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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. [1]

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. [2]
  • Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [3]
  • 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. [4] [5] [6]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [7] [8]
  • You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [9] [10]
  • You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [11] [12]
  • 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. [13] [14]
  • Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [15] [16]

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08:34, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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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. [17]

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [18]
  • You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [19] [20] [21]

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. [22] [23]
  • 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)

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2014

Hallo McZusatz, auch wenn ich etwas spät damit bin, möchte ich dir noch ein gutes und erfolgreiches neues Jahr wünschen. Du hast uns mit deiner bisherigen Arbeit vielfach geholfen, gerade auch im Video- und Audiobereich, der ja nach wie vor nicht zum Mainstream auf commons zählt. Ich hoffe, du machst weiter damit, erträgst den leider unausbleiblichen Ärger wie bisher mit der notwendigen inneren Gelassenheit und lässt dir die Freude an deiner Arbeit auf commons auch zukünftig nicht nehmen. Gruß aus Marburg, --Pristurus (talk) 13:04, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Danke! --McZusatz (talk) 13:34, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
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File:Alluvial fan, Taklimakan Desert, XinJiang Province, China, NASA, ASTER.jpg/overlay.kml

McZusatz, I just noticed that you nominated the above file for deletion for lack of license. Please do not delete file subpages like this KML code. They are used by the parent file templates. See Commons:Geocoding/Overlay for more info. --Jarekt (talk) 19:27, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I will keep it in mind. --McZusatz (talk) 19:42, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
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New URL for OgreBot's old version filemover

Hello. I've identified you as a user who has previously used OgreBot's old version filemover. Please note the new URL: toollabs:magog/oldver.php. Thanks. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 23:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

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Can I borrow/steal your archive code?

Not long after joining Wikipedia, I decided to set up archives for my talk page. I was still new to Wikimarkup, and rather than ask someone for help, I decided I could figure it out my self. I did but it was painful, took me longer to set up than it should have taken. Because of this experience, it is my belief that we should come up with a default archive system, and add it to user pages automatically. Not every brand new user, but some combination of edit count or byte size and months of experience (to avoid taxing resources for the millions of user who will make an edit or two and disappear. I even have that as item 15 in my Wikipedia to do list en: User:Sphilbrick#To_do.

Despite that, I haven't done anything here yet, which is an embarrassing omission I will rectify shortly. I took a look at the code you use, which looks like a good option (better than what I am doing in en.wiki) If I understand your code correctly, archiving will happen automatically (after 3 days) for any section in which I place the section resolved template. Do I need to do anything special the first time (because it will cover multiple years)? Do I need to manually create the archive pages or will the bot do it for me?--Sphilbrick (talk) 20:03, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

I stole it as well ;-) . The good thing about the template is that you don't have to do anything apart from marking the section as resolved. (Though, there are even parameters to archive every section after the defined time regardless of the resolved-template.) Feel free to just copy paste my template and modify the parameters to match your needs. Of course you can also refer to the 'official' documentation to adjust the template how you like it.
Alternative solutions would be the manual method or (as user:Rillke does it) making the talk page a redirect which points to the current sub-talk-page (e.g. talk/2013 , talk/2014 , ...). --McZusatz (talk) 00:26, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks.--Sphilbrick (talk) 02:00, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
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User:OverBot

Congratulations! It has bot status now. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 16:03, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

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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. [34]
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [35]
  • When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [36]
  • When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [37] [38]
  • The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [39]
  • Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [40]

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. [41]
  • 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. [42]
  • 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. [43]

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. [44] [45]
  • 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. [46]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [47]
  • You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [48] [49]

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10:21, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-05

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

  • Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [50]
  • The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [51]
  • The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [52]
  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems

Future software changes

  • You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [54]

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09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-06

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 (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
  • Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [55] [56]
  • The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [57] [58]
  • You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [59]
  • There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [60]
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [61]
  • All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [62]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [63]

Future software changes

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08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-07

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 (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
  • The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [74] [75] [76] [77] [78]
  • You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [79]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [80] [81]
  • The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [82] [83] [84]

Problems

  • On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [85]
  • On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

Future software changes

  • Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [86] [87]
  • You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [88]
  • You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [89] [90]
  • The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [91]
  • Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [92] [93]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [94]
  • You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [95]
  • You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [96] [97]
  • If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [98]
  • Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [99]
  • bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [100]
  • The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [101]

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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-08

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 (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
  • You can now use the list of active users again. [102] [103]
  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [104]
  • You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [105]
  • You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [106]

Problems

  • On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [107]
  • On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [108]
  • On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
  • There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
  • On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.

VisualEditor news

  • The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [109]
  • You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [110]
  • Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [111]
  • You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [112] [113] [114]
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08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

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This DR

Please feel free to say in the DR above if this image I filed a DR on--which I passed--can be kept for Commons. I don't know if it is OK or not. If you don't wish to make a reply, that's OK too. Best Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 01:03, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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User:YaCBot

Congratulations! It has bot status now. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:40, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

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This DR - FOP

Dear Admin McZusatz, This is my last message to you about a DR. I assume this image I tagged is not OK but if it is acceptable--as an image of an elevator--than please vote to keep it in the DR as I am not 100% certain here. It is in Italy. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 09:00, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

In general FOP-cases do not qualify for speedy deletion. It is desireable to open a deletion request to discuss the subject. --McZusatz (talk) 09:04, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Before the Chinese New Year ... I hereby bestow upon thee, this bright star, to bring thee Peace and joy. Sincerely Ramon FVelasquez (talk) 09:02, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. Greatly appreciated! --McZusatz (talk) 10:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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What's wrong with the picture?

Hello! [115] What is the problem? The picture has been uploaded apparently by its author who has licenced it. Why the deletion tag? --Pxos (talk) 10:32, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

The other picture of this uploader can be found on the internet and own work is quite unlikely given that he is part of the picture. Thus it seems the best to have a written permission from the original author for both pictures. Anyway: The file was previously published online, hence we need permission because the authorship is not obvious. --McZusatz (talk) 11:42, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Mattolaituri photo

Hi McZusatz, could I ask why this file was tagged as missing permission? The uploader is marked as the author and I don't see any indication of previous publication. Is there something I'm missing? Regards, Jafeluv (talk) 10:35, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I have downgraded the heading, since we are talking about the very same photo here. --Pxos (talk) 10:44, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Portrait of Antero Vartia

This case File:Antero Vartia.jpeg is similar. It could be a self-portrait for all we know. --Pxos (talk) 10:46, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

see above --McZusatz (talk) 11:42, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
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Terana coerulea

Please can you say why you have deleted the redirect page Terana coerulea (which redirected to Terana caerulea)? This page is needed because people may well look up the fungus under this name, which is the one found in Index Fungorum. It is consistent with the rules of Commons:Galleries, which allow for redirects. Strobilomyces (talk) 21:51, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

The automated redirect does not work because there is additional text. Did you do this by purpose? --McZusatz (talk) 21:59, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
No, I thought it did work. If it doesn't work, I would like a redirect with no text. Strobilomyces (talk) 18:21, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Sry, the only problem was the missing #. ✓ fixed. --McZusatz (talk) 18:26, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you. Strobilomyces (talk) 20:12, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-09

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

  • You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [118] [119] [120]
  • You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [121] [122]
  • You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [123] [124]

Future software changes

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10:17, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

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Is User:Flock a bot?

If so, could that be mentioned on the userpage? -Pete F (talk) 20:56, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

✓ Done. --McZusatz (talk) 21:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
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Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!

2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.

Round 2 will end on 7 March 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction/en Click here to learn more and vote »]

Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee

You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.

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Tech News: 2014-10

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 (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
  • When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [131]
  • You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [132] [133]
  • You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [134]
  • The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [135]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [136] [137] [138]
  • If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [139]
  • Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [140]
  • VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [141] [142] [143]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [151]

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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-11

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 (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
  • You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [152] [153]

VisualEditor news

  • It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [154] [155]
  • It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [156]
  • VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [157]
  • We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [158]
  • You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [159] [160] [161]

Future software changes

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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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File:Lance Armstrong on August 24, 2011.jpg

Thank you so much for saving File:Lance Armstrong on August 24, 2011.jpg!!!! You are super wonderful amazing!! :) Thank you! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:20, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-12

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 (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
  • You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [167]
  • You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [168] [169]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [170]

VisualEditor news

  • Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [171] [172]
  • Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [173]
  • Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [174]

Future software changes

Problems

  • VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue. [178]

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07:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-13

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 (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [179] [180]
  • Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [181]
  • You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [182]
  • You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [183]

Future software changes

  • Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
  • You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
  • You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [184] [185]

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18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement

Picture of the Year 2013 Results

The 2013 Picture of the Year. View all results »

Dear McZusatz,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

  • In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
  • In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

  1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
  2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
  3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

Click here to view the top images »

We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.

