User talk:McZusatz/Archive 5

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Report for files uploaded between December 19 and December 28

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 22 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 10:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

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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. [1]
  • 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. [2]

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. [3]
  • The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [4]
  • The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [5] [6] [7]
  • The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [8]

Future changes

  • You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [9]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between December 29 and January 07

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 25 problematic instances. I was unsure about 13 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 07:07, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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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.[10] [11]
  • 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. [12]

Software changes this week

  • There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [13]

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18:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between January 05 and January 14

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 26 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 12:32, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

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Vœux

Meilleurs vœux pour 2015 !
Hello McZusatz/Archive 5,
Je te souhaite une très bonne année
Et beaucoup de plaisir à contribuer !
Cordialement,
— Racconish 📥 11:32, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you! A happy new year to you, as well! --McZusatz (talk) 03:52, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
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problematic bot edit

FYI, This edit commented out the file's license and categories. --Jarekt (talk) 13:44, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I think the bot fixed it. There was a nowiki opening tag somewhere in the source and there was no closing nowiki tag; effectively commenting out all content after the opening nowiki tag. Thus, another bot was appending categories in a loop because they were never parsed as such by the software. --McZusatz (talk) 18:27, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes the other bot was confused too, but your bot commented out the license template and the other category. It is not a big issue, except that images without license templates have to be fixed by hand. --Jarekt (talk) 18:48, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
It was already implicitly commented out by the wiki parser which assumed a closing nowiki tag after the end of the source text. Therefore, my bot added the closing nowiki tag explicitly, so parsed text and source text no longer seem to contradict. --McZusatz (talk) 19:14, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-05

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Recent software changes

This week

  • There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [15]

Future changes

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

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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. [18]

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. [19]
  • 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. [20] [21]

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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

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Bot request

Would it be possible for YaCBot to run through the whole Category:Official Portraits of Members of the Iowa General Assembly category tree? It's hit several of the images I uploaded there, but it seems to be doing so in a scattershot way, and all of my uploads will have the same issue, as I didn't know about internationalization of headings when I uploaded them. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:30, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Should already be ✓ Done by c:user:McPot. --McZusatz (talk) 03:51, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 02:24, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-07

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Recent software changes

Problems

  • MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [23]
  • UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [24]
  • All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [25]

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. [26] [27] [28]
  • You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [29] [30]
  • It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [31]
  • 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. [32]
  • In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [33]

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16:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between January 31 and February 09

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 45 problematic instances. This time I could tag all files appropriately and I won't need your help. --Flock (talk) 13:35, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, about that, your bot Flock has been tagging images that have been already reviewed. 1989 17:53, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
According to our guidelines such templates should not exist. I think the best way to solve this, is to subst: all 333 transclusions. --McZusatz (talk) 19:50, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
I now see what you mean. Sorry for the confusion. The template has been nominated for deletion. 1989 20:13, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
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Estación Rufino

Hello, why did you upload a watermarked version of the files and removed my review ?

Thibaut120094 (talk) 20:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

The resolution of the original files is a lot higher. I will try to crop those watermarks again... --McZusatz (talk) 20:36, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Okay thanks, but what about my review ? Why did you remove it ?Thibaut120094 (talk) 20:37, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Nothing, I just consistently request a bot review after uploading the original flickr file. ;) --McZusatz (talk) 20:42, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-08

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Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
  • On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [34] [35] [36]
  • You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [37]
  • In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [38]
  • The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​ [39]

Meetings

  • The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [40]
  • You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [41]
  • You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [42]

Future changes

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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-09

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

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
  • It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [47]
  • It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [48]
  • Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [49]
  • Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [50]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
  • Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [51]

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16:28, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between February 09 and February 18

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 56 problematic instances. This time I could tag all files appropriately and I won't need your help. --Flock (talk) 17:59, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-10

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

  • A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [52]
  • You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
  • You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [53] [54]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
  • You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
  • Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [55] [56] [57] [58]
  • The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [59]
  • The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [60]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [61]

Future changes

  • You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [62]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for your review of my valued pictures; I had a problem last night with Upload Wizard but now it is alright and working; I have a very fast Upload internet now of 10 Mbps with regular 1.0 Mbps Download from our Globe provider here in Philippines; hence I do trust this Commons Wizard, but it is very rare it would fail like this; I had uploaded more than 120,000 of the total Uploaded here in Commons of 245,000 files of the photographer who donated to me all these for sole Upload to Commons due to its integrity and education philosophy without ads; sincerely--Judgefloro (talk) 03:18, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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Error?

[63] . --Keysanger 11:34, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

No, I think you already noticed what the problem was. Though, I will make the edit summary more clear. --McZusatz (talk) 19:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between February 21 and March 02

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 108 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 12:33, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-11

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 create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [64] [65]
  • VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [66] [67] [68]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
  • In VisualEditor the "Edit beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [69] [70]
  • The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [71] [72]
  • You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [73] [74]
  • You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [75] [76]
  • If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [77]

Future changes

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15:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between March 02 and March 11

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 379 problematic instances. I was unsure about 30 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 06:57, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between January 23 and February 01

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 80 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 00:37, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

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File:President Obama Delivers Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Marches.ogv

Can we keep both files, please?

Apparently there are problems playing the video file for the full larger version. As noted at Village Pump by Fæ (talk · contribs).

