User talk:MarcoAurelio/Archives/2018-02

Edit filter management

(follow up from User:Steinsplitter's talk - not sure if he wants all the pings :D )

• (moved to Meta:Babel#Restoring_global_abuse_filter_editor_group since there is a discussion open there now). — xaosflux ^Talk 18:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [1]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [2]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [3]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [4]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [5]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [6]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Yes or No it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [7]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [8]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (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 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [9][10]

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20:51, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Bureaucrat Estevoai@glwiki

Thank you: I was not active to change groups, and I've not remembered the system until your note.--Agremon (talk) 19:07, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

Recent changes

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [11][12][13]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [14]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [15]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (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 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [17]

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21:59, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Spambots

Hola, en estos últimos días, Wikinoticias en Inglés ha estado siendo atacada persistentemente por los famosos phone number spambots a tal punto que en 1 hora pueden llegar a crear más de 10 cuentas y docenas de páginas en cuestión de minutos, esto se ha hecho frecuente cada ciertos meses en esa wiki y se han probado diversas estrategias (filtros antiabusos, lista negra de títulos, checkuser, etc.) para combatir esta situación sin resultados efectivos. Quisiera saber si hay alguna forma efectiva de poderlos detener o al menos complicarle la vida a estas cuentas para dificultarles hacer esto. Saludos y Gracias. —AlvaroMolina (✉ - ✔) 02:52, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Hola. Espero poder responderte mañana con más detalle (entro y salgo ya) pero mi recomendación es AbuseFilter y Titleblacklist. Mañana le echo un vistazo con más detenimiento a los enlaces que me pones. Hasta mañana. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 23:13, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [18][19]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [20]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [21]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [22][23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (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 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [24]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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22:55, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

grunt-merge-i18n repo

Hi! I am not sure I understood the comment on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/New_repositories/Requests about grunt-merge-i18n repo - anything special needs to be done? The permission set probably should be the same as for wikidata/query/gui repo, if that's what it is about. Smalyshev (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Smalyshev (WMF). While I was trying to create the repo, I noticed that I don't have enough permissions later to modify the settings of the repo because I am not a gerrit administrator. QChrisNonWMF said he'll have a look at it later today. Sorry for the issues. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 22:00, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 13:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Global preferences ready for testing

Greetings,

I am contacting you because of your support for Global settings in the 2016 Community Tech Wishlist. Global preferences are now available for beta testing, and need your help before being released to the wikis.

1. Read over the help page, it is brief and has screenshots
2. Login or register an account on Beta English Wikipedia
3. Visit Global Preferences and try enabling and disabling some settings
4. Visit some other language and project test wikis such as English Wikivoyage, German Wiktionary, the Spanish Wikipedia, the Hebrew Wikipedia and test the settings
5. Report your findings, experience, bugs, and other observations

Once the team has feedback on design issues, bugs, and other things that might need worked out, the problems will be addressed and global preferences will be sent to the wikis.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Keegan (WMF) (talk) 19:40, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:10, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [25]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [26][27]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [28]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [29][30][31]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [32]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [33][34]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (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 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:53, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

You've got an email

{{YGM}} --Kostas20142 (talk) 21:18, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Will check. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:10, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Much appreciation for your work

Can we give you a lifetime pass to steward role? --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 19:58, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks :) Not sure about the later though ;-) Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 11:39, 1 March 2018 (UTC)