Thanks,
the Picture of the Year committee

You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.

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Tech News: 2014-14

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 (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
  • Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
  • CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [186] [187]

VisualEditor news

  • Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [188] [189]
  • The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [190]
  • New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [191]
  • VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [192]

Future software changes

  • You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [193]
  • CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
  • You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [194]
  • Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [195]

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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-15

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 (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
  • Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [196]

Future software changes

  • A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [197] [198]
  • All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8. [199]
  • The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [200] [201]
  • You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [202]
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
  • You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language. [203]

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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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OverBot

How do we stop OverBot?

This is a 'bot that, AFAIK, exists to implement COM:OVERCAT. [204]

The trouble is, COM:OVERCAT is damaging enough when it's slavishly enforced by clueless editors (of whom we already have plenty) and done by a 'bot it's even worse. OVERCAT is not always a problem. In the case linked above, it has removed the band category from an album cover image. Both of the categories are relevant and should be included.

OVERCAT is too subtle a policy to be enforced by a simple-minded 'bot. Can we please stop doing this. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:11, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

All files in subcategories of a parent category are by definition also children of the parent category. There is no need to place it into the parent category as well. Otherwise the subcategory should be categorized in another way. --McZusatz (talk) 11:27, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
"There is no need to place it into the parent category as well."
No. Categorization is navigational, not ontologically defining. Although this transitive relationship is usually true, it is not absolutely true in all cases (such that we can assume it and so make automatic edits). OverBot does not understand this, and so is not reliably making improvements by its edits. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:06, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Here's another example of 'bot damage [205]
The image is appropriately categorized into both Category:High-speed steam engines & Category:Steam generating sets. Steam generating sets is also a sub-cat of High-speed steam engines, however this is a much weaker relationship, is not a defining relationship and not all examples of generating sets are also members of the high-speed category. Yet because these two categories (as their concepts, rather than their sets of members) have a link, the two categories should preserve their relationship.
This 'bot, and slavish over-imposition of OVERCAT, make such relationships impossible. That weakens the usefulness of Commons and its navigation. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
When "not all examples of generating sets are also members of the high-speed category" the high-speed category should obviously be removed as a parent of Steam generating sets.
Also the bot is considered useful by other editors: I got multiple requests to remove such OVERCAT. --McZusatz (talk) 15:46, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Here is another example of pernicious removal of Category:Survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp, as Elie Wiesel and Max Hamburger are not the only survivors depicted. Tm (talk) 16:07, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
"When "not all examples of generating sets are also members of the high-speed category" the high-speed category should obviously be removed as a parent of Steam generating sets."
No. The category is a valid member of its parent. There is no need for such a simplistic view as you are taking here.
Also, per your cited example, that is no consensus for a simplistic and global bot like this. You fixed up a handful of errors, no doubt correctly, but that is not the same thing as, nor reason to, apply this same removal globally and without case-by-case consideration. That would be like removing the category 'Fish' from 'Eagles', then assuming that all instances of 'Eagles' should be removed, no matter where they're found and whether they were correct. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:43, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Bot shut down per example given by Tm. --McZusatz (talk) 12:36, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Thankyou. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:24, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
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Bot error?

Yacbot added an uncategorized tag to a file with a category - I undid it here. Thought you'd want to know, Ruhrfisch (talk) 23:37, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

The file had a category which is not part of the commons category tree. (In fact, it was only an empty page (c.f. hist)) Therefore I consider this file as uncategorized as someone will not be able to locate it through the category tree. --McZusatz (talk) 00:01, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
By the way: This category is a duplicate anyway. I will delete it in the coming days... --McZusatz (talk) 00:02, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
I have changed the edit summary to explain the edit: (c.f. example). --McZusatz (talk) 19:04, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
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YaCBot changes credit line

In this edit, YaCBot removed the web link from the author's credit line. If the author demands a link to the original file, the bot shouldn't remove it? --Sitacuisses (talk) 14:45, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Thx. The link was made unclickable by this edit (not removed in a technical sense). However this is serious and I will try to fix it... --McZusatz (talk) 21:00, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
YaCBot will now ignore pages containing a credit line almost completely to make sure the contents of a credit line are never touched. --McZusatz (talk) 18:57, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 On hold. I still need to check all edits and revert appropriately... --McZusatz (talk) 19:06, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
48 instances found.
Seems there is nothing to do for me. All of them have subsequent edits from the author. --McZusatz (talk) 19:46, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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YaCBot tagging kml overlays

Hey, I just noted that YaCBot will tag kml overlays of files as uncategorized (see this edit). That breaks the kml used as an overlay option on the main file page. Is there a way to have the bot not tag file subpages ending with '.kml'? Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:00, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I will address this issue along with the others. --McZusatz (talk) 10:02, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response! Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:14, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Should be done. --McZusatz (talk) 20:12, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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Infraction aux droits d'auteur

Moved to User_talk:Faycal.09#Infraction_aux_droits_d.27auteur --McZusatz (talk) 20:21, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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User:YaCBot ausgeloggt

YaCBot ist scheinbar ausgeloggt aber arbeitet munter weiter, siehe User:10.68.16.30. Der IP-Block kann andere Dienste von Labs/Toolserver blocken also bitte schnell reparieren!--Denniss (talk) 09:22, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, war vorletzten Samstag nicht online. (c.f. Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive_47#User:10.68.16.30) --McZusatz (talk) 11:33, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-16

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

We are looking for contributors to help write new issues every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [206] [207] [208]
  • Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [209] [210]

VisualEditor news

  • You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click. [211]
  • The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
  • The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [212] [213]

Future software changes

  • The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [214] [215]
  • Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [216]
  • You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [217] [218] [219] [220]
  • Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [221]
  • You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [222] [223]
  • The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [224] [225]
  • An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [226]

Problems

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07:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

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FYI

COM:AN#User:YaCBot and "category-cleanup". Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:07, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Note to myself: Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive_47#User:YaCBot_and_.22category-cleanup.22 --McZusatz (talk) 11:34, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-17

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

Tech News updates

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [229] [230]
  • Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [231] [232] [233] [234]
  • The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [235]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [236]

VisualEditor news

  • If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [237] [238]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [239] [240]
  • You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [241] [242] [243]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [244]
  • Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [245] [246]
  • The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [247] [248] [249] [250]
  • You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [251] [252]
  • You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [253] [254]
  • It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [255]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [256]

Problems

  • For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
  • There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [257]

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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-18

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 (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
  • You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [258]

VisualEditor news

  • You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [259]
  • VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [260]
  • VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [261]
  • The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [262]
  • CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [263] [264]
  • You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [265]

Problems

  • For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [266] [267]
  • On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [268] [269]

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07:22, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-19

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 (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
  • The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [270]
  • It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [271]

VisualEditor news

  • External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [272]
  • The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [273]
  • You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [274]
  • There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [275][276]
  • Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [277] [278]
  • You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [279] [280]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [281]
  • You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
  • If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [282] [283]

Problems

  • For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-20

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 (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [284]
  • Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [285]

Future software changes

  • It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [286] [287]
  • You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [288] [289] [290] [291]
  • You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [292] [293]
  • The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [294]
  • The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [295] [296] [297]
  • MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [298]
  • Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [299]

Problems

  • There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [300] [301]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

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Moving comments around

Hi, please do not move comments around, as your bot did with this edit - the positioning may be important. In this case, it explains exactly why a particular category is present, and if the comment is moved to before the categories, it becomes meaningless. --Redrose64 (talk; at English Wikipedia) 20:41, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Due to many editors using HotCat, it is not visible in most cases anyway. I am not sure but it could be added to the description so it is visible to all? Apart from that I will try to fix it if it is feasible. --McZusatz (talk) 23:07, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
✓ Done. (C.f. next diff). --McZusatz (talk) 20:05, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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Zusammenfassungszeilen

Wenn dein Bot so etwas macht, könnte er dann eventuell in die Zusammenfassungszeile nicht nur "Internationalisation" schreiben? Wie man im Abschnitt über diesem sieht, kann so etwas durchaus relevant sein und eventuell teilrevertiert werden müssen. darkweasel94 09:23, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Wie oben erwaehnt, werde ich mir demnaechst Gedanken machen einen solchen Fall (der mit den kommentaren) abzufangen. Allerdings kann ich hier nicht erkennen, dass der von dir verlinkte diff irgendwelche Probleme mit sich bringen koennte. --McZusatz (talk) 09:36, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Der konkrete eh nicht, aber es ist trotzdem meines Erachtens gut, wenn der Bot genau in die Zusammenfassungszeile hineinschreibt, was er alles gemacht hat, ansonsten ignoriert man das womöglich und findet solche Fehler nicht. Es ist jetzt nicht die erste Priorität, aber wäre halt gut. darkweasel94 09:40, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
✓ Done. (c.f. next edit) --McZusatz (talk) 20:10, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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New Panoramio Category of Images Needing Human Review

This new Panoramio Category of Images needing human Review has one small problem.