Therefore, it would be helpful to our readers to keep the smaller version archived, as well, as an educational resource -- as it's easier to play the video of that file.

Thank you,

-- Cirt (talk) 00:09, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Are you aware of the transcoded versions offered, which should be selectable through the video player, too? -- Rillke(q?) 00:17, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Yeah, that's awesome, just don't see why we can't also retain the other file? -- Cirt (talk) 00:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
That's pretty much the standard procedure we do here, I guess. As I understand com:dupe, it tells me to use {{Duplicate}} for files that are exactly the same or scaled down. --McZusatz (talk) 01:36, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Unfortunately though, seeing as we're having problems with playback from multiple people, could we please keep the smaller file that's easier to playback, as well? Please? -- Cirt (talk) 03:45, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
See my reply at the VP: 1. If appropriate, bug reports should be filed. --McZusatz (talk) 21:01, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
I agree with your comment there, but could we also please have the other file back? Please? -- Cirt (talk) 02:36, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
McZusatz, would you please be so kind as to restore the OGV file? Please? :) -- Cirt (talk) 02:06, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate your kindness, but this is not reason enough for me to restore the file. If you think I deleted the file in error, you may contact another administrator and ask them for a second opinion. --McZusatz (talk) 02:27, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you, but what about the reasoning to have an alternative form of playback for those it doesn't work for? -- Cirt (talk) 03:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
That is pretty much the point of the transcodes. If webm is not working for you, you can play the 360p ogv directly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1a/President_Obama_Delivers_Remarks_on_the_50th_Anniversary_of_the_Selma_Marches.webm/President_Obama_Delivers_Remarks_on_the_50th_Anniversary_of_the_Selma_Marches.webm.360p.ogv --McZusatz (talk) 23:38, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Okay, thank you very much for the helpful link and explanations! :) -- Cirt (talk) 23:47, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
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File:Balder Joerg.jpg

Hallo und Danke für den Hinweis. Die Datei hatte ich ganz vergessen, sorry. Die kann weg! Danke! --Balder de (talk) 21:41, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

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My files

Hi, on my user page I got the information that my images were suggested for deletion. I'd like to keep them as I use at least one of them at my German user page of Wikipedia. Regards, Dionysos1988 (talk) 08:31, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-12

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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [80]
  • You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [81]
  • It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [82] [83]

Problems

  • Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
  • A puzzle piece icon (icon) now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [84] [85]
  • You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [86] [87]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [88] [89]
  • You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [90]
  • The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [91]

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15:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between March 03 and March 12

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 7 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 01:57, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between March 08 and March 17

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 33 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 00:42, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-13

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 this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
  • The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [92]
  • VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [93] [94] [95]
  • When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [96]

Meetings

  • You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [97]

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15:09, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

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c:file:VjacheslavWolski1.jpg

Hello McZusatz. This is my only profile picture on wikipedia. Is it restricted to use profile picture? --VjacheslavWolski (talk) 06:48, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

As far as I can see, it is not used right now (and was not used when I filed the DR). Do you want me to restore it? --McZusatz (talk) 07:07, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
It's used on https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:VjacheslavWolski page. Please, restore. --VjacheslavWolski (talk) 11:11, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
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Doppeltilden

Hallo McZusatz. Könnte dein Bot bei den ausstehenden Korrekturen bei solchen Fällen auch gleich diese Korrektur übernehmen? Dieser Syntaxfehler kam/kommt zehntausendfach vor. --Leyo 22:48, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Habe das mal nur in regex geschrieben. (Ein genereller Template-Parser mit Syntaxkorrektur waere wohl angebrachter...)
Das sieht dann bspw. so aus. --McZusatz (talk) 03:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Danke. --Leyo 00:18, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between March 14 and March 23

[skipped: 0; deleted: 12.617 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 248 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 15:31, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-14

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 hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [98]
  • You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [99] [100] [101]
  • All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [102]
  • You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [103]
  • VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [104]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
  • VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [105]
  • You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [106]
  • You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [107]
  • You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [108]
  • VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [109] [110] [111] [112]

Meetings

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-15

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

  • The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [119]
  • Labs was broken several times this week. [120] [121] [122] [123]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
  • You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [124]
  • Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [125] [126]
  • You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [127]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [128]

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15:41, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between March 25 and April 03

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.469 %; IOExceptions: 1;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 26 problematic instances. I was unsure about 7 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 00:46, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

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YaCBot bug - international indirection introduced when replacing wikilink URLs

See https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Straight_engine.svg&curid=2252894&diff=156821832&oldid=118806766

.png version from [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Silnik_rzedowy.png pl.wiki]

is being replaced by

from [[w:pl:Grafika:Silnik_rzedowy.png|pl.wiki]]

rather than

from [[:pl:Grafika:Silnik_rzedowy.png|pl.wiki]]

It works after a fashion, as the :pl: pseudo-namespace is recognised at en:WP as well as at Commons, but it's not optimal. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:13, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, it is not mandatory for *.wikipedia but for *.wikibooks etc.
Thus, fixed. --McZusatz (talk) 10:06, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-16

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
  • Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [134] [135]
  • All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [136]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-17

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

  • There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [137]
  • VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [138]
  • You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [139]
  • If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [140]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [141]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
  • Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [142] [143] [144]
  • If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [145]
  • You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [146]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:29, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between March 28 and April 06

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.875 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 28 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 17:06, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between April 04 and April 13

