Wikiversidade:Esplanada/Arquivo/2018/01
Proposta para discussão na Wikimania
editarEu propus aqui uma sessão bate-papo na Wikimania 2017 em Montreal. Se acharem interessante, ao final da página há um espaço para manifestar interesse. Sugestões são bem vindas na página de discussão. Solstag (discussão) 13h55min de 3 de abril de 2017 (UTC)
Pedido de administração: autonomeação para estatuto de administrador
editarSaudações. Tomo a liberdade de comunicar à comunidade que abri um pedido para administrador. Espero que possam participar. Obrigado. --Joalpe (discussão) 15h50min de 25 de abril de 2017 (UTC)
Estilo das ligações interwiki
editarfaz um tempo que não vinha aqui, o que rolou as cores dos interlinks? Só o da WP vcs mantearam por ser verde? Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton (discussão) 04h00min de 2 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton, é o que está parecendo, mas não consegui encontrar nenhum tópico mencionando algo a respeito nos arquivos dos últimos 4 anos da Esplanada. --ArgonSim (discussão) 00h36min de 3 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
- A propósito, ligações ao Wikcionário aparecem grifadas. --ArgonSim (discussão) 15h33min de 3 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
- Que eu me lembre o estilo dos interwikis é o mesmo de sempre. Abs, Solstag (discussão) 18h53min de 4 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
Grupos de estudo
editarQual é a diferença entre um grupo de estudo atualmente hospedado no domínio Portal (Portal:Plantas Medicinais) e um grupo hospedado no domínio Principal (Geometria da Informação)? --ArgonSim (discussão) 20h41min de 2 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
- Oi ArgonSim. Então, "Portal" não é um domínio, nunca foi. "Portal:" é apenas uma sugestão de prefixo para diferenciar grupos de outros conteúdos, sendo assim opcional Abs! Solstag (discussão) 19h00min de 4 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
Iniciou-se a votação para eleitores que preencham os requisitos nas eleições de 2017 para Conselho da Fundação Wikimedia.
O Conselho da Fundação Wikimedia é a autoridade máxima de decisões da Fundação Wikimedia, uma organização sem fins lucrativos registrada pelo estatuto 501(c)(3) nos Estados Unidos. A Fundação Wikimedia gerencia muitos projetos diversos como a Wikipédia e o Commons.
A fase de votação durará de 00:00 UTC de 1° de maio até 23:59 UTC de 14 de maio. Clique aqui para votar Mais informações sobre os candidatos e as eleições podem ser encontradas na página de eleições de 2017 do Conselho na Meta-Wiki.
Em nome do Comitê de Eleições,
Katie Chan, Presidente, Comitê de Eleições da Fundação Wikimedia
Joe Sutherland, Defensor da Comunidade, Fundação Wikimedia
19h15min de 3 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View
editarEditing News #1—2017
editarRead this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
editar- A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
- A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [1]
- The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The
<references />
block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [2] - You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [3]
- The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [4]
- The Categorias item has been moved to the top of the Opções da página menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [5] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [6]
- You can now create
<chem>
tags (sometimes used as<ce>
) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [7] - Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [8]
- The Carácter especial menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [9]
- A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [10]
- There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:
Control
+Shift
+K
on a PC, orCommand
+Shift
+K
on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which isControl
+K
orCommand
+K
respectively. [11]
Future changes
editar- The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of
<ref>
tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [12] - The kind of button used to Antever resultado, Mostrar alterações, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding
&ooui=1
to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [13] - The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [14]
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Obrigado!
18h05min de 12 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
Segundo ciclo de discussão da estratégia do movimento
editarPessoal,
Iniciamos o segundo ciclo da discussão de estratégia do movimento Wikimedia. A equipe agrupou as quase 1800 declarações temáticas do primeiro ciclo em 5 temas principais a serem discutidos e priorizados.
No primeiro ciclo não criamos um ambiente de discussão por aqui, mas isso não impede a criação agora. Se houver alguém interessado em discutir por aqui, me avisem que criarei o ambiente imediatamente.
Também não hesitem em ir até a Wikipédia para participar se lhes for conveniente.
Saudações, Chicocvenancio (WMF) (discussão) 21h56min de 14 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
Manual de Framework de Sistema Open Source
editarOlá, desenvolvo a mais de 5 anos um Framework open source JAVAEE para criação de sistemas, o framework já foi utilizado em alguns projetos, e está sendo homologado para ser disponibilizado para o publico.
O código fonte já se encontra em https://github.com/salviof/SuperBits_FrameWork, mas ainda não saiu a primeira versão release.
A documentação se encontra em JavaDoc, porém para que outras pessoas consigam utilizar, é necessário criar uma documentação menos técnica, sobre os conceitos, e exemplos.
Como entusiasta do open-source, e fã da wikipedia, gostaria de criar a documentação deste Framework em algum dos portais da wikipedia, isso é possível? ou fere algum principio da wikipedia? qual o portal mais indicado?
Obs: também registrei o dominio http://coletivojava.com.br/ onde funcionará um blog...
Alguém pode me ajudar? tenho medo de criar toda a documentação em wiki, e depois o conteúdo ser excluído, vai ser uma pena não poder utilizar a wikipedia..
— o comentário precedente por Salviof (discussão • contrib.) não foi assinado.
- Oi Salviof ! O projeto ideal para manuais técnicos é o Wikilivros. Basta começar um novo livro lá com o título do manual. Qualquer dúvida pode escrever aqui. Abraço! Solstag (discussão) 12h48min de 18 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
RevisionSlider
editarEsta mensagem está disponível para tradução na Meta-Wiki
A equipa central e os grupos de trabalho têm completado a revisão das mais de 1800 declarações temáticas que recebemos da primeira discussão. Identificaram 5 temas que foram consistentes ao longo de todas as discussões, cada uma com seu próprio conjunto de subtemas. Estes não são os temas finais, é um rascunho inicial dos conceitos centrais.
