Wikipedia:SHEIC/Archief/2018-08

Tech News: 2018-32

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

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [1]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [2][3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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6 aug 2018 21:39 (CEST)

Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors

Hello.

The team working on TemplateStyles at the Wikimedia Foundation would like to enable TemplateStyles on this wiki.

TemplateStyles is a feature to allow non-administrators to write and manage CSS styles for templates. It allows contributors who edit templates to separate content and presentation. A good web practice that makes it easier to manage the layout of templates. If you don't edit templates, this will not have any impact on your contributions.

TemplateStyles is useful for a few reasons.

• It makes it possible for templates to work better on mobile.
• It cuts out confusion on where to apply CSS rules.
• Editing CSS is currently limited to administrators, which is a major barrier to participation.
• All stylesheets must be loaded on all pages (whether they actually use the page or not), which wastes bandwidth and makes debugging style rules more difficult.

You can learn more about TemplateStyles on MediaWiki.org. Technical documentation is also available.

This is an optional feature and no one must use it, but template contributors are encouraged to do so! Please discuss and let us know if there are any concerns. If there are no concerns we will proceed to deploy the feature on the 9th of August.

Thank you.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 6 aug 2018 23:28 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [4]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [5]

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13 aug 2018 19:53 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [6]

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20 aug 2018 18:46 (CEST)

Vertaalmodule

Wanneer ik op een rode link klik, dan komt er een popupvenster met de vraag "Nieuwe pagina's maken door te vertalen is nu eenvoudiger! Wilt u het programma Content Translation proberen?" Om dat venster weg te krijgen, las ik eens dat je bij Speciaal:Voorkeuren "Vertaling van inhoud" moet aanzetten. Ik zou echter denken dat je hem daar moet uitzetten. Want als ik hem aanzet, krijg ik linksonder in beeld grijze talen staan en als ik daar op klik wordt ook weer de taalmodule aangeroepen. Ook wordt het aanroepen van de lijst van Gebruikersbijdragen vertraagd, omdat er extra buttonbalk in wordt geplaatst. Mocht dit allemaal wel zo de bedoeling zijn, dan zou ik graag willen weten hoe ik beide kan uitschakelen. What to do? Ymnes (overleg) 25 aug 2018 13:20 (CEST)

Voor zover ik weet is het 't een of 't ander, maar misschien kan je de makers op de feedbackpagina op andere ideeën brengen. –bdijkstra (overleg) 25 aug 2018 13:58 (CEST)

Dank je, ik heb de vraag daar net gesteld. Ymnes (overleg) 25 aug 2018 14:47 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-35

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 see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [7]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [8]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [9]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [10]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [11]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [12]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [13]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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27 aug 2018 18:16 (CEST)

Nieuwe pagina's in een (sub)categorie

Weet iemand hoe ik kan zien welke nieuwe artikelen er de laatste tijd geschreven zijn in een bepaalde categorie (en subcategorieën)? Ik ben nog wat aan het proberen geweest met Pet Scan, maar zonder succes. Maar misschien zie ik iets over het hoofd of is er iets beters? Ymnes (overleg) 25 aug 2018 15:06 (CEST)

Het is namelijk nogal belangrijk om Wikipedia:Wikiproject/Wiki goes Caribbean goed bij te kunnen houden de komende maand. Ymnes (overleg) 25 aug 2018 21:49 (CEST)

Ik ken niet zo'n tool, maar je kan toch ook elke dag even de nieuwe artikelen bij langslopen? –bdijkstra (overleg) 26 aug 2018 11:38 (CEST)

Dat kan inderdaad, maar het kost meer tijd en het is foutgevoeliger. Ymnes (overleg) 26 aug 2018 11:42 (CEST)

Ik meen een keer een botscript te hebben gezien waarmee je de wijzigingen in een categorie kan volgen, maar helaas geen idee waar. –bdijkstra (overleg) 30 aug 2018 19:14 (CEST)

Ik ben er net een uurtje uit trouwens, ik vergat het hier te melden. Ik heb het namelijk eerst op Meta gevraagd (en kreeg daar geen antwoord) en vervolgens aan Magnus Manske. Het blijkt toch via PetScan te kunnen (ik had dat over het hoofd gezien, het wil via het tweede tabblad). Daarnaast gaf hij mij een mogelijkheid via Wikdata die ik nog verder moet onderzoeken. Zijn antwoord staat hier. Ymnes (overleg) 30 aug 2018 19:27 (CEST)