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Tech News: 2018-14

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

Recent changes

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.
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.

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 like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns.
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.
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.
In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist.
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.
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.

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.

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

HEMA boiling point

Hi, DMacks, This is wangwei0824, nice to meet you. I am a researcher that have worked with HEMA monomer for more than 3 years. In the standard pressure, the boiling point for pure HEMA monomer is 67 C. It my first time in Wiki edit, and I am not sure what is called a reliable source and how to add it. Maybe this link works:

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/128635?lang=en&region=US

If you think this is fine, please add it. I just want to provide the right info for readers.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wangwei0824 (talk • contribs) 01:46, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

@Wangwei0824: the Aldrich catalog is a good ref. It does say 67 °C, but it says that value is at 3.5 mmHg. Using their own nomograph, 67 °C at 3.5 mmHg is 212.6 °C at 760 mmHg. That agrees with the 213 °C value, which is cited to Evonik. Do you have a source for 67 °C being specifically at standard presure? DMacks (talk) 01:51, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: March 2018

This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 3 | March 2018

This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!

In This Issue

Page protection

Hi DMacks, can you protect the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship page? Thanks. -KH-1 (talk) 04:11, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi'ed 1 week. Let me know if any other admin action is needed (blocks or fullprot at some known "good version" if there are non-new editors involved in vandalism, etc.). Thanks for working on this mess! DMacks (talk) 04:16, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Does WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship also need semi? DMacks (talk) 04:17, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, and probably WWE Universal Championship as well. -KH-1 (talk) 04:22, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi'ed each 1 week. DMacks (talk) 04:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

Recent changes

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.
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.
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.
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).

Problems

The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed.
For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed.

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.

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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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Article Discussion Of Kerala

Snooker

Tech News: 2018-16

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

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.
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.
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.
Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3.
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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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

208.184.165.151 Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

Tech News: 2018-18

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

Recent changes

The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links.

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.

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.
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.
You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing 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.
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 jharewikimedia.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.

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2018

Tech News: 2018-19

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

Recent changes

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.

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.

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.
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.

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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

You are being a mentor`

your revert of my change to "Robotic Process Automation" page

Tech News: 2018-20

Comment about edits

Tech News: 2018-21

Tech News: 2018-22

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

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.
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.
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.
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.
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.

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.

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.
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.
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.

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.
A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development.
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.

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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Hii

Vern Troyer

Why ? No ?

This Month in Education: May 2018

Tech News: 2018-23

Disambiguation link notification for June 11

Tech News: 2018-24

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

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.
There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis.

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.

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.

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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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Pyramidal inversion

Tech News: 2018-25

MVM Inc inaccuracies.

Please see the below statement from MVM Inc. The company is not affiliated with Trump "zero tolerance" aka "Trump administration family separation policy" as has been posted on social media or other media websites. Please do not disseminate false information on the public wiki page.

Since 2014, MVM has been working in support of the Department of Homeland Security to transport unaccompanied children to Department of Health and Human Services designated shelter facilities. This is a critical step in a complex immigration process and we take great pride in the work we do on this program, and in the professionalism of our dedicated employees.

MVM also has a second contract with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). In 2017, prior to the current “zero-tolerance” policy, MVM was one of several organizations awarded a contract to provide as-needed emergency support services to ORR. Under this program MVM is required to maintain readiness in the event ORR requests services from MVM. To date, we have not provided emergency services under this contract.

Unfortunately, in the wake of the Administration’s implementation of a “zero tolerance” policy in which undocumented parents and children are being separated, inaccurate reports have surfaced via media outlets and social media regarding the services MVM provides.

To be clear: the work that is doing today is the same work we were doing prior to this policy change and we have not pursued any new contracts associated with undocumented families and children since the implementation of the current policy.

Blureeg85 (talk) 23:49, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Blureeg85 (talk • contribs) 23:30, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

That's nice. But I actually don't care what they say they do (or don't do), what they actually do, how they try to obfuscate or clarify, or what image they try to portray. On wikipedia, it's all about reliable sources, which means what others (indepdenent publications) say. At best, an article could also include what a company itself says (carefully explained as being their own words, not taken as certain truth), with a proper bibliographic citation. Take it to the article talkpage, where you and others can have a discussion, as usual for dispute resolution. DMacks (talk) 02:34, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

User talk:DMacks/Archive 37

Tech News: 2018-14

HEMA boiling point

This Month in Education: March 2018

Page protection

Tech News: 2018-15

Article Discussion Of Kerala

Snooker

Tech News: 2018-16

Tech News: 2018-17

208.184.165.151

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

Tech News: 2018-18

This Month in Education: April 2018

Tech News: 2018-19

You are being a mentor`

your revert of my change to "Robotic Process Automation" page

Tech News: 2018-20

Comment about edits

Tech News: 2018-21

Tech News: 2018-22

Hii

Vern Troyer

Why ? No ?

This Month in Education: May 2018

Tech News: 2018-23

Disambiguation link notification for June 11

Tech News: 2018-24

Pyramidal inversion

Tech News: 2018-25

MVM Inc inaccuracies.

Response

Hello can we add this image it is free of use

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