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Tech News: 2020-02[change source]

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Changes later this week

  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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21:20, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

An Editing Issue[change source]

I did not edit the Rawalwandi district article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.154.122.170 (talk • contribs)

Cipher[change source]

Yes, I created that cipher for a project. I was planning on animating a fanmade season 3 of the TV show "Gravity Falls" and using the cipher to code the messages at the end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:548:c100:3a80:f0e7:d1b3:efd1:c15a (talk • contribs)

@2601:548:c100:3a80:f0e7:d1b3:efd1:c15a: It may help to read WP:GNG. For the reasons that I listed in the RfD, I don't believe that your cipher is notable. Since it's just something that you've made yourself, the article likely will be deleted. That doesn't mean that we don't like your cipher, just that it's not a proper fit for an online encyclopedia. Let me know if you have any more questions here :) Computer Fizz (talk) 21:35, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Chenzwbot Error, Part 3[change source]

Chenzwbot seems to be reverting all my changes to the Panic! at the Disco article, when all I’m trying to do is add more information because the page is a little outdated on its information. I’m new to Wikipedia btw, hopefully this can be fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.166.239.199 (talk • contribs) 18:44, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Someone using the same IP as you did. So you will see the notices. I am assuming you are talking about the notice from November. -DJSasso (talk) 19:32, 9 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-03[change source]

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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [2]
  • Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [3]

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Allow only autoconfirmed users and Allow only administrators. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [4]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

  • Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [5]
  • You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [6]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

account deleted or blocked?[change source]

I am the owner of Buried Inside Of Us and I was going to make a Wikipedia account to add the information, I must have added some sort of "Trigger" that sent my account into the field of "blocked." Is there any way that we can resolve this issue? I just wanted to add the information of the label and place a biography on here. Is there anyway you could give me examples of how I can do this correctly and keep things according to policy? We do appreciate any information.

Thank you,

--159.118.194.140 (talk) 05:37, 15 January 2020 (UTC)Andy Mittleman (Buried Inside Of Us)[reply]

Your IP address does not appear to be blocked. If it was really blocked you would not have been able to leave me a message on this page. If it's another user account that is blocked, please give the username of that affected account. Chenzw  Talk  05:39, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Chenzw: He's talking about the account named "Buried Inside Of Us" which you blocked for advertising. Computer Fizz (talk) 05:43, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If that's the case, then unfortunately you will have to go elsewhere. Wikipedia does not allow advertising, and especially not organisations/bands trying to write about themselves. Chenzw  Talk  05:50, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

LTA[change source]

Hi, would you mind creating a new abuse filter for the LTA you blocked a while ago? It's not fool-proof but it is useful. I can email you the contents of the filter (another version) if you want. Minorax (talk) 04:19, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, email me and I will take a look at it. Chenzw  Talk  04:37, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sent. Minorax (talk) 04:42, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I have merged some of the regex rules into filter 58. Unfortunately, some of the other ones are not suitable here because of the false positives. In particular, some of the regex patterns needed to be looked into and checked against historical log data to determine the feasibility of the \b metacharacter. Chenzw  Talk  06:17, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
From what is available in the logs of test wiki, the accuracy of filter 209 seems to be close to 90% and after taking a look at the logs, filter 211 seems to be the one that is causing the false positives? Minorax (talk) 08:05, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Some parts of filter 209 are actually going to be much more problematic than expected because the regex will match against substrings, too. Without going into more detail, matching against word boundaries is not necessarily a good solution either because of the high potential for false negatives. Logs from test.wikipedia are not necessarily indicative of actual filter performance because of the possibility of manual (non-centralauth) account creation here. Chenzw  Talk  08:12, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[change source]

I see you updated the Revision Deletes. I thought I had gone back and got the all of those, once I realized that it hide the wrong thing. Must have missed a couple. -- Enfcer (talk) 01:45, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-04[change source]

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

  • There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
  • Advanced item Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [7]
  • Advanced item The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [8]
  • Advanced item You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 January 2020[change source]

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Tech News: 2020-05[change source]

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 mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [9][10]
  • Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [11]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Conservatism[change source]

My edit to the page on conservatism was simply changing the phrase wary of to worried about in an effort to simplify the language of the page. This was not and never has been an act of vandalism. Thank you198.200.115.29 (talk) 16:09, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the edit to the bot's training queue. The bot will learn from this edit and refrain from classifying similar edits as vandalism in the future. Thank you for your report. Chenzw  Talk  16:26, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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