Wikitech-ambassadors June 2015

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Technical newsletter (2015, week 27)
by Guillaume Paumier 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/27 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next. More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ————————————————————————————— Other languages: čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/cs> • ‎English • ‎español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/es> • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/he> • ‎italiano <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/it> • ‎日本語 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/ja> • ‎Ripoarisch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/ksh> • ‎português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/pt> • ‎português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/pt-br> • ‎ русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/ru> • ‎ українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/uk> • ‎Tiếng Việt <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/vi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/27/zh> Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/27> are available. *Recent changes* - Long lines in code blocks now look better. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2260> - You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99936> - When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54165> - The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [4] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-June/001187…> [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85794> [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100563> - You can look at a new site <http://devhub.wmflabs.org/> to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [7] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/082215.html> *Problems* - JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103498> *Changes this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf12> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>). - You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T45126> - When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101236> - If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94774> - Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [12] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2015-June/0000…> *Meetings* - You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 30 at 19:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal> . *Future* - When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [13] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74469> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/27> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Guillaume Paumier

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] https-only is reducing accessibility
by Deryck Chan 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

Hi ambassadors, Recently Wikimedia sites switched to https-only for privacy reasons, and the https certificate has been updated to prevent access altogether where a secure connection couldn't be established. This is a problem because some schools and companies deliberately eavesdrop https for monitoring purposes by inserting an in-house https certificate. Wikimedia's switch to https-only is preventing people from such networks from even *reading* Wikipedia. Is there a compromise that can be sought? Deryck

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Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes
by Ori Livneh 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:30 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ugh, is there a way to configure pygments to have fallbacks for > languages which are substantially based on another? e.g. xpp is > basically java, and looks quite good when I tested it on betalabs. I > am sure that Pygments has some parser close to 'email', as they do > support a 'http session' language. > Yes. We maintain a mapping from GeSHi lexer names to compatible Pygment lexers: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi/blo… Making xpp render as Java would be as simple as adding "xpp" => "java". If you submit a patch, I will be happy to merge it.

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Upcoming SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi changes
by Ori Livneh 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Hello, Over the course of the next two days, a major update to the SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi extension will be rolled out to Wikimedia wikis. The change swaps geshi, the unmaintained PHP library which performs the lexical analysis and output formatting of code, for another library, called Pygments. The roll-out will remove support for 31 languages while adding support for several hundred languages not previously supported, including Dart, Rust, Julia, APL, Mathematica, SNOBOL, Puppet, Dylan, Racket, Swift, and many others. See <https://people.wikimedia.org/~ori/geshi_changes.txt> for a full list. The languages that will lose support are mostly obscure, with the notable exception of ALGOL68, Oz, and MMIX. The change is expected to slightly improve the time it takes to load and render all pages on all wikis (not just those that contain code blocks!), at the cost of a slight penalty (about a tenth of a second) on the time it takes to save edits which introduce or modify a block of highlighted code to an article. Lastly, the way the extension handles unfamiliar languages will change. Previously, if the specified language was not supported by the extension, instead of a code block, the extension would print an error message. From now on, it will simply output a plain, unhighlighted block of monospaced code. The wikitext syntax for highlighting code will remain the same. -- Ori

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Technical newsletter (2015, week 26)
by Guillaume Paumier 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

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Technical newsletter (2015, week 25)
by Guillaume Paumier 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Hi, The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/25 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next. More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ————————————————————————————— Other languages: čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/cs> • ‎English • ‎español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/es> • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/he> • ‎italiano <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/it> • ‎Ripoarisch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/ksh> • ‎português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/pt> • ‎português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/pt-br> • ‎ русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/ru> • ‎తెలుగు <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/te> • ‎українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/uk> • ‎Tiếng Việt <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/vi> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/25/zh> Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/25> are available. *Recent changes* - Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [1] <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/09/content-translation-tool/> - Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101648> *Changes this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf10> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from 18 June (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>). *Meetings* - You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal> . - You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d…> . [3] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html> *Future changes* - Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100604>about it. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76199> - If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101214> [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101524> [7] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Compat_deprecation> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/25> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> •Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Guillaume Paumier

