Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Banner filtering options in user preferences

Joseph Seddon, 29/01/21 06:24: It will enable logged in users to opt out of CentralNotice campaigns by type. The settings will be found within their user preferences in a dedicated tab. This is nice, but ugh, a new tab in Special:Preferences is a steep price to pay! We spent a lot of time

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Reference Previews: Search for wikis for early deployment

Michael Schönitzer, 04/11/20 11:53: > A new feature called Reference Previews [1] was introduced as a beta > feature last year. After more than a year of testing, bug fixing and other > improvements it will soon leave the beta state in the first wikis, enabling > it by default for all users

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Breaking change on Wikidata?

Raimond Spekking, 27/05/20 18:09: this is a known bug. Already fixed, will be deployed today or tomorrow based on the exact cluster Indeed, see Federico ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deprecation of server-side Graphoid graph rendering

Keegan Peterzell, 11/05/20 23:24: As part of the architecture cleanup of MediaWiki, the Graphoid graph service will soon stop rendering graphs server-side [1]. All rendering will take place in the client. This change primarily affects end-users who do not have or have disabled Javascript. Is

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Translated VE interface strings displayed in english

Benoît Evellin (Trizek), 10/05/19 14:34: I would suggest you to bookmark the recent imports link on Translatewiki , and check it time to time to catch up on new messages for

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Searching deleted page content

Deryck Chan, 18/04/19 17:22: I can't find relevant info in the documentation so I've come to ask here - Is it possible to run a keyword search in deleted page content? The default answer is "no". Alternatives have been most often discussed in relation to research projects on the archive

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Changes to the Block paradigm

Moriel Schottlender, 08/01/19 03:53: The new “Partial Blocks” feature has fundamentally changed the way MediaWiki considers what “block” means; Given this was not fully considered before applying the change, the safest way forward is to revert the change and open an RfC to list all the

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Removal of unblockself rights on wiki

Tisza Gergő, 15/12/18 22:38: Even our largest wikis only see about ten self-unblocks a year, most of which are unblocks of self-blocks This is an irrelevant piece of data. Of course so far there was very little incentive to block a sysop, since they could unblock themselves. We may never

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Removal of unblockself rights on wiki

Brian Wolff, 27/11/18 18:45: I'm still open to communities who want to continue to have the old behaviour to opt out of the new behaviour - The primary thing here is that the default has now changed, so that anywhere that was using the old behaviour for no other reason then it was the default is

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Special:Preferences layout

What happened to Special:Preferences? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences Stuff now feels scattered around the whole place as in the bedroom of a 6 years old boy. Compare what I see to what I'm used to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F26242100

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Interface Administrator rollout

Deryck Chan, 30/08/2018 16:30: without any prior notice on their user talk page nor any known process on how to regain that right. This is more of a problem on wikis without bureaucrats, or with limited 'crat bandwidth. I agree that such wikis may deserve additional help, including direct

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Where to find the ORES team?

Benoît Evellin (Trizek), 15/01/2018 20:24: I was actually looking for that page! :) The template should be unprotected so that the page can become better, i.e. by improving the links. Federico

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Print styles reminder

Chris Koerner, 01/11/2017 00:34: Hey Nemo, Is the request to better document the print CSS styles in MediaWiki and skins? Is that correct? If you expect something from local editors, yes. If the software adapts to what is there then maybe not. Federico Chris Koerner, 05/10/2017

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Print styles reminder

Chris Koerner, 05/10/2017 22:32: [1]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles#Desktop_Printing This and do not provide much clarity, at least to me. If there are some recommendations/requests for local CSS/HTML styles

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Hovercards update

«We would like to begin rolling out to Greek and Catalan Wikipedias, as those users represented highly favorable views of the feature. After this, we would like to continue rolling out in stages to other projects» But there are more wikis in phase 0. How was consensus on those wikis

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Improve selection of interwiki links in your country

You may have heard that "compact language links" are expanding across the wikis these days:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language_Links A crucial piece of this system is data on which languages are most spoken in each country:

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Language detection for Special:Search queries

Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[discovery] Better search results on wiki via TextCat Data: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:42:27 -0600 Mittente: Deborah Tankersley A: A public mailing list about Wikimedia Search and Discovery projects

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] AuthManager getting enabled in production

You should probably work a bit on translations (and on getting them backported to 1.27): for instance, there are currently only 17 translations for the/a message one receives after entering an incorrect password.

