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Contents
- 1 Tech News: 2018-46
- 2 recent block
- 3 WP:MCQ#File:Valley of Mo'ara mountains.jpg and File:Toy Story Land, WDW.jpg
- 4 RonBot idea: SVG increase
- 5 Improper resize
- 6 History of image
- 7 File:Cristhian Rivera.jpg
- 8 Galgotias University.png
- 9 Images loaded on wikipedia
- 10 Another Favor
- 11 Deletion
- 12 Question
- 13 Action request
- 14 new to wikipedia...scanning the php code...i got to say this is the best...with smart people ...like you...i can learn a bit everyday...
- 15 barnstar cool PHP Ronhjones
Tech News: 2018-46[edit]
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
- Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [1]
Problems
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [2][3][4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [5]
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recent block[edit]
I noticed you blocked 2605:A000:8040:CC00:0:0:0:0 instead of 2605:A000:8040:CC00:0:0:0:0/64 - I assume you were going for a range block, not just for the one IP. Geraldo Perez (talk) 00:11, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Geraldo Perez: Doh! Me being lazy and using Twinkle. It don't work for range blocks...! Well Spotted. Ronhjones (Talk) 00:29, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
WP:MCQ#File:Valley of Mo'ara mountains.jpg and File:Toy Story Land, WDW.jpg[edit]
Hi Ronhjones. Perhaps you can help out with this question? -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:42, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
RonBot idea: SVG increase[edit]
Hi Ron, I had an idea for new functionality in RonBot. Your bot already fixes images that are too large to meet the NFC guidelines, but another frequent problem with SVG files is that they'll be too small. What often happens is, someone will extract a logo from a PDF where it appeared very small, and as a result, their SVG will have a tiny nominal size. Someone reading an article will click on the logo, expecting to see it bigger, and instead they'll see a much smaller version of it. An example of this right now is the logo on Charlotte Independence (used to affect maybe half of the teams in that league, but I've manually fixed most of them).
Would you consider developing new functionality for RonBot to raise SVGs to the maximum allowed resolution for NFC? Obviously, you wouldn't want to automatically scale up every SVG, since some are presumably intended to be so small. Instead, an editor would have to manually tag the image to be upsized. The current process of manually fixing this is quite tedious, so being able to simply click a button in Twinkle and add a template would make it much easier to eradicate these unnecessarily-tiny logos. Let me know what you think of my idea. Thanks, IagoQnsi (talk) 19:13, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- @IagoQnsi: The maths works in either direction - I have seen such items - I seen square logos at 20x20 - It will have to go through a bot request. I cannot say what they will say about such an idea. My view is that we have the guideline of 100,000 pixels, so long as the images stay within the guideline, then why not. I'll start a BRFA, and see what transpires. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:34, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
Improper resize[edit]
Please fix your image resize at File:Filemanager31.gif – the text looks horribly broken. It can be resized to the same lower resolution without that effect (though if the text is still unreadable the image should be left at a higher resolution per the usual practice). Modernponderer (talk) 12:18, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Modernponderer: Fixed Ronhjones (Talk) 17:40, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
History of image[edit]
bsd. Hi, Ron! I am trying to figure out how to create a "File history", like this one. Is there a script that generates the list, or is it done manually? Is this at all still relevant, or is the "file history" section obsolete? Thank you! --Ben Stone 18:27, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Benstown:It appears there was a GIF version of the file. Then someone made a PNG version from it, and thus copied the history from the GIF history page (before deletion). I think there was a drive to change gif to png many years ago. There is not much point now (besides most free images now get moved to commons). Ronhjones (Talk) 18:35, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- This is precisely what i was wondering, was there any greater purpose in keeping the history of a file. If I understand correctly, there isn't. Thank you. --Ben Stone 18:53, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
File:Cristhian Rivera.jpg[edit]
Looks like you reviewed this image. Am I missing something here? The source credits the photo to the Des Moines Register, and apparently he was arrested by the Poweshiek County sheriff. So it's not clear why the federal government should have taken the mug shot. GMGtalk 20:06, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- @GreenMeansGo: I think you are correct. https://people.com/crime/mollie-tibbetts-accused-killer-wasnt-acting-any-differently-at-work/ says "Poweshiek County". So not Federal Gov. I've undone my edit Ronhjones (Talk) 20:29, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Galgotias University.png[edit]
Hello, I have updated the description as you asked. Please go through it and let me know. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akhtar.mubeen (talk • contribs) 20:07, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Akhtar.mubeen: Such permissions need to be sent to WP:CONSENT for proper validation Ronhjones (Talk) 21:03, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Images loaded on wikipedia[edit]
The images I uploaded on Wikipedia are my photos. They belong to me. I took them. They were never anyone else's. Kathleenreandeau (talk) 04:05, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Kathleenreandeau: They were found elsewhere on the internet. If you want to upload here, make sure you upload here first. Otherwise you have to use the slow process at WP:CONSENT Ronhjones (Talk) 16:56, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Another Favor[edit]
Can I ask if you could hide this edit? It's a copy and paste copyright violation from a website (the website that the IP linked, in fact).--Mr Fink (talk) 15:34, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Deletion[edit]
Hey, please delete the older versions of File:Bepanah.jpg. Thank you :) MiaSays (talk) 06:15, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
Question[edit]
heya on ur user page there's a box saying 'this user has set foot in 20 countries' and another saying 'wiki defcon 3' how do I put those in my own user page? thx, TheOneAndOnlyMuffinCat (talk) 20:25, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
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- @TheOneAndOnlyMuffinCat: The data for those two items is below...
- 1. {{User:EVula/Userboxes/countries visited|20}} {{flagicon|England}} {{flagicon|Scotland}} {{flagicon|Wales}} {{flagicon|Jersey}} {{flagicon|France}} {{flagicon|Italy}} {{flagicon|Monaco}} {{flagicon|Poland}} {{flagicon|Belgium}} {{flagicon|Netherlands}} {{flagicon|USA}} {{flagicon|Russia}} {{flagicon|Switzerland}} {{flagicon|Austria}} {{flagicon|Germany}} {{flagicon|Norway}} {{flagicon|Latvia}} {{flagicon|Estonia}} {{flagicon|Lithuania}} {{flagicon|Belarus}}
- 2. See Template:Vandalism information for all the different versions
- Ronhjones (Talk) 23:58, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
thanks :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheOneAndOnlyMuffinCat (talk • contribs) 10:04, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Action request[edit]
I see you're currently active, can you please consider actioning this AIV request. Thanx, - FlightTime Public (open channel) 00:18, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you :) - FlightTime Public (open channel) 00:22, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
new to wikipedia...scanning the php code...i got to say this is the best...with smart people ...like you...i can learn a bit everyday...[edit]
so so cool ..why are you.... hidden in the php.. this is my jem for today,.
Fenwayfender talk page 21:08, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
barnstar cool PHP Ronhjones[edit]
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| The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators...in your php..WHY ARE YOU HERE. Fenwayfender talk page 21:08, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
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Chartered Tax Practitioner & Certified Public Finance Accountants of Canada,[edit]
Dear Ron,
Please kindly reinstate my article: Chartered Tax Practitioner & Certified Public Finance Accountants of Canada, since I have the required source documents for further updates.
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by What'supCanada (talk • contribs) 07:30, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

