Wikipedia:Notiser/Arkiv/2017/april
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
Lagre sidenbutton now saysPubliser sidenorPubliser endringeneon most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.Publiser sidenis when you save a new page andPubliser endringenewhen you edit an existing page. [1] - The tracking category Kategori:Sider med malsløyfer is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [2]
- English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [3]
Problems
- Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [4]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (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 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [5]
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3. apr. 2017 kl. 19:53 (CEST)
The Wikipedia Library invites suggestions/requests for Spanish paywalled databases rediger
Hello! The Wikipedia Library is inviting suggestions for paywalled databases/publications (Norwegian language) the community wishes to have access to as a part of improving impact in the local context. Please let us know of your suggestions here. Also, TWL is looking for new coordinators who wish to volunteer their time in coordinating Norwegian TWL. If you are interested, please sign up here. Thank you--AVasanth (WMF) (diskusjon) 9. apr. 2017 kl. 08:17 (CEST)
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
Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it. [6]
Changes this week
- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [7]
- New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [8]
- The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [9]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (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 11 April at 19:00 (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 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
- RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.
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10. apr. 2017 kl. 20:34 (CEST)
Notis om kandidatartikkel: Shadow of the Colossus rediger
Artikkelen Shadow of the Colossus er nominert til WP:UA. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider/Shadow of the Colossus.
--M O Haugen (diskusjon) 11. apr. 2017 kl. 07:11 (CEST)
Dette er en notis for å informere om kjempejakt.
Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May rediger
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. 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 conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center 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, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. 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 approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. 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 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
- 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 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. 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:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 11. apr. 2017 kl. 19:33 (CEST)
Notis om kandidatartikkel: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies rediger
Artikkelen AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies er nominert til WP:GL. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider/AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies.
M O Haugen (diskusjon) 17. apr. 2017 kl. 13:44 (CEST)
Dette er en notis for å informere om prosesser i kinomørket.
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 add
?safemode=1to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [10] - You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [11]
- The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from
[[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [12]
Problems
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.
Changes this week
- There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.
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 18 april at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
- Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [13]
- From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [14][15]
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17. apr. 2017 kl. 21:31 (CEST)
Notis om kandidatartikkel: Oliver Effersøe rediger
Artikkelen Oliver Effersøe er nominert til WP:AA. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider/Oliver Effersøe.
M O Haugen (diskusjon) 17. apr. 2017 kl. 21:45 (CEST)
Dette er en notis for å informere om prosesser Langt ude i det kviksølvlysende verdenshav.
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The fourth fiscal quarter began the first of this month, and Collaboration Team has begun work on our new quarterly goals. In the coming months, we'll be working to release the New Filters for Edit Review beta on all wikis and then to improve the beta as much as possible based on user feedback. On that score, we're planning a round of user interviews on the new tools in May to get detailed information about usability and usefulness. If you've tried the new features and have thoughts, please share them with us in any language.
Our other focus right now is to look at what changes will be needed to spread the new filtering interface to other review pages, especially Watchlist. We're also exploring how to incorporate the tools we didn't include in the new interface in this round, like the Tag Filters, time-frame selector and Namespace filter.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- New Filters for Edit review are now available on Polish, Portuguese, Persian, Russian and Turkish Wikipedias as a Beta feature. French Wikipedia and Mediawikiwiki have the filters as a Beta feature too, but without the quality and intent filters. [16]
- Special:RecentChangesLinked now displays a message when no results are found for a given combination of filters. [17]
Problems
- Polish Wikipedia is experiencing an issue with predictions (quality and intent filters using ORES). The different predictions are in conflict. An edit can be considered as "good" and "bad" at the same time, and the filter levels are somewhat redundant. We have formulated a plan to address this and are working on a fix, which is deployed progressively on Polish Wikipedia. [18]
- The issue on Polish Wikipedia is shared by a few other wikis: Dutch, Czech and Hebrew, and Wikidata. The deployment for those wikis has been postponed to Tuesday, May 9. Wikis without this predictions problem have been deployed or will be deployed with no change on the schedule. [19]
- Interestingly, the "problem" with those wikis is that they perform better than we anticipated. Once the fix is in place, the tools will work with particular simplicity on these wikis.
Future changes
- English Wikipedia and all wikis without ORES prediction services will get the New Filters for Edit review on Monday, April 24. [20]
- All remaining wikis will get the New Filters for Edit review on Tuesday, May 9. [21]
- Wikidata edits will be added as a type of change on New Filters for Edit review. [22]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
- Notifications badges were overlapping other tabs on Internet Explorer 11 and Firefox 3.6, using MonoBook skin. This is now fixed. [23]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
- Flow is now available as a Beta feature on French Wikiversity. [24]
- All Flow documentation is now available on one page gathering all information, to help users to search for an information.
