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A new beta feature has been deployed which allows you to preview references by hovering over the inline footnote. [[m:WMDE Technical Wishes/ReferencePreviews|Reference Previews]] display the reference in a popup |
A new beta feature has been deployed which allows you to preview references by hovering over the inline footnote. [[m:WMDE Technical Wishes/ReferencePreviews|Reference Previews]] display the reference and its category in a popup with a link to navigate to the reference. Similar functionality has been available through [[wp:gadget|gadgets]] on several wikis, such as [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups|Navigation popups]] and [[mw:Reference Tooltips|Reference Tooltips]]. |
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===Sudden script stoppages, semicolons, and other strangeness=== |
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Technology report
Reference things, sister things, stranger things
Previews of references
An example of Reference Previews
A new beta feature has been deployed which allows you to preview references by hovering over the inline footnote. Reference Previews display the reference and its category in a popup with a link to navigate to the reference. Similar functionality has been available through gadgets on several wikis, such as Navigation popups and Reference Tooltips.
Sudden script stoppages, semicolons, and other strangeness
Several userscripts stopped working suddenly on October 21, as reported on the technical Village Pump. This was due to code being deprecated and removed, over a shorter timeframe than usual and without much notification. Following on from this incident, XFDcloser was made into a gadget.
The Contributions special page had its limit of 5,000 results per page decreased to just 500. The lower limit was implemented to prevent potential denial of service due to the impact of certain queries with long date ranges.
Extraneous semicolons started appearing on the Watchlist and other listings on November 8. The issue arose from improvements to the mobile watchlist that unexpectedly impacted the desktop views.
Little sisters' wishes
Interwiki popups concept, one of many wishes on this year's survey
The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 is open for voting until December 2nd. The WMF's Community Tech team, as per previous years, will work on the top wishes decided on by the community. Unlike previous years, this survey is exclusively for the smaller sister projects, with wishes for Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata specifically excluded. There are a total of 72 wishes in the survey, mostly for Wikisource, Wiktionary, and Wikiversity.
In brief
- The 2019 Wikimedia Technical Conference for developer productivity was held from November 12–15 in Atlanta, Georgia. Daily summaries with links to session notes and further reading are available from the Wikitech-l mailing list: day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4.
- Popular user scripts: Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts now lists user scripts by the number of times they have been imported. Many of the top scripts are broken, obsolete, deprecated, or superseded by gadgets.
- Gadget proposal: At the village pump, there's a proposal to make an updated version of the prosesize user script into a gadget.
Bot tasks
Recently approved tasks
- DannyS712 bot III (task · contribs) – Patrol redirects where periods are the only difference between the redirect title and the target
- YiFeiBot (task · contribs) – Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests archival
- BHGbot (task · contribs) – When a portal has been deleted at MFD, remove or replace links to it which are generated by one of 4 templates
- MilHistBot (task · contribs) – Assess articles that need a full B-Class checklist.
- WOSlinkerBot (task · contribs) – Fix lint errors related to {{legend2}}
- HasteurBot (task · contribs) – Nominate for Speedy Deletion articles that are valid for CSD:G13
- DannyS712 bot (task list · contribs)
- task 59 – Update various Wikipedia:Database reports
- task 62 – Tag talk pages that meet specific requirements as being within the `Maritime-task-force` and/or `Aviation-task-force` of wikiproject military history
- task 47 – Help implement TfD closes
- PearBOT (task list · contribs)
- Pathbot (task · contribs) – Adding navigation boxes in the bottom of articles.
- OAbot (task · contribs) – Add and maintain supported identifiers to citation templates (mostly {{cite journal}})
Current requests for approval
- Open:
- MajavahBot (task list · contribs) – Patrol WP:EFFPR: adding messages, fixing typos or formatting, and archiving old reports
- DemonDays64 Bot (task list · contribs) – Replace HTTP with HTTPS in links to HTTPS-secured sites
- Monkbot (task · contribs) – replaces the various
{{xx icon}}templates (and their redirects) with{{in lang}} - SteveBot (task · contribs) – Update categories based on results of requested moves
- In trial:
- Creffbot (task list · contribs) – Maintain CAT:UAA by removing the template from users who have had the template applied for a long time and users who are blocked
- Xinbenlv bot (task list · contribs) – Notify (on Talk page) cross language inconsistency for birthdays
- SportsStatsBot (task · contribs) – Automatically update football (soccer) players' career statistics
- Trial complete:
Latest tech news
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community: 2019 #45, #46, #47, & #48. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available on Meta.
Recent changes
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expirycan set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to useMediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ipto set a different default block length for IP editors. [1]- MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5,000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
- The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [2]
- Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [3]
Future changes
- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
- You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [4]
Meetings
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting takes place every Wednesday from 4:00–5:00 p.m. UTC. See how to join here.
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