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Wikitech-ambassadors May 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

Breaking change on Wikidata?

by Deryck Chan

Hello ambassadors, I got a report on Cantonese Wikipedia saying the "add sitelink" button on the language bar has disappeared (for articles that aren't already linked to Wikidata). Does anyone know what happened? Deryck

4?years

Tech News (2020, week 21)

by Johan Jonsson

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/21 >. 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/2020/21/de > ? ?*English* ? ? Esperanto < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/eo > ? ? Nederlands < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/nl > ? ? francais < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/fr > ? ?italiano < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/it > ? ?polski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/pl > ? ?portugues do Brasil < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/pt-br > ? ?suomi < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/fi > ? ?svenska < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/sv > ? ??e?tina < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/cs > ? ?русский < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/ru > ? ?српски / srpski < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/sr > ? ?укра?нська < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/uk > ? ?????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/he > ? ???????? < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/ar > ? ?中文 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/zh > ? ?日本語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/ja > ? ?韓國語 < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/21/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/2020/21 > are available. *Recent changes* - If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [1] < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update#May_11… > [2] < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2020-May/094804.html > *Problems* - There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:IOS_13 > and Safari < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Safari_(web_browser) >. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin_talk:Minerva_Neue >. [3] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252223 > - Several wikis including Wikidata < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984 > will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC < https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200519T05 >. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC < https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200521T05 >. This is for database maintenance. [4] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984 >[5] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251985 > *Changes later this week* - The Wikipedia app < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps > for Android can let users add < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Andro… > depicts < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Depicts > on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Structured_da… >. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [6] < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/AppEditorTasks#S… > - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. *Future changes* - Graphs < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph > will be rendered < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Rendering_(computer_graphics) > in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript >. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [7] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236892 > - [image: Advanced item] Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5 < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTML5 >. [8] < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252467 > - [image: Advanced item] Some CSS for the Vector skin < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector > has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252447 >. *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/2020/21 > ? 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

[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

Deprecation of server-side Graphoid graph rendering

by Keegan Peterzell

Greetings, As part of the architecture cleanup of MediaWiki, the Graphoid graph service will soon stop rendering graphs server-side [1]. All rendering will take place in the client. This change primarily affects end-users who do not have or have disabled Javascript. The change is in testing now, and will be appearing on mediawiki.org soon. If you think this information is relevant to your community, please share with them that the deprecation will occur in the near future. Thanks, happy editing to you. 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124254 -- Keegan Peterzell (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

4?years, 1?month

Tech News (2020, week 20)

by Johan Jonsson

4?years, 1?month

Looking for help spreading the word for a new project

by Denny Vrande?i?

Dear Ambassadors, I made a proposal for a new Wikiproject: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda I tried to mark up the two main parts for translation and moved them to the beginning. I have no idea if I used the translation extension right, I haven't used it for half a decade. Let me know what else you need. I would really appreciate if you could help me reach the communities to spread the word about the proposal and to gather feedback. I am sorry if I made the request wrongly - please point me to how to do it right, and I will gladly try to comply. Thank you, Denny

4?years, 1?month

Tech News (2020, week 19)

by Johan Jonsson

4?years, 1?month

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