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Tech News: 2014-42

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 software changes

• You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [1] [2]
• You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list or asking Elitre (WMF).

Problems

• 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [3]
• Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [4]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
• 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [5]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC). [6]
• There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [7]
• You can join a meeting about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [8]

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08:53, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.

Recent changes

• You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
• You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [9] [10]

File information cleanup

• You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
• See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
• You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
• The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [11]

Problems

• Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [12]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
• 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [13]
• If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [14] [15]

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13:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your help

File:Podoconiosis map.tif What do you think of this upload? Thanks again for all your help. Commons has templates for everything!! Now the image is shining on it's new home at Spanish Wikipedia. You are invited to read the article and find out about this forgotten disease. --Ninovolador (talk) 18:25, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Excellent job, there's nothing I would change. I don't speak Spanish, but I've read the english version. Interplay of genetics and soil conditions – that's fascinating, as Spock would say … --El Grafo (talk) 19:30, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Minor barnstar
	Great job! Thanks, Visit Ink in the trashy2's user page! (talk) 21:12, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

File:Presenza di Ansaldo STS nel mondo.jpg

Hi El Grafo,

I am working to obtain the licenses required. I am confident to solve the situation soon.

Thank's

As for the video we were not able to obtain the open CC license as required by Wikimedia Commons, could you prceed with the file deletion? thanks

signing for ‎ArchiveBot --El Grafo (talk) 11:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2013 R1 Announcement

signing for ‎ArchiveBot --El Grafo (talk) 11:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Autorisation Photos

De: Matias-Roland Decraene <decraene@officebamboo.asia> À: permissions-commons-fr@wikimedia.org Sujet: Message de suppression de mes images par El Grafo Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:50:01 +0700 Client de messagerie: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6

Bonjour,

j'ai reçus des messages en anglais https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Humbe m'annonçant un problème avec mes images dans mon brouillon de page à l'adresse suivante https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utilisateur:Humber/Brouillon&oldid=105676481

Je suis l'ayant droits de la succession Hector Cattolica depuis 1993; tous les droits réservés (représentation, diffusion, reproduction, modification, etc) m'appartiennent donc et je décide de placer certaines de mes images sous licence Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 France (CC BY-SA 2.0 FR) sous le nom de leur auteur original, Hector Cattolica, comme la Loi m'y autorise.

La liste de ces images :

   File:Images mobilepic.gif
   File:Lenrage11.jpg
   File:Ps4 déc 1980.jpeg
   File:Ps déc 1980.jpeg
   File:Ps3 déc 1980.jpeg
   File:Ps2 déc 1980.jpeg
   File:Urban.jpg
   File:Dibujo de H Cattolica 1.jpg
   File:Cattolica HE66-10.jpg
   File:Citizpic2.jpg
   File:Patriotism 2.jpg
   File:Signature Hector Cattolica.gif
   File:Pics spreadsml.gif
   File:Pics poster.gif
   File:D31f017b42a0a4a08cd60210.L.jpg
   File:Poster Hector Cattolica.jpeg
   File:Beau comme un homme.jpg
   File:Atelier-populaire.jpeg
   File:Patriotism.gif
   File:Retour à la normale.jpeg
   File:Portrait Hector Cattolica.gif
   File:Le dernier des métiers.jpg
   File:D9cd 2.JPG
   File:A-falta-de-otra-cosa-hector-cattolica-editorial-uno-1960-6225-MLA52641237 1326-O.jpg
   File:La Semeuse.jpg

Pour faire valoir ce que de droit, fait à HCMC, le 24 juillet 2014, par Matias-Roland Decraene

signing for ‎ArchiveBot --El Grafo (talk) 11:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! LED black light flashlight.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Jacek Halicki 14:27, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-44

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

• There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [16]
• There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [17]
• There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [18]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [19]
• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [20] [21] [22]
• VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [23]
• VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [24]
• The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [25]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

The Structured Data Bee, vol. 1, issue 1

Greetings, thank you for signing up for the Structured Data newsletter and its first edition. With this newsletter, the Structured data team plans on keeping you informed of technical progress, events, and communications to talk about the project, and continued information on how you can participate. This newsletter will be sent approximately every two weeks, and future editions will be translatable prior to publication. If you're new to Wikidata and want more information about how it works in relation to Wikimedia Commons, you can read an introduction to Wikidata for Commons being drafted.

