skill. It is just a business language. I will pull the wool over your eyes. You are not my manager in office, to use professional language with you. If I use professional language in my articles, that is enough for you.Veilplot (talk) 14:13, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
This Month in Education: May 2018
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [60]
- Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [61][62]
- Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [63]
Problems
- You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
- MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [64]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).
Meetings
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Future changes
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [65][66]
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21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [67]
- There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [68]
Problems
- The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [69]
Changes later this week
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [70][71]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.
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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Pyramidal inversion
Hi about your edit comments on nitrogen inversion, I could just convert pyramidal inversion, currently a redirect, into the general case. What do you think? --Smokefoot (talk) 14:48, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
- Sounds like a good approach. DMacks (talk) 14:49, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [72]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [73][74]
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [75][76]
- All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [77]
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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
MVM Inc inaccuracies.
Please see the below statement from MVM Inc. The company is not affiliated with Trump "zero tolerance" aka "Trump administration family separation policy" as has been posted on social media or other media websites. Please do not disseminate false information on the public wiki page.
Since 2014, MVM has been working in support of the Department of Homeland Security to transport unaccompanied children to Department of Health and Human Services designated shelter facilities. This is a critical step in a complex immigration process and we take great pride in the work we do on this program, and in the professionalism of our dedicated employees.
MVM also has a second contract with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). In 2017, prior to the current “zero-tolerance” policy, MVM was one of several organizations awarded a contract to provide as-needed emergency support services to ORR. Under this program MVM is required to maintain readiness in the event ORR requests services from MVM. To date, we have not provided emergency services under this contract.
Unfortunately, in the wake of the Administration’s implementation of a “zero tolerance” policy in which undocumented parents and children are being separated, inaccurate reports have surfaced via media outlets and social media regarding the services MVM provides.
To be clear: the work that is doing today is the same work we were doing prior to this policy change and we have not pursued any new contracts associated with undocumented families and children since the implementation of the current policy.
Blureeg85 (talk) 23:49, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Blureeg85 (talk • contribs) 23:30, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- That's nice. But I actually don't care what they say they do (or don't do), what they actually do, how they try to obfuscate or clarify, or what image they try to portray. On wikipedia, it's all about reliable sources, which means what others (indepdenent publications) say. At best, an article could also include what a company itself says (carefully explained as being their own words, not taken as certain truth), with a proper bibliographic citation. Take it to the article talkpage, where you and others can have a discussion, as usual for dispute resolution. DMacks (talk) 02:34, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Response
Hi DMacks I have no personal connection to the institution rather I am an independent researcher. Thank you! MattVoorhees15 (talk) 15:26, 21 June 2018 (UTC) MattVoorhees15
Hello can we add this image it is free of use
this one Besteditor (talk) 07:28, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
- I'm confused...what "we" is this? DMacks (talk) 13:41, 24 June 2018 (UTC)