User talk:KoshVorlon/Archive 31

Tech News: 2016-51
 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 9 January 2017.
 * The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes
 * Administrators and translation administrators can now use Special:PageLanguage on wikis with the Translate extension. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function  to get formatted data. You can also use   to get raw data. You can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua.

Problems
 * Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November.

Changes this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on 3 January at 20:00 (UTC). During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. See how to join.

Future changes
 * The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is done. It decides what the Community Tech team will work on during 2017. You can see the results.

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What's going on at User talk:Humorideas?
Hey, I see that there's an IP user 198.105.118.28 causing trouble on User talk:Humorideas. He seems to be blocked already, yet he continues to try to post shock images on this particular talk page. What's going on? --Delta1989 (talk) (contributions) 14:45, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Feeding the trolls
This is unhelpful. Please just report at WP:AIV. No warnings are necessary for obvious block evasion, let alone one that is likely to encourage continued trolling. ~ Rob 13 Talk 15:15, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I keep that template around but use it sparingly, it's mean to be a humourous way to encourage legitimate posting. I don't see that as feeding the trolls, if it were insulting are outright saying something like  "Anything's possible if you stop trolling.... " that would be feeding.   Kosh Vorlon '''  15:20, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * It's more the whole responding at all, really, although I also find the template a bit over-the-top personally. I'd have no objection using that template in a "trouting" type way with a good-faith user, certainly, but this is someone seeking a reaction. It's counter-productive to give them any. ~ Rob 13 Talk 15:21, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'll use that template the way you described and not use it on suspected trolls.  Kosh Vorlon '''  15:24, 22 December 2016 (UTC)