Tech and design

• The software development for this process is still in the planning phases. The idea is to have some functional prototyping done for experimentation and feedback by the end of the year.
• The initial roadmap for development has been posted on Commons. The roadmap is a rough outline and is open to iterations as the team learns where and when to focus its energies.
• There is a page set up for design ideas about what structured data could potentially look like.
• There are forthcoming requests for comment about the particulars of technical architecture on mediawiki.org. Keep an eye on the Commons:Structured data/Get involved page for notification of when the RfCs are posted.

Events and chats

• There was a week-long meeting between the Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team, the Wikidata team, and community members, held in Berlin, Germany, at the office of Wikimedia Deutchland on October 6-10. You can read an overview of the event in on this page on Commons. There are also plenty of pictures available on Wikimedia Commons.

• If you would like to read more detail about what was discussed, there are etherpads of notes taken for each day of the event.

• The next IRC office hour to discuss the structured data project will be held on November 20, from 19:30 to 20:30 UTC.

• The second IRC office hour (logs) was held on October 16, and the first (logs) on September 3.

Getting involved

• Sign up for this newsletter!
• While working prototypes are being developed, there is a drive to make all files contain machine-readable data on Wikimedia projects.

• The information and sign-up page is located on Meta, at File metadata cleanup drive.
• The MrMetadata tool on labs that will identify files on your wiki(s) that need information templates added.

• A hub has been launched to facilitate communication and documentation for this work.

• There is a frequently-asked questions page that is finishing drafting and will need translated. Keep an eye out for when it is ready if you are interested in translating.
• There will be active organization of the Get involved page as community participation is further organized. There will be work groups, similar to specific Wikiprojects, dedicated to particular aspects of structured data like licensing presentation, design, API performance, and even helping out with this newsletter and other community communications.

There will be much more information and activities around the proposal to develop structured data on Wikimedia Commons. This project is a major undertaking and an important step as the chief provider, repository, and curator of media for Wikimedia projects.

Thank you for your participation in such an extensive project, let me know if you're interested in participating in this newsletter. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 04:43, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-45

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 software changes

• The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [26]
• You can no longer use the insource: keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [27] [28]

Problems

• There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [29]
• Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [30] [31] [32]
• HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
• Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [33] [34]
• VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [35]
• The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]
• After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [41] [42] [43]

Future changes

• The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [44]

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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! RMC Tokina 24mm 1-2.8 (03).jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Bgag 14:19, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
RMC Tokina 24mm F2.8.
If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.

review

•  Support Useful. --Hubertl (talk) 15:08, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. — revi_msg 13:42, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-46

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 software changes

• You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [45] [46]
• The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [47]

File information cleanup

• Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
• You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
• You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [48]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
• You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [49] [50]
• The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [51]
• The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [52]

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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Allium oreophilum (Pink Lily Leek), fruit.
If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.

review

 Support Useful --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 07:45, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Yann (talk) 14:59, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Bayreuther Bratwurst.
If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.

review

 Support : useful. --JLPC (talk) 19:00, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. — revi_msg 14:05, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Richtung

