Project:Village Pump/Flow/2017

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How and where to store wikitool descriptions

Hi. I hope I am posting in the right place. Please take a look in m:Wikimedia_Forum#Tools_descriptions._Is_there_a_right_place_to_store_them.3F if this topic is of any interest. Alexmar983 (talk) 08:27, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Watching / Unwatching not working

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

as I got the problem that watching and unwatching a topic isn't working anymore, I wanted to ask you, if you got a solution. "action=tokens has been deprecated. Please use action=query&meta=tokens instead."

I dont get where to edit the URLs in the action menu, so you may tell me where I can do this.

Best Regards, IExit (talk) 09:25, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

I just watched this topic without problem. Could you give more details about your problem? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 23:19, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Do you use watching tab in interface or you have gadget/own application? What wiki? wargo (talk) 14:09, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

template parameters on pages having outdated translation

See Special:Diff/2364666. The parameter name "1=" should be specified explicitly. Please check all translatable pages passing translatable parameters to templates.

• {{notice|<span class="mw-translate-fuzzy">outdated translation</span>}}

Shirayuki (talk) 04:48, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

If TNT is used, it should be:

{{TNT|1=notice|2=<translate>Test</translate>}}

Or even:

{{TNT|notice|2=<translate>Test</translate>}}

Using Pywikibot one can get a list of possible affected pages with this query:

python pwb.py scripts/listpages.py -family:mediawiki -regex -ns:0 -grep:"\\{\\{[^\\}\\[]+\\|<translate>" -start

changing -ns:0 with -ns:Help, -ns:Extension, -ns:Skin, -ns:Api and -ns:Project on every iteration.

I've mentioned this issue in T60429#2957882 Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 12:26, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Block expiration

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• Special:Log/block says "with an expiration time of 31 hours",
• but its Japanese version says "40 年、7 年、26 日、18 時間、14 分 および 43 秒"
• and British English version says "with an expiry time of 4 decades, 7 years, 26 days, 18 hours, 14 minutes and 43 seconds" Shirayuki (talk) 21:30, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

qqx displays (duration-decades: 4)(comma-separator)(duration-years: 7)(comma-separator)(duration-days: 26)(comma-separator)(duration-hours: 18)(comma-separator)(duration-minutes: 14)(and)(word-separator)(duration-seconds: 43) Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 21:47, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

API:

{
    "batchcomplete": "",
    "query": {
        "blocks": [
            {
                "id": 74115,
                "user": "223.24.7.206",
                "by": "Mainframe98",
                "timestamp": "2017-01-25T20:47:07Z",
                "expiry": "2017-01-27T03:47:07Z",
                "reason": "Inserting false or outdated translations",
                "anononly": "",
                "nocreate": "",
                "allowusertalk": ""
            }
        ]
    }
}

Which is 31 hours. It's likely the correct one. Also if you subtract the wrong result from the expiry date, you get something close to 1970-01-01. AttemptToCallNil (report bug; view backtrace) 06:53, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Isn't this something that should be fixed in the i18n messages? ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:12, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

I doubt it has to do with i18n message since qqx lang code displays 4 decades which is blatantly incorrect. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 21:02, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

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Translation administrators

Does the group of translation administrators exist here? If yes, how to get in contact with them? If not, which people are able to fix mistakes like described Help talk:CirrusSearch#First sentence? Speravir (talk) 18:33, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

You can find them here: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=translationadmin —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:39, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. So, there is no project page here? Speravir (talk) 19:16, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

There is just Project:Administrators —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:25, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

And Project:Translation wargo (talk) 23:00, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

User can't submit anything (even preview isn't working)

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Hi everyone,

I'm using mediawiki 1.27.1 with php 5.5.21 and 5.5.52-MariaDB, and WikiEditor 0.5.0. I'm using chromium 55.0.2883.87 and Firefox 50.1.0.

Friday I wanted to personnalise my wikiEditor toolbar, so I changed '$wgAllowUserJs' to true in order to allow 'user/common.js' to be working. I put my code into that page, and tried many modifications. At some time, when I wanted to push an image to a button, the wiki didn't allow me to do that with an '400 bad request' error code.

