User talk:Zhuyifei1999/Archive 24

Quality on video2commons

Hi Zhuyifei1999, I have uploaded the video file:Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Viveiro.ogv with video2commons tool, but it has a lot of "lines/artifacts" that the original video didn't had. Format webm has more quality? How can I configure the tool to get more quality? I don't mind to wait. Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 18:29, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

@Elisardojm: Could you try webm? OGG Theora compression is inferior to VP8 compression in WebM. Also note that the same filename may not work due to upload warnings. You might have to change the filename a bit and rename it after the upload. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 18:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

@Elisardojm: Actually no. The webm 1080p videoscaler output at [1] looks just fine for me, except for some interlacing issues. I can't check the uploaded OGG as it is too large for my bandwidth. Have you checked the quality of the uploaded video (output from video2commons) or the down-scaled videos (output from videoscalers)? --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 19:26, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Hmm. Lower res video do not seem to have interlacing issues... I'm looking into it --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 19:37, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Downloaded part of the file:Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Viveiro.ogv and the (temporarily stored) mp4 file upload to v2c, both have interlacing issues, so it's not a v2c problem --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 19:44, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Hey..., Did you change anything to the file? When I reviewed the video, quality was more poor, the fish had pixeled lines and now it had dissapeared. And the transcodification states were different, there was only a few, now there are a lot. Perhaps, the upload was in progress when I checked the video? I'm uploading anothertime the video in webm format, with this we could compare qualities. Bye and thanks for your help, --Elisardojm (talk) 19:47, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

@Elisardojm: I didn't change anything. Wikimedia's videoscalers was busy scaling the videos for regular use. Lower qualities gets scaled faster. Right not I'm working on deinterlacing the video. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 19:56, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Ok file has been deinterlaced --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 20:12, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Ah, I understand now...

The webm version it's just now uploaded too, File:Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Viveiro2.webm, but I don't know what it's the best... Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 21:58, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

No..., the ogv version is more sharp, isn't it? Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 22:02, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

@Elisardojm: That's hard to tell. The quality should be similar, but since I've deinterlaced the ogv version and not the webm, I'd prefer the ogv version instead. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 07:38, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

And, how can I deinterlace the vídeos at Commons? Bye, --Elisardojm (talk) 19:06, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

As far as I know, there is no tools.wmflabs.org tool that can do deinterlacing. You can choose to:

• Request at Commons:Graphic_Lab/Video_and_sound_workshop. This is probably the easiest way, but you have to depend on others.
• Install a software capable of deinterlacing. I use FFmpeg.
• Search online. I can't guarantee that this method works though.

--Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 19:14, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!! Cheers, --Elisardojm (talk) 20:01, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

File:Wybory 1989 grupa 4 plakatow wyborczych Wiki.jpg

Thank you very much,

Paul Fishman PL (talk) 15:53, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

FlickreviewR 2 Pass and then Issue

I've noticed over the past month or so that there are a couple images, like File:Get Out of Jail Free Card.jpg, that FlickreviewR 2 passes, and then says size_not_found seconds later. I've ended up undoing the size_not_found edit on most of them, but that seems like a bug for the bot. Elisfkc (talk) 17:24, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Hmm. This is really weird. My best guess would be that they are two bot runs. The first passed, and mediawiki fails to update the category in time before the second bot run, and by chance the second one fails (what is this chance even?!). I just raised the delay between bot runs to a minute, hopefully that will avoid it. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 17:38, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Special:Log/spamblacklist/FlickreviewR 2 infinite loop

Hi. The tool may need to have a means to self-intervene when it has tried and failed to add a flickr url after a number of iterations. In this situation, the url that the bot is trying to add is on the blacklist, and it just keeps trying to add and add and add and ... the url. Maybe it needs a count of attempts to add a url for an image, and after that failure it writes the image somewhere for manual intervention. In this situation I have deleted the problematic file.  — billinghurst sDrewth 09:08, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Alright that error is ignored during each bot run, so that other images aren't affected. I'll do a bot test. Note that the script gets restarted very frequently (there's a wrapper that, regardless of the exit status, will restart the script anyhow after 60 seconds the script exits.), so it will look like being stuck in an infinite loop anyhow. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:43, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Yeah the commit works as expected. Thanks for notifying me :) --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:48, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

TaskError

Hi. I got this error for several files: "An exception occurred: TaskError: /usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i /srv/v2c/output/c96bae634e0b6155/dl.mp4 -threads 0 -skip_threshold 0 -bufsize 6000k -rc_init_occupancy 4000 -qmin 19 -qmax 19 -vcodec libvpx -f webm -ss 0 -aq 6 -acodec libvorbis -pass 2 -passlogfile /srv/v2c/output/c96bae634e0b6155/dl.mp4.webm.log /srv/v2c/output/c96bae634e0b6155/dl.mp4.webm Exitcode: 1". --Sporti (talk) 07:12, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm looking into it (running it manually without muting the verbose information). They are large files so it'll take some time --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 07:53, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

