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The Signpost, 1 April 2015

Some puke for you

Happy April Fools' Day!
Blargh ghurk bubble blurgh blergh blech erk. wctaiwan (talk) 01:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
<3 Legoktm (talk) 04:13, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

VPT on wheels

Missed it, too bad. Good to know that the number of contributors with a sense of humour has not yet dropped to zero. –Be..anyone (talk) 03:30, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Time to plan for next year! ;) Legoktm (talk) 04:14, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
And how. Legoktm (talk) 07:23, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Legobot

Legobot has not updated RfC for a month now and has not included one I started almost 2 days ago. A message was left on the bot's talk page about the need to restart it by its user. So, if you could restart the bot. Spshu (talk) 18:45, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 01 April 2015

Hi and thank you

Hello,

Thank you for reviewing this page. I'd like to improve upon my Wikipedia know-how. I see you have an incredible amount of experience and are an expert at creating and organizing content. What was do you recommend I go about better learning?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.43.94.144 (talk) 10:56, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15

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

Problems

  • The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [6]
  • Labs was broken several times this week. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
  • You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [11]
  • Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [12] [13]
  • You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [14]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [15]

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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 April 2015

Tech News: 2015-16

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

Problems

  • Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [19] [20]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
  • Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [21] [22]
  • All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [23]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 April 2015

Problem with rescaled.js

Every time I try to use it on an OGG file, it removes the old version of the file but doesn't remove the Orphaned non-free revisions template. Will you look into this and see about updating it to work with OGG files, too? I'm sure you can find a few to test with in here. Thanks!

Here are a few to try:

I gave you a bunch since I don't know which might be deleted by the time you read this. Hope this makes it easier for you to fix. Thanks! ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 06:10, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-17

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

  • There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [24]
  • VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [25]
  • You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [26]
  • If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [27]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [28]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
  • Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [29] [30] [31]
  • If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [32]
  • You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [33]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [34] [35]

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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 April 2015

Duplicate parameter args

Could you add support for mask1=, mask2=, mask3=, ... in [36] for parsing User:HBC Archive Indexerbot/OptIn transclusions? it looks like you could accomplish this with a simple regexp replace before the arg parsing to replace 'mask[%d]=' with 'mask='. this will allow the removal of a bunch of pages from Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 15:43, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-18

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

  • All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [37] [38]
  • You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [39]
  • There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [40]
  • You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [41]

Problems

  • Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [42]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
  • It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [43]
  • You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [44]
  • You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [45]
  • You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [46]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta. 09:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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