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Tech News: 2019-13

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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [1]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [2]
• The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [3]
• Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (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 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:04, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: March 2019

This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 3 • March 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Wikimedia at UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2019 Wiki Education publishes evaluation on how to get subject matter experts to edit WikiGap brings editors to close WikiGap and open Wiki Pathshala Education Mapping exercise is open for public review Wikimedia movement projects and activities presented at EDU RUSSIA 2019 forum “Edit-a-thons give us opportunity to distract from common interests” The club members write articles about New Year WikiClub as a non-formal educational centre in rural communities Mini MediaWiki Training at VVIT

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More on "cite" templates

[Sorry for replying here, but the original post has been archived...]

About the {{cite|...}} templates, again:

• They only provide consistent formatting and correct identification of fields if they are used correctly. Again, it is much harder to do that than to format the reference by hand -- especially for infrequent editors, who cannot be expected to know what the innumerable variants and their fields are.
• Indeed Wikipedia policy is that one should not make purely cosmetic or invisible edits to articles, like removing or adding cite templates. I try not to do that, and I hope that other editors do not do that either...
• Wikiprojects have no "right" to define special style rules for the articles they may claim to "own". They may suggest styles and layouts that work best for their subject matter (like which sections to have, and in which order), but not for general things like reference formatting.
• Conjectural existence of other tools for exporting of viewing references cannot be an argument for using {{cite|...}} templates. There is no reason to expect that the fields and uses of the latter will be adequate for such tools. Moreover, since cite templates are not mandatory, the utility of such tools would be quite limited anyway.
• I have no hope of getting those templates (and navbars, infoboxes, article-side tags, Wikiprojectts, the AfD mechanism, ...) banished from Wikipedia. Not in the next decade, at least ;-). But maybe I can make other editors aware of their many disadvantages; so that, at least, they stop "improving" articles by turning perfectly good explicit refs into {{cite|...}} templates that are worse in every aspect.
• And finally, sorry if I forgot to explain that specific change in the edit summary. But I posted the explanation here...

All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 12:55, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

4-Anisaldehyde

Please ensure the information you added was neutral point of view. If you need information about wikipedia policy, see: WP:NPOV, WP:NOR, WP:SOAP. If you need help editing, please ask on my talk page, or ask the village pump. Dr Stacy Kenny (talk) 06:06, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Go troll somewhere else. DMacks (talk) 07:25, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

NOTAFORUM

What does this mean??? D Gums (talk) 08:27, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

If you click on the WP:NOTAFORUM link, you will reach one of the policy pages governing Wikipedia. In that section, which lists "do not use Wikipedia for any of the following:", item #4 is "bear in mind that article talk pages exist solely to discuss how to improve articles; they are not for general discussion about the subject of the article, nor are they a help desk for obtaining instructions or technical assistance. Material unsuitable for talk pages may be subject to removal per the talk page guidelines." The "Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines" link explicitly allows others to remove those types of comments ("It is common to simply delete gibberish, test edits, harmful or prohibited material as described above, and comments or discussion clearly about the article subject itself instead of its treatment in the article.") DMacks (talk) 08:32, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

All right I'll stop with all that, even though others have EW'ed as well. D Gums (talk) 08:38, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

D Gums

I've blocked him. See User talk:D Gums#March 2019. Doug Weller talk 10:09, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: no objection. I was in a charitable mood, despite obvious demonstrated evidence to the contrary by the editor, at the time. DMacks (talk) 19:00, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-14

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

• Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [5]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (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 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch & correction

I made a similar oops(!) at Strike Up the Band (song), which I have revisited and corrected. Pls advise if you see a problem still. I will revisit 76 Trombones to retrieve any (non-song titles) edits that are ok. Again, thank you.//Jbeans (talk) 03:44, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-15

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

• More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
• Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [6][7]

Problems

• You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [8]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [9]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [10]

Changes later this week

• When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [11]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [12]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (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 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [14][15]
• The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Roadside Attractions

Sorry DMacks, I am new to editing wiki articles and was furiously making fixes on the Roadside Attractions page, and failed to realize that you had fixed my changes THREE times on the Salem Cow segment. My Apologies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.74.3.161 (talk) 04:43, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for making all the fixes you did! DMacks (talk) 06:10, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

