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This Month in GLAM: February 2017
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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
- You will be able to show references from
<references />
tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use<references />
tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [1][2] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (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 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [3]
- CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [4][5]
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15:25, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
File deletion warning
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File:Forest pic 02.jpg has been marked as violating policy, because it is considered unfree. This file has been, or will be soon deleted. The file is licensed under a license that does not permit unlimited redistribution, commercial use or the creation of derivative works. Wikimedia Commons is a free media repository, which means that unlimited redistribution, commercial use and the creation of derivative work must be allowed. See Commons:Licensing for more information. If you want to ask permission from the author of the file, please do so using a template from Commons:Email templates. For images, you may find it useful to read Commons:Image casebook.
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Achim (talk) 19:40, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
File deletion warning
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File:Forest pic 01.png has been marked as violating policy, because it is considered unfree. This file has been, or will be soon deleted. The file is licensed under a license that does not permit unlimited redistribution, commercial use or the creation of derivative works. Wikimedia Commons is a free media repository, which means that unlimited redistribution, commercial use and the creation of derivative work must be allowed. See Commons:Licensing for more information. If you want to ask permission from the author of the file, please do so using a template from Commons:Email templates. For images, you may find it useful to read Commons:Image casebook.
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Achim (talk) 19:41, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 35.png
★ Poké95 11:05, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Images
Please give the most specific URL for images, that shows the license and author information. Elisfkc (talk) 16:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 09.png
Elisfkc (talk) 16:20, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 03.png
Elisfkc (talk) 16:23, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 04.jpg
Elisfkc (talk) 16:23, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 08.jpg
Elisfkc (talk) 16:26, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 07.png
Elisfkc (talk) 16:27, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 14.jpg
Elisfkc (talk) 16:33, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 13.png
Elisfkc (talk) 16:33, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 15.png
Elisfkc (talk) 16:35, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 16.jpg
Elisfkc (talk) 16:36, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
Here's how:
1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:
2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.
[[Category:Category name]]
For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:
[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]
This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".
When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.Elisfkc (talk) 16:42, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
Here's how:
1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:
2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.
[[Category:Category name]]
For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:
[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]
This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".
When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.Elisfkc (talk) 16:42, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
Here's how:
1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:
2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.
[[Category:Category name]]
For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:
[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]
This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".
When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.Elisfkc (talk) 16:42, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 34.jpg
Elisfkc (talk) 16:50, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 33.png
Elisfkc (talk) 16:51, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 36.jpg
Elisfkc (talk) 16:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Deleted content
- use in any work, regardless of content
- creation of derivative works
- commercial use
- free distribution
See Commons:Licensing for the copyright policy on Wikimedia Commons, and Commons:Image casebook for some specific examples. Some other Wikimedia projects have different licensing policies. For example, the English Wikipedia allows fair use of sounds and photographs. This is not the case on Wikimedia Commons; "fair use" materials are not acceptable here.
Please make sure that you only upload educational content you have created yourself, those which are out of copyright, or those for which you have the required permission for the work to be used in all the ways described above. Please note that derivative works of copyrighted material are also considered copyrighted. Again, please read through Commons:Licensing, which is quite crucial, to understanding how Wikimedia Commons works. Thanks for your contribution, and please do leave me a message if you have further questions.And also:
- File:Forest pic 04.jpg
- File:Forest pic 07.png
- File:Forest pic 08.jpg
- File:Forest pic 09.png
- File:Forest pic 13.png
- File:Forest pic 14.jpg
- File:Forest pic 15.png
- File:Forest pic 16.jpg
- File:Forest pic 33.png
- File:Forest pic 34.jpg
- File:Forest pic 35.png
- File:Forest pic 36.jpg
Yours sincerely, Natuur12 (talk) 16:54, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Please avoid watermarked pictures
Elisfkc (talk) 16:54, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 42.jpg
Elisfkc (talk) 16:56, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Forest pic 41.png
Elisfkc (talk) 16:58, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
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
Save page
button now saysPublish page
orPublish changes
on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.Publish page
is when you save a new page andPublish changes
when you edit an existing page. [6] - DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [7]
- You can see monthly page views when you click on
Page information
in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [8] - The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [9]
- The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [10]
Problems
- On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [11]
Changes this week
- When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut
Ctrl
+Shift
+X
on PCs orCmd
+Shift
+X
on Macs. [12] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (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 21 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)