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.338 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 44 problematic instances. I was unsure about 19 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--54.201.238.161 17:00, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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Special:Diff/158330212

Hallo McZusatz. Das |nobold=1}}) auf der neuen Zeile halte ich für etwas suboptimal. Magst du mal schauen, weshalb dein Bot dies so macht? --Leyo 08:12, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Der regex ist zu gierig. Ich werde den Bot evtl. am Wochenende neu kompilieren. --McZusatz (talk) 07:30, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
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Re: McTopot and Top 200 images that should use vector graphics

@McZusatz: Hey, I wanted to contact you regarding your McTopot bot that currently does the Top 200 images that should use vector graphics page. I'm not sure how you're pulling your data, so I don't know how easy or hard it would be. I had a request, I was wondering if you could have your bot/script exclude all the different language User and Talk pages when determining the Top 200 images? When looking for images to turn to a vector format, want to try to focus on those that are used in actual articles instead of user/talk pages, which is why I'm making this request. If this request is too much, no problem, just thought I'd ask. Thanks for your time. Offnfopt (talk) 18:21, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Will hava a look at this within the next couple of days. --McZusatz (talk) 07:34, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Should be fixed now. --McZusatz (talk) 16:31, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it.Offnfopt(talk) 16:35, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
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Special:Diff/158524589

Hi McZusatz. Ich weiss nicht, wie viele solcher Fälle es gibt, aber zumindest hier wäre ein : besser gewesen. --Leyo 22:09, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Ich mache das ab jetzt mit dem : generell so. Eventuell "überschüssige" Links müssen dann von Hand entfernt werden, falls unerwünscht. --McZusatz (talk) 19:32, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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YaCBot error

Hi McZusatz, I just spotted this wrong edit on one of the files my bot had uploaded. Please can you look into it to stop the bot moving categories out of logic templates. --99of9 (talk) 02:04, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

✓ Done. --McZusatz (talk) 20:09, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between April 11 and April 20

[skipped: 0; deleted: 8.019 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 26 problematic instances. I was unsure about 16 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 20:54, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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Uncategorized or categorized?

Hello, is the bot correct in this case when it adds "uncategorized" next to two categories? --ssr (talk) 19:34, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, your feedback is greatly appreciated! Sadly, I could not trace the cause for this misbehavior. This seems super sketchy to me because I restarted the instances on WMFlabs without replacing the bot's executables. It turned out there was at least one other instance which got then reverted by the restarted bot... My best guess is to blame the API --McZusatz (talk) 01:48, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 16:46, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

On Commons:Deletion requests/File:Make me pretty base by ak manga-d34s02x.png you state my changes are ineligible for copyright, but do not further specify why. I am in full legal right to make changes and re-license under the SA clause. If you wish to personally take on this issue you should be willing to show which law you lean on. I would remind you are personally responsible and can not rely on quoting policy as the Wikimedia foundation and Wikimedia Commons expressly state any such changes are not sanctioned. CFCF (talk) 11:21, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Of course you are allowed to edit a file which is published CC-BY but what you did by re-publishing the file as CC-BY-SA and labeling it Own work is w:copyfraud. Additionally, your attempt to restrict re-use of the file (adding the Share-Alike clause) never had any ground because your changes do not pass the Threshold of originality. As far as I can see, the only thing you did as modification was select a rectangle and press del. --McZusatz (talk) 12:07, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Not knowing the exact basis of the templates would not equate to fraud. The description explicitly stated that the image was not of my own creation. The threshold of originality is where personal judgement comes into the picture and I dispute your conclusion as I made various color and other changes that might not be apparent at first glance. CFCF (talk) 13:07, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
I note that CFCF restored the CC-BY-SA license after McZusatz reverted it.
(FWIW, I entirely agree with McZusatz here; CFCF's "contribution" is beyond trivial, entirely uncreative and below any reasonable threshold of originality required to claim it as his/her own, or as a "derivative" work that can be relicensed, at least under US law. I'm pretty sure the majority of experienced users would agree). Ubcule (talk) 19:32, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
License has been changed again. I've raised this issue at the Village Pump.
All the best, Ubcule (talk) 16:14, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-18

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

  • All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [149] [150]
  • You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [151]
  • There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [152]
  • You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [153]

Problems

  • Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [154]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
  • It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [155]
  • You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [156]
  • You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [157]
  • You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [158]

Meetings

  • You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:10, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

fyi: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2015-May/007505.html lg :) --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:07, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 16:28, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Flyback arcing.gif

I give you permission to delete it or tag it with the speedy template. Cccp3 (talk) 07:49, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-19

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 chat with other users in Phabricator. [159]
  • There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [160] [161]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
  • It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [162]

Meetings

  • You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [163]
  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [164]

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15:03, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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File Babadag.jpg deleted - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babadag.jpg

Hello.

After this message from you: "Thanks for uploading [[:]]. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or send an email with copy of a written permission to OTRS (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). This also applies if you are the author yourself"

I have send written permission to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org on 28.04.2015

Why this file was deleted?

Thank you

Здравствуйте.

После полученного от вас сообщения о том, что файл, загруженный мной - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babadag.jpg может быть удален по причине отсутствия у него разрешения, я согласно рекомендациям отправил письменного разрешение на указанный вами адрес - OTRS permissions-commons@wikimedia.org 28 апреля 2015. Однако, несмотря на это файл был удален.

