Benutzer Diskussion:FNDE/Newsletter/Archiv/2017
Ausrufer – 25. Woche
Rückblick:
| Meinungsbild Hochrechnungen | → | Hochrechnungen gelten weiterhin als Newsticker |
Sonstiges: Nominierungen für die WikiEule 2017
Kurier – linke Spalte: Die Sache mit den Rotlinks, Was zum Nachdenken, Die Schwierigkeit des Loslassens, Was ist denn nun eigentlich richtig?
Kurier – rechte Spalte: WikiCon 2017: Call for Papers verlängert, Workshop zum digitalen Engagement am 23. Juni, Halbzeit und ein zusätzliches Fotoziel, WikiCon 2017: CfP, Tippspiel WWE Money in the Bank
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 19. Jun. 2017 (CEST)
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
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.orghas to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [2]
Special:PageDatawill be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. You can now see how the TemplateStyles extension works on Beta Labs.
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17:44, 19. Jun. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 26. Woche
Rückblick:
| De-Admin Benutzer:Merlissimo | → | wegen Inaktivität |
| Adminkandidatur JWBE | → | erfolgreich: 167:83:15 (66,8%) |
Sonstiges: Umfrage „Technische Wünsche“ 2017: abstimmen
Kurier – linke Spalte: Paid editing – einmal anders, Kooperation mit der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek 4.0, Kismet, Außenwirkung oder die Sache mit Otto Warmbier
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Rot-blaue Linkarithmetik, WMAT: Nachnutzung und Community-Veranstaltungen, 100.000 Frauen sind voll, Ergebnisse aus der Förderbarometer-Befragung veröffentlicht, Online-Umfrage unter Lesern startet heute, Rotlinks sind wichtig, ein Kommentar, Umfrage Technische Wünsche: Abstimmung läuft, Tippspiel zur Tour de France 2017
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 26. Jun. 2017 (CEST)
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 <inputbox> has a new
searchfilterparameter. You can add values likesearchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [4]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
- Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [5]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [6]
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17:38, 26. Jun. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 27. Woche
Adminkandidaturen: Tönjes
Sonstiges: WikiCon 2017: Anmeldung
Kurier – linke Spalte: WikiCon 2017: Anmeldung gestartet, Kleine Freuden #19: Ein Schild für den römischen Sarkophag, Bericht vom Wikidata-Wahldaten-Workshop
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Gewinnung neuer Freiwilliger: Auswertung der letzten Aktion, Vorschau auf die nächste, WikiCon 2017: Call for Papers endet, Noch 5 Tage für die Abstimmung in der Umfrage „Technische Wünsche“, Internationale Presseschau, Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (Französische Wikipedia), Wikipediajournalen (Dänische Wikipedia), Викивестник (Russische Wikipedia), Wikipedia Signpost (Englische Wikipedia)
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 3. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
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
- There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [7]
Changes this week
- Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
- There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
- EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [8]
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17:32, 3. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 28. Woche
Kurier – linke Spalte: Points of View, KPA – Es wäre so einfach, Alte Häuser braucht das Land …, Eure Meinungen und Ideen sind gefragt, Die Frauen in Rot, Ein Jahr Podcast WikiStammtisch
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Zwischenstand zur Umfrage „Technische Wünsche 2017“, Politikergeschubse – ein Ärgernis
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:20, 10. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
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
- There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [9]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 Juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 Juli. It will be on all wikis from 13 Juli (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Juli at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [10]
- We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.
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17:07, 10. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 29. Woche
Rückblick:
| Deadmin Benutzer:Eike sauer | → | freiwillige Rückgabe |
| Adminkandidatur Tönjes | → | erfolgreich 199:16 (92,6%) |
| Deadmin Benutzer:APPER | → | freiwillige Rückgabe |
Wettbewerbe: Jurybesetzung
Kurier – linke Spalte: Politischer Vandalismus
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Jurybesetzung gesucht, Der 2000. Artikel über Osttimor …, Spezialisierte Suche: Bitte um Feedback zur Bezeichnung der Suchfelder, Zensur der trwiki, Auf geht’s nach Tirol, Gewinnung neuer Freiwilliger: Sommeraktion gestartet
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 17. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
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
- "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [11]
Problems
- On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [12]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [13] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [14]
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00:59, 18. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 30. Woche
Adminkandidaturen: KimHolgerKelting
Umfragen in Vorbereitung: Löschanträge durch IP
Kurier – linke Spalte: GLAM-on-tour im Doppelpack!, Quora – Konkurrenz, brauchbare Quelle und Antworten auf Alles?, Ich habe gespielt, Spiel des Jahres 2017, Die Unabwählbaren abwählbar machen?
