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Tech News: 2019-02

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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.

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [1]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> On several wikis, an account named "Abuse filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [4]

Changes later this week

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

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Captions in January

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The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-04

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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.

Tech News

• Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [5]

Recent changes

• The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Pages with unreviewed translations to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
• https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

• When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [6]
• MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [7][8]
• Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [9]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [10]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> <figure-inline></figure-inline> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:35, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

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MediaWikiWidgets issue

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https://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/

Every page is getting its content replaced with some new Terms of Use page without being able to access anything or log in... What's going on? DSquirrelGM𝓣𝓟𝓒 13:57, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

I had to make a decision. Not just during the past days people complained about the requirement to apply for an account. Moreover they did not read what wrote on main page. So I got fed up with it. Now I switched to self service account creation without extra approval. The price is that everybody now has to accept the terms of use shown prior to being able to view pages. Same for you. Sorry. [[kgh]] (talk) 14:03, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

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Talk to us about talking

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The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:

1. First, sign up your group here.
2. Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group. This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
3. Then ask people what they think about communication processes. We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki. Please consider asking these five questions:
   1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
   2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
   3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
   4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
   5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
4. Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group. Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you.

Trizek (WMF) 15:09, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-15

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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

• 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. [11][12]

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. [13]
• A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [14]
• Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [15]

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. [16]
• The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [17]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> 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. [18]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> 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

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> <figure-inline></figure-inline> 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. [19][20]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> 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)

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IIWiki disambiguation

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Hi,

I noticed that IIwiki has relaunched at iiwiki.us, and I want to start a new page for that so that the stats for the old site are not lost. Can you please move https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/IIwiki and https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/IIWiki to the correct locations so that I can create the appropriate disambiguation page?

-- Minoa Minoa (talk) 18:41, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Done including the disambiguation page. Rather contact my over there in the future. Thanks. [[kgh]] (talk) 21:25, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

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Karsten Hoffmeyer

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Hi. As far as I'm aware user pages should not be in the main space, and I'd rather the door was not opened to allow that, since it shows up not-that-infrequently from random bloggers etc. Perhaps there is an exception for long-standing users, but at least from a quick search I don't find other examples. Anyway, I deleted it as part of trying to be uniform. Hope you don't mind. Clump (talk) 15:15, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Well, this is a redirect and I have seen other users doing so. No worries I can delete the redirect. [[kgh]] (talk) 15:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #365

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2

• Events
  • Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
  • Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
  • Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
  • Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
  • Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
  • Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
  • Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
  • Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
  • QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
  • Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
    • Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
    • BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
    • Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
    • Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
    • Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
    • GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
    • Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
    • Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
    • Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
    • Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
    • Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
    • AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
    • ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
    • Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
    • All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
    • Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
    • External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
    • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID
  • Query examples:
    • Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values (source)
    • Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
    • Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
    • Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)

• Development
  • Added lastrevid of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
  • Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (phab:T203366)
  • Imrpove logging in on mobile (phab:T215913)
  • More work on mobile termbox
  • Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 10:26, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, I have uploaded A systematic Mapping Study on Wikidata in arXiv.org and wanted to include it the Wikidata Weekly Summary, is this the right place or should I send it somewhere else as well? Mariamfs (talk) 10:26, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

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WikiApiary

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Hi there,

That project says one should use Phabricator for contact but I couldn't figure out how to do that and ended up here. I only wanted to let the team know that is has been a while that the usage statistics can no longer be set to a different duration than the default two months.

Also, the disclaimers page is empty, and if I click on "send feedback" I get to a page that says "No such special page You have requested an invalid special page." Thank you for the very helpful project! ReplicationWiki-fan (talk) 14:47, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your post. You can best reach me here for issues related to Wikiapiary.

> I only wanted to let the team know that is has been a while that the usage statistics can no longer be set to a different duration than the default two months.

Hmm, it's 240 minutes and this is the minimum.

> Also, the disclaimers page is empty

That's indeed bad. Reported at Phabricator

> and if I click on "send feedback" I get to a page that says "No such special page You have requested an invalid special page."

That's bad too. Reported at Phabricator [[kgh]] (talk) 16:17, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for your reply that I only see now. Wow, you answered fast! Sorry I did not describe my problem more precisely. The Usage Statistics for Edit Count can still not be edited to anything but 2 months, e.g., here: https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/ReplicationWiki

The disclaimer page is still empty and the "send feedback" link still doesn't work but I see you created notes for this.

WikiApiary is a great project, thank you so much, and keep up the good work! ReplicationWiki-fan (talk) 00:30, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

> The Usage Statistics for Edit Count can still not be edited to anything but 2 months, e.g.,

I lost you completely. I have no idea what you are referring to.

Apart from that I started pinging about the reported tasks. [[kgh]] (talk) 07:59, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Just if you open https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/ReplicationWiki (or any other entry for another wiki in the apiary) and then go to "Usage" you have a graph for the usage statistics for Edit Counts of that wiki. That graph, like the other graphs in the usage statistics, has "2 month" as default option. Unlike the other graphs although the options are shown the graph cannot be changed to show the data for just 1 week or for a whole year. ReplicationWiki-fan (talk) 14:12, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Ah this is not about editing, this is about selecting. Click on the very left of the selection box to be able to change the period. I do not know how to fix this I'm afraid. Please use my talk page at WikiApiary for all matters WikiApiary. Thanks. [[kgh]] (talk) 19:46, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-24

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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

• 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. [21][22]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [23]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [24]

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. [25]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> <figure-inline></figure-inline> 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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Tech News: 2019-25

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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.