Пожалуйста, сообщите мне по какой причине он был удален?

Спасибо.

✓ restored. --McZusatz (talk) 14:24, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-20

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 make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [165] [166] [167]
  • You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [168]
  • The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [169] [170]

Problems

  • There was a problem that caused slow editing. [171]
  • Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [172]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
  • You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [173] [174]
  • You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [175]
  • When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [176]
  • When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [177]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:38, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 17:19, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Commons:Imker (batch download)/I18n

Hallo :-)! Habe eine i18n Seite angelegt für einfaches übersetzen. :-) Bei der supage &action=edit und man hat die formatierte Übersetzung. --Steinsplitter (talk) 10:05, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Danke, bestimmt hilfreich, wenn jemand mit git(Hub) nicht so gut umgehen kann. --McZusatz (talk) 14:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded by TheBellaTwins1445

[skipped: 0; deleted: 0.0 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 3 problematic instances. This time I could tag all files appropriately and I won't need your help. --Flock (talk) 07:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 16:59, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

File:VIDEO_DE_MAROC_WA9i3.webm

Hallo McZusatz, könntest du mal einen Blick auf dieses Video werfen? Es war für morgen als Motd eingetragen, ich hab's da erstmal ersetzt. Keine Ahnung ob der Uploader die Rechte an Musik/Text besitzt und ob die verwendeten Bilder frei sind, das Wasserzeichen bzw. die Nennung der Erstellungssoftware in dieser Größe/Anordnung im Bild geht für mich jedoch eindeutig in Richtung Reklame. Danke und Gruß, --Pristurus (talk) 19:42, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

Sinnvolle Beiträge kamen sowieso nicht zustande. Der Nutzer hat sich verabschiedet. --McZusatz (talk) 20:45, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Danke schön! --Pristurus (talk) 22:48, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between May 03 and May 12

[skipped: 0; deleted: 9.127 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 20 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 01:09, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-21

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
  • References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [178]
  • You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [179]
  • The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [180]
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [181] [182]
  • UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [183]
  • A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [184]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:21, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between April 26 and May 05

[skipped: 0; deleted: 9.301 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 37 problematic instances. I was unsure about 6 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 04:24, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-22

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

  • VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [185]
  • Some Labs tools had issues last week. [186] [187]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-25

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

  • Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [189]
  • Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [190]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [192]
  • If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [193] [194] [195]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-23

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

  • Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [196]
  • Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [197]
  • Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [198] [199]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [200]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:30, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-24

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 this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [201] [202]
  • If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [203]
  • When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [204]
  • The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [205]

Meetings

Future changes

  • If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [207]

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15:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-26

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

  • Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [208] [209]
  • You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [210]

Problems

  • On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [211] [212] [213]
  • On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [214] [215] [216]
  • Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [217] [218] [219]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 25 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:23, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

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Categorisation

Please try to categorise your uploads correctly instead of flooding very broad categories such as Category:Food. - Takeaway (talk) 12:44, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between June 09 and June 18

[skipped: 3; deleted: 11.113 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 32 problematic instances. I was unsure about 7 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 22:04, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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Corentin Martins

Ce fichier est de mon propre travail, pas la peine de le supprimer

Then just provide the permission so we can restore it. --McZusatz (talk) 19:28, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-27

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

Recent changes

  • Long lines in code blocks now look better. [220]
  • You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [221]
  • When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [222]
  • The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [223] [224] [225]
  • You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [226]

Problems

  • JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [227]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
  • You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [228]
  • When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [229]
  • If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [230]
  • Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [231]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future

  • When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [232]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-28

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

  • On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [233]

Problems

  • The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [234]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
  • The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [235] [236]
  • You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [237]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

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YaCBot

Hallo, Der bot scheint down :(. Habe ihn testweise geklont. Hat irgendein problem meim login (auf tolslabs). Bin aber java-0 --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:07, 31 May 2015 (UTC)--Steinsplitter (talk) 14:07, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Nein, das war das erste Mal, dass der bot tatsächlich down sein soll. Das letzte was der mir mitgeteilt hat war
 All batches done. Exiting.
Was heißt, dass zumindest alle Dateien, die vor 2013 hochgeladen worden sind, mindestens einmal besucht wurden. --McZusatz (talk) 17:11, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
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File:2 rue Saint-Rome - Tour Serta.jpg

Hello, there is a small problem with your Bot: it destroys the title of this image. Thank you, good day. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:01, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

@Archaeodontosaurus: If you want to link to a category, the syntax is [[:category:name]] and not [[category:name]]. --McZusatz (talk) 06:24, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-29

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

Problems

  • There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [239]
  • There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [240]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [241]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-30

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
  • You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [242]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 21 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [243]

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03:05, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-31

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

Problems

  • There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
  • There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [249]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
  • JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [250]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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Fotoflugkurs