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Einfach nur L, Dank!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 24. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
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
- CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [15][16][17]
-
.mw-ui-constructivemodifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [18]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 Juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 Juli. It will be on all wikis from 27 Juli (calendar).
- It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [19]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 Juli at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 Juli at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.
Future changes
- New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.
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17:57, 24. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 31. Woche
Rückblick:
| Deadmin Benutzer:Howwi | → | 1 Jahr inaktiv |
| Deadmin Benutzer:XenonX3 | → | Wiederwahl nicht angetreten. |
Wettbewerbe: WikiDaheim
Kurier – linke Spalte: Bilder vom Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Angang im MEK, Asien-Marathon China, Video der Podiumsdiskussion „Wikipedia und Wissenschaft?!“, Anlaufstelle für Länder-Nerds
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 31. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
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
- Some pages show the error
Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [20] - Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.
Changes later this week
- Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [21]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [22]
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23:45, 31. Jul. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 32. Woche
Rückblick:
| Umfrage Recherchehilfe | → | Telefonische Auskunft: 1; E-Mail-Auskunft: 10; Hilfe vor Ort: 3; Lieferung von kostenlosen Scans: 20; Lieferung von kostenpflichtigen Scans: 11; Durchführung kostenloser Recherchen: 7 |
| Adminkandidatur KimHolgerKelting | → | nicht erfolgreich 20:122:33 (14,08%) |
Wettbewerbe: Asien-Marathon (China)
Sonstiges: WikiCon 2017, Programm
Kurier – linke Spalte: WikiAlpenforum (WAF) on Tour, Das Prinzip der Konsensfindung Selbstjustiz der englischsprachigen Wikipedia, Die Topwünsche aus der Umfrage „Technische Wünsche 2017“ stehen fest, Wiki Loves Music!, Vorstellung in neuer Rolle - CSteigenberger (WMF) ist seit Anfang Juli Community Advocate bei der Wikimedia Foundation
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Wikipedianer sind hartnäckig!, Extrablatt: Der Kurier berichtet von der Wikimania, Welcher Social-Media-Typ bist Du?, Commons Video-Views Tool entwickelt, Ruhige Stunden hier und auf Wikidata, WikiCon 2017: Programm veröffentlicht
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 7. Aug. 2017 (CEST)
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 see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [23]
- The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [24]
Problems
- You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Auch bei kleinen Änderungen an Seiten und Dateien E-Mails senden" at the bottom of "Benutzerdaten" in your preferences if you want to. [25]
- The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [26]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).
Future changes
- Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [27]
- Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like
.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [28][29] - Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [30][31]
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23:45, 7. Aug. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 33. Woche
Rückblick:
| Deadmin Benutzer:Christian2003 | → | nach Wiederwahlaufforderung nicht kandidiert |
Wettbewerbe: Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Sommer 2017, Schreibwettbewerb
Kurier – rechte Spalte: WikiCon 2017: Anmeldeschluss und Suche nach helfenden Händen, Wikimania 2017
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 14. Aug. 2017 (CEST)
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
- Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [32]
Problems
- The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [33][34]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
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01:28, 15. Aug. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 34. Woche
Umfragen: Zusätzlicher Timeless-Skin
Kurier – linke Spalte: Ist das kollaborative Grundprinzip von Wikipedia noch zeitgemäß?, Technische Wünsche: Speichern des Inhalts externer Links ins Internet Archive, Sichtungsrückstand vor historischer Höchstmarke
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Wiki Science Competition, WLM-Flyer und Wikipedia-Broschüre, Was für ein Sommer!
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 21. Aug. 2017 (CEST)
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 test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [35][36]
- Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [37]
- If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [38]
- The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.