Since then, It's impossible for me to submit anything. If I try to preview a page with 'preview' button that do a POST submit request, I've got the '400 bad request' error.

I deleted my common.js page, disabled '$wgAllowUserJs' variable, check my logs (nothing in there), activated debug mode (nothing there too), tried with Firefox (the error is 'secure connection failed' on this one).

I also tried to lurk in database to see if something went wrong, but I don't know where to look.

I tried with burp to see the request, it doesn't seem to have any issue. My httpd reverse proxy don't print logs in '/var/log/httpd/access.log' for the 'submit' request (no problem for other requests), but log the 408 error reply.

Another interesting thing is that I'm the only user affected by this bug, other users have not this problem..

Does anyone have an idea about to solve my problem or anything to get more logs on this ?

Thank you very much Nrm (talk) 17:34, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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Math extension error

Extension:Math/Inputtypes shows an error message:

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "/mathoid/local/v1/":): {\displaystyle d/dxf(x)=lim_{h->0}(f(x+h)-f(x))/h} Shirayuki (talk) 13:50, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

See Fresh Mediawiki + Math install gives Restbase URL error. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:36, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Special:Maintenance reports @meta

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moved to meta OTRS Plagiat (talk) 04:55, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

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Special:Nuke

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The link "mass delete" on Special:Contributions does not work properly. The parameter "target" is ignored. e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Nuke&target=Shirayuki Shirayuki (talk) 02:56, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

FuzzyBot is actually a piece of MediaWiki software--it's not an actual user or bot (e.g., if you block it, it can still edit). —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:25, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

It is just one example of users. Shirayuki (talk) 03:46, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Special:Nuke accepts "wpnuke-target" not "target", but Special:Contributions passes "target". Shirayuki (talk) 05:39, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

T158502, apparently will be fixed during Monday. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 12:17, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

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Looking for a code wizard

For Template_talk:Tracked#Can_this_be_tweaked.3F. Thanks! Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:10, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Failed to load RSS

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WMDE Engineering says:

Failed to load RSS feed from https://sourcecode.berlin/feed/: Error fetching URL: SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired Shirayuki (talk) 13:25, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

using http doesn't give those problems: http://sourcecode.berlin/feed/

So simply switch to HTTP? or remove that feed, which I don't know if it's relevant. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 18:19, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

http://sourcecode.berlin/feed/ is not in the URL whitelist of RSS feeds. Shirayuki (talk) 07:30, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

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Search function does not work (the way we expected it)

Hi,

we built a documentary were contents are included in tables. However if we search for these contents with the search function they cannot be found.  :-(

Is it a known error? Or is it dependent on the way MediaWiki is written?

THX in advance for your answer.  :-)

Klaus 87.123.228.236 (talk) 09:31, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Maybe the search index hasn't been updated. You can try running Manual:rebuildtextindex.php. You can also consider installing Extension:CirrusSearch to improve the search. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:36, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Creation of new accounts?

Is anybody familiar with rate of created accounts on this wiki? A concerned editor showed up in my talk page. Elitre (WMF) (talk) 15:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

The account creation at Special:Log does look odd. I thought these were automatically duplicated in CentralAuth. I'm going to see if someone on IRC can look. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 15:45, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

<hexmode> who do I ask to look at the account creation rate here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Log? quiddity? ragesoss?

<quiddity> looking...  [11:58]

<Reedy> hexmode: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/authentications

<Reedy> https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/authentications?from=now-30d&to=now

<hexmode> Reedy: quiddity: prompted by https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project%3AVillage%20Pump/Flow/2017#h-Creation_of_new_accounts%3F-2017-03-20T15%3A18%3A00.000Z  [12:01]

<Reedy> At least at a graphing level, it doesn't look out of the ordinary

<hexmode> ok

<ragesoss> looks like all those accounts are the same ones recently being created on meta.

<Reedy> Yeah

<ragesoss> do you now automatically get a mediawiki account when you create a new SUL?

<Reedy> CA will propogate it

<ragesoss> or was that always the case?

<Reedy> I dunno if it's delayed via job queue

<Reedy> Not always the case, but it's been like that quite a while now  [12:02]

<Reedy> Since SUL finalisation stuff

<hexmode> Is it ok if I copy-paste this on the thread?