Estás convidado a participar das discussões sobre estes 5 temas na internet e offline. Esta rodada de discussões acontecerá desde agora até 12 de junho. Podes discutir sobre quantas quiser; pedimos que participe nos temas que consideres os mais (ou os menos) importantes.
Estes são os cinco temas, a cada um tem uma página na Meta-Wiki com mais informação sobre o tema e como participar na discussão:
- Comunidades saudáveis e inclusivas
- A Era Tecnológica
- Um Movimento Verdadeiramente Global
- A Fonte de Conhecimento mais Respeitada
- Se Envolver no Ecossistema de Conhecimento
No portal de estratégia do movimento na Meta-Wiki, podes encontrar mais informação sobre a cada um destes temas, e como participar.
Enviado pelo sistema de mensagens MediaWiki em nome da Fundação Wikimedia • Ajude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor • Peça ajuda21h09min de 16 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
Em nome do Comitê de Eleições da Fundação Wikimedia, temos o prazer de anunciar que candidaturas estão sendo aceitas para o Comitê de Disseminação de Fundos da Fundação Wikimedia de 2017 e o(a) Ombudsperson do Comitê de Disseminação de Fundos. Por favor leia a carta da Fundação Wikimedia chamando aos candidatos no portal das eleições de 2017 da Fundação Wikimedia.
Comité de Disseminação de Fundos
O Comité de Disseminação de Fundos (CDF) recomenda como distribuir os fundos do movimento Wikimedia às entidades cabíveis. Há cinco posições a serem preenchidas. Podes encontrar mais informação sobre esta função na página das eleições do CDF.
Ombudsperson da Comissão de Disseminação de Fundos
O(a) Ombudsperson do Comitê de Disseminação de Fundos recebe queixas e comentários sobre o processo do CDF, investiga queixas sob direção do Conselho da Fundação e apresenta ao conselho resumos anuais dos resultados das investigações e dos comentários recebidos. Há uma vaga sendo preenchida. Podes encontrar mais informação sobre esta função na página das eleições do(a) Ombudsperson do CDF.
A fase de envio de candidaturas acontecerá até 28 de maio (23:59 UTC).
Também aceitaremos perguntas para os candidatos até 28 de maio. Podes enviar tuas perguntas na Meta-Wiki. Uma vez que o período para propor perguntas tenha finalizado o 28 de maio, o Comité Eleitoral agrupará as perguntas que os candidatos responderão.
O objetivo desse processo é preencher às cinco vagas selecionadas pela comunidade no Comitê de Disseminação de Fundos da Fundação Wikimedia e o(a) Ombudsperson selecionado pela comunidade. Os resultados da eleição serão usados pelo Conselho para realizar as nomeações.
O cronograma completo para as eleições do CDF será detalhado a seguir. Todas as datas são inclusivas, isto é, desde o princípio do primeiro dia (UTC) até o final do último.
- 15 de maio (00:00 UTC) – 28 de maio (23:59 UTC) – Candidaturas
- 15 de maio – 28 de maio -Período de envio de perguntas a candidatos
- 29 de maio – 2 de junho – Candidatos respondem as perguntas
- 3 de junho – 11 de junho – Período de votação
- 12 ao 14 de junho – Contagem e verificação dos votos
- 15 de junho – Data limite para anunciar os resultados da eleição
Mais informações sobre as eleições deste ano podem ser encontrados no portal das eleições da Fundação Wikimedia 2017.
Sinta-se livre para postar uma nota sobre a eleição na esplanada de seu projeto. Quaisquer perguntas relativas à eleição podem ser postas na página de discussão no Meta, ou enviadas para a lista de emails do comitê, board-elections wikimedia.org.
Em nome do Comitê de Eleições,
Katie Chan, presidenta, Comitê de Eleições da Fundação Wikimedia
Joe Sutherland, defensor da comunidade, Fundação Wikimedia
21h05min de 23 de maio de 2017 (UTC)
I IWSC e II CCBWIKI
editarOlá a todos,
É com satisfação que confirmamos a realização do I Congresso Científico Internacional da Wikipédia(IWSC) e II Congresso Científico Brasileiro da Wikipédia(CCBWIKI), que serão realizados entre os dias 8-10 de Novembro no Campus Praia Vermelha da Universidade Federal Fluminense em Niterói - RJ.
Este congresso é uma realização do grupo Wiki Educação Brasil em parceria com o PPGCI/UFF e apoio de diversas universidades brasileiras e estrangeiras.
O comitê científico do congresso ja está definido bem como o apoio institucional de várias instituições e universidades.
As divisões temáticas já estão definidas (com possibilidade de revisão nos próximos dias):
- T1- Cultura Wiki;
- T2- Organização do conhecimento na Wikipédia;
- T3- Engajamento de edição na Wikipédia;
- T4- Ciência e colaboração na Wikipédia;
- T5- Projetos educacionais na Wikipédia;
- T6- Wikipedia e disseminação de acervos de arquivos, bibliotecas e museus;
- T7- Pós-verdade e fake news - o papel da Wikipédia.
O congresso aceitará trabalhos em português, inglês e espanhol, nas categorias: poster(2-4 páginas) e artigo completo(8-10 páginas).
Obs:A primeira edição do CCBWIKI foi realizada em 2016 na UNIRIO no Rio de Janeiro com a participação de mais de 150 pessoas e 27 trabalhos aceitos para apresentação, distribuídos entre artigos curtos, pôsteres e artigos completos.
Em breve postaremos novidades sobre a chamada de trabalhos, material de divulgação e programação.
