User talk:Jackmcbarn/Archive 12

Benjamin Levin
The name used for him in the media is "Benjamin", not "Ben" as for the disambiguator, I couldn't think of a more appropriate one. AnonAnnu (talk) 22:11, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23
 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
 * Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error.
 * Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday.
 * Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
 * You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-24
 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 this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar).
 * If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools.
 * When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool.
 * The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC).

Future changes
 * If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for  will change at the end of June.

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Tech News: 2015-25
 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
 * Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool.
 * Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC).

Future changes
 * Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it.
 * If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use anymore.

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Tech News: 2015-26
 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
 * Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users.
 * You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser.

Problems
 * On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours.
 * On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons.
 * Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Module feedback
Hey Jackmcbarn - I just want to let you know that I've reached the 6500 points (6583 to be exact) in my Module:Sandbox/Ahmetyal. No problems yet, but I'm not sure if I can continue. --Ahmetyal (talk) 18:38, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I made some more improvements to the module recently. The new limit is around 11000. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:39, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Nikola Tesla
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Drake Bell full protection
I'd like to request that the protection at Drake Bell be kicked down to semi-protection from its current full-protection. I know there was a fair amount of disruption at that article, but full-protection seems pretty extreme, and it's been full-protected for 10 days now. Thanks for your consideration. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 23:38, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I've done that for now, but I'll have to restore it if the disruption resumes. Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:41, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jackmcbarn! But might there be other options? – Pending changes protection, for example? (I might even be willing to put the article on my Watchlist to look out for stuff, if that'll make a difference...) --IJBall (contribs • talk) 03:56, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * If autoconfirmed users start causing trouble, the only thing other than full protection that could fix that is PC2, and we're unfortunately not allowed to use that. Jackmcbarn (talk) 04:01, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-27
 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
 * Long lines in code blocks now look better.
 * You can now see graphs in VisualEditor.
 * When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page.
 * The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile.
 * You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites.

Problems
 * JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
 * You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color.
 * When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them.
 * If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password.
 * Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for  doesn't work any more.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future
 * When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org.

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Malformed location map definitions
Could you please delete these:


 * Module:Location map/data/Alajuela
 * Module:Location map/data/Hungary Nograd
 * Module:Location map/data/Scotland/Ngoại Hebrides
 * Module:Location map/data/Yorkshire and the East Midlands

Thanks. Alakzi (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I fixed Module:Location map/data/Hungary Nograd. I deleted the rest. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:52, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * File:Nograd location map.png doesn't exist though. Is there another map of Nograd? Alakzi (talk) 21:55, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The case was wrong. That's now fixed as well. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:57, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Cheers. Alakzi (talk) 21:59, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Not sure how I might've managed to add a byte there. Alakzi (talk) 22:02, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Probably newlines at the end. Nothing to worry about. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:04, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Module:Uses Wikidata
Hi, when I template-protected Module:Uses Wikidata, it was sitting at something like 4,700 transclusions, most likely because of. -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:56, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that was probably it. Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:12, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-28
 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
 * On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata.

Problems
 * The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
 * The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active.
 * You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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A barnstar for you!

 * I only make technical fixes to those maps, so I don't get data from any source. You'd have better luck asking those pages' other editors. Also, note that barnstars aren't really meant for asking questions; regular talk page posts are the intended way to do that. Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:29, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-29
 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 a list of pages with errors in code coloring.

Problems
 * There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes.
 * There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week.

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Made 2015 World Tour
I created a page of Big Bang Made 2015 World Tour months, but it got deleted first time because the lack on information the tour have, also it was too early for it, so I put it on the List of Big Bang concert tours, for the past months the section of the tour has been growing, and it's become big to be in the list, it needs a separate page, so I asked on the talk page about it, and there is no object about it, so I created the page again, and it's deleted again! I don't know what processes should I follow to have a chance to make the page again, could you please help. Thank you CesarLeto (talk) 18:55, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Since closed the AfD, you should ask on his talk page first. If you're unsatisfied with his response, the next step would be to go to WP:DRV and follow the instructions there. Jackmcbarn (talk) 18:59, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you CesarLeto (talk) 19:12, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

WP:ANI
Re: your block of, would you be able to follow-up on WP:ANI? —Sladen (talk) 21:26, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Didn't I already do that? Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * You did indeed, thank you (and for beating me by five minutes!). —Sladen (talk) 21:31, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Accidental Deletion
I believe you recently deleted Sharon Lin.jpg accidentally due to a misunderstanding. The photo was taken by me, and although it has been uploaded to my social media pages, I am still the owner of the original photograph from which it had been cropped. Apologies if any offense is taken, but I would like to have the photograph back on Commons. Thank you.

