User talk:DatGuy/Archives/2017/November

Your GA nomination of Tuvalu at the Olympics
The article Tuvalu at the Olympics you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tuvalu at the Olympics for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 08:21, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45
 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.

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.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg 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:  instead of  . This will soon be fixed. Old links will still work.

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Reduce size of File:Dekemvriana_1944_SYNTAGMA.jpg
The resolution reduction of File:Dekemvriana_1944_SYNTAGMA.jpg on 27 April 2017 makes it very hard to distinguish uniforms and people (not) holding guns. Please restore to prior size - (if I remember correctly) the image was already low quality scan from paper. Thanks, Sperxios (talk) 12:55, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Added my comment at Files_for_discussion/2017_November_6, as DatGuy cannot revert. Ron h jones (Talk) 21:32, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46
 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.
 * A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November.
 * 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.
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg 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.

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Did bot crash?
I know DatBot6 starts at 10pm, so I've been trying to tag before then (not as easy as when we were BST and it was 11pm, now we're back to GMT=UTC and it's now 10pm here). So there were plenty of files, but it only ran 27min. RonBot1 died as well at 5sm, but totally unrelated, c'ést la vie. Ron h jones (Talk) 14:40, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Honestly, DatBot is crashing a lot. I'll add a try: except: statement. Dat GuyTalkContribs 16:09, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Actually, I'll just fully rewrite the code using more updated libraries. Could you try to move some files to test2wiki? Dat GuyTalkContribs 08:17, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload says "NO MORE UPLOADS". So I made https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Non-free_reduce and stuck it on a few old images already on the test wiki - see https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_non-free_file_size_reduction_requests. Ron h jones (Talk) 21:22, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
 * See you are still struggling with bot (I saw a zero byte upload on the test wiki!). I've stopped tagging files every day (so the category does not get ridiculously full), I've enable Theo again (it will do some random number of files every day), and I'm running the bot code on my PC in semi-auto mode (I have to press return between each upload - otherwise it becomes a non-approved bot!), when I'm at the PC. If there's anything else I can do, let me know. Ron h jones (Talk) 16:30, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm having some issues offwiki. Dat GuyTalkContribs 16:34, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47
 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.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filter now has a function called . 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.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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.
 * Octicons-tools.svg 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  must be replaced. You will have to write   instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week.

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Tech News: 2017-48
 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.
 * You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB.
 * You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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
 * Octicons-sync.svg 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.
 * Octicons-tools.svg 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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