Ich halte es für Blödsinn, Beschreibungstexte in den Abschnitt Licensing zu verschieben und Beschreibungsfelder zu leeren, nur weil irgendwer das sagt. Wenn man den Baustein unbedingt verschieben will, gehört der über den Lizenzblock. Bitte mach die Änderungen rückgängig oder richtig. --Ailura (talk) 05:44, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Es ist Blödsinn dass eine Dateibeschreibung aus drei Bausteinen ohne jegliche Parametern besteht. Wer soll denn damit was anfangen? --McZusatz (talk) 08:18, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Von den (gefühlt) hundert reverts, die ich heute früh gemacht hatte, hatten etwa drei Dateien keinen eigenen Beschreibungstext. Die Projektbausteine brauchen keinen Parameter und sagen genau das aus, was da steht: Dass es sich um Bilder aus Projekt xy handelt. Wenn Du lieber zusätzliche Informationen hast, darfst Du sie ergänzen, it's a wiki. Aber den Baustein in die Lizenz stopfen ist sinnlos, das hat mit der Lizenz wenig zu tun. --Ailura (talk) 09:11, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Imo kann man hier die Beschreibung schneller rauslesen als hier. (Ganz zu schweigen von Maschinenlesbarkeit) --McZusatz (talk) 09:24, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Genau so habe ich meine Änderungen heute morgen auch gemacht [251] und das ist mit den aktuellen Upload-Tools im Unterschied zu 2013 auch in Serie möglich. Was Du gemacht hast, war den Baustein unter die Überschrift "Licensing" unter die Lizenz zu packen und da gehört er nicht hin. So wie es jetzt neu gemacht ist, sieht es für mich OK aus. --Ailura (talk) 09:57, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
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The reason for the color change.

Hi McZusatz. I didn't mean to cause any harm with the File:Xbox logo 2012 cropped.svg color change. I was trying to update the color to reflect the current color of the logo. The difference between the two colors was this Xbox One and Xbox 360

Ariesk47 (talk) 16:12, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Just include the reference in the upload summary and everyone is happy. :) --McZusatz (talk) 11:31, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
@Ariesk47: Actually, see com:overwrite. --McZusatz (talk) 18:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between June 28 and July 07

[skipped: 0; deleted: 12.577 %; IOExceptions: 1;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 173 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 08:41, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between July 07 and July 16

[skipped: 0; deleted: 7.501 %; IOExceptions: 9;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 79 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 19:35, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

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Te pliki są moje

Te pliki są na pewno moje że proszę bez potrzeby tego nie usuwać. Zgłosiłem tylko jeden plik zwany jako File:Super Mario - Fire Ball (normal sound).wav że tylko jeden wystarczy usunąć ze względu na to że źle ma działający dźwięk. Proszę mi odpisać jeśli zostało odebrane.

Odpowiedź

Przepraszam bardzo. Mogę wiedzieć kiedy ktoś mi odpisze? Te pliki na pewno są moje i proszę je ich nie usuwać, tylko jeden tzw. File:Super Mario - Fire Ball (normal sound).wav gdyż źle działa.

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Report for files uploaded between July 18 and July 27

[skipped: 6; deleted: 6.604 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 35 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 15:20, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-32

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

  • The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
    • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [252]
    • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [253] [254] [255] [256]
  • The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [257]
  • MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [258]
  • Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [259]

Problems

  • There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [260]
  • We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [261]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-33

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

  • MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [262]
  • The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [263]
  • You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [264]
  • You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [265]
  • It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [266]
  • JavaScript authors:
  • The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [271]

Problems

  • More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [272]
  • Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [273]
  • Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [274]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [275]
  • You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [276]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [277]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
I see your hard working so i give you this star PLEASE HELP ME ABOUT MY IMAGE Weisenstar (talk) 10:13, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
HELLO i need help about my image here
File:Bullmastiff body.jpg

i hope your kindhearted that help me , because the only reason of abused editor who nominate it its bullmastiff not an Alpine mastiff please help me resolved that (I'm asking help) please RESPONSE

thank you very much if you help me Weisenstar (talk) 10:19, 13 August 2015 (UTC).

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Good Humor
Thank you for your help in my image i hope all people here is like you. Weisenstar (talk) 13:32, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

help me again

File:Border collie face.jpg
  • please help me again the abused editor nominate my other photo again please help me solve this please thanks. This message needing help please response thanks.
  • THis image is totally my work my own camera I use to this.

Help me about this one please

File:Bulldog face.jpg

The abused editor say its pit bull but his wrong its 100% bulldog. Need help please response. Thanks Weisenstar (talk) 01:35, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

WARNING

Because of the following reason:: nomination without any proof,reverting abuse,vandalism, and other things does not really do of an senior editor.

  • I want you as you are the admin to notify User:softlavender to stop what he doing because its destructive to all wiki projects
  • I'm not give you a treat this is an warning don't ignore this warning because if i see this thing will continuesly happened only one i assured this report goes to internet official to investigate Wikipedia
  • I give you 2 days to make this evil things stop does User:Softlavender do.
  • response at this message as faster as faster
  • this is not a threat this is warning.