Rodrigo Padula (discussão) 04h34min de 5 de junho de 2017 (UTC)
Improved search in deleted pages archive
editarAjude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor
During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.
Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the Special:Undelete
page, and add &fuzzy=1
to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).
We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via email or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki.
Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using &fuzzy=0
in the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=0
Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.
Obrigado! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18h39min de 25 de julho de 2017 (UTC)
Accessible editing buttons
editarÉ possível visualizar e utilizar as versões antiga e nova. A maioria dos editores apenas notará que alguns botões estão ligeiramente maiores e têm outras cores.
-
Botões antes da mudança
-
Botões após a mudança
Essa mudança, no entanto, também afectará alguns scripts e gadgets. Infelizmente, alguns podem deixar de funcionar com o novo sistema. Se você mantém scripts e/ou gadgets usados no processo de edição, veja mw:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons para saber mais sobre como experimentar e corrigi-los. Scripts desatualizados podem ser experimentados e corrigidos agora mesmo.
Essa mudança possivelmente ocorrerá nas wikis na terça-feira, 1º de agosto de 2017. Se precisares de ajuda, deixe uma nota em mw:Talk:Contributors/Projects/Accessible editing buttons.--Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16h56min de 27 de julho de 2017 (UTC)
Wikiversidades na Wikimania 2017
editarNi! Bom dia pessoal, passando pra dizer que, caso você esteja vindo pra Wikimania em Montreal, teremos uma sessão sobre a Wikiversidade que poderá ser útil à todos Wikiversities: get over the content, serve the flow. Ela acontece na sexta-feira, 11 de agosto, às 11:00, no Salão 5 (2o nível). Espero vê-los por lá! Solstag (discussão) 06h24min de 6 de agosto de 2017 (UTC)
- não estarei lá. Mas fiquei curioso. Vão transmitir live? --Joalpe (discussão) 17h11min de 9 de agosto de 2017 (UTC)
- Opa, que pena! Eu não sei, fica de olho no site. O que sei é que eles postam uns vídeos editados no Commons, não lembro se pra todas as palestras. Mas como no caso é uma sessão "Birds of a Feather" talvez não gravem :P . Abraço! Solstag (discussão) 02h26min de 10 de agosto de 2017 (UTC)
- Não encontrei a gravação. Imagino que não tenha mesmo ocorrido. Abraço! --Joalpe (discussão) 15h10min de 16 de agosto de 2017 (UTC)
- Não foi gravado não. Só gravavam as palestras grandes. Mas vou postar um resumo em breve no meta e ligo aqui. Absss, Solstag (discussão) 20h27min de 16 de agosto de 2017 (UTC)
- Não encontrei a gravação. Imagino que não tenha mesmo ocorrido. Abraço! --Joalpe (discussão) 15h10min de 16 de agosto de 2017 (UTC)
- Opa, que pena! Eu não sei, fica de olho no site. O que sei é que eles postam uns vídeos editados no Commons, não lembro se pra todas as palestras. Mas como no caso é uma sessão "Birds of a Feather" talvez não gravem :P . Abraço! Solstag (discussão) 02h26min de 10 de agosto de 2017 (UTC)
Call for papers: IWSC Internationa Wikipedia Scientific Conference
editarOlá a todos,
O call for papers do Congresso Científico Internacional da Wikipédia foi prorrogado
- Submissões até 11 de Setembro de 2017
- Notificação de aprovação até o fim de Setembro
- Data do congresso: 8-10 de Novembro de 2017
Maiores informações: http://www.wikibrasil.org/iwsc/
Inscrições: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-international-wikipedia-scientific-conference-tickets-36418854775
Divulguem para seus pares e instituições.
Este congresso científico conta com fomento da Wikimedia Foundation e CNPq com realização do grupo Wiki Educação Brasil em parceria com a UFF, Universidade do Porto, Universidade de Coimbra e Universidade Aberta de Lisboa dentre outras universidades parceiras que compõem o comitê científico.
Rodrigo Padula (discussão) 12h06min de 1 de setembro de 2017 (UTC)
Certificação
editarSaudações! Estou coordenando a criação de um curso de jornalismo científico, que penso oferecer neste projeto. Será provavelmente feito no estilo de WikiMOOC, como o de Web Science, na Wikiversidade em inglês. Estou discutindo com algumas entidades acadêmicas, como a FAPESP, a certificação desse curso, desde que o/a estudante que o realize faça as atividades requeridas. A certificação tem um custo -- um valor pequeno, ao que parece --, que seria arcado pelo/a estudante. Queria ter a opinião da comunidade antes de lançar algo que talvez pudesse causar estranheza? --Joalpe (discussão) 11h21min de 5 de setembro de 2017 (UTC)
Concordo @Joalpe: Acho uma boa ideia. Precisamos de jornalistas nessa área. Seria legal algum conteúdo sobre w:pseudociências. Por que a proposta causaria estranheza? Boas! --Ixocactus (discussão) 04h20min de 12 de setembro de 2017 (UTC)
- @Ixocactus: A questão é o custo, pois encaminharíamos a partir da Wikiversidade para um serviço a ser pago, a saber: a certificação do curso. Adorei a ideia de um módulo sobre pseudociência. Você quer fazê-lo? Se sim, conversamos! Abraços. --Joalpe (discussão) 10h45min de 12 de setembro de 2017 (UTC)
- Agora entendi. Será um prazer fazer o módulo pseudocientífico. Tenho aqui umas psicografias do Martin Gardner e do Sagan. --Ixocactus (discussão) 16h45min de 12 de setembro de 2017 (UTC)
Bolsas para o I IWSC e II CCBWIKI
editarOlá a todos,
Conforme anunciado, realizaremos o I Congresso Científico Internacional da Wikipédia(IWSC) e II Congresso Científico Brasileiro da Wikipédia(CCBWIKI) entre os dias 8-10 de Novembro de 2017 no Campus Praia Vermelha da Universidade Federal Fluminense em Niterói - RJ.
