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Tech News: 2018-30

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 log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [1]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [2]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 Julis. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 Julis. It will be on all wikis from 26 Julis (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 25 Julis at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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11:44, 24. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

(Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen)

Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).

You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.

Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 15:08, 30. Jul. 2018 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

Deutsch: Um die Sicherheit für Lesende und Schreibende innerhalb Wikipedia zu verbessern, wurden die Zugriffsrechte für CSS und JS-Seiten verändert. (Das sind Seiten wie MediaWiki:Common.css und MediaWiki:Vector.js, deren Code im Browser ausgeführt bzw. interpretiert wird.)

Hierfür wurde die neue Benutzergruppe, interface-admin erstellt. In vier Wochen von heute an können nur noch Mitglieder dieser Gruppe CSS- und JS-Dateien bearbeiten, deren „Besitzer“ sie nicht sind (d.h. alle Seiten mit der Endung .css- oder .js, die sich entweder im MediaWiki:-Namensraum oder im Benutzernamensraum eine anderen Benutzers befinden.)

Mehr Informationen zur Motivation hinter dieser Maßnahme gibt es unter m:Special:MyLanguage/Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS.

Bitte fügt Benutzer, die CSS/JS editieren können sollen, zu der neuen Gruppe hinzu (dieselbe Vorgehensweise wie bei der Vergabe von Adminflags, durch Stewards oder lokale Bürokraten).

Dies ist eine gefährliche Berechtigung; ein missgünstiger Benutzer oder Hacker, der den Account eines Interface-Admins in die Hand bekommt, kann weitaus mehr Schaden anrichten als ein Benutzer mit Adminrechten. Bitte vergebt diese Berechtigung nur an Benutzer, die sie brauchen, die von der Community als vertrauenswürdig eingeschätzt werden, und die sich an die wichtigsten Sicherheitsregeln halten (sichere Passwörter, Passwörter nicht wiederverwenden, Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung soweit möglich, keine Software aus fragwürdigen Quellen auf dem eigenen Rechner, Nutzung von Antivirus-Software, wenn das für das entsprechende Betriebssystem üblich ist).

Danke!
Tgr (talk) 15:08, 30. Jul. 2018 (CEST) (via global message delivery)
(Übersetzung von Elya von de:wp)

Tech News: 2018-31

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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [4]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [5][6]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [7][8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 Julis. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 Augusts. It will be on all wikis from 2 Augusts (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 31 Julis at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 Augusts at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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16:05, 30. Jul. 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [9]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [10][11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

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 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:39, 6. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [12]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [13]

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19:53, 13. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-34

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 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (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 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2018 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.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [14]

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18:46, 20. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

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Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Oberflächenadministratoren) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 14:39, 27. Aug. 2018 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

Tech News: 2018-35

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 see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [15]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [16]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [17]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [18]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [19]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [20]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (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 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (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 up to an hour on 12 September and 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.

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18:16, 27. Aug. 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-36

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 is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [22][23]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [24][25]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [26]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [27]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [28]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [29]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [30]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (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 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [31]

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18:47, 3. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

Read this message in another language • Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen

The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)

15:33, 6. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-37

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 added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [32]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [33]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [34]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [35]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [36]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [37]

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 12 September and 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 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 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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00:35, 11. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-38

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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [38]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [39]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [40]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [41]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (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 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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23:58, 17. Sep. 2018 (CEST)

The GFDL license on Commons

Du erhältst diese Nachricht, weil dein Wiki lokale Datei-Uploads ermöglicht. Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.

Auf Commons werden ab dem 14. Oktober keine Uploads von Fotos, Gemälden, Zeichnungen, Audio- und Videodateien mehr erlaubt sein, die ausschließlich die GFDL-Lizenz nutzen. Bücher, Anleitungen, Logos, Diagramme sowie Screenshots von Anleitungen für GFDL-Software bleiben weiterhin erlaubt. Außerdem bleiben Dateien erlaubt, die neben der GFDL-Lizenz eine andere akzeptierte Lizenz benutzen (z.B. Creative Commons BY-SA).

Es gibt kein Zeitlimit, um Dateien von anderen Projekten zu Commons zu transferieren. Es zählt lediglich das Lizenzierungsdatum, nicht das Upload- oder Erstellungsdatum. Jedes Wiki, das lokale Uploads erlaubt, sollte sicherstellen, dass Bots, Skripte und Vorlagen für die Übertragung auf Commons bei Bedarf angepasst werden. Gegebenenfalls müssen auch die lokalen Richtlinien angepasst werden.

Alle Wikis können frei entscheiden, ob sie weiterhin ausschließlich unter GFDL lizenzierte Dateien erlauben. Allerdings dürfen Fotos, Gemälde, Zeichnungen sowie Audio- und Videodateien, die nach dem 14. Oktober ausschließlich unter die GFDL-Lizenz gestellt werden, nicht mehr auf Commons veröffentlicht werden. — Alexis Jazz, veröffentlicht von Johan using MassMessage

20:11, 20. Sep. 2018 (CEST)