Changes later this week
- Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [39]
- The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [40]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:00, 21. Aug. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 35. Woche
Rückblick:
| Umfrage Skin Timeless | → | 46 Stimmen dafür, 4 dagegen (92%). Umsetzung wurde auf Phabricator beantragt. |
Sonstiges: Anmeldung für Exkursionen
Kurier – linke Spalte: Miniaturenwettbewerb geht in die nächste Runde, Hat Wikipedia ein Extremismusproblem?, Wikipedia spielt ... auf der SPIEL '17, Mein „Freund“ Harvey, Von Hörnchen und Fotografen, Neues von der Kategorienfront auf Commons
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Spannende Exkursionen zur WikiCon 2017, Letzter Aufruf: Noch 4 Zimmer frei in Fürstenberg für den 6.–8. Oktober, 31.8.: "ALPHA" – Die Tour zur Planung 2018 auf Station in Köln!, Vor der WikiCon ist vor der WikiCon
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 28. Aug. 2017 (CEST)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [41][42]
- You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [43]
Problems
- Some pages show the error
Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [44]
Changes later this week
- You can block users from sending you notifications. [45]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Technical Committee. The topic this week is Migrate to HTML5 section ids. The meeting will be on 30 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [46]
- New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [47]
- The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.
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00:09, 29. Aug. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 36. Woche
Adminkandidaturen: Quotengrote
Checkuserwahl: Wahlseite
Wettbewerbe: Miniaturenwettbewerb, Denkmal-Cup
Kurier – linke Spalte: Wenn ein Admin zu dir „A********“ sagt
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Wiki goes MEK! – Terminankündigung und Themenfindung, Wenn Wikipedia ein Dorf mit 100 Einwohnern wäre..., Denkmalmonat September, Kleine Optimierungen am Versionsblätterer, [https://digital-o-mat.de/ Digital-O-Mat] zur Bundestagswahl ist online, Meilenstein: 10.000 Artikel zu Brasilien überschritten, Konferenz zu Diversität in den Wikimedia-Projekten
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 4. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
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
- We are asking Tech News readers five questions to make the newsletter better. You can answer the questions here. We are grateful for every reply we get.
Recent changes
- The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [48][49]
Problems
- Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Alle Änderungen in der Beobachtungsliste anzeigen, nicht nur die letzten" in your preferences and see if it helps. [50]
Changes later this week
- New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [51]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can see a presentation about and discuss the new Technical Committee on 5 September at 17:30 (UTC). There will be a presentation on YouTube and a discussion in
#wikimedia-officeon Freenode. You can use the web chat. [52]
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00:14, 5. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 37. Woche
Rückblick:
| Adminkandidatur Zietz | → | Abbruch auf Wunsch des Kandidaten |
Adminkandidaturen: Koenraad, Toni Müller, Khatschaturjan
Umfragen: Informelles Meinungsbild / Umfrage zum Umgang mit vermuteten Friedjof-Artikeln
Umfragen in Vorbereitung: Konzept für mathematische Formeln (Math-Tags)
Kurier – linke Spalte: Natur und Kultur in Trient, Galerie der WLE-Sieger aus Deutschland und der Schweiz
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Dankeschön, Neuautorengewinnung: Banner-Sommeraktion ausgewertet und Vorschau auf Herbst-Banner, GPG-Party@Wikicon, Versenkung, WMDE-Präsidium sucht zwei weitere Mitglieder
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 11. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
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 get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis. [53]
- The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later. [54]
- The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category:
tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [55]
Problems
- Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead. [56]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
- OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
- New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences. [57]
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21:15, 11. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 38. Woche
Rückblick:
| Adminkandidatur Tonialsa | → | Abbruch auf Wunsch des Kandidaten |
| Deadmin Benutzer:Firefox13 | → | freiwillige Rückgabe der Rechte |
| Adminkandidatur Quotengrote | → | nicht erfolgreich 99:121:41 (45%) |
Adminkandidaturen: Kenny McFly, SDKmac
Adminwiederwahlen: Superbass, H-stt
Checkuserwahl: Alraunenstern, Rax, Theghaz
Umfragen: Konzept für mathematische Formeln
Kurier – linke Spalte: Gründungsmitteilung, Unkonventionelle Convention: WikiCon 2017
Kurier – rechte Spalte: WLM:2017: Vorjury-Tool, Was heißt denn hier Standard‽, Barcamp WikiDACH 2017 in Mannheim, Keine neuen Admins erwünscht - ein Kommentar, Beteiligung ausdrücklich erwünscht
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:26, 18. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
Die letzten Technik-Neuigkeiten der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Teile diese Änderungen auch den anderen mit. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen Dich selbst. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Letzte Änderungen
- You can now see contributions from an IP range at Special:Contributions. Before you could only see contributions from single IP addresses. Some older contributions from IP ranges could be missing at first because it will take some time to add them. [58][59]
- Flow has been re-scoped to become Structured Discussions and the development has restarted. Phabricator projects and repositories have been renamed. [60]
Änderungen später dieser Woche
- Die neue MediaWiki-Version wird ab dem 19. September auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org, ab dem 20. September auf Wikipedia-fremden Wikis und einigen Wikipedias, und ab dem 21. September auf allen Wikipedias verfügbar sein (Kalender).
