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Wikidata weekly summary #90

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The Signpost: 25 December 2013

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Tech News: 2014-01

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

Recent software changes

  • You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [1] [2]
  • With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [3]

VisualEditor news

  • Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5 <figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [4]
  • You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.

Problems

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
  • AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [6] [7]
  • It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [8] [9]
  • It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [10] [11]

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08:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #91

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Tech News: 2014-02

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  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
  • The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site. [12]

Problems

  • On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
  • On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes

  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [13]
  • Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [14]
  • Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [15] [16] [17]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [18] [19]
  • You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [20] [21]
  • You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt 1 and similar key groups. [22] [23]
  • E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [24] [25]
  • Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [26] [27]

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08:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 08 January 2014

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Wikidata weekly summary #92

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Geonotice request

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Hi Andrew, any chance you could attend to my request at Wikipedia:Geonotice (along with a couple others that have been sitting there for a little while)? It's for an event on Wednesday. -Pete (talk) 07:14, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

  • Done. Andrew Gray (talk) 08:48, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
    • Much appreciated! I am not sure how much 1 degree covers, but I am in Oakland (a similar distance as Tiburon, but to the east rather than north) and the notice is not showing up here. Any possibility of expanding it a little? (In general, I'd be interested to learn how to make better/more specific requests about geography -- I don't really know how this works.) -Pete (talk) 16:51, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
      • Oakland is centred on [37.8, -122.3], so you should be well inside the [36.75 -121.5], [38.75, -123.5] area. What does geoiplookup.wikimedia.org report for you?
In general terms, the watchlist notices are served up to anyone whose IP resolves (by our lookup table) as being within a specific geographic region, defined as the rectangle between two corner points. We aren't able to target it any more specifically than that (no circles, state-level filtering, etc) but we can do per-country messaging. Andrew Gray (talk) 18:41, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
That page returns the following line:

Geo = {"city":"Oakland","country":"US","lat":"37.804401","lon":"-122.270798","IP":"98.248.124.201","netmask":"24"}

I'm at a different location in Oakland now than when I messaged you earlier; but I'm still not seeing the notice. -Pete (talk) 21:04, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
No idea in that case, sorry! It looks like it should be working - don't know where it's going wrong. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:28, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-03

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Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [28]

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [29]
  • You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [30] [31] [32]

Problems

  • For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [33] [34]
  • For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

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09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

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