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Tech News: 2021-25

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

  • Advanced item The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [1]

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [2]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:47, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #474

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: We started building the foundation of the place that will store the mismatches between Wikidata and other databases/catalogs/...
    • Continued work on migrating the checks of regular expressions for constraints from SPARQL to a better solution to take that load off of the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)
    • Made it possible to show language links from multilingual Wikisource to the other language versions of Wikisource (phab:T275958)
    • Added a new constraint type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes with a specific language (phab:T200689)
    • Fixed a weird issue with suggesters popping back up when they shouldn't (phab:T284219)
    • Invalid data will not be handled better in RDF outputs (phab:T285131)
    • Working on lowering the rate limit at which a misbehaving bot can waste new Item IDs to further reduce the percentage of skipped Item IDs (phab:T284538)
    • Working on not suggesting real Item IDs in the API sandbox to avoid accidental edits by people who think it is not making real edits (phab:T219215)
    • Working on reducing the time it takes between entering a value in a new statement and being able to save the statement (phab:T281669)
    • Improved documentation of the usage tracking aspects in API help pages. Usage tracking is an internal mechanism to track which article on Wikipedia etc uses which data from an Item on Wikidata. (phab:T283040)
    • Language codes for monolingual strings "gsw-fr", "ykg", "wya", "osa-latn" were made available: Alsatian, Tundra Yukaghir, Wendat, Osage (phab:T262922, phab:T252198, phab:T283364, phab:T265297)
    • The English name for language code "crh" and the Swedish name for "fa" were corrected (phab:T240350, phab:T281702)
    • Lexeme language codes ha-arab, sux-latn, sux-xsux, gsg, tlh-piqd, tlh-latn, bfi, pwn, enm were added. That is Hausa in Arabic script, Sumerian in cuneiform and Latin-script, German Sign Language, Klingon in pIqaD and Latin script, British Sign Language, Paiwan and Middle English. (phab:T282512, phab:T279557)
    • It was determined that language codes can be activated for Wikidata while being blocked for use on Incubator (phab:T273705), this to avoid projects such as a "British English Wikipedia"
    • Language code "es-419" for Latin American Spanish has been available for labels and descriptions for quite some time (phab:T230786)
    • A possibly confusing Russian mis-translation of the name of the language code for "multiple languages" (mul) is being reviewed (phab:T245927)
    • "en-simple:" can be used instead of "simple:" to link to Simple Wikipedia. Query Services outputs "en-simple", not "simple" for sitelinks to Simple Wikipedia (phab:T283149).
    • There was some discussion about the creation of a language code "en-in" for monolingual strings, but "en-in" as interface language seems to be preferred (phab:T212313)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Tech News: 2021-26

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

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [6][7]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

  • Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
  • A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [8][9]

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16:30, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Csesc!

Hello, Jan!

I have a little question.

You blocked a wide range of IP-addresses. It's 195.114.144.0/21, Data group - national IP-provider from Ukraine. My friend User:Качуровська has an ip 195.114.145.103 and she is blocked too. ;-( Help, please! Dzieki! --Nickispeaki (talk) 19:40, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If it helps you - id #403744 from 28 of February 2021 to 28 of February 2022... --Nickispeaki (talk) 19:44, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done. --jdx Re: 07:31, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #475

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship:
  • Events
    • Past:
      • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #49 - YouTube
    • Upcoming:
      • SPARQL queries live on Twitch in French by Vigneron, July 6 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
  • Tool of the week
    • User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
    • Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
    • Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
    • Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
    • A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
    • A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Tech News: 2021-27

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

Tech News

  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

  • AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [10]

Problems

  • InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [11]

Changes later this week

  • The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [12][13]
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [14]

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17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #476

