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Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [1] [2] [3] [4]
  • A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [5] [6]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [7] [8]
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [9]
  • VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [10]

Future software changes

  • Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [11]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [12] [13]
  • Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [14] [15] [16]
  • You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [17] [18]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

About GA nomination on Frozen (2013 film)

I apologise for not getting a consensus beforehand. I checked it against the criteria and felt that it should not be much to fix. Of course my judgement could be wrong, with my little experience. However, I cast the die, and I'll not simply leave it to be failed. Good luck editing! Forbidden User (talk) 15:15, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Could you please respond to the reviewer in case he continues the review? I won't be back until 25 June. Thanks!Forbidden User (talk) 16:45, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
@Forbidden User: OK, but without any warranty (I'm not sure about my work, too!) We'll miss you a lot. ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 16:50, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
Thanks a million! I'd be off starting from Monday :( Good luck!Forbidden User (talk) 16:54, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 May 2014

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2014)

The Amazon Basin, pictured in yellow, holds the largest rainforest in the world.
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Amazon Basin

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Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [19]

VisualEditor news

  • Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [20]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [21] [22]
  • VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [23]
  • There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [24]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [31]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Luckily I had some time on wiki today! I'll miss wiki a lot :( cheers! Forbidden User (talk) 08:46, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. The reviewer doesn't respond at all so I'm doing nothing :)) Try to be online whenever you can, okay? ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 08:51, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Haha, of course, if I could steal time from my exam study schedule like today. Cheers!Forbidden User (talk) 09:45, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

216.46.33.208

Three minutes after your warnings, they vandalized Anna (Disney) again.[32] Edward321 (talk) 03:38, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Olympus Has Fallen

Richard Roeper didn't say 1.5 star on that movie. He gave it a grade C on his website just so you know. BattleshipMan (talk) 17:51, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Revert

Undone edits

Things with which you personally disagree are not unconstructive. Wikipedia once again shows its bias and futility. 50.128.184.140 (talk) 11:53, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Wake, Rattle and Roll

What exactly makes it better to remove my edit but not the similar comments to other episodes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.222.27.193 (talk) 19:13, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

Question

Isn't it easier to revert or adjust a single change than to go hunting through a whole bunch of changes made in a single edit? I've seen people revert a bunch of edits at once when many changes were fine and they only objected to one or two, thereby creating a lot of back and forth and ill feelings. And most of the edits I'm making are just technical in nature anyway, like italicizing Daily Mail or making the date format consistent with the "Use mdy" at top. --209.122.114.237 (talk) 04:34, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2014)

File:Elmo-cockpit xltn.jpg
The Tickle Me Elmo toy was based on the Sesame Street character Elmo
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Tickle Me Elmo

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Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [33] [34]

VisualEditor news

  • You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [35] [36]
  • The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [37] [38] [39]
  • You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [40] [41]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [42]
  • You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [43]
  • On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [44] [45]
  • You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [46] [47]
  • Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [48] [49] [50]
  • You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [51] [52]
  • Hovercards will no longer flicker. [53]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Revert on Odnoklassniki

I updated current alexa statistcs of the website since the data there was outdated. Please, explain my mistake if any. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuperBabushka (talk • contribs) 10:04, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

List of schools in Nigeria

Those are the only online verifiable sources I have been able to retrieve.I have personal contact with the school administrator. ISnt this an exception to the rule about linking social networks?DaSkeptik (talk) 11:11, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I have created the wiki for Ladela School but it is yet to link it to the "list of Schools in Nigeria" Note: it is work in progress and I am new here. Thanks! DaSkeptik (talk) 11:43, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Ferengi change

Hi Quenhitran! 

 Thank you for having such care for the pages.  You messaged me concerning this change:

http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Ferengi&diff=prev&oldid=611251492 

 The only change I intended to make (I didn't see any others, did you?) was to correct the name of the Ferengi, Daimon Goss (was incorrectly listed as Gross).

 As I'm not sure how to undo your undo of my change (that link to the sandbox is useful, thank you), I've made the same change again.

Thanks for watching! - Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.164.164.76 (talk) 19:56, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

Foreign-language articles

Hi: Please do not tag articles for deletion simply because they are in a foreign language. It's explicitly listed as not a criterion for speedy deletion: see Wikipedia:Speedy deletions#Non-criteria, last item. You tagged പീരങ്കി for deletion and it was deleted. In this instance, no harm was done - the article is already on the Wikipedia in the language concerned (ml:പീരങ്കി - criterion A2) and we already have an article on the topic (Cannon - criterion A10). But unless they fall under either of those two criteria, please don't tag foreign-language articles for speedy deletion! It already had the correct tag asking for it to be translated from Malayalam and was posted at WP:Pages needing translation into English; these are the correct steps to follow with a foreign-language article you are unable to read and thus to evaluate, so that someone who can read the language can determine whether it's speediable. Sometimes they are in fact useful new articles but need to be translated. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:52, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2014)

The old buildings of the National Library of China house historical and ancient books, documents and manuscripts
Hello, Quenhitran.

