Jump to content

Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2014/February

Add links
From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!
This is an archive of past discussions from Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2014. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current page.


m:Requests for comment/Global ban for DanielTom

John F. Lewis has indicated that he will pursue other venues to resolve the issue and thus this discussion is closed. TeleComNasSprVen (talk) 21:09, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hello, per m:Global bans, a general requirement of a global bans request for comment is notify all projects where the user subject to the ban has editied. DanielTom is either an active editor or a past editor of this wiki and therefore I am notifying the project of this proposal. Everyone is welcome to go and voice their opinion of the proposal and about the user in general. Thanks, John F. Lewis (talk) 03:07, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page, such as the current discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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. [1] [2]
  • The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [3] [4]
  • You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [5]
  • There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [6]
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [7]
  • All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [8]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [9]

Future software changes

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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. [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]
  • 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). [25]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [26] [27]
  • The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [28] [29] [30]

Problems

  • On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [31]
  • 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. [32] [33]
  • 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. [34]
  • You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [35] [36]
  • The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [37]
  • Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [38] [39]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [40]
  • You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [41]
  • You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [42] [43]
  • 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. [44]
  • Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [45]
  • 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. [46]
  • The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [47]

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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. [48] [49]
  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [50]
  • You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [51]
  • You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [52]

Problems

  • On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [53]
  • On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [54]
  • 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. [55]
  • You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [56]
  • Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [57]
  • You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [58] [59] [60]
Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

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. [63] [64] [65]
  • You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [66] [67]
  • You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [68] [69]

Future software changes

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Retrieved from "https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2014/February&oldid=2478362"