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Report for files uploaded between December 19 and December 28

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.084 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 22 problematic instances. I was unsure about 4 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 20:05, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

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GlobalReplace

Great tool, but it stopped working with me after you disabled v0.6.4. I can't find v0.6.5. 11:02, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

We are still working on v0.6.5, because previous versions are broken. --McZusatz (talk) 11:05, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between February 26 and March 06

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 83 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 15:58, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-11

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 mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [1]
  • The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [2]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [3]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [4]

Meetings

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18:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between March 05 and March 14

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.79 %; IOExceptions: 4;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 51 problematic instances. I was unsure about 7 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 06:37, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-12

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

  • Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
  • In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [5]

Changes this week

  • It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [6]
  • You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [7]
  • 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 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [8]

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-34

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

Recent changes

  • The ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [9]
  • The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [10]
  • The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [11]

Problems

  • Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [12]
  • When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [13]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [14][15]
  • How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [16]

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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-35

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

  • Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [17]
  • When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing Tab in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing Shift and Tab in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [18]

Changes this week

  • The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [19][20]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:59, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-36

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

  • Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [21]
  • Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [22]
  • When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [23]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <maplink> on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [24][25]
  • Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [26][27]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-37

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

  • The Wikimedia Commons app for Android can now show nearby places that need photos. [29]
  • <maplink> and <mapframe> can now use geodata from Open Street Map if Open Street Map has defined a region and given it an ID in Wikidata. You can use this to draw on the map and add information. [30][31]

Changes this week

  • The RevisionSlider will be available as a beta feature on all wikis from 13 September. This will make it easier to navigate between diffs in the page history. [32]
  • A new user right will allow most users to change the content model of pages. [33][34]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (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 13 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-38

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

Problems

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan. [37]

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22:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-39

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

  • If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can request it after a community decision. See how to request it. [38]
  • When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [39]
  • Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [40]

Problems

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [43]

Meetings

Future changes

  • Abandoned tools on Tool Labs could be taken over by other developers. There is a new discussion on Meta about this. It will be discussed until 12 October and then voted on. [44]

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-40

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

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [45]
  • <slippymap> will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use <mapframe> instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [46]

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

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Imker bug report

Received this twice (once while downloading the images, once while verifying checksums), both at around 40% (but can't be sure exactly) through downloading Commons:Featured pictures/chronological/2016-A: 

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.NumberFormatException cannot be cast to java.io.IOException
You may submit a bug report to the GitHub issue tracker:
https://github.com/MarcoFalke/wiki-java-tools/issues/new?title=%5BImker%5D+Exception&body=

Cheers, Storkk (talk) 11:36, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Interesting, this should not happen, normally. I will release a new version this evening which includes further details for debugging purposes. If you can reproduce the error with the new version, please let me know. --McZusatz (talk) 11:29, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
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YaCBot

Hallo,
Kann dein Bot dort (Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/08/Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard) aushelfen?
lg --Steinsplitter (talk) 16:28, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Werde versuchen den Bot code heute auf den neuesten Stand zu bringen. --McZusatz (talk) 16:25, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
✓ Done --McZusatz (talk) 12:17, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
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COM:REGEX

Re "the trailing regex appears not to be valid": Please see http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt § Conditional Patterns & Lookahead and Lookbehind Assertions. Also each individual COM:REGEX should work unless otherwise noted, you shouldn't assume everyone running into the regex removed that empty line with a separate (and avoidable) regex. BTW: (u|U) is not useful, perhaps change to case-insensitive? --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 18:35, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