The Panoramio Human review doesn't appear here when someone then clicks on the Maintenance Links under License review...like the link for picasa images needing human review. So, people don't know it exists and no one will mark it. It should not be hidden; people should not be forced to then click on 'Panoramio files needing review' like this here to even see this new partly hidden category.

I don't know if you can solve this display problem. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 04:52, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

PS: As an aside, this, this and this category is so new that it has no description. Thank You, --Leoboudv (talk) 05:03, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for my late reply. It seems the issues were already fixed. --McZusatz (talk) 13:28, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
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File:Altar de la Colegiata de San Salvador de Cantamuda.jpg

It is hard to see from this diff but your bot managed to comment out the license and categories of this file. --Jarekt (talk) 13:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I will have a look at this asap. --McZusatz (talk) 14:44, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
✓ Done at com:regex. --McZusatz (talk) 17:03, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
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Delete Image

Why you deleted image "Grain silos in Alheirah.jpg", see here, and you'll find in Photo details the license "(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)" --albebas (talk) 09:12, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

According to com:l we can not accept non-commercial licenses. --McZusatz (talk) 10:10, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
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copyright notice on pic of frozen Hudson

I thought I might have forgotten to finish it. In any event the proper information has been restored. Daniel Case (talk) 15:09, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

@Daniel Case: No, it was the server's fault. :) --McZusatz (talk) 15:18, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

  • Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
  • The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [302] [303] [304]
  • MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [305] [306]
  • VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [307] [308]
  • You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [309] [310]
  • VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [311] [312]
  • VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [313] [314]
  • VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [315]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [316] [317]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [320]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-22

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 (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
  • MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [321] [322] [323] [324]
  • A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [325] [326]
  • VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [327] [328]
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [329]
  • VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [330]

Future software changes

  • Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [331]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [332] [333]
  • Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [334] [335] [336]
  • You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [337] [338]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

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Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry.

If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!
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Affected:


Yours sincerely, Storkk (talk) 16:11, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi McZusatz, I see you spotted an error in the formula for File:Формулка 5.jpg that I hadn't spotted... thanks! I corrected it on the only page it was previously on, which was here (I can't get an interwiki link to work). Cheers, Storkk (talk) 17:16, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Ok, ✓ deleted as well. --McZusatz (talk) 17:25, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Also fixed texification of File:Golden ratio 5.jpg, which was only present on wikibooks:Descriptive Geometry/Mathematical Constructions/Golden Ratio. But you got that one already :-) Cheers, and have a great weekend! Storkk (talk) 17:26, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-23

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 (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [339]

VisualEditor news

  • Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [340]
  • The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [341] [342]
  • VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [343]
  • There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [344]

Future software changes

Problems

  • For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [351]

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08:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-24

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 (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [352] [353]

VisualEditor news

  • You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [354] [355]
  • The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [356] [357] [358]
  • You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [359] [360]

Future software changes

  • MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [361]
  • You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [362]
  • On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [363] [364]
  • You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [365] [366]
  • Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [367] [368] [369]
  • You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [370] [371]
  • Hovercards will no longer flicker. [372]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

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{{Date}} template

Hi there. I just noticed your bot making edits like this. I updated my upload bot's code to use {int:license-header} from now on, but I am wondering about the removal of the date template. I want my bot to be using the standard format so that it doesn't need to be cleaned up after by other bots, but I thought that the date template was preferred for standardizing date format. Can you let me know what the reasoning here is? Dominic (talk) 18:48, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

The information template already has this template built in. There is no need to nest twice. ;-) --McZusatz (talk) 19:04, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
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File:NASA - The Sun Reverses its Magnetic Poles.webm

Hallo McZusatz, bei der Datei hat das Muxen wohl nicht funktioniert; ich höre hier nur Ton, das Bild fehlt. Versuchst du es noch einmal? Gruß, --Pristurus (talk) 06:19, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

ebenso bei File:NASA - How to Get Colder Than Anywhere Else.webm. --Pristurus (talk) 06:23, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Funktioniert die volle Aufloesung bei dir? --McZusatz (talk) 07:11, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Ja, problemlos im Browser (SeaMonkey 2.26). Nur die serverseitige Umschlüsselung hängt wohl. Ist VP9 denn schon offiziell auf Commons freigegeben? --Pristurus (talk) 07:47, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Ist als "enhancement" hier zu finden: bugzilla:53863. --McZusatz (talk) 09:04, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
Danke für den Hinweis, Gruß --Pristurus (talk) 23:06, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
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Wiki.java

...seems to have a problem. See File:Pictogram-glasses1.svg: No description, no license. Looks like that got swallowed up somehow by the upload comment. Lupo 15:39, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

In dem Fall war das gewuenscht. Ich trage das mit VFC nach. ;D --McZusatz (talk) 15:43, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
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ich schwöre, ich kann nicht in die Zukunft reisen

Hi, der Bot YaCBot aendert die Datumsangaben falschrum, siehe meine letzten Aenderungen. LG., --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 08:21, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Thx. Fixed upstream @ com:regex. --McZusatz (talk) 12:13, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Geht noch nicht [373], lG., --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 02:37, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Das ist komisch, vielleicht habe ich vergessen neu zu compilieren... Ich schau mir das an, sobald ich zu Hause bin. --McZusatz (talk) 06:10, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Das ist ein anderes Problem, wie es scheint, denn 1201 liegt nicht in der Zukunft. Falls du mir noch sagst wie der Bot entscheiden soll 12012007 zu interpretieren, kann ich das implementieren. Möglichkeiten in diesem Fall wären:
  • 2007-01-12 oder
  • 2007-12-01 oder
  • 1201-07-20
--McZusatz (talk) 11:14, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Ja, mir ist es wurscht, ich habe die damals nicht böswillig so hochgeladen (allerdings auch nicht im Jahre 1201) und habe aber leider keine Zeit alle Photos durchzugehen und das zu aendern. Der Bot hats nun verbösert, waere nett das nicht zu tun, ich kann nicht mehr hinter dem Bot herraeumen. LG., --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 08:09, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Ich habe mir erlaubt die Daten fuer alle deine Dateien "von Hand" zu korrigieren. Offensichtlich hast du das ddmmyyyy verwendet. Ich hoffe das ist ok. --McZusatz (talk) 09:03, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
Das ist sehr ok, vor allem aber extrem nett. Vielen Dank und lG., --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 13:44, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
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Untertitel-Problem

Hallo McZusatz, hast du eine Ahnung woran das hier liegen könnte? Irgendwas ist da wohl buggy. Gruß, --Pristurus (talk) 14:01, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Ich hatte urspruenglich bugzilla:56405 verdaechtigt -- Der Patch ist etwas hacky -- aber inzwischen funktioniert es. War es also ein Cache Problem? Geht es bei dir jetzt auch? --McZusatz (talk) 16:54, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Jau, jetzt geht´s. Hatte der Datei schon einige mal ein "Purge" gegönnt, das war aber erfolglos. Danke, dann bis zum nächsten Problem... Gruß aus Marburg, --Pristurus (talk) 17:26, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
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Ergänzende Botaufgabe

Hallo McZusatz. Könnte dein Bot sowas vielleicht auch (siehe vorhergehender Edit) gleich übernehmen? Diesen Syntaxfehlertyp gibt's ziemlich oft. --Leyo 20:42, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

