User talk:KoshVorlon/Archive 37

Tech News: 2017-03
 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 upload WebP files to Commons.

Problems
 * video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up.

Changes this week
 * There is a new magic word called . It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators.
 * When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu.
 * You will be able to use  to write chemical formulas. Before you could use  .   should be replaced by.
 * You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist.
 * The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS:  You can change the number   to make it look like you want to.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in.
 * When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Revert on Dhole (Cthulhu Mythos)
Hi there! May I ask why you performed this revert on the Dhole (Cthulhu Mythos) article? I thought restoring the quotation to the original spelling (the very spelling that got it included in the article) would be fairly uncontroversial... -- Perey (talk) 18:28, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Ah, but if you look again, you'll see that the article describes how Lovecraft mentioned "dholes" in one story and "bholes" in another. I'm not 100% convinced that these are two names for the same thing, but in any case the passage using "bholes" should be left with that spelling. Anyway, thanks for the remarkably prompt reply, and carry on gnoming! -- Perey (talk) 18:46, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Your signature
You've been warned more than often enough about this. If you continue to misuse templates to get around Signatures—which as you're well aware, is non-negotiable—you'll be blocked for disruption. Every other editor on Wikipedia is capable of using Special:Preferences correctly, and you've been here long enough (and been warned often enough) that "I didn't know" isn't going to wash as an excuse. &#8209; Iridescent 21:10, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * If you haven't done so already, please can you remove the Timestamp template from your signature. Currently it is marking every IP talkpage you've signed for deletion, and I'm about to go offline and don't have the time to tidy them all up. Yunshui 雲 水 16:18, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04
 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 see a list of the templates on a page you edit with the visual editor.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)