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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]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2]- codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3]
- On several wikis, an account named "Edit 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
- 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
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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18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
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 Google Translate in the content translation tool. [5][6]
- You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
- Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [7][8]
- Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new
wrapperparameter now. You can use it for selectors like.mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [9]
Problems
- When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [10]
Changes later this week
- You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
- Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [11]
- The AbuseFilter variable
minor_edithas been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15
17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
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. [12]
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 translationsto translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category inSpecial:TrackingCategorieson 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. [13]
- MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [14][15]
- 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. [16]
Changes later this week
- You will be able to use template styles in the
Modulenamespace. [17] - 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
- 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)
Hi and thanks for your help fixing up the new article. I do not speak Sindhi or Urdu, so if you find any articles about her in those languages, it would be good to add more information about what she is currently doing. (Google Translate can help turn the information into English, of course, but without your help I could not even find the articles to translate.) As with Suhai Aziz Talpur, the tone of the article has to sound like an encyclopedia: factual description of her actions rather than praising her explicitly. I hope you are enjoying a productive and happy 2019. HouseOfChange (talk) 01:43, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
- HouseOfChange Sure, I'll find those references and translate the content and help to expand the article, and share the references here or on the talk page of the article ASAP, Well 2019 seems new but nothing has yet changed in my life, I'm still jobless, but striving to get some work, you know how difficult it to survive without a work or money. JogiAsad Talk 17:45, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
- You seem like a talented person, so I hope somebody will soon pay you to do something you're good at. By the way, I also want to start an article about Sarmad Masud, Pakistani-English director of My Pure Land. So if you see anything about him in Urdu or Sindhi, I am also interested in that. Having his first full length feature nominated by the UK for a Foreign Picture Oscar is pretty impressive. Also I think he meets GNG just based on sources in English. HouseOfChange (talk) 20:24, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
- My pleasures to help you collaboratively working for these both and other articles in coming ahead. remember in prayers. JogiAsad Talk 20:27, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
- If you are interested in Sarmad Masud, I finished drafting it and created the article. I could not find a birth year for him anywhere, can you? HouseOfChange (talk) 04:46, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
- My pleasures to help you collaboratively working for these both and other articles in coming ahead. remember in prayers. JogiAsad Talk 20:27, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
- You seem like a talented person, so I hope somebody will soon pay you to do something you're good at. By the way, I also want to start an article about Sarmad Masud, Pakistani-English director of My Pure Land. So if you see anything about him in Urdu or Sindhi, I am also interested in that. Having his first full length feature nominated by the UK for a Foreign Picture Oscar is pretty impressive. Also I think he meets GNG just based on sources in English. HouseOfChange (talk) 20:24, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
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 Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.
Problems
- When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [18]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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18:15, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
Nice work on the article. Perhaps I will add to it in future. I note you have seen Godiji, which has some details, include some from Jain sources. The Gori temple was a famous pilgrimage site for a few centuries. It was built in 1375-1376 CE according to an old Jain text, but the main statue of Lord Parshvanath was older (which has disappeared) and was brought here from Patan, Gujarat. Gori (with retroflex "r") is the name of the village. Malaiya (talk) 23:13, 24 January 2019 (UTC)