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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
Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as
javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the
URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security.
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Problems
New and updated translations from
translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on
3 October at 15:00 UTC. See
how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
You can read more about this.
There is an open
request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.
Technical news
Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the
Test Wikipedia and the
Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to
measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
Because of
a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
Following a
request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are
being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at
14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
You can read more about this.
Because of
the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
This is not serious at all, but is something interesting I've noticed. Why does
User:HBC AIV helperbot5 sometimes make edit summaries saying that a user was blocked for "a fortnight?" I know "fortnight" means a fourteen-day period, but it isn't a commonly used term. The bot doesn't use terms like that for other lengths of time (for example, it will say "7 days" instead of "a week.") Is there a reason for this?
Diamond Blizzardtalk00:40, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
@
Diamond Blizzard: As the code is quite outdated, I've made some adjustments to the formatting of such "special dates". It should now reflect normally. Thank you for the feedback! —
JamesR (
talk)
00:44, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
I did notice it say "14 days" instead of "fortnight" once now. To be honest, I wasn't actually complaining about the "fortnight" edit summary, and thought it was funny. But of course, you can do what you want with it.
Diamond Blizzardtalk03:54, 12 October 2018 (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.
Problems
Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the
server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix.
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Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from
translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again.
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Changes later this week
When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (
calendar).
Meetings
There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use
Phabricator as normal.
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (
calendar).
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
The
Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
You can post proposals for the
Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The wikis now have a
content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future.
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Problems
Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (
calendar).
The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from
Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the
2010 wikitext editor.
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Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
I noticed that the page doesn't count log redactions. Could be separate from revision deletion or combined under revdel, but probably worth including? ~ Amory(
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c)00:53, 31 October 2018 (UTC)