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Textbook-l] Generating ODF versions of Wikibooks for download?

Lars Noodén, 29/02/2016 13:09: Where can I find the option to download as OpenDocument Format or LaTeX? ODF/ODT was removed as part of the "OCG" project, see https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000955.html You can still export the wikitext of the page

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] announcing the WMF Community Tech team

Brian Wolff, 26/08/2015 08:45: Maybe this is a sign we need to re-evaluate how we do client-side deprecations. WMF will start considering such a thing only when their current habits start to cost them dollars, so we might be on the right track. Nemo

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Restoring anon editing on all mobile sites by March

See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93210 for details. Quoting from the discussion: «As of today, there is broad consensus in support of the proposal, as discussed by an ample spectrum of users active in multiple wikis. Several users stressed that: talk page access is crucial, to ensure

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Proposal: restore normal editing permissions on all mobile sites

Please participate in the global discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Proposal:_restore_normal_editing_permissions_on_all_mobile_sites [...] What few know is that the mobile sites don't follow the standard permission system: instead, they override permissions and

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Global user pages deployed to all wikis

Erik Moeller, 19/02/2015 03:53: Thanks for all _your_ work seeing this through the finish line as well, Kunal. This is a great first step towards better user profile support, and brings all Wikimedia wikis closer together. +1, best deployment news in months. :) Nemo

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Task recommendation popup suggestion: wrap-up timeline?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Task_recommendations#Results.3F In what time frame will there be results of Research:Task recommendations/Experiment one? --Atlasowa (talk) 13:49, 21 October 2014 (UTC) Same question here. We've been serving a big popup after every edit to

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: Wikimedia Phabricator is now open for everyone

Romaine Wiki, 15/10/2014 08:42: Also I think it would be good to send all users on Bugzilla an e-mail that they need to do this. I guess you're supposed to comment on this at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T618 Nemo ___ Wikitech-ambassadors

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC

, valhallasw`cloud. (And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.) Nemo Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33: We start in 30 min from now :) Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51: Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC

, valhallasw`cloud. (And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.) Nemo Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33: We start in 30 min from now :) Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51: Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Changes to PDF export; ZIM/EPUB will be disabled soon

The new PDF export is indeed ready for wide testing now, I'm working on it at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-mwlib Erik Moeller, 25/09/2014 04:01: As part of this change, we will disable ZIM and EPUB export for the time being. If you're interested in working on ZIM or EPUB support

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] wikis using badges

Xuacu, 25/07/2014 23:17: Perhaps it could be useful to send a notice to wikis using this in other places than common.js. Almost certainly it's a legacy import from other wiki, as it was in ours. Done for those 30 wikis:

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of July 21st

Minh Nguyen, 20/07/2014 01:11: Is it expected that the Topic: namespace will be localized into languages other than English? [1] As usual: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:MediaWiki#Translating_namespace_names Anyone can organise something like:

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Collection of issues after Toolserver shutdown

Birgit Müller, 30/06/2014 17:52: Do you miss any tools or have you observed any broken redirects? Would you like to maintain a orphaned tool? If so, please post them here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tool_Labs/Collection_of_issues_after_Toolserver_shutdown Can you please add a link to

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [WikimediaMobile] Deployment of tablet redirect to mobile interface (action needed)

Steven Walling, 18/06/2014 21:06: You were given an answer. To repeat... The mobile report card Thanks, I know about it. https://meta.wikimedia.org/?diff=5653002 [...] mobile editing activity. [...] Which I never asked about. Steven, you clearly don't know the answer to my question,

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of June 16th

Greg Grossmeier, 14/06/2014 00:30: Tablets will be sent to the mobile version of the project websites. Previously they were sent to the desktop version. There is a blog post and central notice drafted and ready to go out day of. Will someone be monitoring the effects [if any] on

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] A fresh look to old Collection bugs