I was always trying to keep com:REGEX compatible with as many regex implementations as possible. Your change would rule out java.util
Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Unknown inline modifier near index 51
(\n)?\[\[Category\:Uploaded with UploadWizard\]\](?(1)(?=\n))
                                                   ^
Also, it does not make sense to just run a single regex. Ideally, all known cleanup tasks should be run when at least one non-minor cleanup is being done to avoid that bots visit files multiple times. Please note that there is a "One category per line" regex in the category section. Imo, those are mandatory when the "upwiz" regex is executed. --McZusatz (talk) 21:11, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Argh, java... Added a note there. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 00:10, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Not just java, it is broken in js/php as well: Invalid target for quantifier
@McZusatz btw: Do you know why HiW-Bot no longer performs cleanup tasks (if needed i can run a instance as well)? --Steinsplitter (talk) 11:54, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Ich glaube HiW-Bot lief nur für kurze Zeit... --McZusatz (talk) 16:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Ah, Ok. Wenn ich es korrekt dem Quellcode entnommen habe läuft das bot nach dem Alphabet (also File:ABC). Wenn ich einen Buchstaben äquivalent zu HiW laufen lassen soll dann gerne, aber ich will mir nicht deinen Code stehlen... du hast sicher viel Zeit rein gesteckt... Und es wäre gut wenn man de UpWiz cat als [minor] entfernen könnte (ich blicke bei java (also da) nicht ganz durch wo du die Cat regexes handelst, sonst hätte ich für nen patch hochgeladen). lg--Steinsplitter (talk) 16:38, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
:-) Ist ja open source, also kein Problem, wenn du den Quellcode kopierst. Aber Vorsicht, denn das ist ziemlicher Spaghetti Code. Falls du trotzdem durchblickst, freue ich mich natürlich über Verbesserungen. (den regex findest du in Commons.java) --McZusatz (talk) 17:00, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Ich kann (warum auch immer) keine pull request für meinen patch anlegen... \[\[Cat:Test\]\]\n? (java: "\\[\\[Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard\\]\\]\\n?", "") funktioniert (da). lg --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:21, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
       public static final String[][] NEWLINE_CATEGORY_REGEX = { {
                       CASE_INSENSITIVE
                                       + "(\\[\\[category:[^]]+\\]\\]\\n)\\n+(\\[\\[category:)",
                       "$1$2" },
                       {
                       CASE_INSENSITIVE
                                       + "\\[\\[Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard\\]\\]\\n?",
                       "" } };

--Steinsplitter (talk) 14:35, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

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1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica

Your bot is tagging lots of images that used to be auto-categorized by Template:PD-Britannica, but a problem in one of the recent updates has broken this auto-catgorization, rendering countless images without categories. --EncycloPetey (talk) 05:58, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

I can't help you if you don't provide me with a diff link. --McZusatz (talk) 13:59, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
Two examples I've noticed: File:Britannica Theatre 1.jpg & File:Britannica Theatre 2.jpg. Both of these had auto-generated categories when they were uploaded. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:50, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
It seems, I can't to find the content-related category... --McZusatz (talk) 11:08, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2016-02

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

Problems

  • Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated. [49]

Changes this week

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 12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. [54]
  • The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You can test the single edit tab. [55][56]
  • There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [57][58]
  • The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at the Phabricator task or on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.

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16:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between December 27 and January 05

[skipped: 0; deleted: 8.88 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 22 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 19:34, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-03

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 will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in Phabricator that are specific for your language or wiki. [59]
  • Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information. See the documentation. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis. [60]

Changes this week

  • The visual editor uses the TemplateData extension to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving. [61]
  • MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only OAuth credentials and bot passwords. You can read more about the change. [62]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 January (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 19 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on 20 January at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:55, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-31

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

  • A prototype for structured data on Commons is available now. [63]
  • The RevisionSlider beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.

Problems

  • Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed. [64]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).

Meetings

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between July 22 and July 31

[skipped: 0; deleted: 13.655 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 60 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 16:28, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-32

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

  • In notifications, the icon for Notices has been changed from a speech-bubble icon () to a tray icon () for consistency. The Alerts icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility. [65]

Problems

  • If you use the wikEd gadget, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed. [66]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a wildcard. [67]
  • On Commons, UploadWizard will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images. [68]
  • When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template. [69]
  • The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August. [70]
  • When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way. [71]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (calendar).
  • A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try Special:Notifications page. [72]

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 August 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-33

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

Problems

  • Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [73]
  • Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [74]
  • For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [75][76]

Changes this week

  • The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [77]
  • Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [78]
  • In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [79][80]
  • The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [81]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (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 August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [82]

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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-42

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

Problems

  • Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [83]
  • Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [84]

Changes this week

  • There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [85]

Future changes

  • The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.

