[Wikitech-ambassadors] Read-only period tomorrow (or very late today)

2019-01-16 Thread Johan Jönsson
Hey everyone, Terribly sorry about the short notice – this is not a planned thing, it's an emergency fix. Most wikis (but not the biggest ones) will be read-only for up to 30 minutes at 07:00 UTC AM tomorrow, 17 January. Depending on your time zone, that might be late 16 January. It'll probably

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter

2019-01-16 Thread Deryck Chan
It's great...! I've come across a few cases where there's already a copy of the file on Commons, but the (original) local file hasn't been deleted yet. Should I use the new tool to import the file history, or is that not necessary? What was WMDE's proposde workflow for old files that were

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter

2019-01-16 Thread Johanna Strodt
Hello Deryck, Wow, that's great! As of ~2 hours ago, the feature is available on all wikis (don't forget to activate it in your preferences). I'd love to hear what you think of it. Best, Johanna Am Mi., 16. Jan. 2019 um 15:10 Uhr schrieb Deryck Chan : > Hello Johanna, > > This is great

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter

2019-01-16 Thread Deryck Chan
Hello Johanna, This is great timing. The Cantonese Wikipedia has recently been going through a drive to clean up old files, some dating back to 2006, which haven't been moved to Commons because... CommonsHelper is frankly a bit clumsy. This will help us lots! Deryck On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at