(talkpagestalker) Wenn es euch egal ist jage ich mein Bot schnell über die betroffenen Dateien? Dann brauch McZusatz nicht extra ein Skript schreiben (oder hat er schon eines?) --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:08, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Gerne!
Ich bin mir nicht sicher ob das ein plain-text replace oder regex replace ist und war gerade dabei einen Bot aufzusetzen/modifizieren, aber falls du schon einen hast... --McZusatz (talk) 17:16, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
Okay, Sollten nun alle korrigiert sein :) --Steinsplitter (talk) 19:53, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

  • You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [374]
  • When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [375] [376]
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [377] [378] [379] [380]
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [381] [382] [383]

Future software changes

  • Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [384]
  • You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [385]
  • You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [386] [387]
  • It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [388] [389]
  • Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [390]
  • The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [391]
  • An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
  • You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [392]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

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Signature

Hi, File:Kelebekler 1.jpg. There is the signature. Probably belongs to photographer. is it a violation?--Ayrıntılı Bilgi (talk) 17:00, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I think the uploader is the potographer who transferred (link) the file from tr.wiki. --McZusatz (talk) 17:05, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
I mean: There is a signature on the right bottom(File:Kelebekler 1.jpg). is this a violation? Can photos have signature on them?--Ayrıntılı Bilgi (talk) 18:32, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Ahh ok. :)
No, it is not a violation. It is not encouraged and you can just remove it, if you feel so but it is not forbidden. --McZusatz (talk) 18:35, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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Transferring files

Thank you for information but if I transfer files here, the versions in Turkish wikipedia will be deleted. So link will be dead. Do I have to copy-paste the links in every picture?--Veritas-tr (talk) 17:24, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

As you can see in the section above, sometimes it is not immediately clear that you transferred the file. You could also just state anywhere on the file page that you transferred the file. This will prevent speedy-deletions based on wrong assumptions. --McZusatz (talk) 17:34, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
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Unknown field tag encountered

Hallo McZusatz,
du hast die Datei Nova Delphini 22082013.tif von diesem "Unknown field tag" gesäubert, so dass die Wikimedia-Software nun thumbnails erzeugen kann. Wie hast du das gemacht? Ich würde das auch gern bei der Datei 86-G-7A-1-26.tif tun.
Viele Grüße --Bürgerentscheid (talk) 21:20, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Wenn ich mich recht entsinne, habe ich die Datei in GIMP geöffnet und dann wieder frisch abgespeichert. Das ist ziemlich trivial und bei PNG/TIF auch noch verlustlos. Bei JPG kannst du z.B. jpegtran versuchen um ebenfalls ein verlustloses Ergebnis zu erzielen. --McZusatz (talk) 21:26, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Danke für die schnelle Antwort. Ich werde es mal probieren. --Bürgerentscheid (talk) 21:29, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
Der "Unknown field tag" ist jetzt weg, die Vorschaubilder ab einer bestimmten Größe werden trotzdem nicht erstellt. Schade. --Bürgerentscheid (talk) 07:37, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
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Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry.

If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!
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Affected:

And also:

Yours sincerely McZusatz (talk) 10:42, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

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Help with "sources"

Hiya McZusatz: Thanks for fixing File:AndyMurrayWimbledonTrophyCropped.jpg! However, it still failed source so it flopped right back into images with a source. I have fixed it now, so don't worry, just in future always check the file to see that it still isn't missing source, license or description - or it will just be tossed right back into the problem category! Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 15:32, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-26

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 (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [393] [394]
  • When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [395] [396]
  • You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [397] [398]
  • You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [399] [400]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [401] [402]
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [403]
  • CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [404]
  • You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [405] [406]
  • An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [407]

Problems

  • On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
  • Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [408]

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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-27

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 (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

  • Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [409] [410]
  • A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [411] [412]
  • VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [413] [414] [415] [416]
  • Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [417] [418]

Future software changes

  • You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [419] [420]
  • Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
  • CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [421]
  • All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [422] [423]
  • Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [424]
  • You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [425] [426]
  • You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [427]

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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

  • We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [428]
  • It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [429] [430]
  • You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [431] [432]

VisualEditor news

  • Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [433] [434]
  • You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [435] [436] [437]
  • When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [438] [439] [440]
  • The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [441]
  • Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [442] [443] [444]

Future software changes

  • Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
  • A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [445]
  • If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [446] [447]
  • Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [448] [449]
  • Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [450] [451]

Problems

  • Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [452] [453]
  • For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [454] [455]

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07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 10:59, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between June 23 and July 02

[deleteFraction = 0.11506292960503729; IOExceptions: 0 (Fraction: 0.0);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 19 problematic instances. I encountered problems for some of the files and I felt too sartorial to handle them myself. Please have a look at them yourself.

--Flock (talk) 03:56, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

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Replacing badgif with "Convert to PNG" templates

For cases such as File:Hurleyconference.gif, File:Admiral Frederick J Horne.gif and File:Pimpf 1941.gif, these are photographic images, not diagrams. Surely the template replacement was done by mistake? It would make no sense to mark these images for conversion to PNG; the purpose of the badgif template was to mark the image, so that people know that it was uploaded in an inappropriate format. -- 李博杰  —Talk contribs 00:29, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

No, actually I have done this by purpose. I will upload them as PNG shortly due to several reasons:
  1. Better thumbnails. (GIF thubnails are often pixelated due to the 'palette-effect')
  2. Smaller size. (GIF files are larger in general than PNG)
  3. Easier editing. (Someone may want to edit those files. Surely the editor prefers a 24-bit palette over the 8-bit GIF-palette)
  4. It's a lossless conversion and also the transparency, if present, does not get lost. (PNG supports 8-bit transparency in contrast to GIF's 1-bit transparency.)
And in case the source (where the GIF originally came from) is not JPEG nor PNG, it is the only reasonable dealing to convert the GIF to PNG. Even if the source was PNG or JPEG, we do not loose anything by converting the GIF to PNG and then uploading the original version on top of the converted PNG. --McZusatz (talk) 10:20, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 18:53, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

File:Ilice di Carrinu.jpg

Hi McZusatz.

About File:Ilice di Carrinu.jpg you deleted, source was not really flickr. I've original file from author (Piero Giuffrida) and he has assured me that he has sent the permission to permissions-it@wikimedia.org on 14th of march as required.

How can I check the permissions and reload the file? We are both newbies.

Thanks in advance and regards --Kukitto (talk) 09:40, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Hallo McZusatz, er hat mich auch angesprochen, dabei allerdings die Dateinamen verwechselt. Anyway, wenn du nichts dagegen hast, stelle ich beide Dateien (also auch die von dir gelöschte) wieder her und versehe sie mit einem OTRS-pending. --Túrelio (talk) 13:32, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Ok, both files (File:Monti Rossi da nord.jpg as well) are restored and tagged with OTRS received. However, some Italian OTRS agent should answer the ticket instead of myself. --McZusatz (talk) 14:19, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Anyway now the two files on Flickr are "free to: 

   Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
   Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
   for any purpose, even commercially.

   The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms."

--Kukitto (talk) 14:38, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Both files confirmed now via flickr and no OTRS needed anymore. --McZusatz (talk) 08:38, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
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File:Steinlauswlp.png

Was soll der Revert ohne Ansprache? Es handelt sich um eine bearbeitung des vorliegenden Files, und mitnichten um eine Datei mit substantiell anderem Inhalt.Leif Czerny (talk) 07:35, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Eine ausführliche Begründung findest du verlinkt in meiner Zusammenfassungszeile. Kurz gesagt: Eine "uncontroversial color correction" ist deine Bearbeitung nicht. Du hast nicht nur den Gradient entfernt und das S-W-Bild nach deinem Empfinden in einer höheren Auflösung farbig gestaltet, sondern auch gespiegelt. Solche Ueberarbeitungne gehören in eine neue Datei, erst recht, wenn die ursprüngliche zahlreich in Nutzung ist. --McZusatz (talk) 14:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Wenn du meinst. Ich kann ja dem Gleichsetzen von Regel und Regelauslegung nichts abgewinnen. Zahlreiche Nutzung halte ich für eine recht charmanete übertreibung.Leif Czerny (talk) 08:06, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
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Replacing GIF with PNG images

Hi McZusatz, I just stumbled upon some GIF images of which you had created a PNG version and then universally replaced the GIF with the PNG. Is there a reason why you are doing this? As far as I can see PNG is not an inherently better file format than GIF. While I think we should not convert PNG to GIF (possible loss of quality) I don't see why we should convert GIF to PNG. There can't be an improvement in image quality and often the PNG version is even larger than the GIF version. Is there some policy regarding conversion of GIF images that I'm not aware of? Thanks and best regards, --ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 04:53, 10 April 2014 (UTC)


