Wikisource:De kroeg

Welkom in de kroeg van Wikisource

Welkom in de kroeg van de Nederlandstalige Wikisource. Neem plaats, neem wat te drinken, ga goed zitten en praat mee over het project! Bezoek ook eens het Wikisource-kanaal op IRC of het archief.

Deze Nederlandstalige Wikisource heeft nu 6.596 bronnen.

Wikisource Status
Oranje
Activiteit:	weinig tot redelijk
Actieve gebruikers:	4-8

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Peilers klaar, peilen maar!

Zoals eerder aangekondigd, ben ik hier een peiling gestart om te kijken in hoeverre men vanuit Wikipedia wil linken naar zusterprojecten zoals dit. Input wordt zeer op prijs gesteld! Vinvlugt (overleg) 6 dec 2017 23:37 (CET)

n:Toespraak ter gelegenheid van de 15 augustus herdenking bij het Indië-monument

Is dit misschien interessant om te verplaatsen naar hier? Op Wikinieuws kan het namelijk niet blijven staan. Ik heb even snel opgezocht en vind de tekst wel terug, maar ben nog niet tot bij het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken geraakt (aangevoerde bronverwijzing in het artikel, het ministerie geeft zijn werk doorgaans vrij in het publieke domein). --Livenws (overleg) 6 dec 2017 23:39 (CET)

Mooi! Check wel svp even de auteursrechten voor 100%. En het is erg belangrijk dat één op één verwezen wordt naar een bron. Als dat nog zou kunnen..... Groet, --Dick Bos (overleg) 7 dec 2017 10:08 (CET)

Zonet de link van de overheid kunnen achterhalen, via bevrijdingintercultureel ben ik erop gekomen, maar in het Webarchive vind ik de tekst niet terug, het is blijkbaar niet opgeslagen. Enkel een verwijzing op de hoofdpagina (versie 18 augustus 2005). Ik denk dat het dus niet gaat lukken. --Livenws (overleg) 8 dec 2017 13:15 (CET)

Invitation to Blocking tools consultation

Hello all,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team invites all Wikimedians to discuss new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools in December 2017 for development work in early 2018.

How can you help?

1. Share your ideas on the discussion page or send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team.
2. Spread the word that the consultation is happening; this is an important discussion for making decisions about improving the blocking tools.
3. Help with translation.
4. If you know of previous discussions about blocking tools that happened on your wiki, share the links.

We are looking forward to learning your ideas.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 8 dec 2017 00:23 (CET)

Tech News: 2017-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• URLs that link to sections on Wikimedia wikis with non-Latin scripts have looked like this: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#.D0.98.D1.81.D1.82.D0.BE.D1.80.D0.B8.D1.8F instead of https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедия#История. This has now been fixed on all wikis. Old links will still work. [1]
• A new tag marks edits where a redirect was created or removed. This still works when the editor writes something else in the edit summary. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. [2]
• If you use Chrome on Android, you can now use the print to PDF button to create a PDF of an article. [3]
• Filter by number of edits or filter by time range have been grouped on a same menu on the recent changes page if you use the new filters. The "Toon nieuwste wijzigingen" link is now more prominent. [4]
• Some of the web fonts that were provided by the Universal Language Selector extension are being removed. This is to reduce the load time on pages. The web fonts were added many years ago to help users read text in scripts which did not have fonts or had broken fonts. This is not the case any more. You can check the status page for a list of all web fonts and whether they are currently being used and especially for special requirements. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can discuss new or improved blocking tools with the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team. They will work on building better blocking tools. Leave comments on the talk page.

