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Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

  • We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [1]
  • It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [2] [3]
  • You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [4] [5]

VisualEditor news

  • Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [6] [7]
  • You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [8] [9] [10]
  • When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [11] [12] [13]
  • The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [14]
  • Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [15] [16] [17]

Future software changes

  • Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
  • A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [18]
  • If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [19] [20]
  • Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [21] [22]
  • Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [23] [24]

Problems

  • Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [25] [26]
  • For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [27] [28]

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07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Problem pages.

Khasais of Amir Al Momenin and Oyoun Akhbar Al-Ridha are being done by the same user. I've reverted whatever on Oyoun Akhbar Al-Ridha. It was copied from [29] and looked like it was run thru Google translate.

Khasais of Amir Al Momenin is not nearly as bad, but it needs help. English is definitely not the editor's first language, so they need some help. Can you help out? Bgwhite (talk) 02:26, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: I made some edits to improve the articles. Thank you for notifying me. --Meno25 (talk) 02:53, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. It is sure nice to have you around. You have saved alot of articles. Bgwhite (talk) 05:43, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
@Bgwhite: Thank you, sir, for your kind words. You made my day. I am happy that I was helpful. --Meno25 (talk) 16:08, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Bot flag on frwiki

Hello,

As a bureaucrat on frwiki, I was checking the activity of the bots, and noticed that yours had been inactive for at least 6 months. Morover, the interwikis are now centralized on Wikidata. It is not reasonable that an unmonitored account keeps a bot flag, as it may be more easily hacked. Do you wish to keep the bot flag? If this is the case, please tell me so (preferably on my talk page on frwiki, otherwise on my talk page on this project). Without any answer from you, the bot flag will be removed in one month.

Thank you for your comprehension, Litlok (talk) 15:08, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi. You may remove the bot flag if you wish. Interwikis are now handled on Wikidta. I will reapply for flag if I ever needed to run another task on the French Wikipedia. However, I would like to note I may use the bot to update the interwikis on the bot's userpage. I believe this won't be a problem since it will be one edit every few months and the bot will only edit in its userpage. Best wishes. --Meno25 (discuter) 10 juillet 2014 à 18:14 (CEST)
Thank you for your quick answer, I've removed the bot flag. And of course, the account may still be used to update its own userpage, as well as other pages, as long as this does not imply any huge number of edits which would appear in our RC... Litlok (talk) 16:19, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2014

Last May, James Forrester announced to the world that London had been awarded the 2014 Wikimania conference. Functioning as the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, it is separate from the chapter-focused Wikimedia Conference. The first, located in Frankfurt, took place in 2005 and had 380 attendees. London, the tenth, is now expected to attract 1500. With Wikimania ambition, attention, and attendance rising significantly over the last nine years, how have this year's monetary costs come to be?
After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012.
The Wikimedia Education Program currently spans 60 programs around the world; students and instructors participate at almost every level of education. The Education program Signpost series presents a snapshot of the Wikimedia Global Education Program as it exists in 2014.
Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
As with the troubled release of the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) flagship VisualEditor project, the release of the new Media Viewer has also been met with opposition from the English Wikipedia community.
Unsurprisingly, the World Cup continued to dominate the English Wikipedia's viewing statistics. In particular, the record-breaking performance of US goalkeeper Tim Howard and the tournament-ending injury to Brazil's Neymar drove large amount of views to their articles.

Tech News: 2014-29

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 (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
  • It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [30] [31]
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
  • You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

  • The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [32] [33]
  • The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [34] [35] [36]
  • References will now be shown in the default font size again. [37]

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [38]
  • The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [39] [40]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [41]
  • Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [42] [43]
  • Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [44] [45]
  • Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [46] [47]
  • Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [48]

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07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Chrome 1 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Chrome 1. Since you had some involvement with the Chrome 1 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. TheChampionMan1234 08:13, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 July 2014

On the same day the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) announced it would offer assistance to English Wikipedia editors embroiled in a legal dispute with Yank Barry, the lawsuit has been withdrawn without prejudice at the request of Barry's legal team—but this action is being described as "strategic" so that they can refile the lawsuit with a "new, more comprehensive complaint."
This week it's still more and more World Cup, with five entries out of the top ten (and 14 out of the Top 25).
It all started in late 2005, when we first held lectures about Wikipedia in two educational institutions (universities) ...
Eight articles, three lists, and 28 pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia last week.
The Swedish Wikipedia's prolific Lsjbot, which has created a significant proportion of the site's 1.7 million articles and has nearly single-handedly pushed it to being the fourth-largest Wikipedia, was covered in the Wall Street Journal this week. The newspaper reported that the bot has created 2.7 million articles, which is apparently a reference to the Waray-Waray and Cebuano Wikipedias, where Lsjbot is also active, and that "on a good day", it creates 10,000 articles.