GIF thumbnail horrorshow example

Unfortunately you did not understand the real reason why the GIF thumbnail is problematic, and your edit to "Commons:File types" was inaccurate. The reason the rescaled GIF doesn't look good is because it has a transparent background, and when GIFs with a transparent background are rescaled here, the transparent area eats away at the non-transparent area. If the GIF was changed to be fully opaque, then its thumbnail would look perfectly fine. Until two or three years ago, GIF thumbnailing was in fact better than PNG thumbnailing in some respects... AnonMoos (talk) 06:24, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

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YaCBot removing significant whitespace

Hi. I just noticed this edit, where a space between text objects was incorrectly removed. --jnkyrdsprkl (talk) 19:09, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Thx and ✓ fixed! (I will compile into binaries probably tomorrow) --McZusatz (talk) 19:40, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
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Images with categories are marked as uncategorized

It seems that YaCBot marks images as uncategorized, although they have categories. Can you correct it? --Jonund (talk) 11:31, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

The edit was in January and there was no category at this time. I already fixed the uncat 3 days later and forgot to remove the template. Thx for the hint. --McZusatz (talk) 11:43, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
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Category use

As I often do, I'm diffusing Category:Seattle, Washington to more precise categories. Normally, unless Category:Seattle, Washington is actually inaccurate, I try to refine the category. However, I notice you've put a bunch of Flickr images of food, such as File:Jamaica (5201032744).jpg, in that category. Nothing about the location of a photo like this seems particularly significant, and there is presumably no hope of a more precise geographic location, so it doesn't seem useful for it to language forever in Category:Unidentified locations in Seattle, Washington. Do you have any problem if I just remove Category:Seattle, Washington from this and other similar photos? Or do you have another suggestion for refining the category? - Jmabel ! talk 04:54, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

No, in fact I highly encourage your strategy. I did a lot of flickr uploads lately and I am still busy with fixing the categories. Removing the location-category and adding a more appropriate category (which describes the actual content) is far better in those cases. --McZusatz (talk) 15:10, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! - Jmabel ! talk 15:53, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-29

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 (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
  • It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [456] [457]
  • You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
  • You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

  • The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [458] [459]
  • The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [460] [461] [462]
  • References will now be shown in the default font size again. [463]

Future software changes

  • CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [464]
  • The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [465] [466]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [467]
  • Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [468] [469]
  • Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [470] [471]
  • Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [472] [473]
  • Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [474]

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07:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 19:23, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-30

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 (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
  • CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [475] [476] [477]
  • The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [478]
  • Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [479] [480]
  • A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [481]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [482]
  • All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [483]
  • You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [484]
  • Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [485] [486] [487] [488] [489] [490]

Future software changes

Problems

  • Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [494]

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07:41, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 19:35, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Restore File:Zune logo and wordmark.svg

Can you undelete File:Zune logo and wordmark.svg. The image itself wasn't spam, it was some comments someone added to the image page that should have been reverted. --Svgalbertian (talk) 21:32, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

According to the log it never was deleted. --McZusatz (talk) 22:24, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
My mistake, it was the talk page that was deleted. All is good, thank you. --Svgalbertian (talk) 23:50, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 14:27, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Request

Hi,

This is a request from Marathi language wikipedia. at Commons:Graphic_Lab/Video_and_sound_workshop. Your support helps great number of people to get connected with wiki projects.

Thanks and warm regards

Mahitgar (talk) 03:26, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-31

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 (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
  • You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

  • You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [495] [496]
  • The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [497]
  • If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [498] [499]
  • You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [500] [501]

Future software changes

  • You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [502] [503]
  • Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [504]
  • It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [505] [506]

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08:08, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-33

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

  • Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [507]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [508]

VisualEditor news

  • Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [509]

Future software changes

  • Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [510] [511] [512]
  • If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [513] [514]
  • You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [515] [516]
  • An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [517]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

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YaCBot auf meiner Beobachtungsliste

Hallo McZusatz. Würde es dir Umstände bereiten, YaCBot mal über meine Uploads zu jagen? So hätte ich seine Änderungen zwar einmal dutzendfach auf auf meiner Beobachtungsliste, aber danach wieder eine bessere Übersicht… --Leyo 20:46, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Hat user:mcPot gerade erledigt. --McZusatz (talk) 21:38, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Danke, das war ja eine ganze Menge! --Leyo 21:54, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: Leyo 21:54, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Report for files uploaded between July 29 and August 07

[deleteFraction = 0.05121864707372688; IOExceptions: 0 (Fraction: 0.0);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 41 problematic instances. I was unsure about some of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 18:14, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 09:05, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Photographer's Barnstar
Thank you for your assistance with licensing. Pine✉ 07:32, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 16:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

File:Vista parcial B. Aparecida do Norte e Caladinho de Baixo, Coronel Fabriciano MG.JPG

If you had seen that I want the elimination of my own work, why yourself even no sent to nominate for deletion? How much bureaucracy! --HVL talk 01:59, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

We do not delete images which have no copyright issue at all and are in scope. Especially a speedy-deletion does not apply. --McZusatz (talk) 14:43, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
File:Panorâmica2 de Cel. Fabriciano MG.jpg and File:Panorâmica Morros de Timóteo MG.jpg are derivated of this image, originated on www.fabriciano.mg.gov.br. File:Enchente 20-10-09, B. Giovannini, Coronel Fabriciano MG.JPG is derivated of a video produced by Inter TV dos Vales in 2009 (not available anymore). --HVL talk 02:25, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. Next time, please use the {{copyvio|source or reason}} and give an easy to understand reason which can only be interpreted in one way. --McZusatz (talk) 08:24, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
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YaCBot removed category (and did it wrong)

See version history of File:Clouds-10.jpg.

Best regards, --MartinThoma (talk) 13:55, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

I am unable to spot the error, please help me. --McZusatz (talk) 14:57, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
The bot removed Category:Taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ41 (see https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AClouds-10.jpg&diff=129556118&oldid=128939418). But the photograph was taken with that camera. --MartinThoma (talk) 03:20, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
Though, it is not visible in the diff, the category is listed twice. The Bot removed the second one. --McZusatz (talk) 05:03, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 16:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Category redirects

Hi there. I requested the speedies because I think it is more useful to keep the category history in one place rather than splitting it up, especially now that categories can be moved in the same way as other pages. Green Giant (talk) 13:54, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

I do not have a strong feeling about this issue, so you are welcome to rollback my edits. --McZusatz (talk) 14:02, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
I don't think I have ever reverted an admins edits, but there is a first time for everything. :) Green Giant (talk) 14:17, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between July 14 and July 23

[deleteFraction = 0.08901387369101413; IOExceptions: 1 (Fraction: 5.669673483504085E-6);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 31 problematic instances. I encountered problems for some of the files. Please have a look at them yourself.

--Flock (talk) 09:00, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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File:Lossy-page1-800px-ISU-152-2 (initial variant).tif.jpg

this file comes from enwikipedia.so...you see,can you help me add a suitable permission?I will appreciate it If you do that.--Panzer VI-II (talk) 16:08, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

The file page on en-wiki does not mention the author (photographer) as far as I can see. We need to find this out first. --McZusatz (talk) 16:11, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
This section was archived on a request by: McZusatz (talk) 16:30, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

File:Israel-Denmark 20140619 061 edit.JPG

Why on earth did you tag my file? Kw0 (talk) 13:00, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Cropped files with missing exif could be from anywhere. Do you have the full resolution original file? --McZusatz (talk) 13:05, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I've got the original file and I've never uploaded any copyvio. I bet you check each and every file of your batch uploads from flickr and have written permission sent by e-mail from the photographer. I am saying this because there's always the risk of Flickr washing, as you probably know, and you can never be too careful...
If you had checked, you would have seen that I am an experienced editor (since 2007, as well as autopatrolled) on Commons with over 10,000 productive edits (not some automatic batch tasks) and that this isn't some throwaway account. Kw0 (talk) 14:00, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
Ok, I have removed the tag. (The OTRS team has enough work anyway and this was clearly a false positive while patrolling the latest files) --McZusatz (talk) 14:24, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-32

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

Tech News updates

  • Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [518]
  • You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [519] [520] [521]
  • You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [522]
  • New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [523] [524]

VisualEditor news

Future software changes

  • You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [536] [537]
  • All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [538]
  • Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [539]

Problems

  • Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [540]
  • Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [541]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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Erbitte Löschung

Kannst du bitte File:Taucher.jpg löschen? Es ist so das wenn ich die Datei in die Wikipedia einbinde wird sie mit einem anderen Bild verwecheselt, deshalb lade ich sie jetzt erneut unter einem anderen Namen hoch, nur ich kann die Seite nicht löschen, würdest du das bitte übernehmen? Gruß,--Luke081515 (talk) 23:05, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

✓ Done Als copyvio geloescht. DLRG Wasserzeichen und (c) DLRG Ortsgruppe Minden sichtbar. LG, --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 00:32, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Die Datei wurde von einer lokalen taucher.jpg auf de-wiki verdeckt. --McZusatz (talk) 08:03, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Aha, die Taucher Datei hier war ne (c)vio. Diese Taucher sind klasse. Schaust Du bitte mal einen Abschnitt weiter oben? :) --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 03:24, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between August 01 and August 10

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 11 problematic instances. I was unsure about some of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 09:32, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

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May I?

