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Tech News: 2016-32

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

• In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [1]

Problems

• If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [2]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [3]
• On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [4]
• When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [5]
• The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [6]
• When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
• A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [8]

Meetings

• 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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Project MC2

Dunno if you've already seen it, but if you haven't you might be interested in this... Cheers! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

@IJBall: I haven't seen the trailer yet, but I've heard about season 2 and it's already in the article. nyuszika7h (talk) 16:28, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

The trailer mentions two new characters by name (but unfortunately doesn't ID the actresses playing them...). --IJBall (contribs • talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:30, 9 August 2016‎ (UTC)

@IJBall: Yeah, I guess we'll just have to wait until August 12 to confirm it (though someone else has tried to add Ember's actress earlier – unsourced, of course). Also this suggests the second season will have 6 episodes, though it's not verified and the release date is close anyway so we'll also find that out for sure soon. nyuszika7h (talk) 16:58, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Four Tilda's

Hi @Nyuszika7H, I been aware of the four Tilda to create a signature for some while, since the get go, but there is some code in my browser that stops certain abusive JavaScript and that stops the four tilda working. Generally before I would double edit, to fix it, but it takes so much. The way the code runs on WP is not conjusive to good security on the client, and I'm not removing the HTTP pipeline filter that protects me. This is four tilda working scope_creep 13:10, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) @Scope creep: The expansion is done on server side, so I doubt that's causing an issue. Try going to your preferences, clearing out the "Signature:" box (or set it to "scope_creep" [without quotes] if you wish to have it lowercased), and make sure the "Treat the above as wiki markup" box is not checked. nyuszika7h (talk) 13:13, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

I thought server side as well, like asp.net, but I tried to fix it two years ago. I'll take a look. I don't know how the quotes appeared. scope_creep 13:18, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

@Scope creep: There are no quotes in your signature, just wanted to clarify that you don't need to include those. nyuszika7h (talk) 13:19, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Coolio. That is now working fine. Scope creep (talk) 13:28, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Re: Backstage

Now that makes things even weirder. I'm the one who added the credits there, and I can clearly confirm he was credited as RT! Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:10, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

@Amaury: That's strange. I have episodes from three different sources (I don't have a legal way to watch most foreign shows here without waiting for syndication, and one source stopped and the other skipped some episodes, so...) The first two episodes are from iTunes, where he's credited as "Randall Thorne". Episode 9 is from Disney UK, where he's credited as "RT!". I just confirmed on Watch Disney, and there he's indeed credited as "RT!" in episode 1, 2 and 9. Someone would need to check in Canada, but unless we find that he's credited as "Randall Thorne" there, we should probably go by the original broadcast as usual and add hidden notes about this situation. nyuszika7h (talk) 17:28, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

I watched them when they aired on Disney Channel, which I'm sure gets their copies of the show directly from Canada, the original broadcaster, where I know for a fact it was RT! I was going to have you look on Putlocker, but it looks like they show Randall Thorne as well. I'm willing to bet that's why you only saw one episode as RT! That one was from the Canada airing, though it is strange that another region would change the credits of a show they acquired. Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:47, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

@Amaury: It's really strange, because I'm pretty sure the iTunes episodes are from the US region too, so it's strange because they usually follow what Disney US does, with one-hour specials and stuff, but in this case they didn't. On both Disney US and UK, he's credited as "RT!", so it's safe to assume it's the same in Canada, I guess. nyuszika7h (talk) 18:04, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-33

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

• Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [9]
• Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [10]
• For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [11][12]

Changes this week

• The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [13]
• Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [14]
• In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [15][16]
• The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [18]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Notice of discussions regarding updates to MOS:TV

This is just a notification to a series of discussions that are taking place regarding updates to MOS:TV, given you participated in the discussion and/or expressed interest in the discussion seen here. You can find more information about the initiative and the discussions, here. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 03:38, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy

Honestly, I think I'd advise just boldly redirecting that to List of Sofia the First episodes. I don't see anything there that is worth keeping, especially as it is entirely unsourced. And it's not worth WP:PROD'ing or WP:AfD'ing either. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 04:38, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

@IJBall: At first I thought it's some weird pilot that happens to have the same name as an episode, but now I saw the date and realized it is about the episode and has absolutely nothing except the short lead and the plot... So yeah, thanks for the hint. nyuszika7h (talk) 09:16, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Table of contents

can you help me with the table of contents 76.170.9.79 (talk) 06:29, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

It doesn't show up until there are at least four headings in the article, because it's not really necessary at that point. Someone else added one, but I don't think it's needed yet. nyuszika7h (talk) 09:35, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

For the record, you can "force" a table of contents with either __TOC__ or something like {{TOC left}}. But, as you said, it's generally not a good idea if there are less than four sections in an article. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 13:59, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Re: Bizaardvark

Good catch! I wonder how we missed that. I don't remember an edit ever being made that added that. Amaury (talk | contribs) 14:17, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-34

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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [19]
• The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [20]
• The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [21]

Problems

• Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [22]
• When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [23]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [24][25]
• How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [26]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

what is going on with my wiki from Michael?

Evee0900 (talk) 03:52, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Nyuszika7H,

Thanks for the advice. I'll see if I can get the Rollback perm. FockeWulf FW 190 (talk) 14:11, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-35

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

• Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [27]
• When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [28]

Changes this week

• The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [29][30]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

• 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 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:04, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

AWB?

Hey, Nyuszika7H, you have WP:AWB rights, correct?... If so, I might have a job for you at Kett Turton. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 14:08, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@IJBall: Yeah, what do you need help with? nyuszika7h (talk) 16:19, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

There's a bunch of extraneous code in Kett Turton's Filmography table that doesn't need to be there. It would be a pain to remove manually – but this is just the kind of thing that AWB is for!! So I was hoping you could take care of it. TIA.. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:21, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@IJBall:  Done I just used the regex search and replace in the edit toolbar (under "Advanced", the icon on the right side), and for the episodes I was too lazy to write a regex and there weren't that many so I did that part with manual cut-and-paste. nyuszika7h (talk) 16:38, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

I'm a Mac guy, so I don't have access to AWB, though I've toyed with the idea of getting a cheap PC laptop just to play with it!... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 19:13, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@IJBall: I mean on the normal Wikipedia edit toolbar, I didn't use AWB. nyuszika7h (talk) 19:51, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Huh... I'll have to take a closer look at that!! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 19:51, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@IJBall: Actually, you may have to enable it manually: tick "Enable wizards for links, formatting, tables, citations, and the search and replace function" at Preferences § Editing. – nyuszika7h (talk) 19:53, 31 August 2016 (UTC)