User talk:Legoktm/May 2015

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The Signpost: 29 April 2015

Tech News: 2015-19

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 chat with other users in Phabricator. [1]
  • There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [2] [3]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
  • It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [4]

Meetings

  • You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [5]
  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [6]

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15:12, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Bot-like editor making incorrect reports

Hello Legoktm. Recently you unblocked this IP with the message 'Don't block internal IPs.' But it isn't just a bot editing logged out (which would be confusing but tolerable) but it was removing AIV reports incorrectly. It was announcing that IPs were blocked that were not blocked. For example, this edit. It caught my eye because it said a certain IP was *indefinitely* blocked by User:Gilliam. In fact it had not been blocked at all by Gilliam:

I went ahead and issued my own block of the 103.251 vandal, but if 10.68.16.57 starts making mistakes again it needs to be blocked under the bot policy, in my opinion. User:Nakon is the admin who issued the previous block of 10.68. EdJohnston (talk) 02:14, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

That's an internal IP address which points to the wmflabs cluster. But if you block it, it will start causing collateral damage due to XFF blocking (see User_talk:Anomie/Archives/2013#10.111.0.0.2F16). Bots should be using mw:API:Assert if they shouldn't be editing while logged out. Legoktm (talk) 16:04, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
bugzilla:64530 Legoktm (talk) 16:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 May 2015

Tech News: 2015-20

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 make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [7] [8] [9]
  • You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [10]
  • The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [11] [12]

Problems

  • There was a problem that caused slow editing. [13]
  • Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [14]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
  • You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [15] [16]
  • You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [17]
  • When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [18]
  • When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [19]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:44, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

GA Cup

Hey Legoktm, I was wondering if you could do something for me. Would you be able to add a task to Legobot to help us with the GA Cup. It shouldn't be a lot of work (probably the same amount of code as when you added the task for the Recruitment Center). If you have the time/interested I'll give you more details. It would be greatly apprecited. The first GA Cup was a success and we are hoping for it to become bigger this year! :) --Dom497 (talk) 23:01, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Request: Speed up the GA oldid adding function

The edit category GA without oldid is getting large. Could you check to make sure the bot is still updating these articles, and if possible speed up the function to clean out the category? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Onegoofy (talk • contribs) 02:45, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

It's borked :/. I'll do some debugging of it later. 76.254.58.111 (talk) 18:26, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Ok, working now. It's running on my laptop for now and tomorrow I'll fix it on tool labs. 76.254.58.111 (talk) 06:54, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
The category has shrunk considerably. Thanks for adding a little WD-40 to get the bot running smoothly again. Onegoofy (talk) 02:54, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 May 2015

Tech News: 2015-21

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
  • References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [20]
  • You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [21]
  • The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [22]
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [23] [24]
  • UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [25]
  • A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [26]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: hello

Just testing... --MZMcBride (talk) 23:40, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Legobot not marking CHU/S requests as done

Could you take a look at see why Legobot is not marking my completed requests as done? I remember there being a capitalization issue but that doesn't seem to be the case on recent failures-to-mark (eg). –xenotalk 18:36, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 May 2015

Quixotic plea

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikipediholism test. Thanks. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 06:36, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [27]
  • Some Labs tools had issues last week. [28] [29]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:19, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikimania 2015

Hi! I sent you an e-mail related to one proposal by you. Regards, --ProtoplasmaKid (talk) 02:51, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Bot Administrator

User:TFA Protector Bot How this bot became administrator. High level AI?--C E (talk) 04:00, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

The Center Line: Spring 2015

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