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Your bot found several files to be Pages_using_Information_template_with_parsing_errors [1] but they don't have parsing errors at all. There must be a mistake with the bot.--ProfessorX (talk) 19:26, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
The edit must have been triggered by special:diff/234925547, and somehow the data in the database was no longer valid. The bot has a script that queries the database for false positives and undo the edits, but idk why the query no longer works. I guess they have to be reverted manually :/ --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:35, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
//DO NOT CHANGE THE NEXT LINE if(mw.config.get('wgUserLanguage')==='de'){//DO NOT CHANGE THE PREVIOUS LINE
Rillke is the author of de version and last revisions of the template/"translate". IMO mw.config.get('wgUserLanguage') === 'LANGCODE' is proper condition. --jdxRe:14:15, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
In fact, I don't see a reason these conditions should exist at all. These l10n are loaded via loadLocalization=function(lang,cb) in MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js, and this function is called conditionally when:
These additional conditions added to the l10n subpages, whether if(mw.config.get('wgUserLanguage')!=='en'){ or if(mw.config.get('wgUserLanguage')==='de'){, not only seems unnecessary, but also appear to make wgContentLanguage in MediaWiki:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js block almost useless (or in extreme cases, invoke unexpected behaviours) --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 14:38, 10 March 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.
Changes this week
You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [2][3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [4]
CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [5][6]
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 Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [7]
You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [9]
The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [10]
The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [11]
Problems
On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [12]
Changes this week
When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [13]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 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 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
It was really nice of you to take quite a bit of your time to help me with the pop-up issue. Now I can do the work I want to without worrying about it. Many thanks! :-) DaphneLantier20:19, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
If/when it becomes safe to use that favorites gadget, can you leave me a quick note at my talk or ping me to wherever it's been resolved? Thanks. No hurry - I only use it occasionally. DaphneLantier20:22, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
They're all currently active, so hopefully they'll fix it up pretty soon. I like being able to show appreciation to Commons photographers by faving their pics, and I'm sure plenty of other people here do too. DaphneLantier01:52, 23 March 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
When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [14]
Problems
Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [15][16]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar).
Could you look at this file? The embedded data bot tagged it, but it seems to be valid. Pinging @Jcb who also deleted and undeleted the file. --jdxRe:15:04, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
Yes, I noticed just a second too late that there was a deletion and an undeletion in the log instead of two deletions. Jcb (talk) 15:19, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
PNG and JPEG use the parser from Pillow and has some amount of likely false positives. The image data has ended (which halts parsing by Pillow) but the file continues for unknown reasons. :( --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 16:11, 29 March 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
The Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [17]
The tracking category Category:Pages with template loops is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [18]
English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [19]
Problems
Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [20]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (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 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Helloǃ As I guess, this is [22] your site. I want to download full lenghth map from gallica.bnf.fr, but there in the site it says "Job did not seem to succeed. ....". Coulod you, please, help me with this? Regards, - Abkhazian1 (talk) 17:37, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
True, but I was thinking more along the lines of whether the bot could recognise there isn't a file attached to the page. I'm not saying this has happened before but given the number of pages in Category:Media missing infobox template, is there any way of checking if this has happened before? Green Giant (talk) 08:34, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Not sure. I might be able to brute force this by checking all of the bots edits, but that would take a long long time... and probably not worth it. Maybe some SQL experts like Dispenser can help, though I really doubt the effort will worth it. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:19, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Patrolling after tagging the file for speedy deletion
Is it possible for Embedded Data Bot to patrol the first revision of a file containing embedded data after they tagged it for speedy deletion? It is unnecessary for us patrollers to mark those files as patrolled since it is already tagged. Thanks, ★Poké9509:22, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
It would need a minor rewrite -- The current queue system is pagetitle-based, not rcid-based, and to patrol the change you need the rcid (unless the bot re-parse the version history). I currently don't have too much time for non-mission-critical functionalities, though you or someone else may submit a pull request at - well, you know where (can't say it too publicly as idk if some abusers are watching this page) - and I'll be happy to review and deploy it. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:35, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
You reverted the bot's error at this file. Any idea what could have gone wrong? I'm not particularly familiar with the bot's operations, so maybe there's an obvious reason that I've overlooked. My reason for asking is that I'm hesitant to delete images under the "contains embedded data" criterion if there's more than a tiny chance that the bot has mis-tagged a page. Nyttend (talk) 22:29, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Thank you, but how would that happen? Both the extension and the "MIME type" line (below the image itself) say that it's an ordinary PNG. Nyttend (talk) 23:39, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
@Nyttend: exiftool indicates "Warning : [minor] Trailer data after PNG IEND chunk". My guess would be that whatever program was used to create it uses PNG as a native file format, and appends info that's not really part of the standard. Adobe Fireworks, in particular, tends to do that. - Reventtalk23:52, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
(Edit conflict)The file is padded with a ton of space characters (ascii 0x20), and the bot thought that as some form of embedded data. And no, the whole point of this embedded data detection is finding them from otherwise ordinary files. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 23:53, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
$ python -c 'import detection; print detection.detect("testfiles/Xcf.xcf")'
{'mime': ('application/x-rar', 'RAR archive data, v81,'), 'pos': 95979, 'posexact': True}
$ unrar L testfiles/Xcf.xcf
UNRAR 5.30 beta 2 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2015 Alexander Roshal
Enter password (will not be echoed) for testfiles/Xcf.xcf:
Checksum error in the encrypted file testfiles/Xcf.xcf. Corrupt file or wrong password.
Archive: testfiles/Xcf.xcf
Details: RAR 4, SFX, encrypted headers
0 files
On labs the bot use the latest version of the file utility (the mime-sniffing one) from git so the file type details (RAR archive data, v81,) may look different if the bot went through this file. Btw: the bot runs through the RC so if anything was not implemented when the bot receive the RC entry then uh oh :/ --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 06:18, 4 April 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.
Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [25]
New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [26]
The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [27]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.
FlickreviewR 2 seems to review every file twice at the moment. I guess this is not the intended behaviour. --Didym (talk) 21:04, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Should be fixed. Somehow the tool labs grid started another job in tools-exec-1414 when there is already one on tools-exec-1402 --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 23:56, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Sure. [28] All of the three bots have their scripts in that repo. Though, I'm too lazy to organize those scattered scripts and publish to somewhere like GitHub. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 02:07, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
--jdx Re: 14:55, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Done 没事 --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 07:07, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [5][6]
Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 00:47, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
