Wikipedia:Kadai Kopi/Arsip/April 2016
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
- You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [1]
- Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [2]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).
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5 April 2016 05.13 (WIB)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [3][4]
- Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [5][6]
- ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [7]
- The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [8]
Problems
- There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [9]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
- The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [10]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid and balanced templates. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [11]
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12 April 2016 03.44 (WIB)
Server switch 2016
suntiangThe Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its newest data center in Dallas. This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the new data center on Tuesday, 19 April.
On Thursday, 21 April, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April.
No non-essential code deployments will take place.
This test was originally planned to take place on March 22. April 19th and 21st are the new dates. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. They will post any changes on that schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18 April 2016 04.07 (WIB)
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
- You can filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [12][13]
- You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [14]
- MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [15]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [16]
- There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 19 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces. The meeting will be on 20 April at 21:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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19 April 2016 03.40 (WIB)
Undian untuak Sanak Algazel sabagai panguruih di Wikipedia baso Minang
suntiangDunsanak ambo kasadonyo, marilah wak samo-samo maundi Sanak Algazel sabagai panguruih kaampek Wikipedia baso Minang di siko. Salam, Naval Scene (maota) 21 April 2016 13.42 (WIB)
Wikipedia to the Moon
suntiangHello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it here.
This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 21 April 2016 22.35 (WIB)
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
- Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [17]
- When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
- Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [18]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [19]
- It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [20]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The "Simpan" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [21]
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26 April 2016 04.02 (WIB)
Komunitas Wikipediawan Padang
suntiangHalo kasado Wikipediawan!
Saya mewakili Wikipediawan di kota Padang mambari kabar bahwa alah tabantuak komunitas Wikipediawan Padang pado Sabtu, 16 April 2016 - pukul 10.36 WIB di Business Center Universitas Andalas.
Saya ingin mengundang para Wikipediawan nan aktif maupun nan baru bagabuang di Wikipedia untuak menghadiri patamuan berikutnya. Pertemuan berikutnya akan diisi dengan membahas jalan nan akan ditempuh berikutnya sarato tantu sajo kagiatan menyunting bersama. Acara iko nantinya akan digelar pada
Jumat, 29 April 2016, pukul 14.00 - salasai WIB
Badan Perpustakaan Daerah Provinsi Sumatera Barat
JL. Diponegoro, No. 4, Padang (Lihat Peta)
Untuk itu kami juo meminta tolong kapado sanak-sanak nan barado di grup iko untuak membatu penyampaian informasi kapado Wikipediawan nan barado di Sumatera Barat.
Kami tunggu kehadiran Sanak di acara ini!
Terimakasih,
Salam,
Panguruih
suntiangNampaknyo ado saketek karancuan di siko. Admin di Meta alun nio maagiah status panguruih permanen untuak pamiliahan nan terakhir, dek sebab banyak pangguno nan maagiah suaro "dibaok" dari lua. Ambo raso iko juo sabagian dek awak alun punyo kabijakan nan jaleh tantang sia nan dapek mamiliah dan dipiliah untuak jabatan teknis. Baa kiro-kiro? 30 April 2016 11.24 (WIB)
- Ambo paribadi indak ado masalah do jo status samantaro ko. Dek karano jumalah suntiangan di wiki ko samemangnyo alun banyak lai. Namun kok awak nio malangkokan jo kabijakan jabatan panguruih tu, yo baik pulo. Salam, Naval Scene (maota) 10 Mai 2016 08.36 (WIB)