Este congresso é uma realização do grupo [Wiki Educação Brasil] em parceria com o PPGCI/UFF e apoio de diversas universidades brasileiras e estrangeiras, com fomento da Wikimedida Foundation e CNPq.
A comissão organizadora disponibilizará bolsas para voluntários do movimento Wikimedia brasileiro cobrindo os gastos com transporte e hospedagem bem como inscrição gratuita no evento.
Criamos um formulário para que os interessados possam aplicar solicitando apoio integral para participar do evento:
Links importantes:
Rodrigo Padula (discussão) 00h34min de 28 de setembro de 2017 (UTC)
Consulta de Desejos da Comunidade de 2017
editarOlá a todos,
A Consulta de Desejos da Comunidade é o processo em que comunidades da Wikimedia decidem no que a Comunidade Técnica da Wikimedia Foundation deveria trabalhar durante o próximo ano.
A equipe da Comunidade Técnica é focada em ferramentas para editores da Wikimedia experientes. Você pode postar propostas técnicas a partir de agora até 20 de novembro. As comunidades votarão nas propostas entre 28 de novembro e 12 de dezembro. Você pode ler mais sobre na página da consulta de desejos de 2017. /Johan (WMF) (discussão) 20h22min de 8 de novembro de 2017 (UTC)
Habilitação e instalação
editarOlá a todos. Gostaria de propor aqui a habilitação das funcionalidades do Kartographer, uma extensão do Mediwiki, bem como suas tags bastante funcionais <mapframe> e <maplink>. Isso permitirá que a gente possa, por exemplo, embedar os mapas que a Wikimedia renderizou a partir do OpenStreetMap nas páginas aqui da Wikiversidade. Para entender melhor a questão, leiam Kartographer. Cordialmente, Sturm (discussão) 17h49min de 13 de novembro de 2017 (UTC)
- Muito legal =) Sou favorável. E pelo que entendi da nota no fim da página, apesar dos recursos limitados, se emularmos este pedido há uma chance de nos ativarem a extensão. É isso ou tem outro caminho? Abraço Solstag (discussão) 22h09min de 13 de novembro de 2017 (UTC)
- Concordo Recurso positivo, com grande potencial educativo. --Joalpe (discussão) 22h27min de 13 de novembro de 2017 (UTC)
- Muito legal =) Sou favorável. E pelo que entendi da nota no fim da página, apesar dos recursos limitados, se emularmos este pedido há uma chance de nos ativarem a extensão. É isso ou tem outro caminho? Abraço Solstag (discussão) 22h09min de 13 de novembro de 2017 (UTC)
New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
editarNew print to pdf feature for mobile web readers
The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.
Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.
For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.
The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.
Obrigado!
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22h07min de 20 de novembro de 2017 (UTC)
Uso de logos restritos
editarBom dia pessoal. Estou cá com uma dúvida! Eventualmente, creio, algum curso aqui na Wikiversidade pode querer indicar as instituições de ensino que o apoiam, ou agências de fomento que prestaram algum tipo de suporte. Nesses casos, o uso dos logos dessas instituições pode se fazer necessário e nem sempre eles estão disponíveis no Wikimedia Commons, uma vez que além de serem obras sob trademark, muitos possuem ainda uma arte passível de proteção de direitos autorais (casos em que os logos não são pura e simplesmente texto e/ou formas geométricas básicas). Sendo assim, o que lhes parece a ideia de permitir o upload desses logos aqui na Wikiversidade, especificando que eles não estão em licença aberta? Pensei em algo especifico para logos de instituições ligadas aos cursos que temos mesmo, nada próximo ao fair use implementado em diversas Wikipédias. Cordialmente, Sturm (discussão) 14h55min de 4 de dezembro de 2017 (UTC)
- @Sturm: Não entendi o que isso quer dizer: "...especificando que eles não estão em licença aberta? Pensei em algo especifico para logos de instituições ligadas aos cursos que temos mesmo, nada próximo ao fair use implementado em diversas Wikipédias". Como se justifica o carregamento de imagens protegidas se não é pelo fair use? Entendo -- e concordo -- com a teoria da proposta, mas não entendo como resolver a questão prática. Saudações. --Joalpe (discussão) 10h15min de 7 de dezembro de 2017 (UTC)
- Bom dia Sturm! Eu refletira sobre isso em algumas ocasiões... o que você propõe não causaria problemas do ponto de vista formal da Wikiversidade/Wikimedia, nem mesmo pra dinâmica wiki se os logos figurarem apenas em atividades estritamente ligadas às instituições. Os dois problemas que vejo são ligados ao caráter "oficializante" que o logo protegido confere a um conteúdo que qualquer pessoa possa editar, e anonimamente. O primeiro seria alguém inserir uma desqualificação da instituição junto ao logo, ou trocar a imagem por uma versão desfigurada, o que pode gerar conflitos com a instituição que implicitamente está autorizando o uso. O segundo, que considero mais grave, é a ideia de que o conteúdo da página na presença do logo será consumido como algo sob curadoria e responsabilidade da instituição, quando não há nem como garantir isso, nem me parece que seja o objetivo. Enfim, são só pensamentos, não estou convencido nem de uma nem de outra coisa. Abraço, Solstag (discussão) 12h44min de 7 de dezembro de 2017 (UTC)
- @Solstag: Salve. Se entendi bem o que o aflige, será que essas duas colocações abaixo fazem sentido, respectivamente associadas a suas duas questões:
- Você parece descrever uma situação que viola o escopo do projeto: "O primeiro seria alguém inserir uma desqualificação da instituição junto ao logo". Sobre a "versão desfigurada" do logo, creio que é preciso entender melhor qual a licença que o Sturm sugere. O 'fair use' desautoriza a modificação de arquivos.
