Think's, Best Regards Youssef Massour Elaoud 2017-01-16 23:32 GMT+00:00 Johan Jönsson <[email protected]>:
> Hi, > > The latest technical newsletter is now available at < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/03>. > 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>. 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Please tell other users about these changes. > Not all changes will affect you. Translations > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/03> are > available. > > *Recent changes* > > - You can now upload WebP files <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:WebP> to > Commons. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27397> > > *Problems* > > - video2commons <https://tools.wmflabs.org/video2commons/> was down > for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video > transcoders. It is now back up. [2] > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153488> > > *Changes this week* > > - There is a new magic word > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words> > called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are > at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier > for translators. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59603> > - When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give > a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions > will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [4] > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T34950> > - You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before > you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [5] > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153606> > - You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown > on Special:UncategorizedCategories > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UncategorizedCategories>. The > list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist&action=edit&redlink=1> > . [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126117> > - The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing > tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can > add this code to your personal CSS > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css>: #wpTextbox1 > { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like > you want to. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T26430> > - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake > are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:localhost>. Edits and other > contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the > reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason&action=edit&redlink=1>. > This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on > Wikimedia > Labs <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Labs>, > including Tool Labs > <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Tool_Labs> will receive a > "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [8] > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154698> > - When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top > of the page options menu. [9] > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74399> > - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.8> of MediaWiki > will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on > non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all > wikis from 19 January (calendar > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>). > > *Meetings* > > - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the > VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs > you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at > 20:00 (UTC) > > <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=17&month=01&year=2017>. > See how to join > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>. > > *Tech news > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared > by Tech News writers > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and > posted by bot > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> > • Contribute > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • > Translate > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/03> • 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_ambassadors>.* > > > //Johan Jönsson > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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