The error I see is file size limit exceeded. Somehow for Krog čez Javor _ Lap Over Javor the 1.8G mp4 got bloated into a 5G webm at 00:58:47.58, hit ulimit, and was forced to terminate. Perhaps the encoding quality is too high for such fast-moving videos. YouTube seems to encode them at a lower quality. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 15:06, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

I guess those will have to wait. Trying one with VP9 and another one to ogv to see if this changes the size. --Sporti (talk) 16:09, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

VP9 will probably time out. If I remember correctly, there were one site that claim it to be 50x slower. (And Opus is probably still broken) Ogv will probably result in an even larger size. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 16:24, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes both ended with TaskError aswell. --Sporti (talk) 08:11, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

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 OAuth management interfaces now look slightly different. [2]

Changes this week

• ElectronPdfService will be enabled by default on Meta and German Wikipedia. This is a new way to get articles as PDF files you can download. It will come to more wikis later. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 31. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from February 1. It will be on all wikis from February 2 (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Tech team will develop more tools to handle harassment of Wikimedia editors. The goal is to give the communities better tools to find, report and evaluate harassment. They will also work on more effective blocking tools. [4][5]
• The Wikimedia technical community is doing a Developer Wishlist survey. Developers can propose ideas before 31 January 23:59 UTC. This is soon.

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Tech News: 2017-06

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

• The block log sometimes showed blocks as being much longer than they were. This has now been fixed. [6]

Changes this week

• Wikimedia pages will now be better at showing pictures when you share them on social media. The descriptions will be different too. You can see an example of before and after. [7]
• There are some changes to the OOjs UI. Some old functions will not work anymore or not work as they used to. This could be a breaking change. [8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Tidy will be replaced later this year. Instead, the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This will cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. You can see if your wiki still has something to fix here for one of the HTML problems. This list does not cover all problems. You can read about more problems. [9][10]

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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Parsing error?

Hi, can you work out what the possible parsing error identified on File:An Iron Age Gold stater from ESSEX NULL Celtic Coin Index reference, 98.022 (FindID 328137).jpg would have been? As the very large batch upload is near the end of its run, I'm concerned that we avoid mass-marking parsing errors that may not be there. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 19:03, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Most likely false positive. They keep happening ever since the link updates are moved to job queue. Normally the bot will remove it after a few hours. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 19:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Drop me a note if there's anything for me to be concerned about. --Fæ (talk) 20:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

File:20170104 Armed Forces Full Ceremony HD.webm

Hi, per Jasonanaggie the uploader intends to re-upload this huge video. It's a technically interesting case discussed in Commons:Categories for discussion/2017/01/Category:Video_display_resolution_0_x_0, and the file page (license, author, category, cleanup request, about an hour of my time) was already fixed. @Jasonanaggie: Therefore it might be simpler to restore the good file page and wait for the correct video, instead of starting from scratch. –2A03:2267:0:0:5535:3CA8:BFE6:19FB 08:20, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

What do you mean by wait for the correct video? A broken file by itself is a valid reason for deletion (Commons:Deletion_policy#General:_speedy_deletion lists corrupted files), there's no point to keep a broken video forever waiting for a "fixed" version. If the correct video is already uploaded, you're free to poke me or any other admin for a history merge; otherwise, you can also request for a copy of it's file description page. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:09, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

I mean that a speedy deletion was a bad idea for a mostly solved problem (sans new upload), where the edit history demonstrates serious bugs: The uploader knows {{PD-USGov}}, and a tool creating unsuited Special:Upload defaults like {{own}} and {{CC-BY-SA}} is dangerous for all users. A formal UNDEL + history merge could waste more time, the speedy fix hides the symptom for non-admins, there are unsolved technical issues with this case. –2A03:2267:0:0:5535:3CA8:BFE6:19FB 10:31, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