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. [26]

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. [27]
• 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. [28]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> 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

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> <figure-inline></figure-inline> 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

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> 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. [29]

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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

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"trying to make the crude revert more sane"

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Thanks, and sorry about that - I didn't mean to edit an old revision! I thought I only copied the actual note box itself, but I guess I was wrong. =/ 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 16:18, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

No worries. In the heat of the action. You one of the good guys. :) [[kgh]] (talk) 20:12, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

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I am banned from the translation !!

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Translations:Extension:GoogleLogin/Page display title/fr

Extension:GoogleLogin

Échec de l’enregistrement de la traduction : The title "Translations:Extension:GoogleLogin/Page display title/fr" has been banned from creation. It matches the following blacklist entry: " .*g+(o+)g+le?\S?((?!Summer of Code\/\d{4})|(?!Code-in\/\d{4})).*"

Christian Wia (talk) 19:23, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

You ran into a spam filter. I am not sure if I can help you with this one. [[kgh]] (talk) 08:47, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

"5 juillet 2019 à 17:31 Kghbln discussion contributions a marqué Extension:GoogleLogin à traduire Balise : PHP7"

Since you have requested the translation I have thought you would be interested knowing it was impossible. But no pb, I will report that to the help desk.

=> https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project%3AVillage%20Pump/Flow/2019/07#c-Wladek92-2019-07-06T13%3A18%3A00.000Z-Help%2C_I_am_banned_when_translating_Google_related_articles

Christian. Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 13:12, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Ah, I was not aware. Still, thanks a lot for the info. I guess it will be best to back down from translating this page and move on to less renitent pages. [[kgh]] (talk) 20:55, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

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moment to put your personal appreciation for my proposition

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Hi, I have finally requested for translator admin rights at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Requests/User_rights/Wladek92 . I would be glad if you could find a moment to put your personal appreciation for my proposition. Thank you. Christian. Christian 🇫🇷 FR 🚨 (talk) 20:14, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Sure, you are welcome. Done with this edit. [[kgh]] (talk) 20:23, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

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Extension:Semantic Travel?

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Do you know anything about this "incoming extension" Semantic Travel? A brief search both here and on the SMW wiki doesn't turn up anything relevant-looking. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{☎ Dinoguy1000} 21:53, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Never heard about this. However, I'd allow a couple of days for the IP to set up the extension's homepage. [[kgh]] (talk) 21:57, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

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Storing a File Page as a Property of a Page

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Maybe you might know right off. I'm a bit stumped. I need to store images, but would like to store them in SMW with a property of a type of Page. Unfortunately, storing them with a File:Filename.jpg throws an error as : might cause an issue. I'm at a loss because if you want to query them as subobjects of a page, using gallery as a format, the File must be stored as File:Filename.jpg otherwise the gallery format doesn't see them as an image using imageproperty=... Any thoughts or links on how to store an image on a page as a Property of type Page with a File pagename? --Hutchy68 (talk) 19:28, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

I created an example using subobjects. Works fine, also with a property of type page. Perhaps there was an issue with an earlier version of SMW and SRF. [[kgh]] (talk) 13:35, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

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Community Insights Survey

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Share your experience in this survey

Hi Kghbln/Archive/StructuredDiscussions/2019,

The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey about your experience with MediaWiki and Wikimedia. The purpose of this survey is to learn how well the Foundation is supporting your work on wiki and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Do not get me wrong. This was not a survey - at least not until the point where I decided to quit it. It appeared to be more like some kind of test for people doing sales for something who need to be brought on the right track about their product. [[kgh]] (talk) 19:28, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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Reminder: Community Insights Survey

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Hi Kghbln/Archive/StructuredDiscussions/2019,

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mediawiki farm

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Hi

i buy vps 30 GB disk

i want to install Extension:farmer

can this user help me install farmer in my wiki? Msnhinet8 (talk) 10:41, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

No, I am not familiar with this extension. [[kgh]] (talk) 15:48, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-43

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Recent changes

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [30]

Problems

• There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [31]
• The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [32]

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• <figure-inline></figure-inline> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
• Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

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14:36, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-46

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Recent changes

• MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> <figure-inline></figure-inline> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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• Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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Tech News: 2019-48

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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.

Changes later this week

• The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [33]
• Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [34]
• <figure-inline></figure-inline> The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

• <figure-inline></figure-inline> <figure-inline></figure-inline> You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [35]

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16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

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Parsoid's future

In re [36]: If you're interested in Parsoid's future as the primary parser for MediaWiki, then I think that you might be interested in the work listed at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/parsoid-php/ Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:07, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the hint. Will have a look soon! [[kgh]] (talk) 21:13, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

• All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [37]

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Mass blanking of extension talk pages

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Hi Karsten - I see that you just blanked the talk pages for a bunch of archived extensions yesterday, like this one. Why do that? Deleting talk page comments seems like a bad idea, even if the extension is no longer useful. At least, I don't see a reason for it... Yaron Koren (talk) 04:51, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

This is a cleanup effort and I do not think this is useful to keep. [[kgh]] (talk) 10:38, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

That doesn't make sense to me. If someone clicks on the "Talk" tab for an archived extension, presumably they want to see the old discussions about that extension. Why is it better if they see a blank page? Yaron Koren (talk) 14:34, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

No sure who would like to read talk of an archived extension. [[kgh]] (talk) 08:23, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

A person who wants to know more about that extension? Yaron Koren (talk) 15:57, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

No, this is imho nonsense. Anyway you had no intention to back down from the start and I did not either. Let's just stop wasting more time on this. [[kgh]] (talk) 09:04, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

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