- Flow's AbuseFilter integration now allows blocking a particular user from participating on a talk page, or any topic within it. [25]
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18. apr. 2017 kl. 15:04 (CEST)
Notis om kandidatartikkel: Baskisk-islandsk pidgin rediger
Artikkelen Baskisk-islandsk pidgin er nominert til WP:AA. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider/Baskisk-islandsk pidgin.
M O Haugen (diskusjon) 19. apr. 2017 kl. 09:48 (CEST)
Dette er en notis for å informere om prosesser i Nord-Atlanteren.
New Page previews feature rediger
New Page previews feature
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Hello,
The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable Page previews, a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.
A quick note on the implementation:
- For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on from their user preferences page.
- For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
- For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.
You can read more about the feature and the tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions on the talk page.
Thank you, MediaWiki message delivery (diskusjon) 19. apr. 2017 kl. 18:52 (CEST)
Notis om kandidatartikkel: Romantikken (musikk) rediger
Artikkelen Romantikken (musikk) er nominert til WP:UA/WP:AA. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider/Romantikken (musikk).
Dette er en notis for å informere om prosesser på Wikipedia.
- Daterer denne for å hjelpe arkiveringsboten --M O Haugen (diskusjon) 20. apr. 2017 kl. 23:40 (CEST)
Notis om kandidatartikkel: Lise Skjåk Bræk rediger
Artikkelen Lise Skjåk Bræk er nominert til WP:AA. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider/Lise Skjåk Bræk.
--M O Haugen (diskusjon) 20. apr. 2017 kl. 23:39 (CEST)
Dette er en notis for å informere om prosesser i stiftsstaden.
Notis om kandidatartikkel: Vadsø lufthavn rediger
Artikkelen Vadsø lufthavn er nominert til WP:AA. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider#Vads.C3.B8_lufthavn.
Ulf Larsen 23. apr. 2017 kl. 12:25 (CEST)
Dette er en notis for å informere om prosesser i stiftsstaden.
- Hva slags «prosesser i stiftsstaden» er det denne notisen og den forrige peker på?
- @Harald Haugland: standard formuleringen i disse notisene var først «Dette er en notis for å informere om viktige hendelser som påvirker Wikipedia-prosjektet, ikke et diskusjonsinnlegg.» (her fra 2011) og senere «Dette er en notis for å informere om diskusjoner og prosesser andre steder på Wikipedia» (her fra 2016).
- På et tidspunkt i 2016 (se Wikipedia:Tinget/Arkiv/2016-18) begynte jeg for min egen barnslige humors skyld å variere disse fomuleringene nederst i notisene. Jeg har til min glede oppdaget at noen andre også ser humoren i dette (se Wikipedia:Notiser/Arkiv/2017/februar). Det faller vel innenfor det Wildenvey kaller enkelte små vil det more.
- I dette aktuelle tilfellet her har Ulflarsen (diskusjon · bidrag) kopiert forrige notis, om designeren fra Trondheim, uten å oppdage at han fikk med min humor på kjøpet. Mvh --M O Haugen (diskusjon) 23. apr. 2017 kl. 13:11 (CEST)
Notis om kandidatartikkel: Sakshaug gamle kirke rediger
Artikkelen Sakshaug gamle kirke er nominert til WP:AA. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider/Sakshaug gamle kirke.
M O Haugen (diskusjon) 23. apr. 2017 kl. 20:23 (CEST)
Dette er en notis for å informere om prosesser i kleberstein.
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
- New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May. [26]
- When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups. [27]
Problems
- Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved. [28]
Changes this week
- The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [29]
- Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [30]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (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 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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24. apr. 2017 kl. 18:40 (CEST)
Notis om kandidatartikkel: Per Borten rediger
Artikkelen Per Borten er nominert til WP:AA. Se Wikipedia:Kandidatsider/Per Borten.
Hilsen Kjetil_r 28. apr. 2017 kl. 12:31 (CEST)
Her er det mye å lære om en interessant politiker: Han fortjener å huskes for mer enn underbuksebilder!
Notis om administratornominasjon rediger
Orf3us er nå nominert til administrator. Se Wikipedia:Administratorer/kandidater/Orf3us
Jon Harald Søby (diskusjon) 30. apr. 2017 kl. 19:25 (CEST)
Dette er en notis for å informere om viktige hendelser som påvirker Wikipedia-prosjektet, ikke et diskusjonsinnlegg.