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11 dec 2017 18:58 (CET)

Winkler Prins

Beste Wikisourcers, ik vond hier een downloadbare PDF/EPUB van een Winkler Prins uit 1870. Lijkt mij inmiddels PD. Hoe zou dit boek, 504 pagina's, op Wikisource terecht kunnen komen? Het lijkt mij een project op zich. Zou het de moeite waard zijn? Past het in dit project? Met vriendelijke groet, Ellywa (overleg) 14 dec 2017 11:54 (CET)

Beste Ellywa, Ik heb zelf eens overwogen om deze op wikisource te zetten. Maar dat is inderdaad een hele klus. Er bestaat een djvu van. Daarmee kun je het boek in zijn geheel hier publiceren. Een voorbeeld hiervan is Frederik van Eeden-Johannes Viator(1895). Maar je zou er ook voor kunnen kiezen de inhoud per artikel weer te geven. Of dit laatste ook mogelijk is in djvu weet ik niet. Misschien weet Dick Bos hoe dat zit? Het gaat hier trouwens wel enkel om het eerste deel van een 16-delige reeks. Mvg, Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 15 dec 2017 01:18 (CET)

Dank je, wat jammer dat alles zoveel werk is. Wat bedoel je overigens met djvu ? Ellywa (overleg) 17 dec 2017 12:07 (CET)

djvu is software waarmee je teksten eenvoudig kunt importeren en corrigeren. Je upload eerst het djvu bestand naar commons, waarna je het hier op wikisource kunt corrigeren en publiceren. Zie bijvoorbeeld Pagina:Frederik van Eeden-Johannes Viator(1895).djvu/200. Maar hoe dat precies in zijn werk gaat zou ik even aan Dick Bos vragen. Ik heb niet eerder een bron op die manier geïmporteerd. Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 17 dec 2017 15:17 (CET)

Trouwens ik zie net dat men op en.wikisource bezig is ook een Encyclopedie te publiceren. Misschien kunnen we die als voorbeeld gebruiken. Zie s:en:Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Volume II. Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 17 dec 2017 15:17 (CET)

Tja. Het zou natuurlijk geweldig zijn als we op de (Nederlandstalige) Wikisource een gemeenschap hadden die dit soort dingen kon aanpakken. Maar blijkbaar is het zelfs op de Engelstalige al een klus, die niet veel handen op elkaar krijgt. Aan die 9e editie is voor het laatst in 2015 gewerkt, geloof ik. Terwijl de scan (de ocr moet ik eigenlijk zeggen) van die editie heel aardig is. Die van de WP, waarnaar Gebruiker:Ellywa verwijst, is niet zo mooi (kijk maar eens onder Full text op de betreffende pagina). In het algemeen selecteren we van IA teksten die een mooie tekstlaag hebben. Een al zeer ambitieus voorbeeld waar Wilma en ik momenteel mee bezig zijn: De twee eerste jaargangen van Album der Natuur (in dit stadium alleen nog maar in de Index- en Pagina-naamruimte; maar de bedoeling is natuurlijk dat dat ook beschikbaar komt in de hoofdnaamruimte). Een mooi voorbeeld van wat we hier gedaan hebben vind ik persoonlijk de drie delen van Keulemans (1869) - Onze Vogels. Daarvan zijn natuurlijk de platen ook heel waardevol. Ook bijv. Plantenschat is heel schattig. En zo zijn er nog wel meer voorbeelden. Zie Wikisource:ProofreadProjecten. Als je serieus van plan bent om iets aan te pakken in deze sfeer, laat maar weten. We kunnen je natuurlijk ondersteunen. --Dick Bos (overleg) 17 dec 2017 16:48 (CET)

Tech News: 2017-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

• When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [6]
• Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 december at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Files on Commons will have structured metadata in the future. The developers are now looking for examples of different kinds of metadata to make sure they are aware of them when they build prototypes for structured data on Commons. You can read more and help by giving examples of interesting media files.
• The Structured Commons team are making sure Commons work with structured data. If you regularly contribute to Commons and Wikidata you can answer a survey that helps the team prioritise the tools that are important for the Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey ends on 22 December. You can read more on Commons. You can also help the team decide on better names for "captions" and "descriptions". This ends on 3 January 2018.
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now ended. You can see the results. They decide what the Community Tech team will work on next year.