Sure, if the original is deleted than my closing of the cropped image becomes invalid and should be reconsidered. :). However, I wish that his statement regarding the crop was as clear as his statement in the DR of the original file. Natuur12 (talk) 22:04, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-34

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 (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
  • There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [542] [543] [544]
  • You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [545] [546]
  • You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [547]
  • You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [548]
  • After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [549]

Problems

  • There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [550] [551]

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07:16, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between August 03 and August 12

[deleteFraction = 0.06713736714637417; IOExceptions: 0 (Fraction: 0.0);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 43 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 11:54, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

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Fotos, die gelöscht wurden obwohl ich das Copyright besitze

Da du Admin bist, könntest du bitte die folgenden vier Fotos wiederherstellen? Hier:

Die Fotos sind Fotos über ein Dokument zum Bootshaus der DLRG OG Minden, ich erstelle auf https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Luke081515/Baustellen/DLRG-Minden#Das_.22Hexenhaus.22_.28Altes_Bootshaus.29_1968_bis_1987 momentan einen Artiekl dazu, und brauche dafür die Fotos. Die Fotos habe ich selber mit einer Handykamera gemacht, und die Erlaubnis wurde mir vom Zuständigen erteilt. Leider sind die Fotots trotzdem gelöscht worden. Kannst du die wiederherstellen? Ich brauche sie umbedingt für den Artikel. Vielen Dank, --Luke081515 (talk) 13:46, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Nein, du kannst keine Nutzungsrechte erhalten, indem du Fotos von Fotos machst. Der Urheber ist und bleibt der urspruengliche Fotograf. Sorry, aber ohne dass der Urheber oder Rechteinhaber eine schriftliche Freigabe an com:OTRS schickt, geht hier nichts. --McZusatz (talk) 18:02, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Gut, danke für den Hinweis. --Luke081515 (talk) 23:42, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
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This DR - 2

Dear Admin McZusatz,

Please vote to keep or delete this image in your position as an experienced Admin please. At my first impression, this image may not be kept since it dates after 1963. But perhaps this image can be kept somehow. I don't know. Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 07:56, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Had a quick look and the uploader is not the real author. Thus flickwashing. --McZusatz (talk) 08:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between August 09 and August 18

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Hi, I just finished my run and found 50 problematic instances. I was unsure about 2 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 17:51, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-35

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

VisualEditor news

  • There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [552]
  • You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [553]
  • If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [554] [555] [556]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
  • After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [557]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-36

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 test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [558] [559]
  • You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [560] [561]
  • A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [562] [563]
  • If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [564]

VisualEditor news

  • You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [565]
  • We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [566] [567] [568]
  • VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [569]
  • We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [570]
  • You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [571]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
  • There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [572]
  • You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [573]
  • You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
  • You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [574]

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07:48, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

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YaCBot

Hallo! Dein Bot war auf Seiten meiner Bilder zu Besuch. Ich wusste gar nicht, dass ich Kategorien mehrfach hatte. Danke für die Korrektur. (Mein Bot hätte das in naher Zukunft auch korrigiert. ;-) ) Wenn ich das erwähnen darf: Dein Bot ändert die Reihenfolge der Abschnitte auf der Seite, die ich durchaus mit Bedacht gewählt habe. Diese Änderung werde ich wieder rückgängig machen. Ich hoffe, dass das auch aus deiner Sicht in Ordnung ist. Ansonsten kannst du gerne nachfragen. Danke. --XRay talk 05:22, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, dein Bot ist OK. Er hat einen Fehler in meinem aufgedeckt. Danke für den (impliziten) Tipp. --XRay talk 06:27, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
Gern geschehen. Dann kann ich schon mal den Abschnitt abhaken. ;) --McZusatz (talk) 04:36, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-41

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
  • If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [582] [583]
  • We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [584]
  • On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [585] [586]
  • You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [587]
  • 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [588]

Future changes

  • You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [589]
  • More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [590] [591]

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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-42

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 software changes

Problems

  • 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [594]
  • Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [595]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
  • 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [596]

Meetings

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08:53, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.

Recent changes

  • You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
  • You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [600] [601]

File information cleanup

Problems

  • Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [603]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
  • 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [604]
  • If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [605] [606]

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13:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-44

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

  • There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [607]
  • There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [608]
  • There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [609]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [610]
  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
  • VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [611] [612] [613]
  • VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [614]
  • VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [615]
  • The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [616]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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Benutzerrechte

Hallo McZusatz,

ich habe gerade gesehen, dass ich befördert wurde :-) (Du mich zum "Automatischen Kontrollierer" gemacht hast).

Nur aus Interesse: Wie habe ich mir das verdient?

Viele Grüße, --MartinThoma (talk) 06:39, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Du hast ausreichend Erfahrung, dass niemand mehr deine Edits kontrollieren muss. ;) --McZusatz (talk) 06:40, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Ok, alles klar :-) Danke dafür. --MartinThoma (talk) 07:08, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-37

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

VisualEditor news

  • From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [617] [618] [619]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
  • You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [620]
  • You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [621]

Problems

  • There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-38

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 software changes

  • You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [622] [623]
  • There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [624] [625] [626]
  • New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [627]

Problems

  • There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [628]

VisualEditor news

  • If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [629]
  • The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [630] [631]
  • You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [632]

Future software changes

  • The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
  • These changes are coming with the new version:
    • If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [633] [634] [635]

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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between August 19 and August 28

[deleteFraction = 0.11110255679849718; IOExceptions: 1 (Fraction: 7.698881352539476E-6);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 40 problematic instances. I was unsure about 17 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 18:19, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between August 25 and September 03

[deleteFraction = 0.08770198751874111; IOExceptions: 0 (Fraction: 0.0);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 108 problematic instances. I was unsure about 6 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 18:45, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-40

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 software changes

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
  • Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [639] [640]
  • You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [641]
  • If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [642] [643]
  • The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [644]

Future changes

  • You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
  • JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [645]

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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-45

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 software changes

Problems

  • There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [649]
  • Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [650] [651] [652]
  • HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
  • Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [653] [654]
  • VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [655]
  • The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [656] [657] [658] [659] [660]
  • After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [661] [662] [663]

Future changes

  • The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [664]

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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between October 19 and October 28

[deleteFraction = 0.08655608343936405; IOExceptions: 1 (Fraction: 5.8365531651627815E-6);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 610 problematic instances. I was unsure about 5 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 18:43, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-46

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 software changes

  • You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [665] [666]
  • The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [667]

File information cleanup

Problems

  • Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [668]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
  • You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [669] [670]
  • The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [671]
  • The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [672]

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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-39

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 software changes

Problems

  • There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
  • Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
  • There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [674] [675]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
  • If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[676] [677]
  • In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [678] [679]
  • The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [680]
  • The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [681]
  • There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [682] [683]
  • In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [684]

Future site changes

  • You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [685]

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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between October 26 and November 04

[deleteFraction = 0.1544402692814864; IOExceptions: 2 (Fraction: 9.914634992712742E-6);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 1202 problematic instances. I was unsure about 9 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 20:28, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

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Top 200 chemical images that should use vector graphics

Hi McZusatz. Wäre es möglich, oben auf dieser Seite einen Hinweis zu platzieren, ohne dass ihn dein Bot beim nächsten Update entfernt? --Leyo 09:57, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Das sollte imo kein grosses Problem darstellen. --McZusatz (talk) 18:20, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Ich habe nun einen Hinweis ergänzt und hoffe, dass dein Bot diesen nicht löscht. --Leyo 23:42, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2014-51