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Ready for translation: VisualEditor News #3 (2015)
by Erica Litrenta 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

Hi all, hope you had a great weekend. Heads up, a new issue of the VisualEditor newsletter is now open to translations. Current issue: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/June Direct translation link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-V… This will be delivered to the people who already signed up in the past months (please subscribe! [1]) in addition to a list of relevant pages on most WMF wikis. I plan to send it at the end of this workweek. Thank you for your invaluable help! Best, Elitre (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter

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Tech newsletter (2015, week 24)
by Guillaume Paumier 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/24 . Below is the English version. You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next. More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ————————————————————————————— Other languages: čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/cs> • ‎English • ‎español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/es> • ‎suomi <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/fi> • ‎français <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/fr> • ‎עברית <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/he> • ‎italiano <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/it> • ‎Ripoarisch <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/ksh> • ‎português <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/pt> • ‎português do Brasil <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/pt-br> • ‎ русский <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/ru> • ‎ українська <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/uk> • ‎中文 <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/24/zh> Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/24> are available. *Changes this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf9> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>). [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-May/081863.html> [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97553> - If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/212919/> - When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55546> - The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76947> *Meetings* - You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&d…>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal> . - You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=30&sec=0&d…> . [6] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081960.html> *Future changes* - If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [7] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/24> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.* -- Guillaume Paumier

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increase in emoji vandalism
by Ryan Kaldari 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

As most of you know (hopefully), anonymous editing on mobile has been enabled for all projects (except Korean Wikipedia). One of the side effects of this is that there has been an increase in vandalism that uses emoji ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji). Much of this vandalism is not caught by existing AbuseFilter filters. I encourage all projects to add new AbuseFilter filters for detecting emoji, and either showing a warning or preventing such edits. The Unicode range for all emoji characters is [🌀-🙏🚀-🛳☀-➿], although you may need to customize this for your particular project. For example, the emoji characters ★ and ☆ are commonly used in Japanese song titles. Feel free to steal the filter currently in use on English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/680 Kaldari

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month
by James Forrester 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Please note that some community-run bots may stop working unless they are fixed before the end of June: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 2 June 2015 at 13:42 Subject: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org As has been announced several times (most recently at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-April/081559.html), the default continuation mode for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. *The date is now set:* we intend to merge the change to ride the deployment train at the end of June. That should be 1.26wmf12, to be deployed to test wikis on June 30, non-Wikipedias on July 1, and Wikipedias on July 2. If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen here <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages>, for example), it's time to fix your code! - The simple solution is to simply include the "rawcontinue" parameter with your request to continue receiving the raw continuation data ( example < https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&rawcontinue=1 >). No other code changes should be necessary. - Or you could update your code to use the simplified continuation documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries (example <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&continue= >), which is much easier for clients to implement correctly. Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning. I've compiled a list of bots that have hit the deprecation warning more than 10000 times over the course of the week May 23–29. If you are responsible for any of these bots, please fix them. If you know who is, please make sure they've seen this notification. Thanks. AAlertBot AboHeidiBot AbshirBot Acebot Ameenbot ArnauBot Beau.bot Begemot-Bot BeneBot* BeriBot BOT-Superzerocool CalakBot CamelBot CandalBot CategorizationBot CatWatchBot ClueBot_III ClueBot_NG CobainBot CorenSearchBot Cyberbot_I Cyberbot_II DanmicholoBot DeltaQuadBot Dexbot Dibot EdinBot ElphiBot ErfgoedBot Faebot Fatemibot FawikiPatroller HAL HasteurBot HerculeBot Hexabot HRoestBot IluvatarBot Invadibot Irclogbot Irfan-bot Jimmy-abot JYBot Krdbot Legobot Lowercase_sigmabot_III MahdiBot MalarzBOT MastiBot Merge_bot NaggoBot NasirkhanBot NirvanaBot Obaid-bot PatruBOT PBot Phe-bot Rezabot RMCD_bot Shuaib-bot SineBot SteinsplitterBot SvickBOT TaxonBot Theo's_Little_Bot W2Bot WLE-SpainBot Xqbot YaCBot ZedlikBot ZkBot -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester

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