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The Signpost: 29 January 2014
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
- Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [1] [2]
- The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [3] [4]
- You can now link to diffs using
[[Special:Diff/12345]]and similar links. [5] - There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [6]
- Searching in the
File:namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [7] - All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [8]
VisualEditor news
- You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [9]
Future software changes
- Edits and files hidden with the Oversight tool will be moved to the RevisionDelete system. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [10] [11] [12]
- For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (
:ko:v,:v:ko, etc.). [13] - It will soon be possible to use the GettingStarted tool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on Translatewiki.net. [14]
- You will soon be able to include the Special:Contributions page into other pages. [15]
- You will be able to see where a file is used inside MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [16] [17]
- It will soon be possible to send MassMessage messages using the API. [18]
- You will soon see audio statistics on the Special:TimedMediaHandler page. [19]
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08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 January 2014
- Traffic report: Six strikes out
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Wikidata weekly summary #96
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- See the office hours logs at meta
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- See the FOSDEM slides
- Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
- Development
- More work on badges by Bene*
- Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
- Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
- Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
- Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
- Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
- The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]
- You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [25]
VisualEditor news
- You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [26] [27]
- The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [28] [29] [30]
Problems
- On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [31]
- On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.
Future software changes
- Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [32] [33]
- You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [34]
- You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [35] [36]
- The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [37]
- Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [38] [39]
- It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [40]
- You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [41]
- You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [42] [43]
- If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [44]
- Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [45]
- bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [46]
- The
<poem>tag will be renamed to<lines>. The old tag will still work. [47]
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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 12 February 2014
- Technology report: Left with no choice
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Wikidata weekly summary #97
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Reasonator
- By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
- The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
- The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
- You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
- Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
- Development
- Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
- Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
- Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
- Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
- Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
- Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
- Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
- Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
- Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
- Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
- You can now use the list of active users again. [48] [49]
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [50]
- You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [51]
- You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [52]
Problems
- On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [53]
- On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [54]
- On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
- There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
- On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.
VisualEditor news
- The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [55]
- You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [56]
- Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [57]
- You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [58] [59] [60]
08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 February 2014
- News and notes: Foundation takes aim at undisclosed paid editing; Greek Wikipedia editor faces down legal challenge
- Technology report: ULS Comeback
- WikiProject report: Countering Systemic Bias
- Featured content: Holotype
- Traffic report: Chilly Valentines
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Wikidata weekly summary #98
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
- 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
- Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
- Development
- Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
- Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308)
- Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273)
- Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446)
- Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
- Kept poking TimeParsers
- Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
- Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help develop the next summary here!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [61] [62]
- The Universal Language Selector was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how).
VisualEditor news
- You will soon be able to add and edit
__STATICREDIRECT__,__[NO]INDEX__and__[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__in the page settings menu. [63] [64] [65] - You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [66] [67]
- You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [68] [69]
Future software changes
- You will soon be able to use the
<categorytree>tag again. [70] - You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage tool in all talk namespaces. [71] [72]
- Notifications will soon work in all namespaces. [73][74][75]
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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 February 2014
- Featured content: Odin salutes you
- WikiProject report: Racking brains with neuroscience
- Special report: Diary of a protester: Wikimedian perishes in Ukrainian unrest
- Traffic report: Snow big deal
- Recent research: CSCW '14 retrospective; the impact of SOPA on deletionism
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