Weisenstar (talk) 06:30, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. Please use your talk page to reply to my answer. --McZusatz (talk) 09:58, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between May 26 and June 04

[skipped: 1; deleted: 6.752 %; IOExceptions: 5;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 80 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 04:57, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between April 18 and April 27

[skipped: 0; deleted: 9.497 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 30 problematic instances. I was unsure about 14 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 22:36, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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Top 200-zu-SVG-konvertieren-Listen von McTopot

Hallo McZusatz,

es wäre sehr interessant solche Listen auch für die Kategorien technology, biology, chemistry (≠ chemical) und die größte Subkategorie (transport map) zu bekommen. Könntest du das einrichten?--Kopiersperre (talk) 20:20, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Zur Zeit sind die alle im Quellcode eingraviert. Ich schau mir das bis Sonntag mal an. --McZusatz (talk) 07:39, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Sollte jetzt laufen. --McZusatz (talk) 17:00, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
Vielen Dank. Ist auch transport map aktiv?--Kopiersperre (talk) 21:18, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
Die sollten heute im Laufe des Abends zu Top 200 map images that should use vector graphics eingemischt werden. --McZusatz (talk) 16:43, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Könntest sie lieber nicht reinmischen, sondern eine eigene Seite anlegen? Karten sind ein weites Feld, die Eisenbahner interessieren sich aber nur für die Top 200 transport map images that should use vector graphics. Außerdem habe ich graph (Category:Graph images that should use vector graphics) vergessen.--Kopiersperre (talk) 16:53, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Soll ich dann die beiden wieder so in den Quellcode schreiben oder als dynamische Regel alles was mehr als 800 Dateien hat, geht in einen neuen report? (Dann wären beispielsweise auch Category:Diagrams of route signs of the United Kingdom oder Category:Ribbon images that should use vector graphics seperat). --McZusatz (talk) 18:14, 17 May 2015 (UTC)
Alle Kategorien mit > 800 Dateien mit einem Report zu versehen wäre am leichtesten nachzuvollziehen. Die Kategorie Diagrams of route signs of the United Kingdom sollte allerdings ausgenommen werden, da sie auch SVGs enthält, aber als Ganzes zur Vektorisierung freigeben wurde.--Kopiersperre (talk) 19:12, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Habe ich jetzt mal so als Betaversion implementiert: Wenn möglich, wurde jede Galerie aus mindestens 800 Dateien erstellt, wobei zudem jede Datei mindestens von einer Galerie gezählt wurde. Das geht nur wenn man die kleineren Kategorien zu den größeren einmischt, glaube ich. --McZusatz (talk) 20:20, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
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Bug T97253

Hi! Considering bug T97253 ("Exif values retrieved incorrectly if they appear before IFD") just to inform you, that at Commons:Esplanada#Problemas com metadados similar problems appeared (including a Lightroom user). Affected are:

Gunnex (talk) 20:50, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between May 11 and May 20

[skipped: 0; deleted: 16.875 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 81 problematic instances. I was unsure about 4 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 04:02, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between May 16 and May 25

[skipped: 0; deleted: 9.941 %; IOExceptions: 1;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 192 problematic instances. I was unsure about 10 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 21:09, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between June 01 and June 10

[skipped: 0; deleted: 7.81 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 22 problematic instances. I was unsure about 6 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 07:53, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between June 14 and June 23

[skipped: 0; deleted: 9.858 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 38 problematic instances. I was unsure about 7 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 00:33, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between June 21 and June 30

[skipped: 0; deleted: 14.899 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 122 problematic instances. I was unsure about 8 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 05:08, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between August 02 and August 11

[skipped: 1; deleted: 7.328 %; IOExceptions: 1;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 38 problematic instances. I was unsure about 6 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 12:26, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-34

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

Recent changes

  • Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [278] [279] [280]
  • Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [281]

Problems

  • Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [282] [283]
  • On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [284]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
  • You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [285]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-35

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

  • Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [286]

Problems

  • There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [287]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-36

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

  • VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [288][289]
  • The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [290]
  • VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [291]
  • Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [292]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:36, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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Category:Pherbellia albocosta

Hallo McZusatz, könntest du bitte die leere Category:Pherbellia albocosta löschen, das ist nur ein Schreibfehler von Pherbellia albocostata; die korrekte Category:Pherbellia albocostata existiert und enthält alle entsprechenden Dateien. Gruß, --Pristurus (talk) 20:05, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-37

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 mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [294]
  • A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [295]
  • You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [296]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [297]
  • The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [298][299]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
  • The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [300]
  • The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [301][302]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [303]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [304][305]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-38

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 use the Wikidata query service. [306]
  • Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [307]
  • Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [308][309]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [310]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [311]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [312]
  • The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [313]

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16:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between September 06 and September 15

[skipped: 0; deleted: 5.636 %; IOExceptions: 7;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 30 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 18:00, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-39

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

  • There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [314][315]
  • Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [316][317][318][319]
  • More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [320]
  • The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [321]

Problems

  • Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [322]
  • Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [323][324]
  • UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [325]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
  • The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [326]
  • You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [327]
  • Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [328]

Meetings

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, can you help we with this?

I see that you recently contributed to commons. I have a small query on Wikibooks. Here. Can you please help me with that?
acagastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :) 02:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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Imker ist toll,

Verzeichnis mit 974 Dateien

nur würde ich mir eine doppelt so grosse Limitierung des Downloads wünschen.

Einige Fotowettbewerbe in DE gehen von einer Summe von 1.000 Bildern aus.

Nur so als Hinweis. Gruss --Nightflyer (talk) 22:02, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Danke für das Feedback! Imker sollte aber meines Wissens nach nicht limitiert sein. Gibt es denn irgendweine Fehlermedlung wodurch klar wird, was genau limitiert ist? --McZusatz (talk) 15:53, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Siehe Bild :-) Ich finde keine Möglichkeit, den Wert 500 zu verändern. Gruss --Nightflyer (talk) 19:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
API continuation fehlt. -- Rillke(q?) 20:31, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Ups, da war noch ein Bug in Wiki.java. Die korrigierte Version kann jetzt hier heruntergeladen werden. Viel Spaß damit! --McZusatz (talk) 20:53, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
Supi :-) werd ich mal testen. Gruss --Nightflyer (talk) 21:18, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
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richiesta cancellazione

con rispetto chiedo quale sia il problema in quanto le immagini che ho tutelato sono fatte tutte da me personalmente sia foto che loghi e sono già stati tutelati precedentemente.

