Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Local discussions about how to improve communication between users and developers

Guillaume - how do we contribute to this consultation? Deryck On 8 December 2012 00:03, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Greetings, > > Summary: I'm trying to get comments and ideas on how to improve > communication between developers and Wikimedia editors, and I'd like > to ask the help of people on

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

I think by opt-in, James means that any user from any Wikipedia can opt themselves in from Thursday onwards. Is that correct? Deryck On 22 April 2013 07:14, Nasir Khan wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to > start the test earlier :) > > * > -- >

Re: [Wikitech-ambassadors] wikis using badges

zh-yue.wikipedia.org uses badges for featured stuff... if I understood "badges" correctly. See eg. http://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%82%A3%E5%A4%9C%E5%87%8C%E6%99%A8%EF%BC%8C%E6%88%91%E5%9D%90%E4%B8%8A%E4%BA%86%E6%97%BA%E8%A7%92%E9%96%8B%E5%BE%80%E5%A4%A7%E5%9F%94%E7%9A%84%E7%B4%85VAN_%28%E9%9B

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" wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> starting this Tuesday (on Commons) or Thursday (all other wi

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 mon

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

. Nemo: FYI the case in my mind is in the UK, not HK or Mainland China. On 25 June 2015 at 14:53, Federico Leva (Nemo) 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 ma

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

[Wikitech-ambassadors] Interwiki links disappeared from Special:RecentChanges

An editor on the Cantonese Wikipedia has noticed that Special:RecentChanges has stopped displaying interwiki links. Is that a permanent, deliberate change? And if so, is it possible for an individual editor to re-enable the display of interwikis on such special pages? On-wiki discussion here: http

[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 stopped

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

> Can you quantify lots? At least 5 templates (including the one discussed in this thread), approx 160 transclusions on yue.wp, mostly in article space. That means 0.25% of all articles. According to the discussion, zh.wp is affected by this bug too: at least 7 templates, according to my insource

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

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 > wrote: > > Thanks for following up, and sorry for the delay. > > > > > >> On Sep 7,

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 wrote: > > > On Sep 15, 2017, at 6:00 AM, Deryck Chan wrote: > > > > I have a feeling that we should extend Special:LintErrors to

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 l

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 wrote: > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Deryck Chan > wrote: > > https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A9 (Neither this page nor the > > I just null edited t

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

On Oct 2, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Deryck Chan 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 the template the caused the err

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

at 12:48, Deryck Chan wrote: > On Oct 2, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Deryck Chan 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

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

efrom Any advice? --Deryck On 2 November 2017 at 20:37, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > On 2017-11-02 20:27, Deryck Chan wrote: > >> I came across this template recently - https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/w >> iki/Template:%E8%BB%9F%E5%BD%88 >> >> Any suggestions on how to

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, wrote: > > > > On May 1, 2018, at 1:52 PM, Deryck Chan wrote:

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

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

[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 Wikipedia

[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 p

[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 er

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

I agree with what's been said in this thread so far. An admin of a large wiki shouldn't be allowed to unblock themselves, if another admin blocked them. However, on small wikis, this would lead to a first-mover advantage situation, so admins should be forbidden from unblocking themselves if there

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 >&

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 12:04,

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

to hear > what you think of it. > > 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 >> th

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

hanged in the meantime and > 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 U

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 > UTC**

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 communi

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, 2

[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] Searching deleted page content

o > searching deleted page titles, with some fuzzy-matching now available) > > HTH, > 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

[Wikitech-ambassadors] New Wikitext editor has problems with IMEs?

Has there been a change to the 2017 Wikitext editor recently? User:恐狼博士 from the Cantonese Wikipedia reported that Chinese IMEs (Cangjie in his case) has been malfunctioning when used inside Wikitext mode. Predictive text no longer works. This malfunction started two weeks ago. He's unsure whethe

[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)? Does

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

x27;t really made with the usecase of huge data > tables in mind, so there might be limits you run into if your data is > really big. > > -- > Bawolff > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:13 PM Deryck Chan wrote: > >> Hello Ambassadors - This technical question may be releva

[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 mailing

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 sit

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 proje

[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 -- wikitech-ambassado