Tech News: 2014-30

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 (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [49] [50] [51]
  • The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [52]
  • Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [53] [54]
  • A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [55]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [56]
  • All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [57]
  • You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [58]
  • Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64]

Future software changes

Problems

  • Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [68]

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07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Philips Angel

No, Philips Angel isn't a stub. It's a disambiguation page, and doesn't need to be categorised. The words "can refer to" are a clue. Please go a bit more carefully when tagging new articles with AWB. Thanks. PamD 13:06, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

@PamD: I see your point. The main problem is that you can't see the whole content of articles when editing using AWB but only the diff which may give you an incorrect idea about whether the page is a disambiguation page or not. --Meno25 (talk) 13:29, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
All edits you do using AWB are your responsibility. If you can't see enough of the article to see that it's a dab page, then there's clearly something wrong with the way AWB is showing you the article - I can see the whole article in the display window when I use AWB. What "diff" are you talking about, I wonder? You shouldn't be editing blindly without seeing the article you're tagging. PamD 13:35, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
And Mistake Creek is also obviously a dab page. PamD 13:37, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
@PamD: I will be more careful in the future. Thank you. --Meno25 (talk) 13:38, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

These broken redirects

Please tag them as {{db-redirnone}} instead of blanking. � (talk) 13:21, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

OK. Will do. --Meno25 (talk) 13:24, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
Finished tagging them all. --Meno25 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2014

"Great success" in Israel universities is leading to collaboration and editing in high schools.
Last week I predicted that the World Cup dominance on the report would be over—but I was wrong. The World Cup Final fell on the 13th of July, which was actually the first day of the week covered by this report, not the last day of the last report. Hence, five of the Top 10 this week are again World Cup related-topics.
Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) today are facing fewer barriers to uploading their content onto Wikimedia projects now that the new GLAM-Wiki Toolset Project has been launched. The tool, which is the fruit of a collaboration between Europeana and several Wikimedia chapters, relieves GLAMs from having to write their own automated scripts and gives them a standardized method of uploading large amounts of their digitized holdings.
The English Wikipedia's did you know (DYK) section has been a feature of the site's main page since February 2004. From the beginning, the section has served as a place to highlight Wikipedia's newest articles. But over the last few years, the did you know section has gotten steadily larger and more complex, and non-notable or plagiarized articles have occasionally slipped through the reviewing process, leading numerous editors to call for reforms to the system. We asked two editors to share their views.
Ten articles, five lists, and 25 pictures were promoted to featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.

Tech News: 2014-31

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 (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
  • You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [69] [70]
  • The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [71]
  • If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [72] [73]
  • You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [74] [75]

Future software changes

  • You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [76] [77]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [78]
  • It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [79] [80]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

broken redirects in user space User:Robertgreer

Thank you for the well-meaning recreation of pages in my user space. I am, however, trying to clean up these pages as I am "semi-retired" and don't want to leave behind a tangle of stale pages when I fully retire from WIkipedia. — Robert Greer (talk) 01:32, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

@Robertgreer: Hi. If you wish, you can tag the pages with {{db-u1}} and I will delete the pages for you. --Meno25 (talk) 08:33, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, it's been taken care of. — Robert Greer (talk) 01:14, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations

100000 Edits
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that very few editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!

If you like you can add this userbox to your collection.

This user has been awarded with the 100000 Edits award.

```Buster Seven Talk 23:21, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

@Buster7: Thank you. Your message is really appreciated. --Meno25 (talk) 15:04, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 July 2014

In Common Knowledge: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Dariusz Jemielniak discusses Wikipedia from the standpoint of an experienced editor and administrator who is also a university professor specializing in management and organizations. In Virtual Reality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Charles Seife presents a more broadly themed work reminding us to question the reliability of information found throughout the Internet.
Kim Osman has performed a fascinating study on the three 2013 failed proposals to ban paid advocacy editing in the English language Wikipedia. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach, Osman analyzed 573 posts from the three main votes on paid editing conducted in the community in November 2013.
Another hoax on the English Wikipedia was uncovered this week—not by any thorough investigation, but through the self-disclosure of an anonymous change made when the editors were in their sophomore year of college. The deliberate misinformation had been in the article for over five years with plenty of individuals noticing, but not one suspected its authenticity. This leads to one obvious question: how many more are there?
A "program of heroes" is leading the charge in Egypt.
We indeed moved far away from football this week, and further into much more serious issues of war and death. The Israel-Palestinian conflict continues to dominate the news, and the top 10, with Gaza Strip, Israel, and Hamas. The top 25 also includes Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Death also lies behind the popularity of James Garner, the American actor who died on July 19th, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and deaths in 2014.
Two articles, four lists, and seven pictures attained featured status on the English Wikipedia last week.
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