Treffen
- Du kannst das nächste Treffen des Editing-Teams besuchen. Während des Treffens kannst Du den Entwicklern vorschlagen, welche Fehler am wichtigsten zu beheben sind. Das Treffen wird am 19. September um 18:30 Uhr (UTC) (20:30 Uhr MEZ) sein. Wie Du daran teilnimmst, erfährst Du hier.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Künftige Änderungen
- We are replacing Tidy on Wikimedia wikis. Editors need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors. Some wikis have already switched. If your wiki would like to switch to the new format now, you can file a task.
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17:31, 18. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 39. Woche
Rückblick:
| Adminkandidatur Koenraad | → | erfolgreich 297:33:23 (90,0%) |
| Adminkandidatur Toni Müller | → | nicht erfolgreich 92:122:38 (42,99%) |
| Adminkandidatur Khatschaturjan | → | nicht erfolgreich 34:127:42 (21,12%) |
Adminkandidaturen: Ptolusque
Wettbewerbe: Wiki Loves Monuments: Vor-Jury-Tool
Kurier – linke Spalte: Neue Version des Strategiepapiers auf Meta: „durch Schnittstellen und Gemeinschaften“, GLAM-on-Tour-Station „Bibliotheca Palatina“ in Heidelberg, Fotos von Nischensportarten (Kleine Freuden Teil 38), Das Team des WikiWedding mischte sich unter feiernde Stadtteilbewohner, Coding da Vinci – die neuesten Uploads
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Leaving Wikipedia, „Tendenziöses“ dewiki, WLM 2017: Vorjury-Tool
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 25. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
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
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. You can now search through the entire article with
CTRL+Forcmd+Fwhen you edit. Before it just searched through a part of the article. The developers are also fixing a couple of other bugs. [61][62] - Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions as a beta feature or by default can now create and move Structured Discussions boards. Structured Discussions was previously called Flow. [63]
Changes later this week
- You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [64]
- Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [65]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (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 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
- You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
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17:59, 25. Sep. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 40. Woche
Rückblick:
| Adminwiederwahl Superbass | → | erfolgreich 284:6:12 (97,93 %) |
| Adminwiederwahl H-stt | → | nicht erfolgreich 83:144:38 (36,56 %) |
| Checkuser-Wahl 2017 | → | Alraunenstern • Rax • Theghaz wurden erfolgreich gewählt |
| Adminkandidatur Kenny McFly | → | erfolgreich 251:52:17 (82,84%) |
| Adminkandidatur SDKmac | → | erfolgreich 224:52:30 (81,16%) |
Bürokratenwahlen: Itti, MBq
Meinungsbilder: Boteinsatz bei toten Links
Wettbewerbe: Publikumspreis, Reviewpreis
Kurier – linke Spalte: Wikiletnik 2017, Was macht die Strategie mit der Community?, (Wieder-)Entdecke das Kind in dir! – Wikipedianer und Spielzeug im MEK
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Zehntes Tippspiel WWE, Kurzfristige Abschaltung von OCG: Buch-PDFs können ab dem 1.10. vorerst nicht erzeugt werden, Neue Freiwillige gewinnen: Herbstaktion startet am 4. Okt., Deutsch-französischer Edit-a-thon auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse, Neue Ergebnisse aus dem Förderbarometer, Zwei Schritte vor, einer zurück: Die Nachhaltigkeitsinitiative
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 2. Okt. 2017 (CEST)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [66]
Changes later this week
- If you have turned on "Automatisch die meisten Beta-Funktionen aktivieren" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [67]
- Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [68]
- The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [69]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [70]
- The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.
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01:25, 3. Okt. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 41. Woche
Rückblick:
| Adminkandidatur Ptolusque | → | erfolgreich 187:47:26 (79,9 %) |
Sonstiges: Vorschläge, Reformationstag, Schon gewusst?
Umfragen in Vorbereitung: Öffnung der Wiederwahlseite von Inhabern höherer Servicefunktionen?
