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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 tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
- You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [1]
Problems
- There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [2]
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [3]
Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).- Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in
[[Child]]renis linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [4]
Future changes
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [5]
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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
Monobook Skin[change source]
How do you get the Monobook Skin to stay, and not change everytime you leave a page? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:06, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
- From your settings, under the Appearance tab. Chenzw Talk 10:46, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
- Will changing skins break my userscripts? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:28, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
- In general, no, but that depends on the script. It is possible for a poorly designed script to break on other skins. Chenzw Talk 10:44, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
- On the Vector skin, none of my scripts seem to work, and firefox is the only web browser linux mint allows, and no scripts work on firefox. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 23:23, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
- I am quite sure a deb package exists for Chromium (open source version of the Google Chrome browser, please consult your distro documentation/Google), and unfortunately without details I don't exactly know what went wrong either - some scripts might not work on certain skins, but it's a bit unusual for every script to not work. Chenzw Talk 11:38, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
- I have chromium installed, but it will not launch cause it's missing drivers and I cannot install them. Would you like the message from my browsers counsel? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:34, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
- I am afraid you have to look somewhere else for tech support. Chenzw Talk 01:58, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
- I have chromium installed, but it will not launch cause it's missing drivers and I cannot install them. Would you like the message from my browsers counsel? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:34, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
- I am quite sure a deb package exists for Chromium (open source version of the Google Chrome browser, please consult your distro documentation/Google), and unfortunately without details I don't exactly know what went wrong either - some scripts might not work on certain skins, but it's a bit unusual for every script to not work. Chenzw Talk 11:38, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
- On the Vector skin, none of my scripts seem to work, and firefox is the only web browser linux mint allows, and no scripts work on firefox. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 23:23, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
- In general, no, but that depends on the script. It is possible for a poorly designed script to break on other skins. Chenzw Talk 10:44, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
- Will changing skins break my userscripts? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:28, 10 October 2020 (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
- Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [6][7][8]
Changes later this week
- Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [9][10]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).
Future changes
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15:24, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
DYK Icon[change source]
Hi. For the DYK Icon, (on your userpage) I have the same, but I wanted to add another DYK, but it only lets me have one. Is there a fix to this? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 23:54, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- Our version of the {{top icon}} template is a crude hack and not expected to work well (especially on the newer skins). Unfortunately, I am unable to provide any specific guidance at this point of time, and you have to look into the code yourself if you want to troubleshoot this. Chenzw Talk 11:26, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
- Just saw that Hiàn's userpage has DYK Icon that works with mutiple DYKS --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 23:51, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- Look into the code here. {{DYK user topicon}} should work for what you're looking to do. Hiàn (talk) 23:56, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- Just saw that Hiàn's userpage has DYK Icon that works with mutiple DYKS --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 23:51, 29 October 2020 (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 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).
Future changes
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [12]
- In the AbuseFilter extension, the
rmspecials()function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses ofrmspecials()withrmwhitespace()wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [13] - Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID
#jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either#siteSubor#mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.
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16:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Planck time[change source]
The bot f'd up today. No big. --104.15.130.191 (talk) 22:30, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Talk Page Archives[change source]
Hi Chenzw! Where can I find your talkpage archives for 2017 and beyond? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:21, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Thegooduser: (talk page stalker) User talk:Chenzw/Archives by the looks of it. --IWI (talk) 01:33, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
- Oh you mean afterwards. You can type "2017", "2018", and "2019" (so on) into the archive search box on the right and it gives a list of the months. --IWI (talk) 01:37, 26 October 2020 (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
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [14]
- Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [15]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [16]
- There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [17]
- The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [18]
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17:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)