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Tech News: 2017-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [1]
  • When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [2]
  • You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [3]
  • New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [4]

Problems

  • The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [5]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [6]
  • You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [7]
  • When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [8]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
  • String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [9]

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 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [10][11]
  • Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [12]
  • The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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19:05, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

File:Buzzfeed publication of Stanford Victim Impact Statement.png

Hi! You recently requested a lower resolution version of this image, which was dutifully produced by a bot within 48 hours. In this particular case, the image is a pull quote from the longer text (whose copyright is not held by BuzzFeed). Your request did not engage with the rationale for the resolution I posted, which appears in the image description:

Not replaceable with textual coverage because: Publication is accompanied by a carefully designed excerpt of the larger text, which is only understandable by directly viewing it at a resolution where it is legible.
Minimal use: Used once, resolution has been halved (not more so because legibility of the graphic is an element of understanding the image). Since the text is much longer, the image cannot substitute for an actual visit to the site.

What do you think of this reasoning?--Carwil (talk) 00:56, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Carwil:The guideline for size for non-free images is at WP:Image resolution. DatBot has correctly achieved this size. As it stands, if one zooms into the image, all the text is readable (sometimes the text does gets so corrupted that it never legible, not the case here). Obviously I think this image is fine, and I assume the deleting admin did the same. Maybe raise at WP:DELREV if you think it must be bigger.Ronhjones  (Talk) 20:32, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
(Non-administrator comment) Actually, WP:NFCC#3 is about not using more non-free content than we need, either by removing an entire file (WP:NFCC#3a) or by removing a part of a file (WP:NFCC#3b). The bot didn't remove any non-free content – the file still contains exactly the same text. Changing the pixel size only removes non-free content if the file is an artwork but not if the file is text. In other words, if the file is to be reduced, that means removing some of the words instead of removing some of the pixels. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:02, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A kind request to restore Converse Bank drafted article

Dear Ronhjones,

It's my pleasure to contact with you. Actually, I'm totally new in Wikipedia. Yesterday I created an article introducing background information about Converse Bank company. I've seen that yesterday you deleted the draft page written by me. Yesterday while creating my first draft, I was consulting with DrStrauss, one of the members of help center. After saving the draft he advised me to edit it by adding significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Afterwards, to create a userpage and paste this into it:
This user has publicly declared that he has a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Draft:Converse Bank.
. I also read the notification sent by [|Yeryry]

If it's possible I'd like to ask you to restore my drafted version, so that I could edit it and transfer to userpage? I would be very thankful if you could make it possible.

Thank you in advance for your support :)

Best Regards

Marianna Mezhlumyan

@MariannaMezhlumyan: Sorry, in this case it is not possible, we cannot restore copyrighted material back to Wikipedia. A large proportion of the text is a copy of https://www.conversebank.am/en/general-information/. If you send me an e-mail I can post it back. Please do not put it back on Wikipedia - the text entered will get compared with the rest of the internet. Copyright issues are usually deleted within the hour. If you want to use web material on a Wikipedia page you must get the copyright donated first - get the copyright holder to go to WP:CONSENT Ronhjones  (Talk) 20:38, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

VFPDataHandling.png and Windows 8 RE - advanced options.png

Hello.

It seems DatBot has made a mess of File:VFPDataHandling.png and File:Windows 8 RE - advanced options.png. Do you mind if you restore the now-hidden old revisions so that I can try an informed attempt?

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 18:50, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Codename Lisa: Done and tagged for manual reduction, will stop further tagging for bot - change to {{non-free no reduce}} if you can't get any smaller. Ronhjones  (Talk) 20:43, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 9 June 2017

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:18, 9 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mosaic Netscape 0.9 on Windows XP.png

Hello

I bet the subject of my message already told you everything. DatBot has downsized File:Mosaic Netscape 0.9 on Windows XP.png and it hasn't done a very good job either. Could you please assist?

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 11:37, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Codename Lisa: :-) Done as before Ronhjones  (Talk) 14:44, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Philippine Airlines destinations

Why did you revert? The airline has already started services to Kuala Lumpur on June 10, 2017. 107.77.219.35 (talk) 14:25, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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