Friendzyfriend (talk) 02:09, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Upload the full-resolution photo to Commons (not a cropped or scaled one) and follow the instructions at c:COM:OTRS to prove that you own the copyright. Jackmcbarn (talk) 02:46, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

RE:
Your problem? You're blocking some who place? I'm a user to 8 years of Wikipedia.--Can Koray 22:25, 18 July 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cankoray (talk • contribs)
 * Yes, you've been registered here for 8 years, and all you've done in that time is promote yourself, never making a single useful edit. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:29, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

What is the problem? why do not you let me do change. You're interfering to my user page. There are thousands of people's biography. Do not bother going to come.--Can Koray 21:23, 19 July 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cankoray (talk • contribs)
 * Wikipedia is not for writing about yourself. The other people have articles because they're notable. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:30, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Mahers/Mers
There are two pages for the same community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer_people and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mers_people

^Can you merge it or delete the second one (the first one seems more comprehensive and referenced). Thanks ShamusHarper (talk) 01:45, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Per WP:PARALLEL, the histories can't be merged. You can merge the content yourself as a normal editor, though. Once that's done, just replace one of them with a redirect to the other. Nothing needs to be deleted. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:48, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-30
 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 this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
 * You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math.

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How to call another Lua module?
Hi, Jackmcbarn! I'm learing Lua and thanks for your help in Module:VG timeline. I have a question, how to call another module in a module.

For example in Module:Sandbox/CAS222222221, I want to call Module:InfoboxImage. Use  for calling Infobox image is okay, but how to use that module directly?

Thank you.--CAS222222221 (talk) 09:40, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Use require('Module:InfoboxImage'). Look at Module:Infobox military conflict line 174 for an example. Jackmcbarn (talk) 13:40, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks:) --CAS222222221 (talk) 14:42, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
I have replied to your message on my talk page regarding a declined speedy deletion listing the reasons to support the deletion. Per your instructions, this reply was left on my page, but I have not heard anything back. PaperWario (talk) 21:29, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Americans for Prosperity
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Americans for Prosperity. Legobot (talk) 00:05, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Why was my account deleted??
And your name is given as the one who deleted it. Why did you do this? What can be done to restore it? Dalamani (talk) 18:34, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Your account wasn't deleted. Your user page was deleted because a vandal created one under your name. Jackmcbarn (talk) 18:47, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

So you just go ahead and stuff around with my account/user page? Gosh thanks for sorting out that vandalism through your own vandalism. And thanks for the abrupt and non helpful response.Dalamani (talk) 18:51, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Request
Please consider withdrawing your deletion request at Articles for deletion/Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles. It's part of a larger index system. I've posted further details at the AfD. Thank you. The Transhumanist 13:58, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Even if I wanted to withdraw it, I couldn't, since another user has !voted delete. Jackmcbarn (talk) 14:06, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-31
<section begin="technews-2015-W31"/> 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 redirects to link to JavaScript pages.
 * You cannot use the compact user bar any more.
 * You can change your options to see bigger images.
 * You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor.
 * You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily.

Problems
 * There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
 * There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
 * JavaScript authors: You cannot use  to get edit counts anymore.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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User ID
Hello Jackmcbarn, Can you change my username please? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cankoray (talk • contribs) 19:46, 28 July 2015‎ (UTC)
 * I personally can't. Follow the instructions at WP:CHU if you want it changed. Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:49, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-32
<section begin="technews-2015-W32"/> 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 Problems Changes this week
 * The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
 * You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts.
 * Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look.
 * The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo.
 * MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages.
 * Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore.
 * There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error.
 * We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now.
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Deletion Policy

Hi Jackmcbarn, thanks for your comment on my edit to the deletion policy page. While I agree that *most* deletions are done for perfectly good reasons, there are plenty of deletion nominations I have witnessed that fail the very first test on Deletion_policy: "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page." Thanks. Nathan McKnight -- Aelffin (talk) 23:02, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-33
<section begin="technews-2015-W33"/> 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
 * MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page.
 * The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times.
 * You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later.
 * You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers.
 * It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script.
 * JavaScript authors:
 * You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix.
 * You can no longer use  on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix.
 * The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added.

Problems
 * More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed.
 * Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed.
 * Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
 * UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon.
 * You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Some things in the watchlist will get a new look.

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Tech News: 2015-34
<section begin="technews-2015-W34"/> 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
 * Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
 * Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems.

Problems
 * Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
 * On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
 * You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Commons category template
Dear Jackmcbarn,

I guess this discussion Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_August_20 might interest. I suppose your input on this topic could be valuable.--Robby (talk) 21:41, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Invisalign
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Invisalign. Legobot (talk) 00:06, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Re: Converting location maps to modules
Thank you for the link to conversion instruction! I was wandering around to find any information about it. Sorry for the trouble due to my bold edit. I will take a good look at the page. Cheers!--Quest for Truth (talk) 19:12, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35
<section begin="technews-2015-W35"/> 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
 * Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function.

Problems
 * There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-36
<section begin="technews-2015-W36"/> 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
 * VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC.
 * The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool.
 * VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module . Use   instead.
 * Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9.

