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Tech News: 2019-03

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 can now use Google Translate in the content translation tool. [1][2]
• You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
• Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [3][4]
• Templates with could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [5]

Problems

• When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [6]

Changes later this week

• You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
• Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [7]
• The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 January. It will be on all wikis from 17 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future users can be blocked from editing a page or a namespace. What a "block" means will change. This means that you might have to update tools you maintain that handle blocks. [8]

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)

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Growth team updates #9

Welcome to the ninth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

Opening Growth features to more wikis

The Growth team has existed for about one year. During that time, we have developed several features that we think can help increase retention. Though we are still gathering data to detect scientifically whether the features increase retention, we think that some of the features are ready to be deployed on more wikis that want to experiment with them. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible.

Then, go through the checklist to start the process of getting these features:

• Help panel: allow newcomers to find help and ask questions while they edit.
• Welcome survey: learn what topics and types of edits newcomers are interested in.
• EditorJourney: learn what workflows newcomers go through on their first day.

General news

Indicator that encourages users to look at their Notifications for responses to their questions

• A new quarter of the year has started, and the team has set our goals for the next three months. The most important goals are:
  • Newcomer homepage: increase activity through a task recommendations module. Now that we have seen several weeks of positive activity on the newcomer homepage, we think that the most important thing to add is a way for newcomers to find tasks to work on. The challenge will be recommending the right kind of tasks at the right point of their journey.
  • Newcomer homepage: increase feature discovery rate by 100%. Right now, only 20% - 30% of newcomers ever visit their homepage. We want to double that number by making sure all newcomers know how to find it.
  • Help panel: increase usefulness through improvements to affordance, search, and UX flow. We have looked closely at data and anecdotes from the usage of the help panel, and we plan to pursue specific improvements to increase its effectiveness (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers find responses to their questions).
• Wikimania is coming up next month, which includes a "Community Growth" space. We hope to see people from all communities there to talk about how to bring newcomers into our movement.
• We have started to deploy features to our team's fourth target wiki: Arabic Wikipedia. That wiki is the biggest one we target, it has a high percentage of mobile users, and also is our first right-to-left language. This will help us make sure that our features are valuable for as many types of users as possible.

Mobile homepage and early analysis

Button to help newcomers find their homepage from their empty Contributions page

• The mobile version of the newcomer homepage was deployed to Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Now, newcomers can access their homepage from both desktop and mobile devices.
• We have published our first set of data about the performance of the newcomer homepage. In summary, we are happy with the homepage's performance so far. We see about half of visitors clicking on something, and the majority of them returning to the homepage multiple times.
• Because we see positive usage of the homepage, we will deploy several small features in the next two weeks that help more newcomers discover their homepage (see accompanying image of a feature that helps newcomers discover their homepage from their empty Contributions page).
• As listed in our goals above, we'll be starting to focus on adding task recommendations to the newcomer homepage. We'll be publishing early thoughts on this feature so that community members can give their thoughts and advice.

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14:26, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Technical Move request

Hi, I didn't understand your comment:

title is not capitalized, if you want rename it still, open RM request

I opened a Technical Request because that page is already occupied with a redirect page or I would move it myself. The article is about a professional certification so all the words in the name are capitalized in the official spelling. I understand that article titles are not normally capitalized except for the first letter but this article title is a proper noun. HiMyNameIsFrancesca (talk) 04:04, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

This was the request:

• Certified nurse midwife (currently a redirect to Certified nurse-midwife) → Certified Nurse-Midwife (currently a redirect instead to Certified nurse-midwife) – credential should be capitalized and job is midwife or nurse midwife HiMyNameIsFrancesca (talk) 16:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi, @HiMyNameIsFrancesca: I've checked some few similar titles before removing the request, because some people don't want their declined request to be converted to RM directly. Being a professional certification is not enough reason to capitalize the words nor the "official spelling" argument. Compare for instance similar certifications; Certified mortgage consultant, Certified first responder, Certified management consultant and equally comparable titles: Chief executive officer as well as Chief financial officer. In all, only the first letter is capitalized. I do note, however, some are treated as proper nouns and duly capitalized like Certified Public Accountant, but they're very few (which I can find), so we need to have consistency on which style to use to avoid back-and-forth moves and proper RM request is better place for such discussion. – Ammarpad (talk) 08:06, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation dos and don'ts

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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A bowl of strawberries for you!

for helping fellow editors in reducing the backlog at WP:RMT DBigXrayᗙ 06:08, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

Solent

Hi Ammarpad

Would you mind relisting this one? It seems to have had very low turnout, and the proposed title was already rejected in a 2015 RM as not satisfying WP:THE. I would Oppose this move.Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 19:11, 10 August 2019 (UTC)