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Tech News: 2017-29

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 Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [1]

Problems

  • On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [2]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [3] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [4]

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22:59, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Canadian Cinema Editors

Why was my contribution seen as copyright? I took public information and add it to the existing page. Also, I made the info already on the page much nicer to look at. I don't understand where the copyright comes into play? - Kody Davidson (Kool Kay)

Hi Kool Kay, you copied content directly from a copyrighted source (http://www.cceditors.ca/cpages/about). This isn't allowed -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:56, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi There;sNoTime,I wouldn't think you could copyright something like that but couldn't we just remove the part in question and keep the other work I did on the page? Most notably the tables that took forever to format.
- Thanks! 21:07, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Teahouse#Need help in dealing with spam article

This discussion references a third copy of ttwo artcles you have previously deleted: Is the current one an improvement? — fortunavelut luna 10:22, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Sorry for waking you up so early on a Saturday  :) — fortunavelut luna 10:36, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the prod FIM -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 10:42, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Conflict?

I didn't notice 773 when I 859 (raised on my talk). No need for all of them - I'll leave you to decide. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:35, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

@Zzuuzz: I've disabled 773 as it's only my test filter -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:42, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #270

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
For your work on UAA. I would probably give you 10 more, but I have to control my barnstaritis. Cheers, FriyMan Per aspera ad astra 10:24, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Thank you I believe issues reported to UAA/AIV should be dealt with as soon as possible, so I try to keep a close eye on them when I can -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 10:58, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Nice work and I liked the swiftness at which you can block obvious vandalism. keep up. :) Red Pen (talk) 10:43, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi Red Pen, thanks for that! And a big thank you for the help and support you've provided people, and your work improving our articles - we admins are but the cleaners, you guys are the important ones! -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 10:49, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Thank You sir, feeling really honored to be mentioned through these lines. :) I will try to do my best in expanding Wikipedia and making it more understandable (Copy Editing) Thank you again sir! Red Pen (talk) 10:54, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

RfA

Thanks for supporting my run for administrator. I am honored and grateful. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 16:19, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
@Cullen328: Congratulations on your landslide RfA! If there is anything our fellow administrators or I can do to help, let me know I'd recommend having a dig through my common.js for some useful scripts -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:57, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-07

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The team is currently working on three main goals, which we expect to complete this summer or in September:

  1. Graduate New Filters for Edit Review core features out of beta:
    • The core New Filters features slated to become standard parts of Recent Changes are the ones that have been out in beta for a while and fully road-tested by the community.
    • These include the new filtering interface, the machine-learning filter groups “User Intent Predictions” and “Quality Predictions,” the highlighting tools, the ability to save your filter settings for later use, and the new filter groups: “Watchlisted pages,” “Last revision” and "User registration and experience."
    • There’s a list of “blocker” tasks we need to complete before these features are ready to graduate out of beta.
    • We expect to release those features by default in September. A more precise message will be sent to communities. If you have questions about it, you can write a message on Mediawiki.org, in any language.
  2. Extend the New Filters to Watchlist: The Watchlists of very active editors can include thousands of pages. To help these busy folks keep up with their work, we’re adding the New Filters UX and tools to Watchlist. The Watchlist and Recent Changes pages are similar, but there is some work involved in adapting the tools to their new setting. That work should be ready some time in late summer or early fall. Stay tuned for an announcement!
  3. Continuing work on “Integrated Filters”:
    • While the New Filters for Edit Review beta brought probably 70% of the old-style Recent Changes features into the new user interface, it left some behind—like the Tag and Namespace filters and the controls for the number of days searched and number of results presented. As the name is meant to suggest, “Integrated filters” integrates those old-style tools into the new UI.
    • It also adds some new tools users have asked for, such as:
      • “Live updates” which provides a near real-time automatic refresh of the Recent Changes page.
      • Category filters, which enable users to search by category.
      • User filters, which let you define searches that include or exclude edits by particular users.
    • We will put the community-defined related links that cluster at the top of most Recent Changes pages into a collapsible panel, in order to clarify the Recent Changes page.

We should note that it’s not certain these last two additions will make the cut for inclusion this year. If you want a make the case for either one, we want to hear from you.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Some styling adjustments are ongoing on the filters for recent changes. [5]
  • RecentChanges with the Beta feature were very slow to load on Wikidata. It is now fixed. [6]
  • In the Beta feature, you can try the Live Updates feature. Just add &liveupdate=1 at the end of the URL in Recent Changes page. [7]

Future changes

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • It is now possible to display the number of unread notifications in the browser title bar, using a gadget. [10]

Future changes

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16:43, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30

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

  • CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later. [12][13][14]
  • .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [15]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).
  • It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation. [16]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 July at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes

  • New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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15:58, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:00, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

User talk:Whatisurproblem

Perhaps revoke access? A registered editor is betting drawn into an unnecessary edit war over it. Cheers, — fortunavelut luna 10:05, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

@Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: What a horrid person - I've revoked TPA and upped their block to indefinite -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 10:22, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Actually I thought they had me to a T  ;) thanks for that though. Better out than in, as they say! — fortunavelut luna 10:26, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Question

I was looking through User:HasteurBot/G13 OptIn Notifications and saw [17]. Is there a reason for this? Can I remove this non-entity from the opt in because it doesn't seem like a right fit. Hasteur (talk) 12:46, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

@Hasteur: That was my previous username if you're wondering, but please do feel free to remove it :) -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 12:54, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Hm... Do you want to be opted in on this name? Hasteur (talk) 13:59, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
@Hasteur: May as well, gives me something to delete -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 14:07, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
These are notices that a page is coming eligible for G13 in at most 1 month. This runs 1 month in advance of the G13 nominating bot process to give people an opportunity to look at the page before the bot goes through and nominates. Hasteur (talk) 14:30, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

SoWhy

(I'll take this offline from the debate as it'll get in the way)

Key debates that swung it in my opinion were WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive287#Deletion of Micaela Schäfer (plus follow up on User talk:Ritchie333/Archive 54#Micaela Schäfer), Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dodger67 2, Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/CaroleHenson, Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GeneralizationsAreBad 2 and Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GoldenRing (plus follow up on User talk:Ritchie333/Archive 56#RfA). I think that's about five debates where I've strongly disagreed with SoWhy, and I've seen enough debates to know where I reach the point of saying "you know what, forget it, this isn't working, let's do something else (or worse)". I've never had that with this guy. To take something like CaroleHenson's RfA, where I'd done some prep, got a co-nom on board, and see it tank with 24 hours, and still come out of the other side amicably is nothing short of miraculous.

The reason I'm bringing it up is not because I want you to change your !vote (I've opposed enough RfAs and got flak for it - as long as you're polite, say what you think) but rather I've got this nagging doubt that the next RfA that SoWhy opposes due to CSDs might well involve an arbcom case for a desysop. I was kind of hoping that putting them in the 'crat position would mean they'd stay away from the coalface of RfA and just concentrate on doing the closures (as and when they turn up) diligently. Or something like that. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:52, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Just a courtesy ping that I'm reading through the above linked discussions, though I am confused about the reasoning in attempting to get SoWhy into 'cratminship.. -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 20:57, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Bulldog4 ANI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Personal_Attacks_by_Bulldog4

You closed this without the CU. There is still likely potential that Bulldog4 is Strathisla1. --Tarage (talk) 18:07, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Since Strathisla1 last edited 29 July 2015 there is nothing a CU can do as CU data is only kept 90 days. ~ GB fan 18:20, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
@Tarage: Apologies, I should have noted that CU wouldn't be possible due to the account being stale in my close -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 18:22, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Sorry for mishap

hello user:There'sNoTime

on the "Sustainable aviation fuel" page , there are 3 broken external links. I did not want to delete them, as I don't know the system yet. I added a serious Blog on Sustainable Aviation without ads etc. How can I contribute by editing in a good manner on this page ?

thanks, User:Sustainable-Flights — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sustainable-Flights (talk • contribs)

@Sustainable-Flights: Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia Thank you for your interest in external links on Wikipedia, however given the link you're adding is a blog of yours, it would be considered advertising, which is not allowed. This page contains a number of guides and policies which govern why we do not allow advertising, and this page contains information on external links. All links here use the nofollow tag, which means you get no SEO benefit from being linked to -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:48, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

well thanks for your corrections user:There'sNoTime, how could I edit those broken links ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sustainable-Flights (talk • contribs)

No problem Sustainable-Flights. I would recommend just deleting the broken external links. Also, please sign your edits on talk pages (not on articles) by typing ~~~~ at the end of your message -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 19:54, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

NSEL Case

@There'sNoTime As you would notice, have raised multiple consensus building requests which have not been responded to. Have raised a Edit request as well putting out my reasons for the same. Since I am getting no response towards building a consensus , pls lower the page protection invoking WP:UNPROTECT Anrdshr (talk) 08:15, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

@Anrdshr: As I've stated multiple times, as the admin who protected the page it would be improper of me to take part in discussions relating to changes to the article. I do not care about the outcome of the discussion, as long as it is discussed civilly. I will not be lowering the page protection as no consensus has been gained, and I have a feeling that you would just edit the page and another dispute will start. You need to wait for an uninvolved admin to review the edit request as I will not be reviewing it, making edits to the page or unprotecting it. Is that clear this time? -- There'sNoTime (to explain) 09:31, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
There'sNoTime. Did not' ask you to participate in the consensus building process. You got me wrong there. As for consensus building, have invited all stakeholders multiple time over. If nobody participates, I think I should have a way out to make my voice heard. It's not that you be involved in that, but since you locked the page out, your POV is important I thought. Anrdshr (talk) 10:04, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

G13 Eligibility Notice

The following pages will become eligible for CSD:G13 shortly.

Thanks, HasteurBot (talk) 03:03, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #271

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • WikidataCon
    • Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
    • You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites
  • Development
    • Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
    • Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
    • Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254)
    • Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950)
    • Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
    • Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.


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