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship:
      • Emu (RfP scheduled to end after 13 July 2021 11:49 UTC)
      • -akko (RfP scheduled to end after 16 July 2021 06:31 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship:
  • Events
    • Past:
      • LIBER 2021 - Panel Discussion: Why use Wikidata or not - YouTube
      • SPARQL Wikidata divers. Session of Tuesday, June 29 (in French) - YouTube
      • SPARQL Wikidata Wikisource. Tuesday, July 6 session (in French) - YouTube
    • Upcoming:
      • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. This month we will also be having a guest presentation about Toolhub by Srishti Sethi from the Wikimedia Foundation.
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; [15], July 13th.
      • Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—July 14th, 2021. Come and ask anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.!
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #71, July 18
  • Tool of the week
    • Schafe vorm Fenster is a project to build up a calendar for rural villages in Vorpommern-Greifswald using Wikidata to get images and short descriptions for the villages. (See example)
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder (a tool to review mismatches between Wikidata and other databases): We continued initial development of the store part of the tool. We focused on the upload of new mismatches. (phab:project/view/5422)
    • Discussion on how do describe the types of mismatches reviewed in Mismatch Finder (phab:T285849)
    • We introduced a magic word that can be used to exclude a page from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedia and co. This will make the special page more useful to find pages on Wikipedia and co that should be added to an Item on Wikidata as sitelinks. (phab:T97577).
    • We reduced the number of Wikidata edits that show up in the watchlist and recent changes of Wikipedia and co by not triggering entries for a number of Wikidata edits that do not influence the article (phab:T286193)
    • Property Suggester: We are reviewing patches by a student working on an improved Property Suggester.
    • Working on improving how deprecated statements are handled when checking “type” and “value type” constraints" (phab:T170401)
    • Working on fixing a bug where the entity suggestions are opened when a valid value is already selected (phab:T285102)
    • Wikidata-Wikibase federation (Federation v2): We investigated How to refer to entities that have the same IDs as the source wikibase entities. You can read the ADR here


You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Tech News: 2021-29

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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [16][17]
  • Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [18]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).

Future changes

  • Advanced item How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
  • Advanced item The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:29, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #478

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Past:
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Stefano Bargioni (Pontifical University Santa Croce (Rome)), and Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo (University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore) will discuss their recent project and article “Beyond VIAF: Wikidata as a Complementary Tool for Authority Control in Libraries”.; July 13th.
    • Upcoming:
  • Tool of the week
    • searchy.toolforge.org is a semantic search engine to find articles on a topic and filter results by metascientific info (gender and region).
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. It can import first mismatches now.
    • Fixing an issue where month and year are sometimes parsed as the first day of the month (phab:T233105)
    • Fixing an issue with adding sitelinks for some of the newer Wikipedias (phab:T285919)
    • Working on improving the Lua usage tracking for redirected Items (phab:T280910)
    • SPARQL was amended on the 4th July to use the report #title, if present, as the anchor for the 'Try it' link. (example)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

IP meaningless vandals on a series of images

These IPs been changing the dates and putting meaningless sentences in the description and edit summaries. I would revert them all myself but I assume you have the tool to rollback all of them in one swipe. Thanks. --Vauxford (talk) 00:54, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done Thanks for reporting. --jdx Re: 04:42, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

{{int:common.css}}

Hi. Because of the two bullets that also appear when a message appears when a page is both cascade protected and protected manually on its page, can you please add to the page mentioned in the title?

/* Remove bullets when there are multiple edit page warnings */
ul.permissions-errors > li {
	list-style: none none;
}

ul.permissions-errors {
	margin: 0;
}

This is so that this…

  • ‌
This page is currently protected, and can be edited only by administrators.

This page is currently protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following pages, which are protected with the "cascading" option enabled:
$2

…can turn into this…

This page is currently protected, and can be edited only by administrators.

This page is currently protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following pages, which are protected with the "cascading" option enabled:
$2

…without the bullets. Thanks if you understand. 41.254.65.247 11:38, 24 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done Unfortunately, virtually I do not know CSS, so I will not insert into such an important file a code from unknown source. Please ask at COM:AN. --jdx Re: 07:45, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #479

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Added a tags parameter to the wbmergeitems API so Item merges can now also get an edit tag (T286778)
    • Mismatch Finder: Continued working on the store part. This week we focused on uploading a file with potential mismatches and the UI for getting a list of all uploaded mismatch files.
    • Addressing comments from the security review of the Query Builder so we can hopefully soon move it from the test system to its proper place under query.wikidata.org

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2021-30

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

  • A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).