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Tech News: 2015-37
<section begin="technews-2015-W37"/> 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 mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users.
 * A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support.
 * You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version.

Problems
 * There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed.
 * The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
 * The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters.
 * The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page.

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours.
 * Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places.

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Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list
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Script error: The module returned a value. It is supposed to return an export table.
Hi, re : see Village pump (technical)/Archive 139 - it was happening, and WP:PURGE did fix it, once we'd worked out what it was about. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:56, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Something odd is happening with this RFD nomination...
Hey Jackmcbarn, I figured you may know what is going on here. While I was correcting a double redirect encapsulated in a substituted RFD template, the state of the page went from this to this. In the second entry, somehow, the entirety of The Bold and the Beautiful secondary characters was transcluded. I don't know how it happened, but I have some suspicions of what may have caused it. In the first example, the target of the redirect is a redirect itself, making it (before I edited it) a double redirect; the issue happened after I resolved the double redirect. Anyways, here's the reason I think you may know what is going on: in the first edit I posted, the editor transcluded the template R from incorrect capitalisation on the nominated redirect to categorize it that is currently a template redirect nominated for RFD. (I have a suspicion this is somehow causing part of the problem.) Steel1943  (talk) 07:25, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It's a bug in Scribunto itself. I'll try to get a patch in Gerrit for it. I added a workaround to the module for now. Jackmcbarn (talk) 04:17, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Lua
Does anybody know how to use various symbols and scripts as <tt>self.args.</tt> i.e. <tt>args.</tt> in Lua? For example, if I want to use <tt>self.args.ћирилица</tt> (cyrillic script) I get redirected to Debug console and don't know what to do... I guess there're some extra signs before and after the text <tt>self.args.он отхер сцрипт ор витх вариоус сумболс</tt>. --Obsuser (talk) 00:57, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Use . You can only use the dot syntax with names that only consist of a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and _, and that don't start with a number. If you try to use it with any other string, it's a syntax error. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 02:16, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Face-smile.svg --Obsuser (talk) 02:28, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, it's not working. I get . I have also problem with . Any way to solve these? --Obsuser (talk) 02:40, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * is another syntax error. You need to write  (see here for an explanation of how the colon operator works). As for the other error, I think I will need to see your script. Can I have a link? — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 03:04, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Here. You can compare English version and the one from link to see what I've changed (you can check differences here). I need cyrillic script for all of those words (Strana, strane, datum, lokacija, akcija etc.) so they can be used as parameters in the template. You can change module on .sr project to see if it is working (if you want) because with  style I get error. Thank you! --Obsuser (talk) 03:53, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm, it looks like the best way of doing that would be to use the argument translation feature in Module:Arguments. I see that argument translation isn't documented at Module:Arguments/doc - is there a particular reason for this, or is it ok to encourage people to use it? — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 04:30, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * So what should I do now to make my module working with cyrillic script? --Obsuser (talk) 23:10, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * It works differently than the getArgs in Gerrit will, so I don't want to encourage use of the old way. Jackmcbarn (talk) 00:17, 8 August 2015 (UTC)


 * How can I use cyrillic now? There must be some detour...Obsuser (talk) 20:23, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * You can look at how de:Modul:Vorlage:Wertungsspiegel Computerspiel (a translation of Module:Video game reviews) does it, and just go along with it. (Just be prepared to have to do some rewriting when getArgs comes out.) Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:06, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, but can you give me an example of one changed name of any argument from my template my template? You can compare English version and the one from link to see what I've changed (you can check differences here). I need cyrillic script for all of those words (Strana, strane, datum, lokacija, akcija etc.) so they can be used as parameters in the template. You can change module on .sr project to see if it is working (if you want) because with  style I get error. Thank you! --Obsuser (talk) 17:02, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's one of the more difficult types of modules to translate. You'll need to create a table called translate that contains all English arguments with keys and translated arguments as values, and a table called backtranslate that contains all translated arguments as keys and English arguments as values. You'll need to give both of them metatables so that anything that starts with "combatant" in English is mapped to the same thing but starting with "strana" translated, and vice versa for backtranslate. Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:32, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I’m not that familiar with Lua. Could you please give me an example or create needed template(s) in Sandbox for specifically my case? On Wiki .sr we will probably need a lot of new Lua-based cyrillic templates with parameters NOT using latin script so it would be very useful to resolve this template as soon as possible. --Obsuser (talk) 19:59, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't really have time to do that right now. There's no reason that the  style shouldn't work; you should figure out why it's not and get that fixed for now instead. Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:09, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thank you. I managed to solve the problem by proper usage of  and  . --Obsuser (talk) 21:59, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-38
<section begin="technews-2015-W38"/> 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 the Wikidata query service.
 * Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved.
 * Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems.

Problems Changes this week
 * There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed.
 * The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later.
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings
 * You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations.
 * The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon.

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