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16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between January 20 and January 29

[skipped: 0; deleted: 13.684 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 27 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 01:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-22

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 now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [86]

Problems

  • A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [87][88]
  • CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [89]

Changes this week

  • When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [90]
  • The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [91]
  • A change to the <charinsert> feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [92][93]
  • Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [94]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (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 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:18, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-23

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

Changes this week

  • The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [97]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).

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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-24

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

Changes this week

  • You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [103]
  • It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [104]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).

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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-25

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

  • Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [105]

Changes this week

  • The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [106][107]
  • Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [108]
  • When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [109]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).

Meetings

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-26

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 ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [110]
  • The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [111]
  • A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [112]

Problems

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
  • The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [115]

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 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [116]
  • An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [117]
  • The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [118][119][120]
  • From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [121]
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [122]

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-27

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

  • A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [123]

Changes this week

  • The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [124]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-28

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

  • A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [125][126][127]
  • Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [128][129][130]
  • Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [131][132][133]

Problems

  • On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [134]
  • Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (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 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:14, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-29

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

Problems

  • On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [138][139]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
  • Special:Log now has a help link. [140]
  • The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia

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 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [141]

Future changes

  • User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [142][143]
  • Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [144]

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

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Undoing correction to Mk II tank photograph.

The caption to this widely-known photograph is incorrect. File:The_Battle_of_Cambrai,_November-december_1917_Q6286.jpg?uselang=en-gb The tank is the Mk II The Perfect Lady, which was destroyed by friendly fire in April 1917, seven months before Cambrai.

Although McZusatz might not respond quickly, the bot he created does, and the incorrect details have therefore been restored. I'll correct them again. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.154.112.28 (talk) 21:06, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between July 07 and July 16

[skipped: 0; deleted: 9.279 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 84 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 18:06, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-30

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

Problems

  • Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed. [146]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
  • It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon. [147]
  • Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages. [148]

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 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [149]

Future changes

  • The current icon for Notifications "Notices" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency. [150]
  • Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly. [151]

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19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2016-04

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

Recent changes

  • You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week. [152][153]
  • Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with RevisionDelete. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code. [154]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section. [155]
  • 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).

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 26 January at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is now an extension called ArticlePlaceholder. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension. [156]
  • The OTRS system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on 3 February at 08:00 (UTC). It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade. [157]
  • Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones. [158]

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16:38, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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Strange message

hallo YaCBot,

Expression error: Unrecognized word "die".

... oder soll dassn 'wink mit dem zaunpfahl' sein, die ganze kategorie von 

   Gartenlaube (1884) in 

   Die Gartenlaube (1884)

umzubenennen? fragt sich --NBarchiv (talk) 00:17, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Mir ist nicht ganz klar woher die Nachricht kommt. Gibt es einen backtrace? --62.12.170.156 21:09, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2016-21

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

Problems

  • Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories. [160]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (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 May 24 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12. [161]

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18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between October 15 and October 24

[skipped: 0; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 1;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 111 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 01:30, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between September 28 and October 07

[skipped: 0; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 66 problematic instances. I was unsure about 4 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 20:20, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

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New top 200 page?

I like the page Top 200 chemical images that should use vector graphics and refer to it often when wanting to upgrade chemistry images. It is generated using Category:Chemical images that should use vector graphics. Would it be possible for you to create a similar page using the related category Category:Chemistry images that should use vector graphics? Or alternately, could a single list be generated using both of the categories. (I'd prefer the first option would greatly appreciate either.) Thank you. Ed (Edgar181) 13:56, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

I just realized that it already exists: Top 200 chemistry images that should use vector graphics. I have no idea how I missed it. Sorry to bother you! Ed (Edgar181) 13:36, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
No worries. Good to hear it is useful. --McZusatz (talk) 18:44, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between February 19 and February 28

[skipped: 0; deleted: 14.098 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 23 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 02:42, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between July 30 and August 08

[skipped: 0; deleted: 11.273 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 51 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 02:55, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between October 29 and November 07

[skipped: 0; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 83 problematic instances. This time I could tag all files appropriately and I won't need your help. --Flock (talk) 03:11, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between December 08 and December 17

[skipped: 0; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 87 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 20:26, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

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