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Tech News: 2014-11

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 (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
  • You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [1] [2]

VisualEditor news

  • It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [3] [4]
  • It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [5]
  • VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [6]
  • We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [7]
  • You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [8] [9] [10]

Future software changes

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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 March 2014

Wikimedians around the world gathered to celebrate Women's History Month and the associated International Women's Day by holding editathons. If you lived in the United Kingdom, you had the opportunity to attend Wikimedia UK's event at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, part of University College London and host to one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese artifacts in the world.
An intensely busy week, as a confluence of celebratory, curious and urgent topics pushed typical residents like Facebook and Deaths in 2014 out of the top ten entirely.
Five articles, two lists, and 52 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
This week, we interviewed Anaxibia from the Russian-language Entomology WikiProject.

Tech News: 2014-12

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 (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
  • You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [16]
  • You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [17] [18]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [19]

VisualEditor news

  • Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [20] [21]
  • Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [22]
  • Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [23]

Future software changes

Problems

  • VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue. [27]

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07:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Meno!

Do you know people who are active in doing Arabic translations on the Commons? I found some Egyptair Flight 990-related images such as File:EgyptAir Flight 990 Search and Rescue.jpg that need Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.

Also, do you know anyone who is interested in adding Arabic to meta:Wikimedia Egypt (have Arabic translations of the sentences in English)?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 06:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: Hi. Contact User:Tarawneh on Commons. I added the Arabic translation of the description of the said image. On Meta, you can contact User:Elph, User:Avocato or User:Ciphers. --Meno25 (talk) 18:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much! I have contacted Tarawneh and I will contact the users on Meta as well WhisperToMe (talk) 00:58, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 19 March 2014

Non-US editors and chapters have taken issue with a multitude of image deletions done on the Wikimedia Commons to comply with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, a US law that brought the country into compliance with the Berne Convention.
This week, we visited WikiProject History, an ancient project with roots dating back to 2001. The project is home to 196 pieces of Featured material and 483 Good and A-class articles independent of the vast accomplishments of its various child projects. WikiProject History maintains a lengthy list of tasks, oversees the history portal, and continues to build Wikipedia's outline of history.
In a record-breaker, the English Wikipedia has a new largest good topic: the 71-article Light cruisers of Germany, which concerns the light cruisers used by Germany during the 20th century.
Twelve articles, fourteen lists, and six pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
One of the first university Wikipedian in residence positions, hosted at Harvard University in 2012, has jumped back into the spotlight amid questions about its ethical integrity.
The utterly mystifying events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which has not fallen from the sky so much as vanished from it entirely, has left an information-starved public scrambling for precedents, some logical, some... not.
The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include

Two identical articles.

Syed Ibrahim Mallick Baya and Syed of Bihar are about the same person. The articles were identical until the make-over of Syed of Bihar. They are edited by the same person. I haven't a clue which one should stay or be merged. Could you take a look at it? Bgwhite (talk) 04:41, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: I restored the contents of the second article to an older revision and moved it back to the original title before the contributions of the said user. --Meno25 (talk) 18:23, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-13

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 (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [28] [29]
  • Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [30]
  • You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [31]
  • You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [32]

Future software changes

  • Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
  • You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
  • You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [33] [34]

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18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 March 2014

April Fools' Day is rapidly approaching. Every year, members of the community pull pranks and make (or attempt to make) humorous edits to pages across the project. Every year, the community follows April Fools' Day with a contentious debate about whether or not it is necessary to impose limits on April Fools' Day jokes for future years. It is a polarizing issue.
Topics like the 2014 Crimea crisis or the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 eased down the list, making way for such traditional topics as St Patrick's Day, Reddit threads and even Google Doodles, which have reappeared after a long absence.
Have you wondered about differences in the articles on Crimea in the Russian, Ukrainian, and English versions of Wikipedia? A newly published article entitled "Lost in Translation: Contexts, Computing, Disputing on Wikipedia" doesn't address Crimea, but nonetheless offers insight into the editing of contentious articles in multiple language editions through a heavy qualitative examination of Wikipedia articles about the Kosovo in the Serbian, Croatian, and English editions.
Results for the two-stage 2013 Commons Picture of the Year have been announced. This year's winning photograph (above) shows a lightbulb that has been cracked, allowing inert gas to escape—and oxygen to enter, so that the tungsten filament burns. From the flames rise elegant curls of blue smoke.
Four articles, two lists, and twelve pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
On 3 April, we will roll out some changes to the typography of Wikipedia's default Vector skin, to increase readability for users on all devices and platforms. After five months of testing, four major iterations, and through close collaboration with the global Wikimedia community, who provided more than 100 threads of feedback, we’ve arrived at a solution which improves the primary reading and editing experience for all users.
As you have probably read on this weeks op-ed, or via various other channels of announcement, 3 April will see the introduction of the Typography refresh (or update) for the Vector skin on all Wikipedias. Other projects like Commons will have this update rolled out a few days prior.
This week, the Signpost interviewed the English Wikipedia's Mountains WikiProject.

