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Tech News: 2013-42

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

New features

VisualEditor news

  • You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [2]
  • You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content. [3]
  • When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [4] [5]

Future

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09:37, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-43

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

New features

  • The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [8]

VisualEditor news

  • On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [9]

Problems

  • On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [10]

Future

  • MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
  • In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [11]
  • You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

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10:06, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Structured linguistic / lexicographic data

Hello Lydia,
Could you tell me where the Wikidata team is about the structured-data for Wiktionary ? I'am very interested by it. Yug (talk) 00:00, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

The comparison Saskia published is the current status. We've not done more since then. Implementation is also still unfortunately quite far away. Lot's of other things on the list still like queries and structured data support for Commons :( --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:52, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Sidenote : Edouard (brother) & me were proud and handsome while wearing your Wikidata T-shirts across the Mozilla Festival 2013. People don't know enough about Wikidata.org, but they do more now! Yug (talk) 00:00, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Awesome! :D I hope you had fun at the event. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 15:52, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-44

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

New features

  • The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [12]

VisualEditor news

  • You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future. [13]

Problems

  • There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.

Future

  • Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.

JavaScript / Gadget developers

  • Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default. [14]
  • Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [15]

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10:55, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-45

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

New features

  • You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class "autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. [16]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page. [17]

Future

  • The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21. [18]
  • MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar). [19]
  • The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [20]
  • The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [21]
  • You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for {{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}. [22]
  • In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [23]

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13:28, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-46

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

Problems

  • There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [24]

Future

  • MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
  • The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [25]
  • The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [26]

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09:05, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-47

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

New features

  • The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [27]
  • Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [28]

Problems

Future

  • There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
  • The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript. [29]

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07:03, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Data import from external databases

Hi Lydia, I try to start data import from external databases for chemicals (see Wikidata:WikiProject_Chemistry/ChemID). We need first to prepare the list of chemicals available in Wikidata and to identify them clearly (wikipedias manage chemicals in different ways). But the question of licences has to be solved before any data import. Some datbases offer their data to download and use CC licences, others just put some disclaimer and we have to clear if thses disclaimers can be covered by the Wikidata licence (CC BY-SA if I'm right) and for some databases we will need to get the agreement form the databases managers to cover our import. I stated the discussion about licences in the talk page of Wikidata:WikiProject_Chemistry/ChemID and we have to see what kind of information we want to extract: at least the IDs of each database but why not other data stored in these databases.

So a lot of work of preparation has to be done first but my idea is to involve you and your team when asking some agreements in order to have an institution-institution agreement which ensure a correct use of the agreement in the present and the future. If you have some persons in your team with law skills in general and licences skills in particular perhaps this person can have a look at the talk page to give advice: this can help to define for which database do we need an agreement. Thanks

Just as information: en:WP already organised some data imports to the en:WP based on open data (see w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemicals/Chembox_validation): they had some problems with the CAS registry databse but they found an agreement with American Chemistry Society which results to the creation of a free and open database of some CAS numbers. Snipre (talk) 10:49, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Hey Snipre! I'm happy to help. The best start is a document the lawyers at the Foundation have written: m:Wikilegal/Database Rights. Let me know if you have additional questions please. As for the license of the data in Wikidata: that is CC-0. Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 10:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. Do you know why Wikidata is under CC-0 licence ? And why when we use the editing interface, above the button Save, we have a small line saying that by clicking this button we release our contribution under the CC BY-SA licence ? Snipre (talk) 16:18, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
The data in Wikidata is CC-0. The rest is under CC-BY-SA. The data is under CC-0 because anything else would be a huge pain when trying to re-use it anywhere and is legally unclear for data anyway. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 16:23, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Ok, so last question: what do we need from databases managers to be allowed to extract using bots some data ?
Sorry to ask that again and again but as nothing is really clear from legal point of view I want to know 1) if there are some possibilities to organize some data extraction with the agreement of databases managers, 2) how do we get an agreement which cover wikidata from any problem. Just a small thing to be accurate: in those databases some data are coming from other databases/book/research articles/...: as first step we don't want to import thses data. Only the internal identifier of each database meaning that data don't need the agreement of a third party.
To be clear can you ask to your legal representant which authorization and in which terms we need to extract and import in Wikidata the following data:
  • PubChem compound identifier from PubChem. PubChem licence, see here
  • chEBI identifier from chEBI. ChEBI licence, see here
  • chembl from chembl. Chembl licence, see here.
Thanks for your help. Snipre (talk) 19:10, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Last detail: the import will be made with the data source based on help:Sources policy. Snipre (talk) 19:13, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
I am not a lawyer and can't give you legal advice obviously. This is a pretty grey area and you'll probably not be happy following every possible restriction. That being said the closest you can get to legal advice is the page linked above from the legal team at the Foundation. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 19:59, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
I don't expect from you any answer but I thought you had some persons with legal skills in your team Wikimedia Deutschland who can give some hints about this questions. You are right I'm not happy because if I recognized that the law is not clear I don't understand why the above mentionned text from the Foundation doesn't give any way to go out of this grey area. Snipre (talk) 20:11, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Snipre. I thought the page on Meta was pretty clear - Don't import from European databases. It was prepared by WMF_Legal in response to a query from wikidata users. If you have problems with it, you should raise them on the Talk page of that Meta page. Filceolaire (talk) 00:19, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-49

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

This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery.

New features

  • The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata. [30]
  • JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. [31]

VisualEditor

  • You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows. [32]
  • You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. [33]
  • Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. [34]

Problems

  • Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. [35]

Future

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08:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-50

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

New features

VisualEditor

  • The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert". [39]
  • You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
  • The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula". [40]

Problems

  • There was a problem with the "Create a book" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone. [41]
  • The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. [42] [43]
  • Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot. [44]

Future

  • MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
  • You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example) [45]
  • GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [46]
  • A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it. [47] [48]

Other

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08:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-51

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
  • You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [50]
  • There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites. [51] [52]
  • You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login. [53]
  • If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code. [54]
  • You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [55] [56]
  • All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org. [57] [58]
  • You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles. [59]
  • You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. [60]
  • Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account. [61]

Future software changes

  • There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
  • When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed. [62] [63]
  • New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. [64] [65].
  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden. [66] [67]
  • You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool. [68] [69]

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08:22, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-01

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

Recent software changes

  • You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [70] [71]
  • With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [72]

VisualEditor news

  • Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5 <figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [73]
  • You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.

Problems

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
  • AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [75] [76]
  • It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [77] [78]
  • It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [79] [80]

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08:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-02

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

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
  • The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site. [81]

Problems

  • On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
  • On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes

  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [82]
  • Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [83]
  • Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [84] [85] [86]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [87] [88]
  • You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [89] [90]
  • You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [91] [92]
  • E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [93] [94]
  • Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [95] [96]

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08:34, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-03

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

You can read a recent blog post about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [97]

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [98]
  • You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [99] [100] [101]

Problems

  • For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [102] [103]
  • For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

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09:32, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

new job?

Dear Lydia,

I see you're sending the news letters. Grazie mille :-) Keep up the great work for WikiData.
Freundliche Grüsse aus Valdambra Italia von  Klaas|Z4␟V:  14:10, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-04

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

Recent software changes

VisualEditor news

  • In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
  • You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [114]
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [115]
  • When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [116]
  • When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [117] [118]
  • The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [119]
  • Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [120]

Problems

  • There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [121]
  • There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [122]
  • On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [123]

Future software changes

Orange bar with new messages
  • If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [124] [125]
  • You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [126]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [127]
  • You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [128] [129]

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10:21, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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