Kurier – linke Spalte: Besuch im Schloss, Mehr Fotos von Nischensportarten (Kleine Freuden Teil 43), Wikipedistischer Nobelpreis 2017
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Vorjury für WikiDaheim und Tag des Denkmals gestartet, Gewinnung neuer Freiwilliger: Banneraktion Herbst startet, Vorschläge zum Reformationstag gesucht, WikiEule im Schaufenster
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 9. Okt. 2017 (CEST)
Die letzten Technik-Neuigkeiten der Wikimedia Technik-Community. Teile diese Änderungen auch den anderen mit. Nicht alle Änderungen betreffen Dich selbst. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.
Letzte Änderungen
- The number of active users listed by
{{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}and on Special:Statistics will now only include Wikidata edits as activity on Wikidata and not on other wikis too. [71] - Previously you could create wiki links starting with two colons. Now you need to use one colon. [[::File:X.jpg]] now has to be [[:File:X.jpg]]. There is now a new Linter category. You can see a list on Special:Linterrors/multi-colon-escape. The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. You can read more about using Linter. [72]
Probleme
- You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [73]
Änderungen später dieser Woche
- The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [74]
- If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
- Die neue MediaWiki-Version wird ab dem 10. Oktober auf den Testwikis und MediaWiki.org, ab dem 11. Oktober auf Wikipedia-fremden Wikis und einigen Wikipedias, und ab dem 12. Oktober auf allen Wikipedias verfügbar sein (Kalender).
Treffen
- Du kannst das nächste Treffen des Editing-Teams besuchen. Während des Treffens kannst Du den Entwicklern vorschlagen, welche Fehler am wichtigsten zu beheben sind. Das Treffen wird am 10. Oktober um 19:00 Uhr (UTC) sein. Wie Du daran teilnimmst, erfährst Du hier.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 Oktober at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:21, 9. Okt. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 42. Woche
Rückblick:
| Bürokratenkandidatur Itti | → | Ergebnis 263:29:12 (90,07 %) |
| Bürokratenkandidatur MBq | → | Ergebnis 237:11:10 (95,56 %) |
| Meinungsbild Boteinsatz bei toten Links | → | formal (97,2:2,8 %) und inhaltlich (77,8:22,2 %) angenommen |
Adminkandidaturen: PM3
Kurier – linke Spalte: Boteinsatz bei toten Links, Besuch eines Lemmas (kleine große Freuden Teil 22), Ankündigung einer Veränderung für das Anzeigen der Wikilinks
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Open Data – Transparenz für alle, Technische Wünsche: Feedback gesucht zur neuen Lösung für Bearbeitungskonflikte, Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen geht in die nächste Runde, WikiCon-Premiere in Italien
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 16:09, 16. Okt. 2017 (CEST)
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 edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's
formatconfiguration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [75][76] - The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.
Problems
- There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [77]
- Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [78]
- Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [79]
Changes later this week
- Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [80]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17:31, 16. Okt. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 43. Woche
Rückblick:
| Adminkandidatur PM3 | → | Abbruch auf Wunsch des Kandidaten beim Stand von 132:55:30 (70,59 %) |
Adminkandidaturen: 32X
Sonstiges: Challenge: 100 Jahre eigenständiges Finnland
Kurier – linke Spalte: Technische Wünsche: Wunsch #4 erfüllt mithilfe des Tools „[https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo?uselang=de Page History]“
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Gästelistenplätze für das OER-Festival zu vergeben, Freie Plätze: WikiAlpenForum im württembergischen Allgäu, Calling For Votes: Publikumspreis von Schreibwettbewerb XXVII, Kuratorium der WMF ernennt Raju Narisetti zum neuen Mitglied
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 23. Okt. 2017 (CEST)
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 use
ccnorm_contains_anywhen you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [81]
Changes later this week
- When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [82]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There is a Structured Commons community focus group for Commons and Wikidata contributors who want to give input on structured data on Wikimedia Commons. You can sign up to join it. [83]
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20:18, 23. Okt. 2017 (CEST)
Ausrufer – 44. Woche
Kurier – linke Spalte: Asiatischer Monat 2017, Der vergessene Monsieur Colin, Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 Siegerbilder, Eine Richtung für die Zukunft, Von der Begeisterung zum „zeitweisen Frust“, Von der Begeisterung zum Frust