Future changes

  • If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preference Enable responsive mode. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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21:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Question about reverted edit

Hi Jan, I want to ask you why you reverted my edit on Commons:Wiki Loves Love 2019? The edit I made was about adding a toolbar which can give people access to other contest pages of this contest. Please look into it.

Thank you
*•.¸♡ ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝔹𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕡𝕒𝕝 ♡¸.•*𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕜
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team

File:Sanamahi temple inside Kangla Fort, Imphal East, Manipur.jpg

Hi Jdx,
I note that we were working on the same issue :-)
Best, Mosbatho (talk) 20:11, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We need your feedback!

Hello. Apologies if this message is not in your native language: please feel free to respond in the language of your choice. Thank you!

I am writing to you because we are looking for feedback for a new Wikimedia Foundation project, Structured Data Across Wikimedia (SDAW). SDAW is a grant-funded programme that will explore ways to structure content on wikitext pages in a way that will be machine-recognizable and -relatable, in order to make reading, editing, and searching easier and more accessible across projects and on the Internet. We are now focusing on designing and building image suggestion features for experienced users.

We have some questions to ask you about your experience with uploading images here on Wikimedia Commons and then adding them to Wikipedia. You can answer these questions on a specific feedback page on Mediawiki, where we will gather feedback. As I said, these questions are in English, but your answers do not need to be in English! You can also answer in your own language, if you feel more comfortable.

Once the collecting of feedback will be over, we will sum it up and share with you a summary, along with updated mocks that will incorporate your inputs.

Also, if you want to keep in touch with us or you want to know more about the project, you can subscribe to our newsletter.

Hope to hear from you soon! -- Sannita (WMF) (talk to me!) 09:56, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #480

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Portuguese version of the Wikidata Query Service tutorial tool is now available.
    • Advisory board call for members for the Web2Cit project: Web2Cit: Visual Editor for Citoid Web Translators project is moving! With Diegodlh we are inviting people to apply to be an Advisory Board member. Is this you? Is this someone you know? Check the Call for members and apply to be an Advisory Board member before August 6th!. If you are too busy this time around to apply, don't worry: we get it. You can also help us by spreading the word!
    • The moveClaim.js user script has been updated using code created by Melderick to support changing a property of a claim within an entity. Please switch to the updated version if you used the other one, and report any bugs.
    • New tool: Lexemes Party displays lexemes linked to a list of Wikidata items, so you can improve related lexicographical data in the languages you know. You can build your own lists and several examples are available. A weekly challenge is also proposed, theme of the week: Olympic Games.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2021-31

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

  • Advanced item If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
  • Reminder: Wikimedia has migrated to the Libera Chat IRC network, from the old Freenode network. Local documentation should be updated.

Problems

  • Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [20][21]

Changes later this week

  • When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [22]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).

Future changes

  • The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
  • The Beta Feature for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).

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20:44, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

ip attacks and vandalism pls help

User: 2409:4073:2194:1e76:1cdf:1186:8afb:1e1 (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) 
Reason for reporting: This ip series containing 2409:4073:29a:7f69:688e:de91:73dc:34df,2409:4073:31a:3ff7:2dbf:2f29:7aa6:340a,2409:4073:4e8a:294c:8e8:eed3:6030:e63 attacking my photos and vandalising the photos , he into destruptive speedy deletion edit war and vandalising the article.Already admis have warned him not to do but constantly attacking [23][24]. I suspect Outlander07 is involved in this ip vandalism and logged out editing as is evident from the team play in deleting thiyya/ezhava community photos without any claims.[25]. I am requesting to block the ip series to prevent vandalism and to open a investigation upon this including suspected nair caste vandal Outlander07 Noncreativephotographer (talk)

Noncreativephotographer (talk) 07:37, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #477

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Mismatch Finder: Finishing work on importing mismatches and moved on to building the API for retrieving mismatches from the mismatch store.
    • Added tags for all edits done through the UI to more easily distinguish them from edits made through tools and other means (phab:T236893)
    • Moved regular expression checking for constraints from the SPARQL endpoint to a dedicated service to make it faster and put less stress on the SPARQL endpoint (phab:T176312)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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