Please have a look at Commons:Project_scope/Summary/it#Must_be_realistically_useful_for_an_educational_purpose. --McZusatz (talk) 13:50, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
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Deletion of images by GifTagger

I was a bit puzzled when I noticed a bot delete a gif file. At Commons:Bots/Requests/GifTagger you got your bot approved for 4 steps. On User:GifTagger you seem to have added a 5th step for the bot doesn't seem to be approved and is a clear violation of Commons:Deletion policy#Duplicates. In my opinion you shouldn't be deleting these files. Please file an additional bot request for this last step. The outcome might be that it's approved, you can just continue after that. The outcome might be that it's not approved and you'll have to undelete the files. We'll see. Please stop deleting files until this bot request is finished. Thank you, Multichill (talk) 15:07, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I am running on 32kbitps mobile data once again but I will keep this in mind until I am home. --McZusatz (talk) 20:22, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
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Museum of the Great Patriotic War (Kiev)

Hi, McZusatz. I hope you are doing well. I'd appreciate if you could help me with a question on the following picture that you kept from deleting. Initially I also thought that this picture could be kept according to the "De minimis". However I was told by a very experienced user that this is not the case because 'Copyrighted work X is the central part of the subject (eg it is the reason for taking the photo). Removing it would make the derivative work useless)". Do you still believe that this image should be kept? And a second question. What if I’ll create the same picture using a 50 megapixel EOS 5DS R camera and upload it to Commons (under license that allows free use and alterations). Then someone will take it and crop the statue out of it and use in his work claiming that it’s available on Commons under free license. Is there anything wrong with it? Thank you in advance for your answer. Cheers! Oleg (talk) 22:03, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

That's a good question. Imo, if the image is "blurry enough" and one can only identify the copyrighted object solely based on it's shape, it may be considered DM. --McZusatz (talk) 18:48, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
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Auto-deleting bot code

You bot hasn't been running and Top 200 flag images that should use vector graphics was just speedy deleted. —Dispenser (talk) 12:58, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

✓ "fixed". --McZusatz (talk) 18:38, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Tracked in Phabricator
Task T113169
tracked. --McZusatz (talk) 10:23, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between September 15 and September 24

[skipped: 0; deleted: 4.071 %; IOExceptions: 3;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 27 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 00:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between September 23 and October 02

[skipped: 0; deleted: 3.939 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 29 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 10:11, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between August 29 and September 07

[skipped: 1; deleted: 6.935 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 37 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 12:38, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between November 26 and December 05

[skipped: 0; deleted: 11.565 %; IOExceptions: 3;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 34 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 22:30, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between December 04 and December 13

[skipped: 0; deleted: 13.017 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 32 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 17:11, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between December 12 and December 21

[skipped: 0; deleted: 10.828 %; IOExceptions: 3;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 27 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 12:48, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-51

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

Changes this week

  • Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [329]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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17:41, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-52

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
  • 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 2015? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us! You can write in your language. Thank you!

Recent changes

  • CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
  • The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)

Changes this week

  • There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).

Meetings

  • Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
  • No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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18:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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FINAL NOTICE: Please sign new Wikimedia confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information by TOMORROW

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

I wanted to send one final follow-up on a message I sent you in September regarding the need for you to sign a confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 in order to maintain your access from Wikimedia to nonpublic information, and specifically to the OTRS system.

As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved a new "Access to nonpublic information policy" on 25 April 2014 after a community consultation. The former policy has remained in place until the new policy could be implemented. That implementation work is now being done, and we are transitioning to the new policy.

An important part of that transition is helping volunteers like you sign the required confidentiality agreement. All Wikimedia volunteers with access to nonpublic information are required to sign this new agreement, and we have prepared some documentation to help you do so.

The Wikimedia Foundation is requiring that anyone with access to nonpublic information sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain their access. You are receiving this message because you have access to nonpublic information by way of the OTRS system and are required to sign the confidentiality agreement under the new policy. If you do not sign the new confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015, you will lose your OTRS access.

Signing the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information is conducted and tracked using Legalpad on Phabricator. We have prepared a guide on Meta-Wiki to help you create your Phabricator account and sign the new agreement: Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information/How to sign

Even if you have signed the confidentiality agreement for functionaries (general agreement), you must also sign the OTRS agreement to retain your OTRS access.

If you have any questions or experience any problems while signing the new agreement, please visit this talk page or email me (gvarnum@wikimedia.org). Again, please sign this confidentiality agreement by 31 December 2015 to retain your access to nonpublic information. If you do not wish to retain this access, please let me know and we will forward your request to the appropriate individuals.

If you wish to stop receiving these notices, you may remove yourself from this list. Please note that doing so will not prevent you from losing OTRS rights and access after the 31 December 2015 deadline.