- Praticamente todos os cursos na Wikiversidade citam uma instituição de ensino. Eu mesmo cito, em todos os que criei. Não acredito que isso crie a impressão de "curadoria e responsabilidade da instituição", apenas denota que estou vinculado a essa instituição. Com o logo não me parece diferente -- é apenas uma indicação de vínculo institucional e não acredito que, nesse ponto que lhe pareceu mais grave, haja de fato um problema.
- Abraços! --Joalpe (discussão) 03h42min de 8 de dezembro de 2017 (UTC)
- Oi Joalpe, Sturm . Minha preocupação não é com o que seria ou não aceito pelas regras da wikiversidade, mas com, de um lado, o impacto maior de um abuso ocasional da imagem da instituição, visto que não temos a priori como verificar se cada uso de logo é de fato ligado a cada instituição. De outro lado, o que considero mais grave é alguém tomar o conteúdo por oficial e curado pela instituição, quando essa não é a proposta aqui. Minha suspeita é que, para o leitor, uma página mencionando relação com uma instituição é muito diferente de uma página que ostenta seu logotipo. De toda forma, é uma análise de custo benefício, então qual o ganho em colocar logotipos? O Sturm menciona 'usos necessários', como preocupação com exigências de alguém. Minha dúvida seria se essa organização exigindo quer mesmo exigir seu logotipo numa página universalmente editável. Ou se preferem apenas uma menção do seu nome com um link, como é feito atualmente. Quais seriam outros benefícios? Posso imaginar, por exemplo, que incrementar páginas com logos pode ser instrumentalizado para dar maior atenção e credibilidade à Wikiversidade. Aí a discussão do benefício passa a ser se, e o quanto, queremos isso dessa maneira, diferenciando de forma ostensiva páginas com mais cacife institucional. Abs, Solstag (discussão) 11h33min de 18 de dezembro de 2017 (UTC).
- Oi Joalpe, Sturm, Solstag, A Fundação Wikimedia tem um espaço predefinido para carregar ficheiros e ser compartilhado para todos os wikis. Depois disso, em commons, são regidos por certas políticas de licenças, como você pode ler aqui. Enquanto a idéia de Sturm é boa, para ter como "acesso ao carregar de ficheiros", podemos nos ver com a dúvida se realmente tivemos permissão para carregar essas imagens, pelo motivo - Único uso legítimo (Fair use) -. Felizmente, commons nos fornecem soluções. O primeiro e não é arriscado, é obter permissão para publicar as imagens e continuar com o protocolo OTRS, enquanto a segunda solução, e eu acho que vem neste caso, usar os ficheiros tipo de uso justo, apenas se o uso legítimo é permitido.- Como na pt.wikiversity, não temos nossa própria política relacionada ao uso de imagens, podemos abrir uma votação e concordar entre os usuários que mantemos o projeto vivo se adotarmos o carrega de arquivos de uso legítimo,como foi feito na wikipedia, obviamente, respeitando o acordo do WMF.Abraços! — Cethos 15h10min de 9 de janeiro de 2018 (UTC)
- Oi Joalpe, Sturm . Minha preocupação não é com o que seria ou não aceito pelas regras da wikiversidade, mas com, de um lado, o impacto maior de um abuso ocasional da imagem da instituição, visto que não temos a priori como verificar se cada uso de logo é de fato ligado a cada instituição. De outro lado, o que considero mais grave é alguém tomar o conteúdo por oficial e curado pela instituição, quando essa não é a proposta aqui. Minha suspeita é que, para o leitor, uma página mencionando relação com uma instituição é muito diferente de uma página que ostenta seu logotipo. De toda forma, é uma análise de custo benefício, então qual o ganho em colocar logotipos? O Sturm menciona 'usos necessários', como preocupação com exigências de alguém. Minha dúvida seria se essa organização exigindo quer mesmo exigir seu logotipo numa página universalmente editável. Ou se preferem apenas uma menção do seu nome com um link, como é feito atualmente. Quais seriam outros benefícios? Posso imaginar, por exemplo, que incrementar páginas com logos pode ser instrumentalizado para dar maior atenção e credibilidade à Wikiversidade. Aí a discussão do benefício passa a ser se, e o quanto, queremos isso dessa maneira, diferenciando de forma ostensiva páginas com mais cacife institucional. Abs, Solstag (discussão) 11h33min de 18 de dezembro de 2017 (UTC).
- @Solstag: Salve. Se entendi bem o que o aflige, será que essas duas colocações abaixo fazem sentido, respectivamente associadas a suas duas questões:
Pedido de administração: autonomeação para estatuto de administrador temporário
editarSaudações. Tomo a liberdade de comunicar à comunidade que abri um pedido para administrador. Espero que possam participar. Obrigado.ΔΞΤΩ Work • Talk • Mail 08h38min de 20 de janeiro de 2018 (UTC)
MOOC -- curso de Introdução ao Jornalismo Científico
editarOi pessoal!
Com colegas estamos desenvolvendo os módulos de MOOC para cursos na Wikiversidade e, se possível, queria especial atenção da comunidade para ajudar-nos a verificar potenciais bugs. O esqueleto que estamos desenvolvendo poderá ser usado por todo mundo!
A implementação dos módulos está ocorrendo no curso Introdução ao Jornalismo Científico. Por enquanto, o curso está em desenvolvimento -- a aula mais avançada é a quinta --, mas se já perceberem problemas é um bom momento para avisar. Podem comunicar-se diretamente na minha página de discussão, para não poluirmos a Esplanada com isso.
