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Tech News: 2021-02

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 choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [1]
• You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2]
• Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
  • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [3]
  • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
  • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
• There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [5]
• Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6]
• Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [7]
• CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [8]
• There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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16:42, 11. Jan. 2021 (CET)

WICHTIG: Review der Administratorenaktivität

Hallo: Eine Richtlinie zur Rücknahme "erweiterter Rechte" (Administrator, Bürokrat usw.) betreffend wurde angenommen durch Übereinstimmung der weltweiten Gemeinschaft von 2013. Dieser Richtlinie folgend, überprüfen die stewards Aktivitäten von Administratoren auf allen Wikimedia Foundation wikis ohne Inaktivitätsrichtlinie. Nach unserer Kenntnis hat dein wiki kein formales Verfahren, "erweiterte Rechte" inaktiver Nutzerkonten zurückzuziehen. Dies bedeutet, dass die Stewards sich darum kümmern, der Administratoraktivitätenüberprüfungfolgend.

Wir sind zu der Auffassung gelangt, dass folgende Nutzer die Inaktivitätskriterien (keine Eintragungen/Änderungen und keine protokollierte Aktivität seit mehr als zwei Jahren) erfüllen :

1. Usien (Administrator)

Diese Nutzer erhalten bald eine Mitteilung, mit der Bitte eine Gemeinschaftsdiskussion zu starten, falls sie einige oder alle Rechte wiedererlangen wollen. Sollten die Nutzer nicht reagieren, werden ihre Rechte durch die Stewards entfernt.

Falls jedoch die einzelne Gemeinschaft ihren eigenen Prozess zur Aktivitätsprüfung starten möchte, der den weltweiten Prozess überflüssig macht, und eine andere Entscheidung über diese inaktiven Rechtehalter treffen möchte oder schon eine Richtlinie beschlossen hat, die wir verpasst haben, dann möge dies bitte bei stewards bei Meta-Wiki angegeben werden, damit wir wissen, dass wir die Überprüfung eurer wiki nicht weiterführen. Danke, --علاء (Diskussion) 10:41, 15. Jan. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-03

Neueste Technik-Nachrichten der Wikimedia-Community. Bitte informiere andere Nutzer über diese Entwicklungen. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Übersetzungen sind verfügbar.

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Die neue Version der MediaWiki-Software wird auf dem Testwiki und MediaWiki.org ab 19 Januars verfügbar sein. Auf Nicht-Wikipedia-Wikis und einigen Wikipedias vom 20 Januars. Auf allen Wikis ab 21 Januars (Kalender).

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Das Wachstumsteam plant, Funktionen zu mehr Wikipedias hinzuzufügen, um mehr Besucher zum Bearbeiten zu bewegen. Du kannst helfen, die Schnittstelle zu übersetzen.
• Am 26 Januars um 07:00 (UTC) kannst du für kurze Zeit Wikimedia Commons lesen, aber nicht bearbeiten. [9]
• Massennachricht-Beiträge könnten in Zukunft automatisch mit einem Zeitstempel versehen werden. Dies liegt daran, dass Massennachricht-Absender jetzt Seiten mit MassMessage senden können. Seiten sind schwieriger zu signieren. Wenn es Zeiten gibt, in denen ein Massennachrichtspost nicht mit einem Zeitstempel versehen werden soll, kannst du dies den Entwicklern mitteilen.

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17:10, 18. Jan. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-04

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

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [10][11]

Changes later this week

• Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [12]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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19:31, 25. Jan. 2021 (CET)

Moving Wikimania 2021 to a Virtual Event

Hallo. Apologies if you are not reading this message in your native language. Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen. Danke!

Wikimania will be a virtual event this year, and hosted by a wide group of community members. Whenever the next in-person large gathering is possible again, the ESEAP Core Organizing Team will be in charge of it. Stay tuned for more information about how you can get involved in the planning process and other aspects of the event. Please read the longer version of this announcement on wikimedia-l.

ESEAP Core Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee, Wikimedia Foundation Events Team, 16:15, 27. Jan. 2021 (CET)

Project Grant Open Call

This is the announcement for the Project Grants program open call that started on January 11, with the submission deadline of February 10, 2021.
This first open call will be focussed on Community Organizing proposals. A second open call focused on research and software proposals is scheduled from February 15 with a submission deadline of March 16, 2021.

For the Round 1 open call, we invite you to propose grant applications that fall under community development and organizing (offline and online) categories. Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups, and organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, from organizing a better process on your wiki, coordinating a campaign or editathon series to providing other support for community building. We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete a grant proposal:

• Weekly proposals clinics via Zoom during the Open Call. Join us for #Upcoming_Proposal_Clinics|real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
• Video tutorials for writing a strong application
  
• General planning page for Project Grants
  
• Program guidelines and criteria
  

Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal support upon request. Contact us if you would like feedback or more information.

We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into motion, and submit your proposal by February 10, 2021!

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee. Contact us at projectgrantsVorlage:Atwikimedia.org. Please help us translate this message to your local language. MediaWiki message delivery (Diskussion) 09:00, 28. Jan. 2021 (CET)

Der Israel/Palestina Impfartikel....

...ist nah dran an Antisemitismus und weit weg von auch nur den Mindestanforderungen an journalistisches Arbeiten. Begründung auf der Diskussionsseite dort. Aber es sollte eigentlich recht offensichtlich sein. --89.12.250.118 04:44, 29. Jan. 2021 (CET)

New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL owl says sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library is announcing new free, full-access, accounts to reliable sources as part of our research access program. You can sign up to access research materials on the Library Card platform:

• Taxmann – Taxation and law database
• PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
• EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added

We have a wide array of other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our blog post.

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!

This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.

--13:57, 1. Feb. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

• You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [14]
• Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [15][16]
• Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [17]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [18][19]
• Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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23:38, 1. Feb. 2021 (CET)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (Diskussion) 14:25, 6. Feb. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [20]

Changes later this week

• You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

• When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [22][23]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [24]
• Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [25]

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18:42, 8. Feb. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-07

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 were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [26][27]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [28]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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18:56, 15. Feb. 2021 (CET)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen

Hello everyone,

I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.

This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.

As far as I can see, Wikinews currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.

I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.

Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) 15:12, 18. Feb. 2021 (CET)

Tech News: 2021-08

Nachfolgend die Tech News aus der Wikimedia-Technik-Community. Bitte gib diese technischen Änderungen an andere weiter. Nicht alle Änderungen werden dich betreffen. Es gibt Übersetzungen dieser Nachricht.

Letzte Änderungen

• Der Visual Editor verwendet jetzt MediaSearch zur Bildersuche. Damit kann man Bilder auf Commons im Visual Editor suchen, wenn man nach Illustrationen sucht. Das soll es den Autoren leichter machen, bessere Bilder zu finden. [29]
• Der Syntax-Highlighter funktioniert jetzt für weitere Sprachen. Hinzugekommen sind Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [30]

Probleme

• Wenn man eine Timeline bearbeitet hat, kann es sein, dass dabei der gesamte Text verschwand. Das lag an einem Bug, der nun behoben wurde. Es kann sein, dass du die Timeline noch einmal bearbeiten musst, damit sie wieder richtig angezeigt wird. [31]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• 2021-02-24

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Es gibt eine User Group für Entwickler und für Benutzer, die an der Mitarbeit an Wikimedia-Wikis mit der Programmiersprache Rust interessiert sind. Du kannst dich ihr anschließen oder andere dorthin einladen, wenn du dein Wiki zukünftig verbessern willst.

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01:17, 23. Feb. 2021 (CET)