The file was uploaded with the toollabs:videoconvert tool; you're free to contact its maintainer User:Prolineserver about it. Regarding this specific file, it is an invalid EBML with error "the data size of the entry exceeds the number of bytes remaining in the parent entry (file position #47)". If further investigation is needed, I can temporary undelete this file if necessary. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 13:52, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for pinging the author of this tool here, maybe they are still around and contribute a phab:-link to show that it's a known problem. While waiting for that to happen somewhere I've introduced the uploader to the secrets of COM:CSD vs. bulk deletion requests. @Rehman: Interested to offer a 3rd opinion on CSD here? My one and only attempt to get a 3rd opinion on UNDEL related to speedy deletions ended inconclusively. –193.96.224.16 07:58, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi 193.96.224.16. I'm not too sure if I understand you correctly. As Zhuyifei1999 stated, once the fixed version is uploaded (on the same or different file name, doesn't matter), we can easily do a history-merge, it's no big deal. I can help you get that done in not time, once the new file is in. But for now, undeleting the corrupted file is not the way to go. Let us know if you need any further clarifications. Kind regards, Rehman 08:06, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for info, I wasn't aware of "history merge is easy". However, it's not directly related to "exercising elevated rights SHOULD NOT IAR". IOU resolved: –2A03:2267:0:0:84D:D0E9:3511:C546 08:51, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Look, what are you talking about? Deletion of corrupted files is per policy and not en:WP:Ignore all rules. And I have absolutely no idea what are you talking about with IOU --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:00, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I tried to use this file as an example for at least one technical problem in a CfD (see above), you speedily closed a DR as deleted, maybe interpreting it as "uploader request" CSD G7, I asked for an undeletion, you said no, let's agree to disagree, I'm delighted that I got a 3rd opinion without UNDEL, and not getting the 3rd opinion I hoped for is a good thing, otherwise why would I ask? Have a nice weekend, wasting precious admin time in an attempt to report a technical problem was never my plan, I'm sorry. –2A03:2267:0:0:84D:D0E9:3511:C546 09:44, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Regarding this technical issue, videoconvert's transcoding is on tool labs grid engine with ubuntu trusty (14.04 LTS)'s libav. It has numerous issues that I don't want to go into here, because of my bias against that tool. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:51, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07

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Recent changes

• EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. For now 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. [11]

Problems

• The Firefox add-on Firefogg can cause problems with the Upload Wizard. This will not be fixed, because Firefox will not support Firefogg in the future. The Upload Wizard will no longer work with Firefogg. [12]
• Tool Labs and Wikimedia Labs databases will be under maintenance on 15 February. This will start at 17:00 (UTC) and last for about six hours. Some tools could have problems during or after this. [13]

Changes this week

• The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [14]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on the Catalan, Greek, Russian, and Italian Wikipedias in the middle of February. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. It will come to more wikis later this spring. [15]
• The Developer Wishlist is a list where developers prioritize tools they need. The voting closes at 14 February 23:59 (UTC). This process is only for developers.

Review

• You can read the 2016 product summary from the Wikimedia Foundation Product group to see what they did with things they said they would work on in the annual plan.

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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

Your feedback matters: Final reminder to take the global Wikimedia survey

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VP9

I was encoding those UHD videos as VP9 (if they worked) so that the created file would be less incredibly large. - Revent^talk 22:18, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

It takes forever to encode them... --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 04:02, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

File:Supercute Rachel Julia Talent Show Littlefields 053012.jpg

Could you explain the strange behaviour of FlickreviewR 2? --jdx ^Re: 17:12, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Not sure. This was asked by @Elisfkc: earlier where I gave the best explanation I can think of, and did a modification to the bot's looping script (which wraps outside the main python script) to (hopefully) decrease the rate in which this happens. (Any ideas whether it did?) --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 00:29, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08

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 edit summary box is now a little bit bigger. This is to make it follow the Wikimedia design guide. [16]

Changes this week

• Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [17]
• There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [18]
• OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [19]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for video2commons

Hi, I only wanted to thanks you for that great tool video2commons!! :) Cheers, --Elisardojm (talk) 11:51, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

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

• On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [20]

Changes this week

• You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [22]
• The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [23][24]

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19:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

FlickreviewR 2 leaving behind images

At the moment, it seems that your bot is leaving images behind on Category:Flickr review needed. For instance, these (File:An A350 gets it winglets (32927117661).jpg, File:An A350 gets it winglets (32927122251).jpg, & File:An A350 gets it winglets (32927125031).jpg) images that I uploaded at 16:18 on 23 February 2017 have not been reviewed, but at least 13 other images I have uploaded since (like File:Newark (32257249203).jpg & File:Sailors assigned to USS Coronado swim in the South China Sea. (33030626916).jpg) have been reviewed. I don't know why it is doing this, but I figured I'd give you a heads up. Elisfkc (talk) 17:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

I see a ton of errors in the logs in the review of File:Entrevistas Diversas (31828600794).jpg, will look into it tomorrow --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 19:05, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Flickreviewr attempts to download the original version of that file, but it redirects to an image that shows "this photo is no longer available". The bot then crashes immediately after that due to unexpected inter-site redirect. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 08:31, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

• Probably a similar/related issue encountered here, here, here. CC Ww2censor. --XXN, 18:10, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

  I don't think these are related. The issue is the bot crashes while reviewing File:Entrevistas Diversas (31828600794).jpg, due to unexpected cross site redirect while downloading the original size (and idk what should I do to fix/workaround it); the bot did not crash for the three mentioned files. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 11:47, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

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

• You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [25]
• When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [26]

Problems

• Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [27]
• Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [28]

Changes this week

• The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [29]
• The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [30]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

• The 2017/09 issue of Tech News mentioned 3D file formats you can soon upload to Commons. The AMF format will be available later.

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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)