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18 dec 2017 16:26 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• On Wikidata, the "opslaan" button when you edit is now called "publiceren". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Pagina opslaan" to "Wijzigingen publiceren". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [7][8]
• Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [9]
• Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [10]
• Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [11][12]

Problems

• Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [13]
• With the new filters in the recent changes, "Geselecteerde uitsluiten" in "Naamruimten" did not work for "Opgeslagen filters" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [14]
• The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [15]
• Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [16]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [17]
• The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [18][19]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
• WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [20]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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8 jan 2018 17:19 (CET)

(Technische) hulp gevraagd: "purge"-klokje

Als een vriendelijke techneut dit leest, kan hij/zij misschien even helpen. Het zou erg handig zijn als we op de Nederlandstalige Wikisource ook een klokje hadden (bij mij helemaal rechtsboven in de hoek) waar we op kunnen klikken om een pagina te "purgen", zoals dat ook op de Engelstalige Wikisource beschikbaar is, en ook op de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia, etc. Kan iemand dat eenvoudig "maken"? (Het is een knopje onder "Preferences"->"Gadgets" (op en-ws); hoe het op nl-wiki aangezet moet worden weet ik niet meer.) --Dick Bos (overleg) 15 jan 2018 12:55 (CET)

Gadget is toegevoegd onder Voorkeruen -> Uitbreidingen. Er zijn twee gadgets. Een geeft de lokale tijd aan van je computer, de andere de tijd in UTC. WillemBK (overleg) 19 feb 2018 16:31 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-3

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [21]
• There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [22]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [23][24]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [25][26]

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15 jan 2018 19:45 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Filters on Special:RecentChangesLinked will get the new look similar to on the recent changes page. Special:RecentChangesLinked will also get some new features. [27][28]

Problems

• With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [29]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [30]

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23 jan 2018 00:55 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on how to get less unmaintained code on Wikimedia wikis. This could be by finding maintainers or removing unmaintained features. They are now looking for feedback on what do do with AbuseFilter, the IRC RecentChanges feed, the RelatedSites extension and TimedMediaHandler. You can leave feedback on the linked talk pages. [31]

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29 jan 2018 18:06 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [32]
• The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [33]
• Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [34]

Problems

• Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [35]

Changes later this week

• When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [36]
• When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [37]
• The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Ja or Nee it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [38]
• Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [39]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Education Program extension will be removed on 30 June. It is replaced by the Programs and Events Dashboard. [40][41]

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5 feb 2018 21:51 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [42][43][44]
• Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

• You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [45]
• The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [46]
• The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [47]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The settings page and beta options for the mobile website are being improved. [48]

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12 feb 2018 22:59 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [49][50]
• You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [51]

Problems

• Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [52]
• Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [53][54]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The way edit summaries and log comments are stored in the database is being changed. In the future this will make longer comments possible. [55]
• Edit conflicts could be solved in a different way in the future. You can test a new prototype.

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19 feb 2018 23:54 (CET)

Project Archief van Ki Hadjar Dewantara

Beste allen,

Eind 2017 is Wikimedia Nederland gestart met het project om voor de documenten uit de Commons-categorie: Letters from Tamansiswa Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum library een Nederlandse transcriptie te maken. Met als doel om hierna een een vertaling te maken naar het Bahasa Indonesia. Niet verwonderlijk is dit project een samenwerkingsverband met Wikimedia Indonesia. Meer informatie kan je hier vinden

Uiteindelijk is het plan om ook mensen te benaderen die goed handschriften kunnen lezen. Hierbij is het de bedoeling om ze of een training in Wikisource of een nog te ontwikkelen alternatieve methode aan te bieden met als uiteindelijk doel de transcripties op Wikisource te zetten.

Momenteel zijn we op zoek naar Wikisourcers die mee willen helpen met transcripten, het begeleiden van nieuwe bewerkers en/of het helpen bij het ontwikkelen van de alternatieve methode.

Op maandag 23 april van 18.00 tot 21.00 is er een bijeenkomst voor dit project op kantoor van Wikimedia Nederland in Utrecht. Tijdens deze bijeenkomst krijg je uitleg over het transcriptie-project en uitleg over Wikisource. Inschrijven voor deze bijeenkomst is verplicht en deelname is gratis.