Thank you,
Gregory Varnum (User:GVarnum-WMF), Wikimedia Foundation

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Tech News: 2015-40

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

  • In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed. You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [332]
  • UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated to the new OOUI look. [333]
  • You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [334]
  • When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser, that user will now get a notification on the wiki as well. [335]
  • You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [336]
  • The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [337]
  • MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in Gerrit. The goal was to clean up the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [338]

Problems

  • Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on September 24. [339][340]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar).
  • There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide if they want to enable it. [341]
  • The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [342]

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who can use OAuth in the future. You can discuss it on Meta.

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15:15, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-41

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 link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [344]
  • The description at Special:ChangeEmail now clearly explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [345]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 8 (calendar).
  • UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [346]
  • UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [347]
  • A new Cite error will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same article. [348]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-42

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 changes

  • The database size lists have been updated. These control special page update frequency and which wikis use global abuse filters. [349]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 15 (calendar).
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons using the visual editor. When the image is uploaded it will be added to the article you're editing. [350]
  • Pages that show citation error messages will automatically be placed in a hidden category. [351]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:28, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between October 04 and October 13

[skipped: 25; deleted: 7.802 %; IOExceptions: 0;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 27 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 12:01, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-43

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

  • Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The Recurrent item icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but with new dates. The For technical readers icon means the item is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone. Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [352]

Problems

  • A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October 14. This has now been fixed. [353]
  • Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [354]
  • The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14. No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes did not happen. [355]

Changes this week

  • Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week. [356]
  • Wikispecies, Meta and MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for sitelinks. [357][358][359][360]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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Imker - Verbesserungsvorschlag

Hallo McZusatz,

vielen Dank für den Imker, den ich in den letzten Tagen öfter benutzt hatte.

Einen Verbesserungsvorschlag habe ich: Bei Dateien, die laut Betriebssystem nicht auf die lokale Plattform heruntergeladen werden können (unerlaubte Zeichen im Dateinamen: beispielsweise Freudenberg_-_historischer_Stadtkern_"Alter_Flecken".jpg ) sollte die Behandlung (Windows character bug) verändert werden. Dann generell alle Dateinamen zu codieren halte ich für gar nicht gut. Ich musste mühsam heraus finden welche Dateien betroffen waren und mehrmals den Download starten um eine Gesamtmenge von uncodierten Filenamen zu erhalten.

Mein Vorschlag: die problematischen Dateien in einem Unterordner (encodeing filenames beispielsweise) codiert zu schreiben und eine Fehlerdatei (als .txt -Logbuch) zusätzlich dort unterbringen. Diese Fehlerdatei kann am Ende ausgegeben werden, damit man überhaupt heraus findet was überhaupt problematisch war und gegebenfalls eingreifen kann.

Danke
--Atamari (talk) 21:41, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

@McZusatz: --Atamari (talk) 20:15, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
@Atamari: ✓ Done --McZusatz (talk) 13:52, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2015-44

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Changes this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and when you should use the citation and link tools. [361]
  • You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog. You will also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual editor. [362][363]
  • When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax highlighted. [364][365]
  • Index and Page namespaces on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in $wgContentNamespaces. [366]

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18:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-45

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Recent changes

  • You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on Special:GadgetUsage. [367]
  • If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [368]
  • Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device. Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [369]

Problems

  • On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [370]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • A help link will be added to Special:Search. Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary message to avoid two help links. [371]
  • Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could affect some templates. [372]

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16:42, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between October 19 and October 28

[skipped: 0; deleted: 11.433 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 108 problematic instances. I was unsure about 7 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 10:15, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-46

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Recent changes

  • Superprotect has been removed. [373]
  • You can now switch between the wikitext editor and the visual editor without saving. You will not lose the changes you have made. [374]
  • JSON dumps of the production search indexes are now available. They can be imported to Elasticsearch. [375]

Problems

  • Some translations for the Thanks and Echo extensions were missing. Translators have been asked to help and this should be solved soon. [376]

Changes this week

  • Thumbnails of 16-bit TIFF files will be displayed properly. Before, this didn't work. [377]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:18, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

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[skipped: 5; deleted: 9.091 %; IOExceptions: 5;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 34 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 10:01, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-47

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Changes this week

  • You can use TemplateData to indicate how you want a template to be displayed in wikitext. Tools like VisualEditor that edit templates will soon use this information. [380]
  • Echo notification icons in MonoBook will look more like other icons in the theme. [381]
  • The Community Tech team is doing a community wishlist survey to understand what they should be working on. They are now accepting proposals in all languages. You can create your proposal in the small box above the blue button and click it when you're done.
  • Wikis can make the welcome notification link to a specific page. [382]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18. It will be on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 November at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have JavaScript support. You will still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser. The change will happen in January 2016. [383][384]

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19:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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[skipped: 5; deleted: 8.8 %; IOExceptions: 2;]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 63 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 03:08, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-48

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

  • A new Pageview API has been announced. Feedback is requested to help decide which data to add to it next.

Changes this week

  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [385]

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20:26, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-49

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The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: . You can give feedback on this change.

Problems

  • On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 until December 21 2015. [386]
  • Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [387]

Changes this week

  • Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [388][389]
  • There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [390]
  • Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. [391]

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16:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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Bug

Hello,
Your bot is doing some strange modifications on interwikis:

Cheers Liné1 (talk) 16:06, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

There is no need to link files to their wiki pages. It should be done with the content gallery like Araucaria luxurians or a category. --McZusatz (talk) 12:33, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
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