"Researchers such as Ross M. Brown"

Add here[16] last June and here Oct. 2017. That was added from the same IP range as today.[17] Doug Weller talk 10:49, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: thanks for remembering/finding them. Years-long disruption from that IP (that specific one, not just range; not just that specific topic being added)...any thoughts about a long block? DMacks (talk) 14:02, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

I agree. Six months. Doug Weller talk 16:05, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Sulfoxide thing

If you want to talk more about the caption to the chiral drug, a tempest in a teapot, I would be glad to. I am just trying to minimize the number of adjectives that refer to chirality. It is not obvious initially but if a sulfoxide-containing compound is chiral, the RR'SO is the stereogenic center. But have it your way, those are my 2 cents. BTW, thank you for your help with the article. --Smokefoot (talk) 16:11, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

I definitely like the idea of scaling back the string of adjectives description in the caption. I just wanted to help focus on the article topic for those who don't know as well what they're looking at. It's not just chiral (so?) and a sulfoxide (ok, on topic), but the sulfoxide is the chiral detail (good example of this idea) and that's relevant to pharmacology and drug business. How about:

"Esomeprazole, a blockbuster drug, contains a chiral sulfoxide. It is the enantiopure drug component of the racemic omeprazole drug."

Or scrap the whole idea of the racemic variant and have more article content about the chirality (biochemical relevance, which leads to the racemic-then-enantiopure timeline). As other biochemical examples (and enantioselective synthesis), there is also alliin/allicin. DMacks (talk) 18:35, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16

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 wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (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 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will get a new constraint status called suggestion. This will change how the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API works. [18][19]
• You can test the depicts property for structured data on Commons.

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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Recent Edit to Influenza treatment page

DMACKS, As an academic, you should understand that a claim can only be disregarded if contrary proof is presented. Your labeling of my edits to the Influenza treatment page as "disruptive," is ill informed and will likely result in flu deaths. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malekniazi (talk • contribs) 03:38, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

As an academic, I know to take company's own fluffy touting of their own products with a grain of salt. See WP:MEDRS. DMacks (talk) 03:48, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

I have a suggestion to edit

Dear Dmacks I have a suggestion for edit a page Mobassirj (talk) 12:49, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

• No. You are not welcome to edit on our site. Not under this new account name, not under any of your older ones. You...you yourself have violated our terms of service and abused our website. See WP:SOCK. DMacks (talk) 16:30, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

IRC

How do I remove my password on IRC? Interstellarity (talk) 14:18, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

I have no idea. DMacks (talk) 17:09, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Who is the best person to ask this question to? Feel free to ping other editors who can. Interstellarity (talk) 17:21, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

No idea about that either. I would think having a no-password account would get discovered and abused fairly quickly, and then banned/klines quickly thereafter. DMacks (talk) 17:48, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

+ 27 Social Innovators of South Africa

Hello - you just wrote me a message that the entry that I am currently working on is not appropriate. To clarify, + 27 Social Innovators of South Africa is a TV series that ran all across Africa and on CBS as well Africa Channel in the United States. There is nothing inappropriate about this project. I am happy to make edits if you want to suggest some. Currently working on the links and references. Thanks for your help in making this entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leonhard-Virgil (talk • contribs) 21:41, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi Leonhard-Virgil. Please have a look at WP:TONE/WP:NPOV. Your article was written in an informal way, full of fluffy language, rather than an "encyclopedia article" with citations to sources independent of the subject itself. DMacks (talk) 02:23, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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 advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [20][21][22]
• The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [23]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [24][25]

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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2019

This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 4 • April 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Launch of the Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse! Wikipedia Student Scholar Wikimedia Commons: a highly hostile place for multimedia students contributions Wikimedia+Education Conference highlights

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A kitten for you!

You are most welcome sir.

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Tech News: 2019-18

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [26][27]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [28]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [29]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [30]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [31]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 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 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [32]

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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

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Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:33, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for help nominating a protected template for deletion

Thanks for this! ElKevbo (talk) 03:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome! DMacks (talk) 03:11, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [33]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 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 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

DMacks - Undid revision 895653289 by Medlib.here (talk)

Hello DMacks - I'm not sure what your comment means, can you expand please?