Hi El Grafo, habe gerade deinen Kommentar zu Commons talk:Structured data gelesen und mich gefragt, ob du eventuell weißt, warum beim Hochladen von Bildern mit dem UploadWizard die Richtung nicht aus den EXIF-Daten extrahiert und in das Location template übernommen wird. Beispiel: File:Wetterfahne auf der Kirche St. Otmar, Dosdorf.JPG. Danke und Gruß, --Arnd (talk) 14:13, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Hallo Arnd, ich nehme an, dass man bei der Entwicklung des UploadWizard schlicht nicht daran gedacht hat, dies Funktion einzubauen. Ich bin mir auch nicht sicher, ob überhaupt eins der Commons:Upload tools das automatisch kann. Für Vicuña hatte ich hier mal darum gebeten das einzubauen, allerdings bisher ohne Reaktion seitens des Entwicklers … --El Grafo (talk) 21:12, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Danke dir für die Info. --Arnd (talk) 22:25, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

@Aschroet: nur zur Info: Die Funktion wurde für den UploadWizard schon vor Jahren gewünscht (bugzilla:37925), bisher leider ebenfalls ohne nennenswerte Reaktion der Entwickler. --El Grafo (talk) 12:15, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-47

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
• The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [53]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

• The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
• You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
• You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
• Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
• You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [54]

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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Coat of Arms Bayreuth (mosaic, town hall).jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality --Halavar 11:12, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Anton Bruckner - Gedenktafel Schlosskirche Bayreuth.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Uoaei1 11:26, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-48

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

• The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [55]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [56]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
• You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [57]
• VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [58]
• You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [59]
• VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [60] [61]

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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Markgräfliches Opernhaus, sand stone restoration, color sample.
If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.

review

•  Comment : the scope is too broad imo ; I think "comparison sample" is needed to precise it. --JLPC (talk) 17:49, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your opinion, JLPC. I've changed the scope to … sand stone restoration, color sample – what do you think? --El Grafo (talk) 09:20, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
    •  Support : VI now imo. --JLPC (talk) 10:14, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:40, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Muncy Creek

I responded to your request on the QIC review of the Muncy Creek picture. (It's under November 20). I'd be pleased if you could continue with the assessment. Thanks, --Jakob (talk) 19:27, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

@Jakec:  Done, thanks for the improvements (and for reminding me). --El Grafo (talk) 20:06, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Great, thanks! --Jakob (talk) 20:07, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-50

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 software changes

• All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [62]
• You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [63]

Problems

• There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [64]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [65]
• You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [66]
• It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [67] [68]
• The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [69] [70] [71]
• (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [72] [73]

Future changes

• Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [74]

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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-51

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 software changes

• You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [75]
• You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [76]
• You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [77]
• You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [78]
• VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [79]
• The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [80]

Future changes

• The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [81] [82]
• You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [83] [84]

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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Karl_W_Richter.jpg follow-up, request for review

Hi. We had a discussion about this file, or better said, you quite patiently responded to my whiney bleating with some suggestions. I tried to implement them as you suggested. Would you do me the favor of reviewing the form in which I added material to the template to ensure I didn't break format? I'd appreciate that. Thanks. Azx2 07:38, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi Azx2, format-wise that's fine, I've just made the links a bit prettier. Copyright-wise, we still don't have 100% proof that this is an USAF-picture, but I guess I wouldn't nominate it for deletion if I came across this by chance. But then again (as previously mentioned), if I had uploaded this, I'd nominate it for deletion myself just to get further opinions from others. I'll leave that up to you … --El Grafo (talk) 10:11, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Change of scope

Hi, just realised I forgot to notify you. Considering your comment, I changed the scope of this VI nomitation. Feel free to give your opinion about this new scope. Yours sincerely, Gyrostat (talk) 11:30, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the reminder! --El Grafo (talk) 14:41, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

sharpening

Thanks for the info. I read a bit about it from the links and agree the chaining sounds like a stupid idea. The testing feedback also sounds suspect. If you play music at people who are not experts they will pick the system that sounds loudest and brightest, even if such is fatiguing and full of distortion. So I suspect oversharpening may superficially make some pictures look crisp but unnaturally so. Turning off all sharpening is also a bad idea as people will complain their thumbnails are soft. It looks like they have reverted the chaining change. -- Colin (talk) 16:05, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Colin, I'm sorry that I obviously was a bit unclear at first. I wanted to keep it short to avoid cluttering the nomination page – seems like that backfired quite a bit ;-) On first sight, I found the chaining a quite clever idea to decrease server load, can't blame them for giving it a try. I think the revert is not live on Commons yet [85], I guess it will happen with the next regular update. Cheers, --El Grafo (talk) 16:23, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Timema poppensis Dorsal view.
If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.