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Chaos Communication Congress, „Der Mann mit der Leica“, Die „Direction“ nicht unterstützen, Unterstützung der neuen strategischen Ausrichtung der weltweiten Wikimedia-Bewegung, Kandidatur für das Schiedsgericht, Die PR-Maschine. Ein Zwischenruf
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:22, 30. Okt. 2017 (CET)
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 block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [84]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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01:20, 31. Okt. 2017 (CET)
Ausrufer – 45. Woche
Rückblick:
| Adminkandidatur 32X | → | nicht erfolgreich: 114:96:36 (54,29%) |
| Adminkandidatur Dodecaeder | → | Abbruch auf Wunsch des Kandidaten; Stand 31:44 (41,3%) |
Umfragen: Neuaufstellung eines Vermittlungsauschusses
Schiedsgerichtswahl: Kandidatensuche
Wettbewerbe: Asiatischer Monat 2017, Wartungsbausteinwettbewerb Herbst 2017
Kurier – linke Spalte: Kommentare auf AWW, Sieger des 27. Schreibwettbewerbs, Wikipedia sucht die Superadmins
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Meilensteine, WikiDACH 2017, WikiCon 2018, Fotos aus aller Welt, Wikimedia-Salon „Politik im Netz“, Letzter Aufruf zum SW-Publikumspreis, Gewinnung neuer Freiwilliger: Die Auswertung der Herbstaktion ist nun online, WLE17 – es geht wieder voran, Armenisches Finale beim Denkmal-Cup, WikidataCon 2017 – Ansichten eines Teilnehmers, Internationale Presseschau
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 6. Nov. 2017 (CET)
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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [85]
Changes later this week
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8Finstead ofhttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work. [86][87]
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19:45, 6. Nov. 2017 (CET)
Ausrufer – 46. Woche
Rückblick:
| Rücktritt vom Schiedsgericht | → | Rücktritt des Benutzers -jkb- |
Umfragen: Attributierung von Politikern
Wettbewerbe: Challenge: 100 Jahre eigenständiges Finnland
Sonstiges: Community-Wunschliste 2017
Kurier – linke Spalte: Facts Matter …, Entmachtung durch Technik?, Wider den Mitarbeiterschwund, Marvels The ... RFFengers, Drei Wikipedia-Projekte...
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Klexikon hat 2000 Artikel, Spendenkampagne 2017 beginnt, „Was wartet ihr denn?“, Ein Hoch auf die Mathematik ..., Community Wishlist Survey: Internationale Umfrage der WMF zum technischen Bedarf startet heute Abend, Gedenktafeln in Jena
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 13. Nov. 2017 (CET)
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 diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [88]
- A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [89]
- Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [90]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Support for uploading and viewing 3D models is coming soon to Wikimedia Commons. The feature will support the .STL file format. You can see an example on the test wiki. [91]
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20:19, 13. Nov. 2017 (CET)
Ausrufer – 47. Woche
Umfragen: „Community Wishlist“ (intern.): Funktionen und technische Änderungen vorschlagen
Adminwiederwahlen: Logograph
Kurier – linke Spalte: Von utopischen Träumen und gescheiterten Hoffnungen unter südlicher Sonne
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Start der WM-Fußballwette 2018, FAQ zur Kostenerstattung bei Wikimedia Deutschland, Obskure Zusammenfassungen, Noch bis Sonntag: Wünsche bei der Community Wishlist Survey einreichen, Jungwikipedianer go international
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 20. Nov. 2017 (CET)
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
- If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [92]
- The abuse filter now has a function called
get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [93][94][95]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like
http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}-must be replaced. You will have to write-{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }-instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [96][97]
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20:18, 20. Nov. 2017 (CET)
Ausrufer – 48. Woche
Rückblick:
| Meta: „Community Wishlist“ (international): Funktionen und technische Änderungen vorschlagen | → | beendet, 257 Vorschläge eingereicht, die Abstimmungsphase beginnt am 27. November 2017 |
| Wikidata: RfC zur Behandlung von Weiterleitungen | → | eingeschlafen und noch nicht ausgewertet |
| 22. Schiedsgerichtwahl | → | Benutzer:Ali1610, Benutzer:Ghilt und Benutzer:Helfmann sind gewählt worden |
Kurier – linke Spalte: Alterspräsidenten der de-WP, WikiCon erobert Italien, Sonntagsschicht in Zukunftsfragen, Wikipedianer im Allgäu und Probleme mit fehlenden Denkmallisten
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Sicherheitshinweis: Korrekter Satzbau schützt vor Strafe nicht!, Evaluation der WikiCon 2017, Rückblick WikiDACH 2017 in Mannheim, Wintersport-Saisonpokal 2017/18
