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Wikitech-ambassadors April 2020

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Technical Wishes: Interface for edit conflicts on talk pages

by Max Klemm

// sorry for cross-posting Hello, A lot of heated discussion occur on talk pages ? thus, edit conflicts happen on talk pages a lot. To be able to solve these more effectively, the Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Germany is designing an additional user interface for this situation. This interface is shown to you when you write on a discussion page and another person writes a discussion post in the same line and saves it before you do. With this additional editing conflict interface you can adjust the order of the comments and edit your comment. If you'd like to know more about this feature, please visit the project page [1]. This interface is created as a result of the Technical Wishes survey [2] in 2015, in which the German Wikipedia community wished for a simpler way to resolve edit conflicts. For regular edit conflicts on article pages, the two column conflict user interface was created, which has been available as a beta feature since November 2018. The plan is to make this additional interface for talk pages available in a few months. We are inviting everyone to have a look at the planned feature and let us know what you think on our central feedback page [3]! -- For the Technical Wishes Team: Max Klemm [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Edit_c… [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche_20… [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View -- Max Klemm Working Student Community Communication for Technical Wishes Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0https://wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland ? Gesellschaft zur Forderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnutzig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt fur Korperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

3?years, 11?months

[all wikis] Several read-only times are scheduled

by Benoit Evellin (Trizek)

Hello Several maintenance operations on databases will be performed soon. These operations target all wikis so as specific wikis. Please read this message carefully. A banner will be displayed on concerned wikis 30 minutes before each operation. However, it is always better to have these news being known, so please help make your community aware of these maintenance operations! *== April 30 - all wikis ==* A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 30th April at 05:00 AM UTC. It impacts all wikis and is supposed to last a few minutes. During this time, new translations may fail, and Notifications may not be delivered. For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250733 *== May 5 - some wikis ==* A maintenance operation will be performed on Tuesday 5th April at 05:00 AM UTC. It impacts some wikis, for 15 minutes: cebwiki dewiki enwikivoyage mgwiktionary shwiki srwiki frwiki jawiki ruwiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251153 *== May 7 - some wikis and CentralAuth ==* A maintenance operation will be performed on Thursday 7th April at 05:00 AM UTC. It impacts some wikis, for 15 minutes: arwiki cawiki eswiki fawiki frwiktionary hewiki huwiki kowiki metawiki rowiki ukwiki viwiki CentralAuth-based services (rename account, change password, etc.) may not work. This will affect all wikis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251157 Thank you for your help, Benoit -- Benoit Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation < https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >

4?years, 1?month

Tech News (2020, week 17)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/17 >. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next >. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute >. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ????????????????????????????? Other languages: Deutsch < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/de > ? ?*English* ? ? Esperanto < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/eo > ? ?francais < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/fr > ? ?italiano < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/it > ? ?magyar < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/hu > ? ?polski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/pl > ? ?portugues do Brasil < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/pt-br > ? ?suomi < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/fi > ? ?svenska < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/sv > ? ??e?tina < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/cs > ? ?русский < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/ru > ? ?српски / srpski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/sr > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/uk > ? ?????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/he > ? ???????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/ar > ? ??????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/hi > ? ???? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/th > ? ?中文 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/zh > ? ?日本語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/ja > ? ?韓國語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/17/ko > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/17 > are available. *Tech News* - The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020. *Recent changes* - The small wiki toolkits < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits > is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [1] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-April/093296.html > - Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML5 > elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248137 > *Changes later this week* - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. *Future changes* - Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer_8 > in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248061 > - The font in the diffs will change. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250393 > - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.30 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap >). *Tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News > prepared by Tech News writers < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers > and posted by bot < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… > ? Contribute < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute > ? Translate < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/17 > ? Get help < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech > ? Give feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > ? Subscribe or unsubscribe < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… >.* //Johan Jonsson

4?years, 1?month

SyntaxHighlight deprecations

by Kunal Mehta

Hi, There are two deprecations to the SyntaxHighlight functionality that we deployed that I'd like to make sure your communities are aware of. 1. The <source> tag is deprecated. <syntaxhighlight> should be used instead. This means that {{#tag:source|..}} should be replaced with {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|...}} too. ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237267 ) 2. The "enclose" parameter is deprecated, if set to "none" it should be replaced by the "inline" parameter. ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241636 ) Both of these deprecations have their own tracking categories that you can find on Special:TrackingCategories (e.g. < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:TrackingCategories >). There's currently no set timeline for removal, I was planning to check in again in 6 months to see how many wikis had updated their pages. If you have any questions feel free to reply here or ask on < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech >. Thanks, -- Legoktm

4?years, 2?months

Help smaller wiki communities grow their technical capacity!

by Srishti Sethi

Hello all, Small Wiki Toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wikis communities by sharing and developing technical skills needed to support, maintain, and grow a language wiki. You can learn more about it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits . As a next step for this initiative, we would like to share with you some ideas on how you can be a part of this: - Contribute to a Starter kit < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242545 > by proposing or helping develop and write recommendations for technical topics in simple English. - Develop toolkits using the recommendations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Develop_toolkits > on the SWT page. You can see existing toolkits in the Category:Small_wiki_toolkits < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Small_wiki_toolkits > on Wikimedia Commons. - Learn technical topics using the resources < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Toolkits > on the SWT page and apply the skills gained to provide technical support to a small wiki community. - Translate resources such as the SWT page itself and tutorials on technical topics linked from it. - Provide technical support < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Ask_your_technical_ques… > on the support desk on mediawiki.org , mailing lists, etc. - Organize a technical workshop or a session to help a small wiki community. If you want to help with any of the above or there is anything else you would like to share around building local capacity in a small wiki, please start a discussion on the talk page < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Small_wiki_toolkits > and/or add your name to the list of interested members < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Members_list >. Cheers, The Small Wiki Toolkits Initiative *Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation < https://wikimediafoundation.org/ >

4?years, 2?months

Tech News (2020, week 16)

by Benoit Evellin (Trizek)

4?years, 2?months

Tech News (2020, week 15)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/15 >. Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next >. More information on how to contribute is available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute >. You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ????????????????????????????? Other languages:Deutsch < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/de > ? ?*English* ? ? Esperanto < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/eo > ? ?francais < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/fr > ? ?italiano < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/it > ? ?lietuvi? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/lt > ? ?magyar < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/hu > ? ?polski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/pl > ? ?portugues do Brasil < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/pt-br > ? ?suomi < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/fi > ? ?svenska < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/sv > ? ??e?tina < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/cs > ? ?русский < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/ru > ? ?српски / srpski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/sr > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/uk > ? ?????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/he > ? ???????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/ar > ? ???? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/th > ? ?中文 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/zh > ? ?日本語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/15/ja > Latest *tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News >* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/15 > are available. *Problems* - There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [1] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248141 > *Changes later this week* - The new version < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.27 > of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap >). *Future changes* - MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Unicode >. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P10817 >. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [2] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 > *Tech news < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News > prepared by Tech News writers < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers > and posted by bot < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d… > ? Contribute < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute > ? Translate < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/15 > ? Get help < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech > ? Give feedback < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News > ? Subscribe or unsubscribe < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass… >.* //Johan Jonsson

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