Valeu! --Joalpe (discussão) 22h59min de 28 de janeiro de 2018 (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.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [15]
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17h06min de 29 de janeiro de 2018 (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
- Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [16]
- The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [17]
- Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [18]
Problems
- Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [19]
Changes later this week
- When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [20]
- When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like
gallery widths="150px"
. You could useem
or%
instead ofpx
but it would make no difference. You can now only use150px
or nothing (150
). If you write something else, instead of treating it likepx
, it will not work. [21] - The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of
Sim
orNão
it will sayThank
andCancel
. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [22] - Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [23]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [24][25]
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20h51min de 5 de fevereiro de 2018 (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
- TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [26][27][28]
- Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.
Changes later this week
- You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [29]
- The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like
{{reflist}}
, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [30] - The abuse filter extension has a new feature
contains_all
that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [31] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [32]
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21h59min de 12 de fevereiro de 2018 (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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [33][34]
- You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [35]
Problems
- Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [36]
- Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like
{{sfn}}
are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [37][38]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [39]
- Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.
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22h54min de 19 de fevereiro de 2018 (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
- Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [40]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [41][42]
- Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [43]
- Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [44][45][46]
Changes later this week
- Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [47]
- The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [48][49]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19h52min de 26 de fevereiro de 2018 (UTC)
Editing News #1—2018
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
editar- The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
- The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and Special:RecentChanges. [50]
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [51]
- The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.
Let's work together
editar- The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
- Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
- The
<references />
block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [52] - If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. Obrigado!
20h56min de 2 de março de 2018 (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
- You can now make longer edit summaries. [53]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [54]
- On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [55][56]
- Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [57]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
- You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.
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17h12min de 5 de março de 2018 (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
- 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [58]
- Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [59]
- Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [60]
- Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [61]
Problems
- The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [62]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [63]
- It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [64][65]
- A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [66][67][68]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19h44min de 12 de março de 2018 (UTC)
Pessoal. O período de submissão para a Conferência GLAMWiki 2018 está aberto e recebe propostas de palestras, oficinas, debates, painéis, falas curtas, encontros e outros tipos de atividade até o fim de abril.
A conferência ocorre de 3 a 5 de novembro, em Tel Aviv, e propõe-se a ser um evento internacional para a comunidade de voluntárias/os especialmente ativas/os e interessadas/os em projetos com galerias, bibliotecas, arquivos e museus (na sigla em inglês, GLAMs). Aliás, a conferência será principalmente em inglês, mas eventualmente atividades em outros idiomas podem ocorrer no próprio local (a ser definido).
Propostas de atividades, que progressivamente serão publicadas, vindas do mundo todo, podem ser debatidas e apoiadas na página da conferência.
Amanhã, será aberta a página para pedidos de apoio para participar do evento (aba "Scholarships", na página principal).
Estou este ano no comitê de programa da conferência, assim que, se você tiver dúvidas sobre o evento ou sobre GLAMs no geral que quiser direcionar diretamente para mim, será um prazer, na medida do possível, atendê-la/o. De resto, todo o comitê do evento e outros organizadores estão disponíveis para dúvidas.
Espero que isso seja de seu interesse! --Joalpe (discussão) 17h46min de 17 de março de 2018 (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.
Problems
- On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [69]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 março. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 março. It will be on all wikis from 22 março (calendar).
Meetings
- There is no Editing team meeting this week.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 março at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [70][71]
- In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.
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15h03min de 19 de março de 2018 (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.
Changes later this week
- Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [72] [73]
- The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [74]
- TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [75]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [76]
- Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.
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20h04min de 26 de março de 2018 (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
- Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
- The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.
Problems
- MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [77][78][79]
- The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [80]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
- User subpages ending in
.json
will now be protected from other people editing them, like.js
and.css
pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage likeUser:Example/mygadget.json
to do this without concerns. [81] - Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [82][83][84]
- AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [85] [86]
- In Special:Preferences, the preference "Recarregar a lista de páginas vigiadas automaticamente sempre que um filtro é alterado (requer JavaScript)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [87]
- You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [88]
- You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [89]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
- On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [90][91]
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19h28min de 2 de abril de 2018 (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
- Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [92]
- You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [93]
- The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [94]
- Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [95]
Problems
- The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [96]
- For a week in March rollbacks got both the
rollback
and theundo
tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [97]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
- Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [98]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.
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18h09min de 9 de abril de 2018 (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.
Changes later this week
- Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [99]
- Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (
===
and!==
) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [100][101] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [102]
- Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [103]
- Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.
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15h20min de 16 de abril de 2018 (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
- All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
- The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
- The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [104]
- The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press
Publish
. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressingPublish
is not the last step. [105]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [106]
- The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).
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18h16min de 23 de abril de 2018 (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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [107]
Problems
- We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [108]
Changes later this week
- You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [109]
- When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [110]
- You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Edição section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [111]
- There is a new abuse filter function called
equals_to_any
. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===
) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org. - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhare wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
- All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [112][113][114]
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16h18min de 30 de abril de 2018 (UTC)
AdvancedSearch
editarLatest 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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [115]
Problems
- The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [116]
Changes later this week
- The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [117]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [118][119]
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16h27min de 7 de maio de 2018 (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
- Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
- The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [120]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
- The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [121]
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22h22min de 14 de maio de 2018 (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.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.
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17h33min de 21 de maio de 2018 (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
- You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [122][123]
- It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [124]
- Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
- There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [125]
- Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [126]
- There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [127]
Problems
- Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [128]
Changes later this week
- There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [129]
- A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [130]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
- Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [131]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [132]
- A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [133]
- Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [134][135]
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12h40min de 29 de maio de 2018 (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 MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [136]
- Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [137][138]
- Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [139]
Problems
- You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
- MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [140]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [141][142]
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21h54min de 4 de junho de 2018 (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
- In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [143]
- There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [144]
Problems
- The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [145]
Changes later this week
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [146][147]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.