"not in keeping with WP:EL. Maybe could be useful as an actual WP:CITE for new content? Undid revision 895653289 by Medlib.here (talk)" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Medlib.here (talk • contribs) 19:53, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Your messages

Some of your messages are being deleted by 86.145.71.153. Regards Denisarona (talk) 11:00, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. LTV’s gotta V, I guess. DMacks (talk) 12:37, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-20

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 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 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 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Your rollback of my edit to "Nobel Prize"

I made this edit because the comment said it had been a featured article. My apologies. —DocWatson42 (talk) 06:08, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for doing cleanup! DMacks (talk) 07:11, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

@DMacks: You're welcome. ^_^ —DocWatson42 (talk) 06:40, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21

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 report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [34][35]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [36][37]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 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 22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [38]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [39]

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13:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Mataco–Guaicuru languages () listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Mataco–Guaicuru languages (). Since you had some involvement with the Mataco–Guaicuru languages () redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 17:52, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-22

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

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [40][41]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 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 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2019

This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 5 • May 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Education in Wales Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse: Applications closed! Wiki Camp 'Meet Germany' Seniors also count! Mandatory internship at Wikimedia Armenia Wikimedia Experience Survey by VVIT WikiConnect OFWA Wikipedia Education Highlights April 2019 Wikimedia Education at "Wikicamp Chattogram 2019" Edit a thon about flora and fauna to celebrate the earth day

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Tech News: 2019-23

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 write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [42]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [43]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [44][45]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [46]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [47]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 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 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-24

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

• When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [48][49]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [50]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [51]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [52]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [53]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [54]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [55]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (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 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [56]

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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Review page flags

Hello, as you placed the flags on Fardad_Fateri, I would like to find out if they can be removed. Since you placed those templates, you are in the best position to know whether or not the issues which caused their placement(s) have been corrected.

Thank you! Naadobea1776 (talk) 16:58, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

There are still uncited biographical claims and there is still the neutrality problem ("pursue his passion for changing student lives" is fluff, and another editor has also noted the overall advertising feel on the talkpage). I removed the notability tag. DMacks (talk) 17:05, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to re-assess. I will check for relevant wiki-projects to add the page to, in order to encourage more editors to examine and improve the page.Naadobea1776 (talk) 17:15, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [57]
• Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [58]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Illegal Use of Power

You are using your power for Granted DMacks.. first verify the changes I made on Ashnoor Kaur page and then revert them. All the changes were perfectly correct and you don't have any right to Say them wrong..really annoying Patialababes (talk) 08:02, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

@Patialababes: Your changes were unsourced, had to be reverted. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 09:01, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

As I noted on your talkpage, you are the one who needs to supply sources. That is part of one of our core policies here: you wish the content, you make sure others can verify it. See WP:BURDEN. DMacks (talk) 14:24, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for June 29

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Tech News: 2019-27

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 development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [59]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [60]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [61]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [62]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (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 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

List of Nobel laureates

Hello, just to let you know, I have begun removing the flagicons from the page. Regards, Willbb234 (talk) 15:49, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2019

This Month in Education Volume 8 • Issue 6 • June 2019 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue The introduction of the Wikipedia into the educational program has expanded Welcome Vasanthi to the Education Team! Wikimedia Education SAARC Conference happening in India "Won't somebody please think of the children?" The first Annual Report of VVIT WikiConnect An effective collaboration of WikiClubs and schools Wikiclassroom: New way for students' inspiration Wikipedia as a classroom activity kicks off in Kosovo

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inappropriate external link

you said Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia but Instead of deleting what i wrote I would hope that you fixed it because it was a link of a show the artist has been on recently in 2019 that the fans would like to see — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maseman123 (talk • contribs) 14:54, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

But we're an encyclopedia, not a fan-site or facebook. See the guideline at WP:EL. You were posting a lot of links to a certain TV/Youtube channel but it has not WP article. That suggests it's not a major media outlet or reliable source. Do you have some affiliation with them? DMacks (talk) 18:20, 8 July 2019 (UTC)