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Recent software changes

  • You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [686]
  • You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [687]
  • You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [688]
  • You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [689]
  • VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [690]
  • The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [691]

Future changes

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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

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Recent software changes

  • The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [696]

Software changes this week

  • There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [697]

Future changes

  • The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [698]
  • A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [699]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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Standardizing dates

When I saw "Standardizing dates" on my watchlist I feared that the Wikipedia MOS shock and awe troops finally arrived here to pull their let's overrule ISO and IETF (for yyyy-mm) stunt. But actually YaCBot only replaced a ca. 1910 by a proper (wrt i18n) {{other date|~|1910}}. Why do bots have no "thanks" link like everybody else with an account? –Be..anyone (talk) 16:30, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Danke! --McZusatz (talk) 03:49, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
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16:51, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

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Source for flags and arms of Mexico

FAIL
File:5 centavos de México de 1968 (reverso)(moneda con clipet).jpg
For example OK
File:5 centavos de México de 1936 (anverso y reverso).jpg
For example OK
For example OK
For example OK
And So OK
And so OK

Mr. McZusatz

My sources for shields and flags are:

http://www.desarrollopolitico.gob.mx/es/Desarrollo_Politico/La_version_oficial_del_Escudo_y_la_Bandera_nacionales

http://www.banxico.org.mx/billetes-y-monedas/servicios/venta-de-monedas-medallas-billetes-y-otros-product/monedas-y-medallas-de-oro/familia-del-centenario-/familia-del-centenario-.html

http://www.semar.gob.mx/unhicun/Libros_UNHICUN/assets/escudos-sellos-y-emblemas-oficiales-de-la-marina-de-guerra-mexicana.pdf

Pages and books from the Mexican government.

http://hubert-herald.nl/INHOUD.htm

ad from someone who has done a good job on the shield even has its very reliable and verifiable sources, most even via internet. and even this in English.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Coins_of_Mexico

In this page I can not say much more. Faulty shields and flags, replaced only give you an example:

Shields were replaced by exhibiting significant errors, the simplest is to see this shield odviamente shield use the current version of the Mexican coat with aggregate that do not correspond with the version that was used between 1934 and 1968.

09/28/14 Excuse me, but I have doubts, have you analisastes my references? and if so, if possible, already have the reference for your modifications ?. Oh and sorry for the bad editing on Commons --Sarumo74 (talk) 00:57, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Saludos. --Sarumo74 (talk) 08:51, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

My upload of File:Coat of arms of Mexico (1916-1934).svg fixed a syntax problem in the svg source file. The reason why your upload got rejected is stated in the comment-field of the respective uploaded version. (i.e. COM:Overwrite) --McZusatz (talk) 18:28, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
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Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
  • The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [700]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

  • The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
  • You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
  • You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
  • Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
  • You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [701]

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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-48

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Recent changes

  • The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [702]

Problems

  • There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [703]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
  • You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [704]
  • VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [705]
  • You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [706]
  • VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [707] [708]

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19:31, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-50

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Recent software changes

  • All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [709]
  • You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [710]

Problems

  • There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [711]

Software changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [712]
  • You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [713]
  • It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [714] [715]
  • The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [716] [717] [718]
  • (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [719] [720]

Future changes

  • Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [721]

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17:11, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between November 18 and November 27

[deleteFraction = 0.10853205382589559; IOExceptions: 0 (Fraction: 0.0);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 40 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 14:36, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

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Reversed images

Hi, saw your edits to File:Glider club Svævethy (8174482839).jpg. That was one of several aircraft images that I have noticed have been uploaded in reversed/flipped form. As with the others, the lettering on the aircraft or background (eg OY-XGF) is visibly reversed. I have tried using IrfanView on several images, but it reports that a perfect transformation cannot be achieved. Anyway, the Cleanup image template does not appear to have an explicit parameter for reversed images, so could you perhaps investigate that to cover this topic better, or should we query that on Commons talk:Media for cleanup ? (watching here) MTIA, PeterWD (talk) 10:23, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Just two quick notes:
  1. Feel free to revert my revert while stating the reason in the edit summary. This will help to identify the cause in future.
  2. We have Category:Images to be flopped back but the category name seems clumsy to me and there is no template connected with this category.
--McZusatz (talk) 10:31, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
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File tagging File:ZDFcheck-Screenshot.png

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This media may be deleted.
Thanks for uploading File:ZDFcheck-Screenshot.png. This media is missing permission information. A source is given, but there is no proof that the author or copyright holder agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide a link to an appropriate webpage with license information, or ask the author or copyright holder to send an email with copy of a written permission to VRT (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org). You may still be required to go through this procedure even if you are the author yourself; please see Commons:But it's my own work! for more details. After you emailed permission, you may replace the {{No permission since}} tag with {{subst:PP}} on file description page. Alternatively, you may click on "Challenge speedy deletion" below the tag if you wish to provide an argument why evidence of permission is not necessary in this case.

Please see this page for more information on how to confirm permission, or if you would like to understand why we ask for permission when uploading work that is not your own, or work which has been previously published (regardless of whether it is your own).

Warning: unless the permission information is given, the file may be deleted after seven days. Thank you.

Mys_721tx (talk) 00:00, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

--> User_talk:Tim_Moritz_Hector_(WMDE)#File_tagging_File:ZDFcheck-Screenshot-1024x760.jpg --McZusatz (talk) 07:51, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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Should the categories be at the very bottom?

Regarding 128833173: there seems to be a number of files with categories listed at the bottom of the == {{int:filedesc}} == section instead of being at the bottom of the page. I wonder if such pages could be left as they are, because to my mind, it makes even more sense to be able to edit categories as part of the description section? TIA. ⁓ [Gyft Xelz · talk] 19:05, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

If there is nothing to clean up, he also won't touch the categories. Nonetheless, if an edit is done anyway, the categories are grouped at the bottom because it seems to be "consensus" now to place them there. (The file you mentioned above even had them split on two locations which is even more misleading...)
Another observation is that the categories appear at the very bottom in the rendered HTML view, so it actually makes sense to place them in the bottom of the source code as well. And finally considering the broad usage of hotcat, it should not even matter at all. --McZusatz (talk) 20:16, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
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Question

Hello! Do we still need Category:DuplicatePNG? --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 22:51, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Oh, den Abschnitt habe ich bisher uebersehen...
Die Kat habe ich zusammen mit Template:DuplicatePNG erstellt. (Ist nur fuer mich gedacht und sollte demnaechst erledigt sein.) --McZusatz (talk) 08:07, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Kein Problem, ist mir nur im Ordner Duplikate aufgefallen. LG, --Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 04:21, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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languages to be added for subtitles list

Hi,

At File:Marathi Wikipedia ULS.webm I would like to get subtitles added for more dialects of Marathi language namely :

  • knn - कोंकणी
  • vah - वऱ्हाडी
  • smv - कादोडी
  • ahr - अहिराणी
  • khn - खानदेशी

The above languages are having Ethnologue and ISO codes but are not included in dropdown list for subtitles.

  • Besides we prefer to have कोल्लापुरी and बेळगावी dialects (कोल्लापुरी and बेळगावी does not have iso codes) of Marathi added to the list. It would be ok to write mr- मराठी (कोल्लापुरी) and mr- मराठी (बेळगांवी) as additional options to standard Marathi language code until these dialects get separate iso codes.

I do not know which is the right place to make the request for this on commons so requesting you for your kind help and support in this respect.

