Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Tracking categories for images with attribution problems

Different wikis often have different metadata formatting conventions because it's just wikitext. How do the tracking categories know where to find the information? Deryck On 7 Oct 2014 00:03, Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, starting this Tuesday (on Commons) or Thursday (all

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] https-only is reducing accessibility

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

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] https-only is reducing accessibility

in my mind is in the UK, not HK or Mainland China. On 25 June 2015 at 14:53, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Deryck Chan, 25/06/2015 12:38: Is there a compromise that can be sought? First comes understanding. It would be very nice to have a map of such issues; then WMHK could

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Technical newsletter (2015, week 27)

I raise you correct horse battery staple and all his friends. https://xkcd.com/936/ Quote: Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess. I'm afraid all the proposed rules on T94774 fall

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

stematic way to discover affected templates? > [[:ja:Template:See/core]] seems to be one, but I encountered it just > by chance. > > -Yusuke > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Arlo Breault <abrea...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > Thanks for following up, and sorry for the de

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

Thanks Arlo. Please let us know when this patch goes live so we can start linting this problem. On 18 September 2017 at 19:18, Arlo Breault <abrea...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > On Sep 15, 2017, at 6:00 AM, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I hav

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

On Oct 2, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@wikimedia.hk> wrote: > > I see that the linter has been deployed, but it doesn't seem to be picking up errors that result from template transcriptions, e.g. https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A9 (Neither this page nor

[Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

A recent change to MediaWiki software seems to have broken templates everywhere. The syntax [[:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] used to work on a template to generate a link to a page in the same namespace, typically used on templates related to move (rename) discussions. However this has

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

Because if you prefix a wikilink link with a single colon it always works as a link regardless of namespace. And until the recent MediaWiki change two colons worked too, so if a template wants to accept both prefixed and unprefixed links, it can append a single colon to the front. I see that the

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

:%E9%82%8A%E5%BA%A6%E9%8F%88%E5%8E%BB%E5%91%A2%E7%89%88/Template:Mergefrom On 2 October 2017 at 14:59, Jeremy Baron <jer...@tuxmachine.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@wikimedia.hk> > wrote: > > https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

at 12:48, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@wikimedia.hk> wrote: > On Oct 2, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@wikimedia.hk> wrote: > > > > I see that the linter has been deployed, but it doesn't seem to be > picking up errors that result from template tra

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

That seems to have worked. Thank you Arlo. https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AMergefrom=revision=1192787=1142219 --Deryck On 4 May 2018 at 16:12, Arlo Breault <abrea...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > On May 3, 2018, at 6:05 PM, Deryck Chan <deryck

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [[::Title|Title]]

Is there a known method to get around this? The aim is to create a link with the given argument as page name and the namespace of the transcluding page as namespace. Deryck On Thu, 3 May 2018, 21:16 Arlo Breault, <abrea...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > > On May 1, 2018, at 1:

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Mass message delivery error code: readonly

Hello ambassadors, Can someone explain this error message to me? 2018年10月4號 (四) 12:03 Delivery of "Reminder: No editing for up to an hour on 10 October" to Wikipedia:城市論壇 (技術) failed with an

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Map overlay on wmflabs

Hello everyone, This tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/googlmaps-proxy.php?page=https:%2F%2Ftools.wmflabs.org%2Fpara%2Fgeo%2Fgeonotices seems to have been down for a few weeks. It appears that the KML file at https://tools.wmflabs.org/para/geo/geonotices still works, but the map overlay

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Interface Administrator rollout

Well, the Interface Administrator right got rolled out and thousands of admins lost their rights to edit the MediaWiki namespace overnight, without any prior notice on their user talk page nor any known process on how to regain that right. This has completely wreaked havoc on the English

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

> Best, > Johanna > > > Am Mi., 16. Jan. 2019 um 15:10 Uhr schrieb Deryck Chan < > deryckc...@gmail.com>: > >> Hello Johanna, >> >> This is great timing. The Cantonese Wikipedia has recently been going >> through a drive to clean up old files, som

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

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

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

> you want to preserve both version histories, you can try to undelete the > version on Wikimedia Commons after moving the file to merge the version > histories – but that might be a bit tricky. > > Cheers, > M > > Am Mi., 16. Jan. 2019 um 15:43 Uhr schrieb Deryck Chan < &g

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

true international involvement. On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 10:30, geraki wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 8:20 PM Deryck Chan wrote: > > Just to keep everyone aware of what's been happening in >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150826 – to avoid the "shoot first to >&g

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] URL shortener for the Wikimedia projects will be available on April 11th

This will be nice. query.wikidata.org needs this in-house URL shortener the most, so we can paste URL short links rather than super long links to Sparql results! On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, 13:14 Léa Lacroix, wrote: > *(apologies for crost-posting - feel free to share this announcement in > your

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting

I love how the list of available languages is different each week (and hints at which WMF devs will be on the line). --Deryck On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 15:34, Michael Schönitzer < michael.schoenit...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **(Wednesday) 4-5 pm >

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Searching deleted page content

Hello ambassadors. 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? I've got this situation where a few pages were deleted by mistake, and redirects to those pages were speedily deleted by other admins. Now

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikidata] URL shortener for the Wikimedia projects will be available on April 11th

Lovely jubbly. Thanks! Will buttons to the shortener be deployed to each WMF wiki and query.wikidata.org ? Deryck On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, 15:18 Amir Sarabadani, wrote: > Hey, > This is live now, you can use it in > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener > > Best > > On Wed, Apr 3,

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Searching deleted page content

> Quiddity > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:16 AM Vi to wrote: > >> AFAIK nope, you can just search for title prefixes. >> >> Vito >> >> Il giorno gio 18 apr 2019 alle ore 16:23 Deryck Chan < >> deryckc...@gmail.com> ha scritto: >>

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Lua script that needs to look up a big table (phonetic guide automation)

Hello Ambassadors - This technical question may be relevant to multiple (particularly CJK) language communities so I'm asking it here. What is the advice for writing a Lua script that needs to look up data from a big table (~10k rows at first deployment, potentially increasing in the future)?

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Breaking change on Wikidata?

Hello ambassadors, I got a report on Cantonese Wikipedia saying the "add sitelink" button on the language bar has disappeared (for articles that aren't already linked to Wikidata). Does anyone know what happened? Deryck ___ Wikitech-ambassadors

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

Thanks everyone. I'll point people to T252800. On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 23:40, youssef wrote: > thinks > > Le mer. 27 mai 2020 à 16:05, Deryck Chan a écrit : > >> Hello ambassadors, >> >> I got a report on Cantonese Wikipedia saying the "add sitelink

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Can you translate this sentence please?

zh (hant): 維基媒體各計劃（包括維基百科）將會進行安全性更新。您現在使用的瀏覽器是舊版本，未來將無法連接維基媒體各計劃。請更新您的設備，或聯絡您的系統管理員。 On Tue, 3 Nov 2020, 20:30 Amir Sarabadani, wrote: > Hello, > I'm rewording the browser security message a bit and I need translation of > this sentence to these languages: zh, es, ja, sv, hi > > "Wikimedia

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Magic word to hide mainspace soft redirects from article count?

Hello Ambassadors, Is there a magic word that one can use on soft redirect templates (e.g. interwiki to Wiktionary) such that they do not appear in article counts? --Deryck [[User:Deryck Chan]] ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list --