Inschrijven kan hier

Mocht je vragen en/of interesse hebben dan kan je me mailen op boonwikimedia.nl

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Michelle Boon (overleg) 22 feb 2018 11:22 (CET) Event Organiser & Community Support Wikimedia Nederland

Voor alle duidelijkheid: het project loopt al enige tijd op nl-wikisource. Zie bijv. deze pagina en dit overzicht van documenten die al in bewerking zijn. Wie mee wil werken kan meteen beginnen...... --Dick Bos (overleg) 22 feb 2018 19:27 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [56]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [57][58]
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [59]
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [60][61][62]

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [63]
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [64][65]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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26 feb 2018 20:52 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now make longer edit summaries. [66]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [67]
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [68][69]
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [70]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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5 mrt 2018 18:12 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [71]
• Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [72]
• Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [73]
• Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [74]

Problems

• The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [75]

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [76]
• It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [77][78]
• A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [79][80][81]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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12 mrt 2018 20:44 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [82]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 maart. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 maart. It will be on all wikis from 22 maart (calendar).

Meetings

• There is no Editing team meeting this week.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 maart at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [83][84]
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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19 mrt 2018 16:03 (CET)

Tech News: 2018-13

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [85] [86]
• The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [87]
• TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [88]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [89]
• Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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26 mrt 2018 22:03 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [90][91][92]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [93]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [94]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [95][96][97]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [98] [99]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "De volglijst automatisch herladen wanneer er een filter wordt veranderd (JavaScript vereist)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [100]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [101]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [102]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [103][104]

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2 apr 2018 21:28 (CEST)

Pagina samenvoegen?

Beste,

Weet er iemand of het mogelijk is om een pagina door te laten lope in een ander? (tekst wordt afgebroken op de scans) Hier is het bestand in casu: https://nl.wikisource.org/wiki/Pieter_Breughel_zoo_heb_ik_u_uit_uwe_werken_geroken/1

Vriendelijke groeten, Olivier

Hoi,

Sorry voor de late reactie. Sjabloon {{nop}} onderaan de pagina verwijderen en niet afbreken. Dus op pagina Pagina:Print Pieter Breughel, zoo heb ik u uit uwe werken geroken.pdf/10 "Brabant" voluit schrijven en op pagina Pagina:Print Pieter Breughel, zoo heb ik u uit uwe werken geroken.pdf/11 het woorddeel "bant" verwijderen. Mvg, Vincent Steenberg (overleg) 6 apr 2018 18:30 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [105]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [106]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [107]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [108]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [109]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [110]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [111]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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9 apr 2018 20:08 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [112]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [113][114]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [115]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [116]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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16 apr 2018 17:20 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
• The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
• The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [117]
• The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [118]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [119]
• The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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23 apr 2018 20:16 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [120]

Problems

• We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [121]

Changes later this week

• You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [122]
• When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [123]
• You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Bewerken section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [124]
• There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [125][126][127]

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30 apr 2018 18:18 (CEST)

AdvancedSearch

From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 7 mei 2018 16:53 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [128]

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [129]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [130]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [131][132]

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7 mei 2018 18:27 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
• The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [133]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
• The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [134]

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15 mei 2018 00:22 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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21 mei 2018 19:33 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [135][136]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [137]
• Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [138]
• Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [139]
• There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [140]

Problems

• Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [141]

Changes later this week

• There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [142]
• A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [143]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [144]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [145]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [146]
• Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [147][148]

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29 mei 2018 14:40 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [149]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [150][151]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [152]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [153]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [154][155]

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4 jun 2018 23:54 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [156]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [157]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [158]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [159][160]

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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11 jun 2018 23:55 (CEST)

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Help met het vertalen naar uw taal Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

• The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
• Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
• Readers care about page issues and consider them important
• Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 12 jun 2018 22:58 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [161]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [162][163]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [164][165]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [166]

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18 jun 2018 23:47 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [167][168]

Changes later this week

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [169]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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26 jun 2018 01:10 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [170]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [171]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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3 jul 2018 02:46 (CEST)

Bot rights for User:Wikisource-bot

Hi. With the requirement to fix the page categorisation as notified at phab:T198470, I would like to propose to the community to have our bot run through and address the problem with the solution identified. The bot has been used to resolve issue previously on the Wikisources.