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:22, 27. Nov. 2017 (CET)
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 test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [98]
- You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [99]
- You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [100]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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21:30, 27. Nov. 2017 (CET)
Ausrufer – 49. Woche
Rückblick:
| Adminwiederwahl Logograph | → | erfolgreich 212:24:19 (89,83%) |
| Umfrage Attributierung von Politikern |
Sonstiges: Community-Wunschliste 2017
Kurier – linke Spalte: Bremer Kaffee-Geschichten, Einfacher suchen und finden: Die Beta-Funktion „Erweiterte Suchoberfläche“ kommt., Relevante Themen finden, zu denen bisher keine Artikel existieren
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Zwei Mitglieder ins Präsidium von WMDE berufen, Italienischer ESA-Astronaut grüßt aus dem All, Motive der Wikipedia-Beteiligung nach wie vor unklar, Bernd Schwabe mit Stadtkulturpreis ausgezeichnet, Wahnsinnig wichtige Wichtel warteten Wartungsbausteine weg, Community Wishlist Survey: Bis zum 10. Dezember kann abgestimmt werden
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:24, 4. Dez. 2017 (CET)
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
- It is now possible to upload MP3 files to Commons. Only users with MP3 file upload rights can upload MP3 files. [101]
- You can now use live updates for recent changes if you use the new filters. This feature updates the filtered recent changes every three seconds when you activate it. [102]
- There is an experimental onion service for Wikimedia projects. [103]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
- Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [104]
- Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [105][106]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey will decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year. You can vote for wishes on the survey page until 10 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2016 results page.
- The Community Liaisons team at the Wikimedia Foundation is looking for active tech ambassadors. This is to make sure the Wikimedia communities get all the information they need about new features and can be involved in the technical development. [107]
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18:51, 4. Dez. 2017 (CET)
Ausrufer – 50. Woche
Sonstiges: Wikipedia:Weihnachten
Kurier – linke Spalte: Wiki goes MEK! Die erste?, Herbstliches GLAMmen in Heidelberg, Hexenadvent – ein wikipedianisches Sittenbild, Coding da Vinci 2017, Technische Wünsche: „Änderungen im Text bei Abschnittsverschiebung anzeigen“ verfügbar
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Alemannischer Schreibwettbewerb 2017, Alle Jahre wieder, mp3 auf Commons?!, Einladung: Aktion gegen Upload-Filter
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 18:46, 11. Dez. 2017 (CET)
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
- URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8Finstead ofhttps://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [108] - A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [109]
- If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [110]
- Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "Neue Änderungen seit $1 ansehen" link is now more prominent. [111]
- Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [112]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.
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18:58, 11. Dez. 2017 (CET)
Ausrufer – 51. Woche
Rückblick:
| Community-Wunschliste 2017 (Auswertung) | → | Ergebnisse veröffentlicht |
Kurier – linke Spalte: [[WP:K#Wie in der Wikipedia gearbeitet wird
(am Beispiel des Artikels Jens Jessen)|Wie in der Wikipedia gearbeitet wird
(am Beispiel des Artikels Jens Jessen)]], Der Weg einer Möwe auf Commons, Wiki Loves Earth 2017 – die Gewinner
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Feedback gefragt: Trainingsmodule in der Dankesbanner-Aktion 2018, Ilja Lorek †
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:22, 18. Dez. 2017 (CET)
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
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.
Problems
- When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [113]
- Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 Dezember at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
- The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.
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16:27, 18. Dez. 2017 (CET)
Ausrufer – 52. Woche
Rückblick:
| Community-Wunschliste 2017 (Auswertung) | → | Ergebnisse veröffentlicht |
Kurier – linke Spalte: Ein Schiedsgerichtsurteil und seine Folgen, JWPmeetup Dezember 2017 in Düsseldorf, Zeit zum Lesen und Nachdenken, Von zwei Fotoprojekten
Kurier – rechte Spalte: Gesegnete Weihnachten!, Wikimania 2018: Internationale Stipendien, Auf zum Artikelmarathon!, Team Ideenförderung macht Weihnachtspause, Community Wishlist Survey: Topwünsche stehen fest
– GiftBot (Diskussion) 00:21, 25. Dez. 2017 (CET)