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6 September 2016

Technology report

Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them

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By Evad37

New user scripts to customise your Wikipedia experience

ProblemImages^[1] (source) by User:Perhelion – Mark images (which are either at Commons or on Wikipedia) staying for deletion or maintenance.
Citoid^[2] (source) by User:Salix alba – Generates references from URL's and doi's using the Citoid server – normally only available with Visual Editor, this script allows access from the normal wikitext editor.
IE^[3] (source) by User:Filpro – Adjust spelling in articles to use Indian English per WP:IE, for articles which predominately use that variety of English, or should use it per WP:TIES.
pageswap^[4] (source) by User:Andy M. Wang – allows administrators and page movers to swap the histories of two pages, also known as a "history swap", or sometimes a "round-robin move".

Newly approved bot tasks

Dexbot (task 6) – In "External links" sections, changes links to official websites to use {{official website}}.
Bender the Bot (approval) – HTTP to HTTPS conversion for Internet Archive links.
BU RoBOT (task 26) – Removes navboxes from pages in order to carry out a TfD deletion decision.
JJMC89 bot (task 6) – Removes external link template parameters that have been migrated to Wikidata.
GreenC bot (task 2) – Fixes problems with links to Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Proposal for an improved edit conflict page

How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future – you can test the prototype. Improving the edit conflict page was the top request in the German-speaking communties' 2015 wishlist; the prototype shows the solution from Wikimedia Germany's software engineering department. Feedback from the international community, including English Wikipedia users, would be appreciated.

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. [1]
- 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. [2]
- 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. [3]
- 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. [4]
- 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. [5]
Problems
- Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [6]
- When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [7]
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. [8][9]
- 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).
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. [10][11]

Installation code

^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
mw.loader.load('//meta.wikimedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User:Perhelion/problemImages.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
importScript( 'User:Salix alba/Citoid.js' ); // Backlink: User:Salix alba/Citoid.js
^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
importScript( 'User:Filpro/script/IE.js' ); // Backlink: User:Filpro/script/IE.js
^ Copy the following code, click here, then paste:
importScript( 'User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap.js' ); // Backlink: User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap.js