review

 Comment If the scope is considered too broad for this image, something like "(camouflage)" could be added, but I'll leave that up to the regulars here to decide what makes the most sense. Unfortunately no geocoding, but this may very well be a studio (or laboratory) shot where that wouldn't make much sense anyway. --El Grafo (talk) 15:04, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

•  Support Very useful. If you can it would be very useful to have a side view and a close-up view of the head from the front. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 17:54, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Sorry, no can do: Not my image and not even uploaded by me, I just noticed it over at FPC. --El Grafo (talk) 21:31, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 15:05, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-52

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 software changes

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [86]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [87]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [88]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [89]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Translation at Template:Countdown/i18n/de

Hello and thanks for translating this template into German! Please also translate the text in the three curly brackets, after the pipe (e.g. {{{event|the event}}} → {{{event|der/die/das …}}}) in the 6th, 7th and 8th translation (I can also correct it if you say me the German word). Thanks again, --Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:46, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Whoops, forgot that … thanks for the reminder, hope that's OK now? --El Grafo (talk) 21:52, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it's good. --Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:50, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-01

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

Software changes

• There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014

• The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!

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16:51, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! BOSS Blues Driver BD-2.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --XRay 06:53, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Exakta 70-210mm F4.5-5.6 side.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support IMHO DOF not perfect, but acceptable. Good quality. --C messier 15:49, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Exakta 70-210mm F4.5-5.6 side long.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Fingerprints could have been avoided, but overall good quality. --C messier 15:47, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-03

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 software changes

• Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [90]
• You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [91]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
• A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [92]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [93]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [94] [95] [96]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [97]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [98]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Yellowing of Takumar lenses.
If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.

review

 Support--Jacek Halicki (talk) 11:51, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 18:49, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-04

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 download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[99] [100]
• Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

• All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [101]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [102]

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18:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Valued Image Promotion

★ Your nomination has been reviewed and promoted ★
Congratulations! The image you nominated was reviewed and has now been promoted as a valued image. It is considered to be the most valued image on Commons within the scope:
Antonov AN-225 carrying Buran (in flight).
If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Valued images candidates.

review

 Support--Jacek Halicki (talk) 21:09, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Result: 1 support, 0 oppose =>
promoted. Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:41, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-05

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 software changes

• You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [103]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [104]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [105]
• The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [106]

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Scallop diagram vote?

Hi, I noticed your comment on my nomination of my scallop diagram for featured picture (Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Scallop Diagram2.svg). Please see my follow-up comment regarding image's new status as having passed validation, and consider changing your vote to a "Support"— today is the image's last day for consideration, and if you and one other voter switch your votes, the image will pass. Otherwise it seems likely to fail. I worked very hard on it, and I have gone back and addressed your concerns— I hope you will think about changing your vote before the clock runs out. Thank you! _KDS4444 (talk) 10:41, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for reminding me! --El Grafo (talk) 12:49, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-06

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

• There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [107]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
• The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [108]
• You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [109] [110]

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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Category:Siegerlandflughafen

Siegerlandflughafen has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Recent changes 2015 (talk) 10:28, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-07

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 software changes

• You can now use {{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }} to transclude a section with its title. [111]

Problems

• MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [112]
• UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [113]
• All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [114]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
• You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [115] [116] [117]
• You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [118] [119]
• It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [120]
• You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [121]
• In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [122]

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16:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)