The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

National Library of China

Previous selections: Tickle Me Elmo • Amazon Basin

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Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

  • You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [54]
  • When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [55] [56]
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [57] [58] [59] [60]
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [61] [62] [63]

Future software changes

  • Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [64]
  • You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [65]
  • You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [66] [67]
  • It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [68] [69]
  • Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [70]
  • The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [71]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
  • You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [72]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King infobox

Hi, the reason why I undid 74.96.229.43's change [73] to the infobox of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was because that change removed many items such as Music by, Cinematography, Studio, Running time, Language, etc. from the Infobox. Plus, since there is already a Cast section in the article, adding a huge list of names isn't necessary. Thank you.--Taderuer (talk) 12:29, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
Even though Forbidden User nominated Frozen which is now a GA, I believe you deserve the credit of having improved it because I saw you being more active on the article. Kailash29792 (talk) 10:17, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Nickname for Grand Junction, Colorado

It appears that you have undone my recent addition of "Ol' Grandy" as a nickname for Grand Junction, Colorado. The locals here very frequently refer to their city as Ol' Grandy, so I think it is fitting to add that name to the list of nicknames. Please allow my edit.

This is the message I am responding to: Hello, I'm Quenhitran. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Grand Junction, Colorado because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 15:57, 20 June 2014 (UTC) AhtingHwitey (talk) 16:28, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

"Vandalism'

Hey Quenhitran, will you take it easy, please? There is no reason for you to call this edit vandalism. It may be wrong, or unverified, or misguided, or whatever, but it is not an intentional effort to disrupt the project (read the definition at WP:VANDAL). I have reverted your warning and will leave a note for the user, in hopes that you haven't pissed them off so much with your vandalism warning that they don't return. Drmies (talk) 17:20, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

He pissed me of anyway. With this very polite comment. And after 3 time reverting and saying "go read the instructions first" but don't read them hisself. At last have the brains to read the source and that try to say sorry in this way with a very ecocentric touch. I believe i don not have to speak english to stand up for my copyrights. So very stupid comment and poor excuses for not have to say sorry because some of the comment is true (but it is even not like this). Vdkdaan (talk) 11:46, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
For your impressive and determined work on Disney-related articles (notably Frozen). It's always terrific to see novice editors with plenty of potential, blossoming into something even greater. Looking forward to collaborating with you more in the future. ~ Jedi94 (Want to tell me something?) 22:26, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2014)

Anubis, the jackal headed god of ancient Egypt
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection:

Anubis

Previous selections: National Library of China • Tickle Me Elmo

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Tech News: 2014-26

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [74] [75]
  • When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [76] [77]
  • You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [78] [79]
  • You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [80] [81]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [82] [83]
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [84]
  • CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [85]
  • You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [86] [87]
  • An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [88]

Problems

  • On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
  • Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [89]

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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Frozen/Spirited Away

Out of interest would it not be viable to keep the fact that Frozen took down Spirited Away as the highest grossing film in Japan?Corabal (talk) 10:47, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

@Corabal: I moved your fact to the Box office subheading, we don't include this detail in the lead section to keep it from getting too long. Nothing was removed. I did the same thing to the fact that Frozen surpassed Toy Story 3 to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time. ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 10:53, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Fair enough, thank you. :) Corabal (talk) 11:54, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014

The character formatting menu

Did you know?

The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

  • They have moved the "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
  • You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
  • The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type  "date" for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and  "boolean" for values which are true or false. Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like {{citeweb}} → {{cite web}}) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964). You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
  • Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
  • They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references. When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead. 
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed. Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the "Page options" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler.

Looking ahead

The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

Supporting your wiki

Please read VisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

If you speak a language other than English, we need your help with translating the user guide. The guide is out of date or incomplete for many languages, and what's on your wiki may not be the most recent translation. Please contact me if you need help getting started with translation work on MediaWiki.org.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 21:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas and Pacific Islands) or on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 9:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East, Asia).

To change your subscription to this newsletter, please see the subscription pages on Meta or the English Wikipedia. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 04:59, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Frozen (2013 film)

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Removal of content

Why remove the latin phase that was added? It is a valid phrase.

Just google and you would know, 'ancora imparo' means 'I am still learning' and it is the motto of Monash University.

any specific reason for removal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milselrahc (talk • contribs) 01:06, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

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