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’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [1]
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 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Fotografii de la Sebeș
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Am adăugat la commons o serie de imagini cu clădiri monumente istorice, fiecare clădire în categoria sa. Am înțeles că preferați să actualizați dv. lista monumentelor, cu robotul. --Turbojet4 iunie 2017 23:31 (EEST)Răspunde
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 see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [3]
When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [4]
You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [5]
New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [6]
Problems
The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [7]
Changes this week
Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [8]
You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [9]
When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [10]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [11]
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 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [12][13]
Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [14]
The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.
MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
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This Month in GLAM: May 2017
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MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
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
Some wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [15]
When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [16]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [17]
Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [18]
Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [19][20]
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Parametru la template Monument istoric la Commons
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Salut, ați adăugat aici parametrul „eroare=1”. Este cumva pentru robot?
De fapt, „ansamblurile urbane” din liste sunt formate adesea din mai multe poziții (palate, sau, de exemplu la Alba Carolina subansambluri) care, deși au același număr LMI, logic au categorii diferite. Înțeleg că robotul trebuie să pună în listă o singură categorie. M-am uitat în c:Template:Monument istoric și parametrul „eroare” semnifică că este posibilă o eroare, că ceva nu este corect. Dacă asta este semnificația lui „1”, cred că ar trebui completat, ceva gen „2” înseamnă subcategorie a monumentului cu codul „cutare”, bună, dar care nu se trece în LMI. Propuneri? --Turbojet13 iunie 2017 14:21 (EEST)Răspunde
@Turbojet: Da, parametrul eroare îi spune robotului să ignore categoria respectivă și include categoria Cultural heritage monuments in Romania with errors pentru analiză manuală ulterioară. De obicei în cazuri de felul acesta eu încerc să creez și categoria de bază, vezi de exemplu c:Category:Fortifications of Sighișoara, și să o marchez numai pe aceea cu codul. Din ce-am observat nu există consistență între județe: unele nu menționează deloc monumente din interiorul unei zone, altele le menționează ca submonumente iar altele le trec ca monumente independente.
Pe termen scurt eroare=2 ar putea fi o indicație că e vorba de o subcategorie, dar cred că ar fi mai bine dacă am avea un parametru de genul maincat=Ansamblul urban V din Timișoara care să se reflecte și în text: Aceasta este o subcategorie despre un monument istoric din România, clasificat cu numărul MS-II-a-A-15805. Categoria principală a monumentului este Ansamblul urban V din Timișoara. Mi-e teamă numai să nu devină prea complicat formatul. Ce credeți?--Strainu (دسستي) 13 iunie 2017 14:50 (EEST)Răspunde
Nu e numai al meu, mai sunt și cele internaționale. Robotul poate să știe de orice parametru sau combinație parametru-valoare, ideea era să știe și oamenii normali fără să se uite în sursă.--Strainu (دسستي) 13 iunie 2017 15:04 (EEST)Răspunde
Oricum, fără documentație și fără experiență în domeniu, oamenii normali nu vor ști și vor pune cel mult codul monumentului. N-am idee ce s-ar putea face. :( --Turbojet13 iunie 2017 15:09 (EEST)Răspunde
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Legat de CEE Meeting
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Salut. Mă gândeam că poate ar fi fost bine să mai bagi vreo 2-3 rânduri în care să relevi cam la ce ar trebui să se aștepte eventualii doritori. Uite, spre exemplu, mie unul asemenea evenimente mereu mi-au făcut impresia unor întâlniri mai degrabă între IT-iști. Plus, nu știu dacă toți au o idee (cât de cât) clară legat de ce înseamnă aceste discuții GLAM (proiecte GLAM, în fine). Wintereu13 iunie 2017 22:11 (EEST)Răspunde
Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.
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
ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [21]
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [22]
Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [23]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Am mai discutat pe marginea chestiunii preciziei coordonatelor (este și la Commons), dar poate merită să mai discutăm. Aparatele foto stochează o coordonată pe 5 octeți, din care rezultă o precizie de 40 de microni pe meridian (pe paralelă chiar mai bine). Cu 5 zecimale precizia este de 0,4 m, cred că suficient pentru listele de monumente istorice. Se câștigă 5 spații, mai mult la estetică, și încredere din punct de vedere tehnic/fizic. Nu bat cu pumnul în masă, doar îmi spun părerea.
--Turbojet24 iunie 2017 13:18 (EEST)Răspunde
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 <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [24]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [25]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [26]
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Comentariu la ștergerea paginii.
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Bună ziua, doresc să aduc câteva note explicative la penibila și malițioasa justificare de ștergere a paginii personale. O pictură bună nu are nevoie de referințe, care oricum în ziua de azi, când toți vor să trăiască bine, se pot obține aproape fără număr. Ea are nevoie de erudiți care s-o priceapă, iar aceștia de bună seamă nu sunteți dvs., de aceea chiar nu știu de ce administrați un site enciclopedic de artă?! Notabilitatea unui artist este dată de notabilitatea operei sale, care la rândul ei este o măsură a valorii ei intrinseci și nu a părerilor unuia sau altuia care, evident, se pot înșela. Chiar dvs. în lamentabila justificare ajungeți de fapt la aceeași concluzie. Din punctul meu de vedere, "ștergerea" poate să rămână online mult și bine, va veni timpul când ea va scoate, în privirea cunoscătorilor, penibilul unui vocabular neprofesionist, vădit malițios. Studiați istoria artei, ca să vedeți că nu s-a învățat nimic din greșelile trecutului, în consecință ele se tot repetă! ← Acest comentariu nesemnat a fost adăugat de Mirceanastase (discuție • contribuții).
WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
Newest gadgets: Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.
Development
Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.
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 was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [27]
Changes this week
Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [28]
Domnul Nicolae Albulescu este la final de activitate si sotia dansului i-a facut cadou aniversar aceasta pagina. Va rog sa luati in considerare publicarea acestei pagini
Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
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 are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [29]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 iulie. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 iulie. It will be on all wikis from 13 iulie (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 iulie at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [30]
We will not useTidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.
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This Month in GLAM: June 2017
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Macedonia report: New collaboration of GLAM Macedonia user group with the City Library in Skopje
Netherlands report: Workshop children's books, Sharing is Caring Brussels, short WiR period at Utrecht University Library & Preparations medieval image donation
Russia report: WikiProjects of students of Petrozavodsk State University