Rgds Mahitgar (talk) 15:34, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

I assume this needs a change in TMH. You can submit a bug report to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=TimedMediaHandler --McZusatz (talk) 09:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
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Upload wizard

Hi McZusatz, I am encoutering a problem with the upload wiizard since I am back from vacations : when I try to upload a file, there is no display of progress. The 'wheel' keeps on turning, but nothing happens. It looks like nothing is getting uploaded. Do you have an idea what is going on ? Is there a workaround for large files ? As far as I know, chunked uploads works only for uploading a new version of a file. Cheers, — Racconish ✉ 08:23, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

The bug is already reported multiple times but WMF ignores such issues to spend more time on inventing feckless user rights. And no: You can modify the file name by hand in the chunked upload.js pop up and thus upload any file (create or new version). Maybe @Rillke: can place the "upload new version (chunked)"-link on the toolbox of every page? --McZusatz (talk) 08:36, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for. — Racconish ✉ 09:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
There should be a link now when visiting any page in the file namespace, no matter whether it exists or not. Ideally, script would check after changing the destination whether file exists and change the summary/description input if required. -- Rillke(q?) 16:06, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Or provide two links where the one for re-upload has the file name filled out and the one for upload only the file-name-placeholder and an extended summary/description field? The "create a new file"-upload link can then be visible in all namespaces (like upload wizard). --McZusatz (talk) 16:57, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Anyway, thanks to both of you. It's nice to see that with all the ongoing aggravation, you remain dedicated to helping out. Cheers, — Racconish ✉ 17:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the chunked uploads script does not seem to work for me since a few days : it keeps 'waiting for the server to publish the uploaded file' forever. Any clue or workaround ? Thanks, — Racconish ✉ 14:37, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

You may find the files in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadStash?withJS=MediaWiki:EnhancedStash.js --McZusatz (talk) 20:17, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Will try this way. Thanks, — Racconish ✉ 21:34, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
It worked. Thanks again, — Racconish ✉ 07:01, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
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Bot bug

Please fix your bot so that license templates are not substituted.[722][723]. And while you're at it, please consider XML decoding the text such that we're not getting these &#x7C;'s and &#10;'s on the file description page. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 00:10, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, cleanup is not part of this bot's task. I can not substitute nor re-substitute; The resulting description is an exact copy of the original description to prevent unnecessary confusion. --McZusatz (talk) 07:38, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
OK, you are right about the subst'ed text. But the duplicate XML encoding was not part of the original text, was it? Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 00:10, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
XML decoding is handled by wiki-java? Note to myself: parseLogEntry() calls parseAttribute().
My hard drive is broken right now but I will do some debug next month or so. --McZusatz (talk) 21:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
@Magog the Ogre: So I could not find any bug. The server indeed gives {{Information | Description = {{ pt | 1 = Brasão de Tarumã }} | Source = Prefeitura de Tarumã | Author = Prefeitura de Tarumã | Date = 2010/03/08 | Permission = | Permission = }} = &#x7C; Date = 2010/03/08 &#x7C; Permission = &#x7C; Permission = &#x7 as a result. Thus, I am not sure what to do:
  • Keep current code and don't change the behavior.
  • Apply org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml() once on every upload summary. (Is this error prone?)
  • Apply unescapeXml() repetitively on the reason-string until nothing changes anymore. (E.g. the above example needs two reps.)
Looking forward to hear your feedback. --McZusatz (talk) 19:12, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Can you provide me the link so I can look at the XML myself? I can't tell if you're trying to say &amp; or &amp;amp; because of the way you pasted. If it's the former, then that's exactly what the XML should output. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 22:41, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Sorry, it's the actual source code: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/9014451/ --McZusatz (talk) 23:09, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Well, I give up then. Either the uploader's tool was borked, or your framework has a bug in it. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 15:10, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
It looks to me like it's a framework bug. Source doesn't have bad data in it: [724]. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 15:28, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
@Magog the Ogre: Actually, you are right! (Now I recall why I referred to parseAttribute() back in August.) Anyway, erroneous behavior is fixed in wiki-java; Thank you! --McZusatz (talk) 23:14, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
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Please add meaningful descriptions to your Flickr transfers

Hi,

You transferred these images from a Flickr account:-

Could you please clarify who or what they are meant to be and add meaningful descriptions to them please? I assume that they were transferred for some good reason, but that is not obvious.

From looking at the Flickr account, I suspect that one of the images may be of the band "We The Kings", but I assume you know more about these images than me.

Thanks, Ubcule (talk) 21:55, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

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Template:Transcribe here

Hi McZusatz, i've seen that you were doing some edits on the mentioned template. I am currently thinking about to extend it a little bit. It would be nice when you could contribute this discussion. If not, also ok. Thanks, --Arnd (talk) 14:25, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

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File:The High Priest - 1916234235071.jpg

I don't log in on commons very often, so I managed to miss that one of my files had been put up for deletion:

Unfortunately, since the file is now gone, I can't quite see what the problem was. I know I did get the artist's permission, and I should be able to track down my correspondence with him if need be. But perhaps I simply used the wrong license template? Since I don't have admin privileges I can't look at the last version of the page and see what I did wrong. Since you do, could you maybe review the page, and either send me the text or just explain what the problem was? I did go to a lot of trouble to get that file, and would really like to have it back. --Iustinus (talk) 08:19, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

The information you provided on the file page was:
|source= [[Flickr]]: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/37873897@N06/8048203872/ The High Priest - 1916234235071]
|author= [http://www.flickr.com/people/37873897@N06 Flavio Grynszpan]
However, I could not find an image after following the link, so the license could not be confirmed. --McZusatz (talk) 10:15, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
OK, I contacted Mr. Grynszpan, the original artist. He's not clear what exactly happened, but apparently the image was accidentally set to private. He's remedied the situation, so I guess I'll go submit the file for undeletion. --Iustinus (talk) 05:21, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
PS. Just noticed you are la-1... now I regret not writing you in Latin ;) --Iustinus (talk) 05:43, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
PPS. The file has been undeleted. Now that the original text is restored, I see that I had written:
|permission=Author posted privately, but invited me to upload it: "I uploaded it to flickr under the CC license but I did not make it public, just for you! You can download it and use it at your discretion."
(I sort of dimly remembered this, which was why I was asking for the information that was on the page. But when I contacted Mr. Grynszpan, he had no memory of this, and could not recall why he had set it to private in the first place—which is why I said it was an accident, above.)
I can see why that may not have been enough—presumably Mr. Grynszpan would have had to send in a statement to Wikimedia confirming what I quote him as saying. Well, now it's mostly moot, because he set the image to public. But, quick question, suppose he changes his mind and sets it private again. Will the file once again be in danger of deletion, or will Steinsplitter's {{Flickrreview}} be sufficient to prevent that?
Thanks, Iustinus (talk) 21:27, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
We now have the flickr source and author confirmed. A CC license which is once granted, can not be revoked and thus, setting the file to private again or deleting it will not change the status here on commons. --McZusatz (talk) 04:35, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
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Report for files uploaded between November 04 and November 13

[deleteFraction = 0.12935131332887265; IOExceptions: 0 (Fraction: 0.0);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 53 problematic instances. I was unsure about 1 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 12:48, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

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Report for files uploaded between November 09 and November 18

[deleteFraction = 0.12755280662854476; IOExceptions: 0 (Fraction: 0.0);]

Hi, I just finished my run and found 68 problematic instances. I was unsure about 3 of the files and it is up to you to have a look at them.

--Flock (talk) 10:32, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

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Falschdeklaration

Wären Sie bitte so nett, Ihre voreilig als "gemeinfrei" deklarierten Uploads wenigstens jetzt zu korrigieren, da die Sache durch sämtliche Medien gegangen ist? Danke. --217.226.90.232 12:42, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Waeren sie bitte so nett mir einen externen oder internen link betreffend der sache zukommen zu lassen? Gezaehlt habe ich meine uploads nicht, aber zu viele sind es gewiss, um jetzt die betroffenen herauszufischen. --McZusatz (talk) 14:01, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
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OTRS Freigabe

Hallo McZusatz,

kannst du bitte folgende Dateien die OTRS Freigabe erteilen:

File:Wilhelm Caspari.jpg,File:Gedenktafel Karl Landauer am Sigmund-Freud-Institut in der Myliusstraße 20.jpg, File:Infoblatt 17 10 14 .xps.pdf, File:Raphael Weichbrodt.jpg, File:Hermann Lismann.jpg, File:Carl Grünberg.jpg, File:Gustav Georg Embden.jpg, File:Paul Epstein.jpg

Ticketnummer usw. ist schon im Bild vorhanden, jedoch ausgeblendet.

Vielen Dank und Grüße Woelle ffm (talk) 09:25, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

@Woelle ffm: In ticket 2014092910010197 ist von dir keine Antwort mehr gekommen. Ich habe das Ticket aber mal eingetragen. Bitte melden, ansonsten werden die Bilder gelöscht. --McZusatz (talk) 17:08, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
ups; sorry, was fehlt denn da noch?? Stolpersteine e.v. hat eigentlich Ticket#2013102810006014 da ist auch alles weitere hinterlegt--Vielen Dank und Grüße Woelle ffm (talk) 14:18, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Die Dateien scheinen aber getrennt in einem Ticket bearbeitet zu werden. Ich habe dir das gesamte Ticket an deine Mail geschickt, damit du nochmal alles hast. --McZusatz (talk) 14:30, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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