Xuacu, 24/04/2014 17:24: I've been asked some time ago in Asturian (ast) Wikipedia about enabling Collection extension for us, and I assumed it could be enabled when it was fully translated. Since, I forgot about it... I didn't even remember there were still wikis with Collection disabled (I

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] CirrusSearch Updates

Luca Martinelli, 13/11/2013 21:30: Sorry Nik, where I could read more about Cirrus Search? + https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Lanciamoci_nel_futuro_motore_di_ricerca_interno of course. ;) Nemo ___ Wikitech-ambassadors

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Help appreciated with language link templates

Strainu, 08/11/2013 11:12: Actually I've seen some pretty negative feedback on ro.wp regarding this font (it bothers some contributors) and some fixes have already been created. Are we the only with such a problem? No (TL;DR: don't use Windows ;-) ).

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Would any other wikis like to try out a new search?

Nikolas Everett, 06/11/2013 15:13: Around that time I'm going to get hungry for more. I'll have new servers with tons of head room and WMF folks will start asking me, When can we turn off the old search? and I like to be able to answer that with When no one uses it. We're adding 6 wikis to

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Overloaded with CentralNotices

Dan Garry, 29/10/2013 17:26: How would you suggest we tackle this problem? Ahem, I see several specific suggestions in the original post; my personal suggestion is to listen to suggestions. :) In particular: On 29 October 2013 15:49, Romaine Wiki [...] As bonus I personally and other

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikidata-l] 404 links in notification email

Andy Mabbett, 23/10/2013 20:00: The links in the forwarded email are 404. The diff for the recent change is actually: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q594curid=873diff=81001648oldid=81001613 I've seen this in several such mails in the last few days. Works for me. There's

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Would any other wikis like to try out a new search?

Nikolas Everett, 22/10/2013 14:24: I'm requesting another deployment window to do se.wikimedia.org http://se.wikimedia.org and it.wikisource.org http://it.wikisource.org now. Any other wikis want in? I've proposed it.wiki to join too, I hope we're on time

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] New search backend live on mediawiki.org

Brian Wolff, 13/09/2013 13:52: Its not that that's new, its that it actually works. (We previously had category intersection of this form, it just didn't include categories from templates since template expansion wasn't done) I think the community members who want this really want it with a

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikitech-l] Deployment highlights - week of August 19th

Thank you both, concise and clear. :) Even though they are just quick ephemeral updates they are useful so I've copied them to * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/status#2013-08-20 and * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Site_performance_and_architecture/status#2013-08-20 which appear

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] VisualEditor weekly update - 2013-06-13 (MW 1.22wmf7)

James Forrester, 13/06/2013 19:58: HTML comments and elements that have no contents like some |span|s will now not be silently dropped when editing (bug 48605 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48605). Does this mean that span id=anchor/span will be removed from the

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikimedia-l] [X-POST] Universal Language Selector(ULS) Deployment - Phase 1

shi zhao, 05/06/2013 22:07: Why ULS deployment all wikis? Does https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design#Rationale answer your question? Nemo ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Translators-l] Please help translate and distribute: New tech newsletter (2013, week 21)

Guillaume Paumier, 23/05/2013 14:31: On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Vira Motorko vira.moto...@gmail.com wrote: Good idea to have such a newsletter. Bad idea to ask people to translate after EdwardsBot posted it in village pumps or so. This is true. I'll do my best to reach out to

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20: Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions, please do ask. Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that people can start planning? Nemo ___

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Easier patrolling, language fixes, sidebar change, more in new MediaWiki version

Sumana Harihareswara, 27/11/2012 02:50: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5 This week and next week we're deploying a new version of MediaWiki to your wiki, as usual. This upgrade includes one-click (AJAX) patrolling, for both new page and diff patrol (see bug 7851). [...]

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: [Mediawiki-i18n] account creation change, and changes

Messaggio originale Oggetto: [Mediawiki-i18n] account creation change, and changes Data: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:37:17 -0800 Mittente: S Page sp...@wikimedia.org Hi there. The Editor Engagement Experiments team wants to improve the account creation user experience[1]. One