• special:centralauth/Wikisource-bot

Thanks. Billinghurst (overleg) 7 jul 2018 12:33 (CEST)

@Asacha, Romaine your decision? Ankry (overleg) 8 aug 2018 09:23 (CEST)

@Billinghurst & Ankry: Done - Romaine (overleg) 8 aug 2018 09:26 (CEST)

Addition of nlWS to global bots

Above I have added a bot request, as this wiki is not within the global bot project, per list m:Special:WikiSets/2. Would the community consider opting in to the global bots, so that when we have Wikisource-wide fixes for mw:Extension:ProofreadPage that is possible to organise the bots to do the jobs within Phabricator, and simply get the fix in place. Billinghurst (overleg) 7 jul 2018 12:34 (CEST)

@BillinghurstThis looks like a splendid idea to me. What do we have to do to opt in? --Dick Bos (overleg) 10 jul 2018 09:24 (CEST)

@Dick Bos A community decission, and to a steward request on m:SN with a link to it. Ankry (overleg) 15 aug 2018 11:57 (CEST)

Seems fine to me too. Romaine (overleg) 15 aug 2018 12:44 (CEST)

Looks like a good idea to me. Is there anyone who has objections? WeeJeeVee (overleg) 15 aug 2018 20:23 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [172]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [173]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [174]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [175]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [176]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [177][178]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [179]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [180]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [181]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [182]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [183]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [184]

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10 jul 2018 01:10 (CEST)

Global preferences are available

Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

10 jul 2018 21:19 (CEST)

Bewerkingsgeschiedenis

Kan een moderator de geschiedenis overhevelen naar Oud en trouw Roermond van de internationale Wikisource? Alvast bedankt,  Klaas `Z4␟` V:  16 jul 2018 08:22 (CEST)

Auteur wel op Wikidata, niet op Wikipedia

Voorbeeld: Alexander Franciscus van Beurden. Kan dat in het sjabloon opgelost worden? Klaas `Z4␟` V:  16 jul 2018 09:13 (CEST)

@User:KlaasZ4usV - Ik snap niet precies wat je bedoelt. Wat moet er in het sjabloon opgelost worden?
Zoals je overigens wellicht gezien hebt, heeft @User:Vincent Steenberg het lemma inmiddels op nl-wikipedia aangemaakt. Groet, --Dick Bos (overleg) 15 aug 2018 18:49 (CEST)

Klopt. Is daarmee inderdaad inmiddels Uitgevoerd Ik was vergeten er hier nog eens naar te kijken, waarvoor mijn verontschuldigingen. Voor een volgende keer zou het handig zijn bij afwezigheid van een artikel in de database nlwiki (= Nederlandstalige Wikipedia) het sjabloon naar wikidata te laten verwijzen, omdat je dan meer kans hebt dat er over een auteur iets is geschreven. Mogelijk dat in alle gevallen te doen… Heel alert, beste collega Dick Bos! Klaas `Z4␟` V:  15 aug 2018 21:50 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [185]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [186]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [187]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [188]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16 jul 2018 18:01 (CEST)

Toevoegen van annotatie templates

Beste Wikisource community,

Bestaat er een mogelijkheid dat templates die het linken tussen verschillende wikimedia projecten aan de hand van annotaties ook wordt toegevoegd aan nl.wikisource? Het gaat dan vooral om templates die het annoteren van plaatsen en tijd mogelijk maken maar ook van species ed. zie: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/2909/element/4/416/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Annotation_templates

Mvg, O.