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21h55min de 11 de junho de 2018 (UTC)
Update on page issues on mobile web
editarUpdate on page issues on mobile web
Ajude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.
So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:
- The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
- Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
- Readers care about page issues and consider them important
- Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues
Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.
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
- Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [148]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [149][150]
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [151][152]
- All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [153]
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21h47min de 18 de junho de 2018 (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 database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [154]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [155]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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00h46min de 3 de julho de 2018 (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
- WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [156]
- The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [157]
- All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [158]
Problems
- When you rolled back an edit it could get both the
Rollback
andUndo
tags. This has been fixed. [159] - Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [160]
Changes later this week
- When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [161][162]
- On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [163]
- When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [164]
- Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [165]
- When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [166]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [167]
- Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [168]
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23h10min de 9 de julho de 2018 (UTC)
Global preferences are available
editarGlobal preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
19h19min de 10 de julho de 2018 (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
- You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [169]
- You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [170]
- You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [171]
Changes later this week
- Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [172]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
- You can use
<inputbox>
to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead ofprefix:Page name
you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.
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16h01min de 16 de julho de 2018 (UTC)
A Wikimedia Portugal precisa do vosso apoio
editarA 15 de Julho de 2018, a Comissão de Afiliações da Wikimedia suspendeu alguns dos benefícios da Wikimedia Portugal em relação a programas da Wikimedia Foundation [173]. Para que a Wikimedia Portugal possa retomar as suas actividades normais, foi requerido que demonstremos entre outras coisas que temos o apoio de pelo menos vinte contribuidores activos em projectos da Wikimedia e que sejam sócios da Wikimedia Portugal. Gostaria de pedir que caso sejam já sócios da Wikimedia Portugal ou pretendam tornar-se em breve e apoiar as actividades da associação em Portugal visitem a página wmpt:Utilizador:GoEThe/Página de apoio à Wikimedia Portugal e demonstrem o vosso apoio. Caso não sejam associados há também uma secção para demonstrarem o vosso apoio, caso assim o desejem. Se necessitarem de maior contexto do que se está a passar, terei muito gosto de o fazer. Obrigado desde já. Espero poder contar com o vosso apoio. GoEThe (discussão) 22h33min de 16 de julho de 2018 (UTC)
- @GoEThe: Oi! Te adicionei no Facebook -- pois queria conversar um pouco sobre o que está acontecendo. Quiçá marcamos um chat mesmo. Também marcando o DarwIn. Abraço. --Joalpe (discussão) 22h34min de 24 de julho de 2018 (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
- When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [174]
- Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [175]
- Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [176]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 julho. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 julho. It will be on all wikis from 26 julho (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 julho at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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09h44min de 24 de julho de 2018 (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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [177]
Problems
- Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [178][179]
- Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [180][181]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 julho. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 agosto. It will be on all wikis from 2 agosto (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 julho at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 agosto at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.
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14h05min de 30 de julho de 2018 (UTC)
New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS
editar(Ajude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor)
Hi all!
To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css
and MediaWiki:Vector.js
which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.)
A new user group, interface-admin
, has been created.
Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css
or .js
that is either in the MediaWiki:
namespace or is another user's user subpage).
You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.
Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 17h45min de 30 de julho de 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
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
- Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [182]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [183][184]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19h39min de 6 de agosto de 2018 (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
- CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [185]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [186]
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17h53min de 13 de agosto de 2018 (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.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
- Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [187]
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16h46min de 20 de agosto de 2018 (UTC)
Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now
editar(Ajude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor)
Hi all,
as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin
(Administradores da interface) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.
Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12h40min de 27 de agosto de 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)
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 see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [188]
- Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [189]
Problems
- Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [190]
Changes later this week
- The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [191]
- AWB will stop adding
using AWB
in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that saysAWB
. [192] - Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says
Deprecated. Use ... instead
. An example isarticle_text
which is nowpage_title
. [193] - Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is
page_age
. [194] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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16h16min de 27 de agosto de 2018 (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
- There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [195][196]
- There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [197][198]
- You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [199]
wp10
in ORES is now calledarticlequality
. [200]- When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [201]
Problems
- UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [202]
- You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [203]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
- The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
- Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [204]
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16h48min de 3 de setembro de 2018 (UTC)
Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October
editarLeia esta mensagem em outro idioma • Ajude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor
The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data centre. Isso garantirá que a Wikipédia e as outras wikis da Wikimedia possam estar online mesmo depois de um desastre. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 12 September 2018. On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop when we switch. Pedimos desculpa por esta ruptura, e estamos a trabalhar para a minimizar no futuro.
Você poderá ler, mas não editar, todas as wikis por um curto período de tempo.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 13 September and Thursday 11 October).
- Se tentar editar ou guardar durante estes períodos, verá uma mensagem de erro. Esperamos que nenhuma edição se perca durante estes minutos, mas não o podemos garantir. Se vir uma mensagem de erro, por favor aguarde até que tudo volte ao normal. Então deverá poder guardar a sua edição. Mas recomendamos que primeiro faça uma cópia das suas alterações, por precaução.
Outros efeitos.
- Os trabalhos em segundo plano terão a performance reduzida e alguns podem parar. As ligações em vermelho poderão não ser actualizadas tão rápido como o normal. Se criar um artigo que já estiver ligado em outro lugar, o link permanecerá vermelho mais tempo do que o habitual. Alguns scripts de longa-execução terão de ser parados.
