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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 move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [1]
Problems
- There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the
colspan
orrowspan
option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [2]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
- You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [3]
- VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [4]
- You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [5]
- VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [6] [7]
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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
Request
Hi Zhuyifei1999, would you mind checking two images for me with your Flickr review bot? They are File:Science and Health (Christian Science) and the Bible.jpg and File:Manual of the Mother Church (Christian Science).jpg. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 18:09, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
- Looks like it has been done automatically :) --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 09:56, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
- Many thanks! SlimVirgin (talk) 15:11, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
Istanbul Unveiled Cover
Hi Zhuyiefei1999,
File:Istanbul_Unveiled_Cover.jpg's licensing information has been changed on flickr. Does your bot update the info? Thanks--Tacci2023 (talk) 16:41, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
- I've tagged for rereview. Next bot run should be in ~40 mins --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 04:08, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
Request
Hi I am working on several articles on irises I have uploaded several from flickr to wiki commons with appropriate mentions of the contributors - but was wondering if this bot could do others https://www.flickr.com/photos/duaneschoon/3371192723/in/photolist-dYXnuZ-9mRUoM-kAazU3-kA7C7g-aVBH9-68Uf9t/ or any other Iris hexagona var.savannarum or Iris savannarum.
Thank you DavidAnstiss (talk) 17:51, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
- I'm sorry but the photos I found there are not free (they are either All rights reserved or cc-by-nc-sa, see COM:F). --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 04:16, 6 December 2014 (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 software changes
- All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [8]
- You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [9]
Problems
- There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [10]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [11]
- You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [12]
- It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [13] [14]
- The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [15] [16] [17]
- (Lua) You can no longer use
mw.text.unstrip
to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [18] [19]
Future changes
- Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [20]
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17:11, 8 December 2014 (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 software changes
- You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [21]
- You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [22]
- You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [23]
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,
Ctrl+F
orCmd+F
. [24] - VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [25]
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [26]
Future changes
- The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [27] [28]
- You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [29] [30]
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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Is the panoramio bot resting? It has not marked images in this category since December 16. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 01:25, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- Looks like some sort of login issue. I'm looking into it --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 03:38, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- Fixed --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 03:46, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 09:22, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, could it be a good idea not to add this cat to images which have a {{OTRS pending}}? OTRS pending prevents deletion for about 30 days, whith an without a license template as far I understood it. regards. --JuTa 23:41, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
- Should be fixed --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 05:42, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
- Thx a lot. --JuTa 19:27, 21 December 2014 (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 software changes
- The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [31]
Software changes this week
- There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [32]
Future changes
- The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [33]
- A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [34]
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16:52, 22 December 2014 (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.
Software changes
- There are no technical changes this week.
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16:51, 29 December 2014 (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 software changes
- Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [35]
- You can now use the
{{!}}
magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|
) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [36]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
- A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a
☀
(Sun) character. This is now fixed. [37] - The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [38]
- The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [39] [40] [41]
- The
thumb
option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [42]
Future changes
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16:47, 12 January 2015 (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
- You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[44] [45]
- Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.
Problems
- All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [46]
Software changes this week
- There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [47]
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18:12, 19 January 2015 (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 software changes
- You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [48]
This week
- There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [49]
Future changes
- You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [50]
- The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [51]
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16:08, 26 January 2015 (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
- There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [52]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
- The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [53]
- You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [54] [55]
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16:31, 2 February 2015 (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 software changes
- You can now use
{{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }}
to transclude a section with its title. [56]
Problems
- MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [57]
- UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [58]
- All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [59]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
- You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [60] [61] [62]
- You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [63] [64]
- It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [65]
- You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).
Future changes
- Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [66]
- In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [67]
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16:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Tamy2.jpg
Olá, poderia me dizer o que está de errado com esta imagem [68]. Ela foi carregada originalmente por Alexandre Ferreira e a licença está como "Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0". Fábio B. Lima (talk) 22:20, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
- What I see is "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" Please link to the original image --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 07:48, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
If you have some spare time please let a bot run through files in this cat, performing a null-edit. Looks like a lot of false positives there from Wiki software update problems. --13:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
- Ok running now + every Monday 8:20 --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 06:32, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Congratulations! Task 23 was approved. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:10, 13 February 2015 (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.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
- On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [69] [70] [71]
- You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [72]
- In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [73]
- The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first. [74]
Meetings
- The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [75]
- You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [76]
- You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [77]
Future changes
- You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.
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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Bot
Please can you check your categories as i've just had to shift a hundred pics on the Liverpool page which are contemporary art/sculplure related and nothing particularly to do with LiverpoolBabydoll0409 (talk) 16:12, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Calvin on his deathbed
Thanks very much for changing the flickr link to its original.
Inawe (talk) 19:21, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
[Ticket#2014121310011085]
Hi!
Can you check for a new email that has been send with the autorization and the good license? Thanks!
This picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PKP2015.jpg
--SharQc (talk) 00:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not OTRS member. Please ask at Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard instead --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 07:02, 23 February 2015 (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 software changes
- All new accounts are now global. [78]
- Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [79] [80] [81]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
- It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [82]
- It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [83]
- Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [84]
- Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [85]
Meetings
- You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
- Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [86]
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16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
OTRS permissions queues
Hello Zhuyifei1999. You are receiving this message as a license reviewer. As you know, OTRS processes a large amount of tickets relating to image releases (called "permissions"). As a license reviewer, you may have the skills necessary to contribute to this team. If you are interested in learning more about OTRS or to volunteer please visit Meta-Wiki. Tell your friends! Thank you. Rjd0060 19:00, 1 March 2015 (UTC)