Tech News: 2018-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [189]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [190]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [191]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 juli. It will be on all wikis from 26 juli (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 juli at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 jul 2018 11:44 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [192]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [193][194]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [195][196]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 juli. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 augustus. It will be on all wikis from 2 augustus (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 juli at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 augustus at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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30 jul 2018 16:05 (CEST)

New user group for editing sitewide CSS / JS

(Help met het vertalen naar uw taal)

Beste allen,

Om de veiligheid van al onze lezers en bewerkers te verbeteren, zijn de bevoegdheden voor het bewerken van sitebrede CSS en JS veranderd (hieronder vallen pagina's als MediaWiki:Common.css en MediaWiki:Vector.js, die code bevatten die in de browsers van gebruikers wordt uitgevoerd). Er is een nieuwe gebruikersgroep, interface-admin, aangemaakt. Over vier weken, zullen enkel gebruikers met dit gebruikersrecht CSS en JS pagina's buiten hun eigen gebruikersruimte kunnen aanpassen (dit zijn alle pagina's die eindigen met .css of .js binnen de MediaWiki:-naamruimte of van subpagina's van een andere gebruiker).

Meer informatie en achtergrond over deze verandering is hier te vinden.

Voeg alstublieft gebruikers die CSS en JS-pagina's moeten bewerken toe aan deze gebruikersgroep (dit kan door bureaucraten of stewards worden gedaan, op dezelfde manier als het toevoegen van nieuwe moderatoren). Dit is een gevaarlijk gebruikersrecht. Een kwaadwillende gebruiker of een hacker die toegang heeft tot interfacemoderatorrechten kan dit veel erger misbruiken dan bijvoorbeeld moderatorrechten. Geef deze rechten enkel aan gebruikers die het nodig hebben, die vertrouwd zijn binnen de gemeenschap en die correcte wachtwoord- en computerveiligheidsvoorschriften volgen (het gebruik maken van sterke wachtwoorden en twee-factor-authenticatie waar mogelijk, het niet hergebruiken van wachtwoorden, het niet installeren van dubieuze software, enzovoorts).

Hartelijk dank,
Tgr (talk) 30 jul 2018 19:45 (CEST) (via MassMessage)

Tech News: 2018-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [197]

Problems

• The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [198][199]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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6 aug 2018 21:39 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [200]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [201]

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13 aug 2018 19:53 (CEST)

Af en toe archiveren

Zou een technisch handige collega af en toe deze kroeg willen archiveren, zoals dat bijv. ook op de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia gebeurt? --Dick Bos (overleg) 18 aug 2018 19:38 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
• Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [202]

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20 aug 2018 18:46 (CEST)

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

(Help met het vertalen naar uw taal)

Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (interfacemoderatoren) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 27 aug 2018 14:40 (CEST) (via global message delivery)

Tech News: 2018-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [203]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [204]

Problems

• Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [205]

Changes later this week

• The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [206]
• AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [207]
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [208]
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [209]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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27 aug 2018 18:16 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [210][211]
• There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [212][213]
• You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [214]
• wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [215]
• When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [216]

Problems

• UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [217]
• You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [218]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department will work on advanced mobile editing. You can read more about this and other things they plan to work on over the next year. You can also see the presentation.
• The RelatedSites extension will be removed from Wikivoyage.
• Unused projects on the Wikimedia Cloud virtual private server will be removed. This will happen in October. Projects can be marked if they are being used. [219]

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3 sep 2018 18:48 (CEST)

Read-only mode for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October

Dit bericht in een ander taal lezen • Help met het vertalen naar uw taal

De Wikimedia Foundation gaat haar tweede datacenter testen. Dit datacenter moet ervoor zorgen dat Wikipedia en andere Wikimediaprojecten beschikbaar blijven, ook als er een ramp heeft plaatsgevonden. Om er zeker van te zijn dat alles goed werkt, zal de Wikimedia afdeling Technology een experiment uitvoeren. Dit experiment zal aantonen of er betrouwbaar tussen de datacenters gewisseld kan worden. Het vereist dat veel teams op het expiriment voorbereid zijn en beschikbaar zijn om enige onverwachte problemen op te lossen.

Zij zullen al het internetverkeer naar het tweede datacenter sturen op woensdag, 12 september 2018. Op woensdag, 10 oktober 2018 er teruggeschakeld naar het primaire datacenter.

Vanwege beperkingen in MediaWiki is het echter wel noodzakelijk om de wiki's op alleen-lezen te zetten. Het spijt ons voor deze maatregel, en wij zullen trachten om de impact te verminderen in de toekomst.

