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Support request with team editing experiment project
Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Misplaced Pages about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Misplaced Pages community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Misplaced Pages everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.
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Can this happen new and unique sports
https://www.topendsports.com/sport/new/list.htm Some sports don’t get enough recognition I do believe Relayball47 (talk) 00:24, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-45
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
- At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expirycan set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to useMediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ipto set a different default block length for IP editors.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:48, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
"Computing platform (version 2)" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Computing platform (version 2). Since you had some involvement with the Computing platform (version 2) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:40, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
Bussy4life
Please revoke TP access for user:Bussy4life asap. He is posting lewd pics. CLCStudent (talk) 15:24, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- @CLCStudent: I've done so, and indef protected their talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 15:30, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you! CLCStudent (talk) 15:31, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- You might also want to delete the edit summaries from the edits in the sandbox that got him blocked in the first place for those contain the same image. CLCStudent (talk) 15:32, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- I have just done so, and I've also put the image on the Bad Image List. -- The Anome (talk) 15:46, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- You might also want to delete the edit summaries from the edits in the sandbox that got him blocked in the first place for those contain the same image. CLCStudent (talk) 15:32, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- He is back as user:IloveCLCstudent. CLCStudent (talk) 15:51, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- This sounds like a job for WP:AN/I. -- The Anome (talk) 17:54, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-46
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
- MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
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 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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22:04, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Block?
Why have you blocked 4o4NotFoundBot? Misplaced Pages’s bot policy states that unauthorized bots may still edit their owner’s subpages. Please consider unblocking it. You are making Mr.PHP very sad.
😥, E Super Maker (talk) 00:52, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Unblock
I've unblocked User:TTMzero GmbH now User:Opt.Reg.19 after processing the rename. Let me know if I missed something and I shouldn't have unblocked. Maxim(talk) 02:21, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-47
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Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauthdatabase. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.
Changes later this week
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- 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 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2019-48
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 mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script.
- Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.
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16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Coords on WikiData
Hi, your bot added a {coord missing} on this page, but the coordinate is already available at WikiData. Aren't you checking there first? —capmo (talk) 16:37, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not currently doing this, as the problem is a bit more complex than it first appears. See Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Wikidata coordinate extraction for current discussion of how this might be fixed. -- The Anome (talk) 16:57, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-49
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
- Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Misplaced Pages. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 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 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
- The
{{REVISIONID}}magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns""(empty string). When you read a page it returns"-"(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.
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16:59, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
DS alert
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