Tech News: 2014-14

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 (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
  • Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
  • CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [35] [36]

VisualEditor news

  • Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [37] [38]
  • The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [39]
  • New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [40]
  • VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [41]

Future software changes

  • You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [42]
  • CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
  • You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [43]
  • Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [44]

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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 02 April 2014

The run-up to the conference has seen the unfolding of two fractious threads on the Wikimedia public mailing list, both of which may serve as background for the last session at Berlin: "Future of the Wikimedia Conference".
This week, we visited with WikiProject Germany.
The annual Wikimedia Conference is about to start in Berlin, hosted by Wikimedia Germany, which won the bid to hold the event over three others. This will be the fifth time the chapter has hosted the Wikimedia Conference—it did so from 2009 to 2012, with attendance ranging from 100 to 180 Wikimedians. This year 160 people are expected at the four-day event, which is mainly for representatives of affiliated Wikimedia organisations. The conference has been built around two themes: Organisation, structures, and grants and Success and impact.
The Signpost's "Featured content" writers had a bit of fun this week.
The mysterious fate of MH370 still tops the list, but in all other respects our readership has retreated from the real world into its pop-cultural happy place: TV, movies, music, Reddit and Google Doodles all made an appearance.

Tech News: 2014-15

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 (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
  • Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [45]

Future software changes

  • A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [46] [47]
  • All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8. [48]
  • The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [49] [50]
  • You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [51]
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
  • You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language. [52]

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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Article importance

Greetings,
I was wondering if you could reconsider the importance scale rating of the following articles:

I will try to improve the articles as soon as i can because they deserve more attention and they might not be in their best shape, but that's not what importance means on Wikipedia, right? Thank you. Fitzcarmalan (talk) 13:04, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

@Fitzcarmalan: Hi and thank you for your message. There isn't a 100% accurate definition of Wikipedia articles importance ratings and occasionally different users will rate the same article differently.
I think i understand well your point about the lack of a "stable" definition for article importance, but in the majority of cases we should rely on WP:GNG. Here, it's history books and reputable websites. I can rate this time, but i usually prefer an admin like you who is more active on the WProject (for which i'm thankful) to do so, because your decisions are less likely to be challenged than mine and because i may be too emotionally-driven on similar things. I can leave Isma'il Pasha as it is, but i feel i must re-rate Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Egypt–Syria relations, United Arab Republic and Egypt–Israel relations to a higher level on the scale, while downgrading Egypt–Indonesia relations and Egypt–Malaysia relations. Sounds good for now? Fitzcarmalan (talk) 07:38, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@Fitzcarmalan: I changed the ratings of the articles you mentioned based on your recommendations. Thank you and nice to know you. --Meno25 (talk) 14:23, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, and likewise. But what's important of course is that you're satisfied with the decision.
I have two final questions however:
  1. Do you happen to know any experienced Tunisian editor i can contact who is willing to pay closer attention to WP:WikiProject Tunisia? Because it looks like a ghost town to me, and i don't see anyone active there anymore unfortunately.
  2. I was wondering if there was any "Egyptian cinema task force" on WProject Egypt. Any idea if it exists? In case it doesn't, is there any possibility for it to be established?
Again, thank you for all the help and it was nice knowing you too. Cheers Fitzcarmalan (talk) 12:05, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
@Fitzcarmalan: Regarding your questions:
  1. Try contacting User:Helmoony or User:Salah Almhamdi. Those two are the best that I can think of.
  2. No it does not exist and I don't think that there enough number of active editors to create it. --Meno25 (talk) 18:44, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Recreating the same talk page?

Why dod you keep recreating Talk:Anders SG after it has been deleted twice for "G8: Talk page of a deleted or non-existent page" and "talk page of a redirect"? Is this on purpose or is it a problem with AWB? (Ping Magioladitis) (t) Josve05a (c) 13:48, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Josve05a the redirect contains category Living people. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:51, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
@Josve05a and Magioladitis: What Magio said is true. I removed Category:Living people from the redirect so as not to tag it again. --Meno25 (talk) 13:59, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 April 2014

Community review is open for the four applications in the second and final round of applications to the WMF's Funds Dissemination Committee for 2013–14. Three eligible organisations have applied for funding under the newly named "annual program grants": Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norway, and the India-based Centre for Internet and Society, which last November was recognised as eligible to apply for FDC funding purposes.
This week, we interviewed the Law WikiProject.
"I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on Facebook said it looked 'skepchickal', which she loved."
Television has always been a topic of choice on this site, but it exploded this week. Fully six slots were devoted to television shows, as the final episode of How I Met Your Mother, one of the most popular Wikipedia searches of the last few years, coincided with the season finale of The Walking Dead and the upcoming fourth season of Game of Thrones. The number rises to 8 if movies released on video and new TV tech are are included.
Five article, five lists, and ten pictures were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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