U zult in staat zijn om artikelen te lezen, maar niet te bewerken voor een korte periode.

• U zult een uur lang niet in staat zijn om bewerkingen te maken op woensdag 12 september en woensdag 10 oktober. De test zal starten om 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, en in Nieuw Zeeland om 02:00 NZST op donderdag 13 september en donderdag 11 oktober)
• U zult een foutmelding zien als u probeert te bewerken. Wij hopen dat er geen bewerkingen verloren gaan, maar dit kunnen wij niet garanderen. Als u deze foutmelding krijgt, raden we u aan om te wachten totdat alles weer terug naar normaal is. Dan kunt u uw bewerking opslaan. Toch raden we het ten zeerste aan dat u een kopie van uw bewerkingen maakt.

Extra impact:

• Het uitvoeren van achtergrondtaken zal langzamer gaan, en sommige taken kunnen ook worden geannuleerd. Roodgekleurde links zullen niet zo snel bijgewerkt worden als gebruikelijk. Als u een artikel aanmaakt waar ergens anders al naar verwezen wordt, zal de link langer roodgekleurd blijven dan gebruikelijk. Sommige scripts die lang uitgevoerd worden, zullen worden gestopt.
• There will be code freezes for the weeks of 10 September 2018 and 8 October 2018. Alleen urgente code deployments zullen plaatsvinden.

Dit project kan uitgesteld worden indien nodig. U kunt de planning lezen op wikitech.wikimedia.org. Wijzigingen worden in de planning aangekondigd. Er zullen hierover nog meer notificaties worden verstuurd. Deel deze informatie alstublieft met de gebruikersgemeenschap van uw (thuis)wiki's. /User:Johan(WMF) (talk)

6 sep 2018 15:33 (CEST)

Technische hulp gevraagd: webpagina openen in een nieuw venster

Als je in WordPress een link legt naar een ander bestand dan kun je, zeker als je dat in de tekst-modus doet, forceren dat de webpagina waarnaar die link voert, in een nieuwe (andere) pagina geopend wordt, en dat de huidige pagina dus niet overschreven wordt. Lijkt eruit te zien als: target="_blank" rel="noopener" Wie kan mij vertellen welke code je in Wikisource aan een link moet meegeven om dit zelfde resultaat te bereiken.

Met bij voorbaat dankbare en zeer benieuwde groet, Willem Kuiper (overleg) 8 sep 2018 00:33 (CEST)

Excuses voor de late reactie. Voorzover ik weet (en ik baseer me vooral op ervaringen op andere projecten (Wikipedia, Wikisource-engels) wordt er in Wikisource altijd, zowel voor interne als externe links, dezelfde procedure gehanteerd. Dus: openen van een link in hetzelfde venster. Het lijkt me - in verband met de eenheid van werking binnen de Wikimedia-projecten - ongewenst om daar uitzonderingen voor te maken. Het is een keuze die indertijd (ongetwijfeld) welbewust is gemaakt, en die we als "gebruikers" hebben te respecteren. Wikipedia en de zusterprojecten zoals Wikisource zijn geen (persoonlijke) blogs. Ze zijn onderdeel van een wereldwijd systeem om op uniforme wijze kennis te ontsluiten.

Overigens: welke zwaarwegende reden zou je waar hebben om dat anders te doen? Voorzover ik kan overzien draag je alleen bij aan de lijst van gedigitaliseerde ME handschriften, waarvan m.i. nog lang niet duidelijk is of deze in deze vorm wel op nl-Wikisource thuishoort.

