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Tech News: 2018-47

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

Letzte Änderungen

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
• There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [1]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 Novembers at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [2]
• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [3]

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00:28, 20. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Community Wishlist Survey vote

The Community Wishlist Survey. Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen.

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.

/User:Johan (WMF)

19:13, 22. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Advanced Search

Die Erweiterte Suche wird auf diesem Wiki am 28. November standardmäßig aktiviert. Diese neue Oberfläche erlaubt es dir, spezielle Suchen auf der Suche-Seite durchzuführen, selbst wenn du mit Such-Syntax nicht vertraut bist. Die Erweiterte Suche entstammt der Technischen Wunschliste der deutschsprachigen Community. Auf der deutsch-, arabisch-, persisch- und ungarischsprachigen Wikipedia ist sie bereits standardmäßig aktiviert. Außerdem haben über 40,000 Benutzerinnen und Benutzer die Beta-Version auf verschiedenen Wikis getestet. Feedback kann gerne auf der zentralen Feedback-Seite hinterlassen werden.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11:57, 26. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

Letzte Änderungen

• On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [4]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [5]
• Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [6]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 Novembers. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 Novembers. It will be on all wikis from 29 Novembers (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 Novembers at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• Die Nutzung der Funktion mw.util.jsMessage() wurde im Jahr 2012 missbilligt. Sie wird nächste Woche entfernt. Schau nach der Warnung Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in der JavaScript-Konsole, um zu erfahren ob du davon betroffene Skripte oder Helferlein nutzt. Wenn du Programmierer bist, solltest du prüfen, ob JavaScript-Code mw.util.jsMessage enthält. Es gibt einen Migrations-Leitfaden, der erklärt, wie man stattdessen mw.notify nutzen kann. [7]

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23:22, 26. Nov. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-49

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

Letzte Änderungen

• Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [8]
• Kleine SVG-Dateien werden nun größer angezeigt, wenn man sie im MediaViewer betrachtet. [9]
• Man kann jetzt direkt in den bearbeiteten Abschnitt gelangen, wenn man auf den Abschnittsnamen im Bearbeitungskommentar klickt. Vorher musste man auf den kleinen Pfeil (→) klicken. [10]
• Wenn man auf eine Fußnote klickte, die mehrfach im Artikel genutzt wurde, war es schwierig wieder zur vorherigen Text­stelle zu gelangen. Jetzt wird der entsprechende Buchstabe gefettet und ein Pfeil am Anfang der Fußnote bietet einen Link zurück zur entsprechenden Textstelle. (WP:Technische Wünsche) [11][12]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• Diese Woche wird es keine neue MediaWiki-Version geben.

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 Dezembers at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:13, 3. Dez. 2018 (CET)

New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

Neue Regeln und Anforderungen hinsichtlich Passwörtern von Wikimedia

Das Security Team der Wikimedia Foundation implementiert ein neues Regelwerk hinsichtlich Passwörtern mit neuen Anforderungen. Mehr dazu auf MediaWiki.org.

Die neuen Anforderungen gelten für neue Accounts und für privilegierte Accounts. Neue Accounts müssen in Zukunft Passwörter mit mindestens 8 Zeichen haben. Privilegierte Accounts werden darauf hingewiesen, ihr Passwort zu erneuern auf eines mit mindestens 10 Zeichen Länge.

Es ist geplant, dass diese Änderungen am 13. Dezember in Kraft treten. Wenn du davon ausgehst, dass deine Arbeit durch diese Änderungen betroffen ist, bitte gib uns auf der Diskussionsseite Bescheid.

Danke!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:02, 6. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-50

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

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 Dezembers. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 Dezembers. It will be on all wikis from 13 Dezembers (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 Dezembers at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [13][14]
• Wenn man den Mauszeiger über einen Fußnotenmarker fährt, wird die Fußnote in einem kleinen Popup-Fenster angezeigt, damit man nicht zum Ende der Seite wechseln muss, um die Fußnote zu lesen. Die Aktivierung dieser Funktion ist für 2019 geplant. Einige Wikis haben bereits Gadgets, die sowas machen. Die Funktion wird deaktivierbar sein. (WP:Technische Wünsche) [15]

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18:33, 10. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Letzte Änderungen

• Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [16][17]
• Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [18]
• The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Probleme

• <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [19]

Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 Dezembers. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 Dezembers. It will be on all wikis from 20 Dezembers (calendar).

