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Tech News: 2015-32
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 ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
- The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo.
- MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages.
- Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore.
Problems
- There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error.
- We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll
You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:42, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-33
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
- MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page.
- The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times.
- You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later.
- You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers.
- It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script.
- JavaScript authors:
- You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix.
- You can no longer use
document.writeon Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix.
- The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added.
Problems
- More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed.
- Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed.
- Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
- UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon.
- You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
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14:58, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
HotArticlesBot MaxArticles 3000?
I was wondering why this limit is set? It seems to preclude the use of the bot even for comparatively small WPs such as WP:CRO that I just nominated. --Joy (talk) 14:54, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Joy: The max is only because the database queries for large article sets can be expensive (i.e. can tie up the database for a while). The bot has been disabled in the past for hogging database resources, so I decided it would be better to set a maximum size. The code for the bot was recently improved to be more efficient, however, so I think I'll change the max from 3000 to 10,000 as an experiment. If 10,000 work OK, I'll try increasing it further. Sorry this doesn't accommodate WP:CRO yet though. Stay tuned. Kaldari (talk) 18:28, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- I had a quick look at the code, and when I overcame my dismay at the lack of standard SQL formatting :) I figured that since the limit was imposed on the number of articles in the category, the bottleneck would be in the subquery that extracts data from categorylinks/page tables, right? I noticed that you are retrieving a list of thousands of page_id integers as well as page_title strings there, most of which you're later discarding. Maybe you could speed that up somewhat by having the subquery return only the list of page_id's, and drop the page_title's from there, and then at the end, when you finally reduce the list according to data from recentchanges and $limit, do another query into the page table to resolve just a few page_ids into a few page_titles. --Joy (talk) 21:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Joy: Thanks for the suggestions. If I ever get some free time, I'll try to implement them. Feel free to submit pull requests on Github as well. Sorry about the formatting :) The whole thing is a pretty dirty hack that I did a few years ago and never got around to cleaning up. Kaldari (talk) 21:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Just to make sure, did you ever run any of those queries with EXPLAIN EXTENDED? Maybe they're slow because they need some extra indexes, or if they're formed in a way that misses existing indexes. --Joy (talk) 07:52, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Joy: Thanks for the suggestions. If I ever get some free time, I'll try to implement them. Feel free to submit pull requests on Github as well. Sorry about the formatting :) The whole thing is a pretty dirty hack that I did a few years ago and never got around to cleaning up. Kaldari (talk) 21:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- I had a quick look at the code, and when I overcame my dismay at the lack of standard SQL formatting :) I figured that since the limit was imposed on the number of articles in the category, the bottleneck would be in the subquery that extracts data from categorylinks/page tables, right? I noticed that you are retrieving a list of thousands of page_id integers as well as page_title strings there, most of which you're later discarding. Maybe you could speed that up somewhat by having the subquery return only the list of page_id's, and drop the page_title's from there, and then at the end, when you finally reduce the list according to data from recentchanges and $limit, do another query into the page table to resolve just a few page_ids into a few page_titles. --Joy (talk) 21:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Can you create Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Equine/Hot articles? I've already put a draft template on the project page, akin to the one you did for mammals. Thanks Montanabw 21:34, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Montanabw: Done. Sorry it took so long. Kaldari (talk) 21:46, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Request for comment
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Tech News: 2015-34
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
- Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Misplaced Pages article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
- Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems.
Problems
- Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
- On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
- You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Tech News: 2015-35
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
Problems
- There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Folger image upload?
Hi Kaldari,
After an extended wikibreak I've recently returned and saw in the Shakespeare project talk archives a notice from 2012 that the Folger needed help uploading their collection, and suggested contacting you. Do you have any more information about this? Has the uploads been completed? If not, what needs doing? Is anyone working on it? The Folger collections are a gold mine for the Shakespeare project, so this news (albeit somewhat old, sorry) makes me very excited! --Xover (talk) 17:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)