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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 <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [1]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [2]
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 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [3]
Thank you, it's not "working" yet, - seems always to take a while until a template change is visible in what we see --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:26, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
I purged the page with the method to go to edit and replace "edit" by "purge". Still italic. Also: there was a conflict of DISPLAYTITLE, "fixed", but now we have a header that has the BWV number also italic, which is not wanted. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, always learning. I didn't want to change the hard-coding because then almost all articles would have needed a change, but now someone did that anyway. Not so sure anymore. infobox musical composition doesn't have that hard-coding. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:00, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.
Development
Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.
I've been reading the Wikidata-related Op-Ed in The Signpost and thinking of my struggles adding a reference to Wikidata. Then your addition to Breastfeeding popped up on my watchlist. Wonderful. May I bombard you with questions the next time I enter a reference? It would be nice if there were a function in Wikidata that would take the wikitext of a formatted reference and parse it into the correct (or almost correct) fields? I remember the process of creating each field as rather slow. StarryGrandma (talk) 16:29, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
I love having the Wikidata link in the reference; it makes the source very easy to fix if there is a problem. However I am hoping for a way to keep Cite Q friendly for source editors. (My experience with Cite doi before the changeover was painful.) I am thinking of something like {{cite Q|Q28474683|Lancaster 2004|pages=6–7}}[1] or {{cite Q|Q28474683|pages=6–7|Lancaster, Making Time}}.[2] These actually work just fine at the moment. Just change the usage to
{{Cite Q| XXQIDXX |page= |access-date= |quote= |memo or comment}}
adding "2= = memo or comment to label the reference for ease in source editing" or something like that.
Currently Visual Editor is well-enough developed that one can see what the reference is while editing. The issue is for source editing. The wonderful change of showing references in preview for section editing is a great help. (I would often forget to remove the reflist I had put in.) However dealing with a large section with many cite doi references in those days was difficult, with only a long number differentiating a reference and a long preview reference section far up the page.
Yes, I like this, particularly with the comment inside the template where it is less likely to be removed by another editor. While Visual Editor takes blank spaces out of references when edited, it leaves comments alone. StarryGrandma (talk) 23:27, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
@StarryGrandma: On reflection, it's better to do this with the name attribute on the citation:
Since I often already name references even though I only use them once I like that too. That fits in completely with the usual appearance of a reference and no one would be tempted to change it. StarryGrandma (talk) 12:54, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
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
There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [4]
Changes this week
Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [5]
Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.
Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
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
There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [6]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 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 11 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [7]
We will not useTidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.
Macedonia report: New collaboration of GLAM Macedonia user group with the City Library in Skopje
Netherlands report: Workshop children's books, Sharing is Caring Brussels, short WiR period at Utrecht University Library & Preparations medieval image donation
Russia report: WikiProjects of students of Petrozavodsk State University
Hello Pigsonthewing, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!
Backlog update:
The new page backlog is currently at 18,511 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
Some editors are committing to work specifically on patrolling new pages on 15 July. If you have not reviewed new pages in a while, this might be a good time to be involved. Please remember that quality of patrolling is more important than quantity, that the speedy deletion criteria should be followed strictly, and that ovetagging for minor issues should be avoided.
Technology update:
Several requests have been put into Phabractor to increase usability of the New Pages Feed and the Page Curation toolbar. For more details or to suggest improvements go to Wikipedia:Page Curation/Suggested improvements
The tutorial has been updated to include links to the following useful userscripts. If you were not aware of them, they could be useful in your efforts reviewing new pages:
User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js adds a link to the new pages feed and page curation toolbar to your top toolbar on Wikipedia
Following discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Noticeboard has been marked as historical. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers is currently the most active central discussion forum for the New Page Patrol project. To keep up to date on the most recent discussions you can add it to your watchlist or visit it periodically.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here.TonyBallioni (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Midland-Metro-Key
The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)
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. [8]
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. [9]
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. [10] 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. [11]
pls let me know if yr gonna be in milan during school yr -- met at Esino, not sure abt Montreal -- love 2 hv tea -- best to keep institution name in original lang, i wot - phi (talk) 11:25, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
Portable Antiquities Scheme : translation in French
Hello. I've found your call for some work on this article on the French Wikipedia with quite a delay, while reading the Bistro des non-francophones (the non-French-speakers forum), something I rarely do. If you think it would be useful to translate anything else from English to French, don't hesitate to ask me directly. The PAS catched my interest because it's an interesting initiative I hadn't heard of, a pragmatic way to ease the quarrel between official and unofficial archeologists and to gather as much data as possible. It seems to me it's a smart move. I plan to extend the article, wich is a stub for now, in the fr.wiki. Amicalement Aluminium (talk) 22:24, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
Template:Where-geo has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 05:54, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [5]
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