Hartelijke groet, --Dick Bos (overleg) 20 sep 2018 08:57 (CEST)

Die keuze zal destijds gemaakt zijn op basis van wat er toen mogelijk en wenselijk was. En er zal ongetwijfeld (goed) over nagedacht zijn. Maar de tijd staat niet stil, en daarom wordt bestaande software aangepast aan nieuwe wensen en behoeften. Wie het Windows trucje kent – wij vermelden het in de inleiding – kan met de Crtl-toets forceren dat de webpagina in een nieuw venster geopend wordt. Veel websites openen tegenwoordig automatisch en ongevraagd een aangeklikte link in een nieuw venster. Ik ben daar blij mee. Wel zo overzichtelijk, en je raakt onderweg geen informatie kwijt als je weer wilt terugkeren naar de beginsituatie.
Ik heb deze vraag hier niet gesteld omdat ik vind of eis dat Wikisource dat ook moet kunnen, maar omdat ik middeleeuwse handschriften doorgaans beter begrijp dan moderne webpagina’s.
Graag zou ik naast deze Lijst van gedigitaliseerde Middelnederlandse handschriften en drukken [...] ook een webpagina helpen maken, getiteld: ‘De geschiedenis van de Zaanse molens in 101 windbrieven’. Met facsimile’s, transcripties en annotatie van die windbrieven, chronologisch geordend op jaar van uitgifte en daarbinnen alfabetisch op de naam van de molen. Ongetwijfeld zal ook dan iemand zich afvragen of zo'n lijst van windbrieven wel thuishoort op nl-Wikisource, maar het antwoord zal dan luiden dan door zo’n project op Wikisource te plaatsen je het mogelijk maakt voor belangstellende historici om eventuele fouten in de transcriptie te verbeteren en bij te dragen aan de annotatie van die windbrieven.
De reden dat de Lijst van gedigitaliseerde Middelnederlandse handschriften en drukken [...] op Wikisource geplaatst is, is tweeledig. Allereerst gaat het hier om concrete historische bronnen, die zeer verspreid bewaard worden en die niet zo makkelijk te vinden zijn voor de individuele belangstellende en gebruiker. Daarnaast stelt deze manier van publiceren met name bibliotheekmedewerkers in staat om de informatie aan te vullen. Dat dit minder vaak gebeurt dan de initiatiefnemers gehoopt hadden, is een ander verhaal. En daarmee kom ik op de derde reden: Wikipedia wordt in wetenschappelijke kringen onvoldoende serieus genomen. Deze Lijst hoopt daarin verandering te brengen.

Met eveneens hartelijke groet, Willem Kuiper (overleg) 20 sep 2018 15:47 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [220]

Problems

• Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [221]
• Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [222]
• <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [223]
• {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [224]
• When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [225]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers work on making the wikis work better on mobile phones. There is a list of common problems when making content easier to read in the mobile view. You can add things to the page and ask others to help.

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11 sep 2018 00:35 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [226]
• MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [227]

Problems

• You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [228]

Changes later this week

• Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [229]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The developers are testing new mobile web navigation. You can use it and give feedback.

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17 sep 2018 23:58 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [230]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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24 sep 2018 17:23 (CEST)

Words hyphenated across pages in Wikisource are now joined

Hi, this is a message by Can da Lua as discussed here for wikisource communities

The ProofreadPage extension can now join together a word that is split between a page and the next.

In the past, when a page was ending with "concat-" and the next page was beginning with "enation", the resulting transclusion would have been "concat- enation", and a special template like d:Q15630535 had to be used to obtain the word "concatenation".

Now the default behavior has changed: the hyphen at the end of a page is suppressed and in this case no space is inserted, so the result of the transclusion will be: "concatenation", without the need of a template. The "joiner" character is defined by default as "-" (the regular hyphen), but it is possible to change this. A template may still be needed to deal with particular cases when the hyphen needs to be preserved.

Please share this information with your community.

MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 30 sep 2018 12:28 (CEST)

Aha, good news for users working with the proofread extension! WeeJeeVee (overleg) 4 okt 2018 11:25 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [231][232]

Problems

• New and updated translations from will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [233][234]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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1 okt 2018 19:35 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events Dashboard or the Fountain instead. [235]

Problems

• There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [236]

Changes later this week

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
• Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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9 okt 2018 01:38 (CEST)

Tech News: 2018-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [237]
• Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [238]

Changes later this week

• When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [239]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

• There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [240]
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16 okt 2018 00:41 (CEST)