- There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. Pode ler a agenda no wikitech.wikimedia.org Any changes will be announced in the schedule. Lá terá mais notificações acerca disto. Por favor partilhe esta informação com a sua comunidade. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)
13h33min de 6 de setembro de 2018 (UTC)
Autonomeacao para administrador de interface
editarBoa noite a todas e todos. Anuncio por aqui o pedido que fiz para administrador de interface : Wikiversidade:Pedidos de administração. Espero que estejam bem e boas edições! --Joalpe (discussão) 22h03min de 8 de setembro de 2018 (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
- When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [205]
Problems
- Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [206]
- Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [207]
<maplink>
did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [208]{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [209]- When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [210]
Changes later this week
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
- Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.
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22h35min de 10 de setembro de 2018 (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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [211]
- MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [212]
Problems
- You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [213]
Changes later this week
- Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [214]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.
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21h58min de 17 de setembro de 2018 (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.
Changes later this week
- The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [215]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15h23min de 24 de setembro de 2018 (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
- Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using
?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [216][217]
Problems
- New and updated translations from will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [218][219]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.
Future changes
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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17h35min de 1 de outubro de 2018 (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 Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [220]
Problems
- There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add
href
where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [221]
Changes later this week
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
- Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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23h38min de 8 de outubro de 2018 (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.
Problems
- Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [222]
- Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [223]
Changes later this week
- When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [224]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).
Meetings
- There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [225]
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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22h41min de 15 de outubro de 2018 (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.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
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23h12min de 22 de outubro de 2018 (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
- You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
- The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [226]
Problems
- Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [227]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [228][229]
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20h09min de 29 de outubro de 2018 (UTC)
Editing News #2—2018
editarLeia esta mensagem noutro idioma • Lista de subscrição para este boletim multilingue
'Sabia que...?'
Desde o boletim passado, a equipa de edição tem finalizado a maior parte do trabalho pendente no editor de código 2017 e na ferramenta de diferenças visuais. A equipa tem começado a investigar as necessidades dos editores que utilizam dispositivos móveis. O seu plano de trabalho está disponível em Phabricator. As suas prioridades actuais consistem em corrigir defeitos e melhorar a edição em aparelhos móveis.
Mudanças recentes
editar- A equipa de edição publicou um relatório inicial sobre a edição em dispositivos móveis.
- A equipa de edição começou um estudo de design de edição visual no site móvel. Os novos editores têm problemas em realizar tarefas básicas num smartphone, como acrescentar ligações em artigos da Wikipedia. Você pode ler o relatório.
- A equipa de leitura está a trabalhar num projecto separado de contribuições através de dispositivos móveis.
- O editor de código criado em 2006 já não é suportado. Se utilizar essa barra de ferramentas, já não verá nenhuma barra. Pode eleger outra ferramenta de edição em suas preferências, acessórios locais ou funções beta.
- A equipa de edição descreveu a história e o estado do editor visual nesta apresentação pública (começa aos 29 minutos e 30 segundos).
- A equipa linguística lançou uma versão nova de Tradução de conteúdos (CX2) no mês passado, no Dia Internacional da Tradução. Integra o editor visual para admitir modelos, tabelas e imagens. Ademais, produz melhor código quando se publica o artigo traduzido. [230]
Trabalhemos juntos
editar- A equipa de edição deseja melhorar a edição visual no site móvel. Por favor leia as ideias e conte à equipa o que você pensa que poderia ajudar os editores que utilizam o site móvel.
- Um inquérito sobre os desejos da comunidade terá início na próxima semana.
- Se não está a ler esta mensagem na sua língua preferida, ajude com as traduções! Subscreva-se à lista de correio dos tradutores ou entre em contacto connosco directamente. Notificar-lhe-emos quando o próximo número esteja disponível para sua tradução. Obrigado!
14h17min de 2 de novembro de 2018 (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
- You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [231]
Changes later this week
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
- When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [232]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17h29min de 5 de novembro de 2018 (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
- Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [233]
Problems
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [234][235][236]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [237]
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19h22min de 12 de novembro de 2018 (UTC)
Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
editarChange coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web
Ajude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor
Hello,
In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.
What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.
For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.
If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.
Obrigado!
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19h35min de 13 de novembro de 2018 (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
- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
- There is an A/B test for
sameAs
data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [238]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [239]
- The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [240]
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23h29min de 19 de novembro de 2018 (UTC)
Community Wishlist Survey vote
editarThe Community Wishlist Survey. Ajude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor.
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. The communities have now posted a long list of technical proposals. You can vote on the proposals from now until 30 November. You can read more on the wishlist survey page.
/User:Johan (WMF)18h13min de 22 de novembro de 2018 (UTC)
Advanced Search
editarJohanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 11h03min de 26 de novembro de 2018 (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
- On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use
/
to create a new page:/wiki/Page/Subpage
. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [241]
Changes later this week
- The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [242]
- Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__
. [243] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The
mw.util.jsMessage()
function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warningUse of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated
in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code containsmw.util.jsMessage
. There is a migration guide. It explains how to usemw.notify
instead. [244]
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22h22min de 26 de novembro de 2018 (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
- Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [245]
- Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [246]
- You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [247]
- When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [248][249]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 December at 16:00 (UTC) and at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16h13min de 3 de dezembro de 2018 (UTC)
New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
editarAjude a traduzir para a sua língua, por favor
The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org.
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let us know on the talk page.
Obrigado!
CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20h03min de 6 de dezembro de 2018 (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.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 December. It will be on all wikis from 13 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [250][251]
- When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [252]
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17h34min de 10 de dezembro de 2018 (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.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.
Recent changes
- Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [253][254]
- Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [255]
- The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.
Problems
<ref>
tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example<ref name="adams" group="books">
. If a<ref>
tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [256]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 December. It will be on all wikis from 20 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
-
tiles.wmflabs.org
andwma.wmflabs.org
will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [257]
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20h35min de 17 de dezembro de 2018 (UTC)