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Tech News: 2024-05

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  • Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [1]
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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [2][3]
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 31 January 2024

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TFA Protector Bot

Hi Legoktm :) I may be missing something, but I noticed that TFA Protector Bot may have malfunctioned slightly - Treat Myself got move-protected on 25 Jan, but the bot didn't also apply semi-protection prior to its inclusion on the Main Page today (31 Jan). Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten[meow] 19:22, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coverme

Hello friend. You're the maintainer of coverme, right? I tried to use it this morning and it seems like it is timing out. I get Wikimedia Toolforge Error. Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again later. after a couple minutes. Might need fixing when you get a chance. Thanks and enjoy your vacation! –Novem Linguae (talk) 16:15, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Novem Linguae: could you file this in Phab so it doesn't get lost? Legoktm (talk) 17:40, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, will do. Thanks for the quick reply! –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:49, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

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  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:02, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I want a new list

User:WhatamIdoing/Possibly underlinked medicine articles from Wikipedia:Bot requests#Early idea is going to be empty very soon. Could you give me a new list from Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa and Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink? It can go in the same page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:45, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

TFA Protector Bot

Hello Legoktm, the bot seems to have stopped applying edit protection to TFAs? JennyOz (talk) 04:40, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure why, but it stalled at 2024-02-01T23:00:16.584686Z. I've restarted it for now, will look in more detail later this week. Legoktm (talk) 01:22, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks very much for restarting. JennyOz (talk) 08:51, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-06

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  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
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  • 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). [8][9]
  • Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [10]

Future changes

  • 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [11][12]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:HaleBot

Hello, Legoktm,

I think the bot needs to be restarted or get a tune-up. It's not just the report I use, it looks like it overslept. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 03:45, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 13 February 2024

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Tech News: 2024-07

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  • The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [13][14][15] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [16][17]

Problems

  • There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

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  • 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). [18][19]
  • As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[20] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [21]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:47, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files

While investigating why User:B-bot hadn't tagged a particular unused nonfree image - it doesn't matter which one, it turned out to be something completely unrelated - I looked into the query HaleBot uses to update this page (which B-bot uses as a source).

It's not listing any files that are in use in any mainspace, rather than ones that aren't used in the main namespace in particular; and, more problematically, it's not listing files that have any file redirects, whether or not any of those redirects are in use.

In practice, the first isn't much of an issue, since there's at least one bot that removes such uses. The second, though, is; it's causing unused unfree files not to be tagged or deleted, sometimes for a long time. I've looked into two in particular as a sanity check - File:15 (Phatfish album - cover art).jpg (with redirect File:15 cover.jpg) was likely last removed from an article in June 2023, and File:Whitney Houston – One of Those Days.jpg (with redirects File:Houston onethosedays.jpg and File:Whitney Houston - One of Those Days.jpg) was likely last removed in October 2022. I'm seeing nearly 500 such images, comparing quarry:query/80400 to Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files.

Anyway, my question to you is, are these omissions intentional? It's ok if so, it just means I've got to take this up with User:B instead, and he's mostly inactive. —Cryptic 22:16, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't think it's intentional. If you have a better query for HaleBot to use that fixes these issues that would be great, we can get the report updated (otherwise I can try to poke at it...later). Legoktm (talk) 04:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
quarry:query/80422 works, but it's significantly slower - I just timed it at 68 seconds on uncached data, compared to 11.5 for the current version.
I suspect the subquery at the end, which checks for usage of a redirect and is most of what slows it down so much, isn't necessary - every use of a file redirect currently has a row in imagelinks both for the redirect and for the file it points to - but I don't know how reliable that is. —Cryptic 08:19, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! The slowness is fine, that's still relatively fast for the other queries HaleBot runs :) Applied, it should take effect for the next report run. Legoktm (talk) 05:28, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Possible fix for Legobot "rfc top" issue

Hey,

I just wanted to give this a bump as I think it fell off your talk page during a period when you were inactive. I think I've figured out a fix for Legobot incorrectly matching the {{rfctop}} tag, the details are here in the archive. There's one broken regex that I've suggested a fix for, but I don't have git installed on any of my devices at the moment so couldn't make a pull request for it.

Happy to discuss though, if you get a moment to check it out. :) Sideswipe9th (talk) 04:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Sorry about not replying earlier. I appreciate you providing a solution but I don't really have the bandwith to fully test it nor be around to fix it if something breaks. So if you have the ability to test it and are confident in it, I'm happy to apply it, but otherwise I'd prefer to stick with the known broken behavior instead of unknowns. Legoktm (talk) 05:08, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-08

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  • If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [22]
  • There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
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  • The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [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). [24][25]
  • Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
  • The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [26]

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