Treffen

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 Dezembers at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Zukünftige Änderungen

• The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
• tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [20]

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21:35, 17. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Letztes Steinkohlen-Bergwerk in Deutschland, w:Bergwerk Prosper-Haniel, wurde gestern geschlossen

Könnte jemand hier ein Artikel darüber schreiben? Das kann doch nicht zu schwierig sein. Ich selbst bin schon beschäftigt auf vielen anderen Wikis und hab' deswegen nur wenig Zeit für diese Version. De Wikischim (Diskussion) 14:12, 22. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Dein Engagement ist lobenswert, aber Arbeitsvorschläge funktionieren leider nur sehr selten.... --Itu (Diskussion) 16:33, 22. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Invitation from Wiki Loves Love 2019

Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu übersetzen

Love is an important subject for humanity and it is expressed in different cultures and regions in different ways across the world through different gestures, ceremonies, festivals and to document expression of this rich and beautiful emotion, we need your help so we can share and spread the depth of cultures that each region has, the best of how people of that region, celebrate love.

Wiki Loves Love (WLL) is an international photography competition of Wikimedia Commons with the subject love testimonials happening in the month of February.

The primary goal of the competition is to document love testimonials through human cultural diversity such as monuments, ceremonies, snapshot of tender gesture, and miscellaneous objects used as symbol of love; to illustrate articles in the worldwide free encyclopedia Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects.

The theme of 2019 iteration is Celebrations, Festivals, Ceremonies and rituals of love.

Sign up your affiliate or individually at Participants page.

To know more about the contest, check out our Commons Page and FAQs

There are several prizes to grab. Hope to see you spreading love this February with Wiki Loves Love!

Kind regards,

Wiki Loves Love Team

Imagine... the sum of all love!

--MediaWiki message delivery (Diskussion) 11:12, 27. Dez. 2018 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-02

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

Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

• RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [21]
• MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [22]
• codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [23]
• On several wikis, an account named "Missbrauchsfilter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

• In AbuseFilter, the "Drosseln" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [24]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).

Meetings

• Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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19:30, 7. Jan. 2019 (CET)

FileExporter beta feature

Bald verfügbar: Die Beta-Funktion Dateiexporteur

In Kürze wird eine neue Beta-Funktion auf allen Wikis zur Verfügung gestellt: Der Dateiexporteur. Er erlaubt es, Dateien aus einem lokalen Wiki nach Wikimedia Commons zu exportieren, inklusive der Datei- und Seitenversionen. Welche Dateien exportiert werden dürfen, definiert jede Wiki-Community selbst: Daher bitte die Konfigurationsdatei des eigenen Wikis überprüfen, wenn die Funktion verwendet werden soll.

Der Dateiexporteur ist schon seit Längerem auf mediawiki.org, deWP, faWP, arWP, koWP und auf wikisource.org in der Beta-Phase. Nachdem mehr Funktionalität ergänzt wurde, wird er nun Beta-Funktion auf allen Wikis. Die Bereitstellung ist für den 16. Januar geplant. Mehr Information gibt es auf der Projektseite.

Wie immer sind Rückmeldungen sehr willkommen. Wer den Dateiexporteur testen möchte, muss ihn zunächst in den eigenen Einstellungen aktivieren. Der beste Ort für Feedback ist die zentrale Diskussionsseite. Dankeschön vom Projekt Technische Wünsche von Wikimedia Deutschland.

Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 10:41, 14. Jan. 2019 (CET)

Tech News: 2019-03

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 use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [25][26]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [27][28]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [29]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [30]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [31]
• The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 18:55, 14. Jan. 2019 (CET)

No editing for 30 minutes 17 January

You will not be able to edit the wikis for up to 30 minutes on 17 January 07:00 UTC. This is because of a database problem that has to be fixed immediately. You can still read the wikis. Some wikis are not affected. They don't get this message. You can see which wikis are not affected on this page. Most wikis are affected. The time you can't edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. /Johan (WMF)

15:47, 16. Jan. 2019 (CET)