<Reedy> Sure

<Reedy> https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/authentications?from=now-6h&to=now ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 16:04, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

And some of those usernames are spam or profane and should be blocked. The Brynda1231 |Talc page 18:43, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

@Brynda1231, if you see a username that should be blocked, it is going onto all the wikis (here is enwiki, for example). I think you would need to file a task in phabricator for it. ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 19:36, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

K, I'll try... The Brynda1231 |Talc page 20:20, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

New filters for edit review

Hello

The Wikimedia Foundation Collaboration team is ready to release a set of new filters for Recent changes.

These filters will be available as a beta feature by the end of the month on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias. We plan to roll-out this new feature progressively, still as a Beta feature.

The new filters will include user intent prediction filtering on wikis where ORES is enabled. They will also include result highlighting, to help recent change reviewers.

We also want to setup the new filters on Mediawikiwiki very soon.

If you have any question or feedback, the discussion page is open! Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 12:10, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

We plan to deploy the new filters on Tuesday March 28, at 13:00 UTC. Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 17:52, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

The new filters are now available in your Beta preferences. Try them, and please provide feedback! Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 15:20, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Wikimedia Strategy 2017

I'd like to invite you to participate in the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions, about our wider movement's overall goals, "What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?".

It's currently in the first stage, of broad discussion. There are further details in the related metawiki pages (incl. FAQ, calendar and process, list of other simultaneous communities' discussions, etc). (Also, if you're interested in helping facilitate and summarize the discussions here, and to bring back here the summaries of what the other communities are discussing, in the weeks ahead, please let me know.) Thanks. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 19:21, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

No editing on both 19 April and 3 May from 14:00 to 14:30 UTC

Ops is doing a failover test between the primary and secondary data centers. You will be able to read, but not edit, during a critical point in the work. It should last about 20 to 30 minutes on these two dates:

• Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT)
• Wednesday, 3 May 2017 at 14:00 UTC

More information (including a link to the official schedule) is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2017

(User:SGrabarczuk (WMF), is this on your calendar yet?) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:26, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Two more things for this particular audience:

• If you discover unexpected problems (for example, if you can't read pages for more than a moment or two), then you will probably want to report unexpected problems in #wikimedia-tech Last year, #wikimedia-operations was moderated until the wikis were online again.
• There will be code freezes during both of those weeks. I encourage you all to be thoughtful about what you choose to deploy during the week immediately the code freezes, too. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:32, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Today switch back. Less than one hour left... wargo (talk) 13:16, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Request to delete and protect Q27923765

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Greetings. I'm relatively new here so please bear with me if I'm on the wrong page. That being said, User:SingkawangTELADAN had been creating hoax pages on Wikipedias in various languagesw about a person «李和星 / Astro Liecharlie» who totally does not exist. I'm therefore requesting that Q27923765 be wiped off Wikidata and be protected from further re-creations. Thanks you. Cedric tsan cantonais (talk) 17:55, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Please post wikidata deletion requests on Wikidata Administrators' noticeboard Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:57, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Will do. Cedric tsan cantonais (talk) 18:10, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

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The strategy discussion. The Cycle 2 will start on May 5

The first cycle of the Wikimedia movement strategy process recently concluded. During that period, we were discussing the main directions for the Wikimedia movement over the next 15 years. There are more than 1500 summary statements collected from the various communities, but none from the local discussion. The strategy facilitators and many volunteers have summarized the discussions of the previous month. A quantitative analysis of the statements will be posted on Meta for translation this week, alongside the report from the Berlin conference.

The second cycle will begin soon. It's set to begin on May 5 and run until May 31. During that period, you will be invited to dive into the main topics that emerged in the first cycle, discuss what they mean, which ones are the most important and why, and what their practical implications are. This work will be informed and complemented by research involving new voices that haven’t traditionally been included in strategy discussions, like readers, partners, and experts. Together, we will begin to make sense of all this information and organize it into a meaningful guiding document, which we will all collectively refine during the third and last cycle in June−July.

We want to help your community to be more engaged with the discussions in the next cycle. Now, we are looking for volunteers who could

• tell us where to announce the start of the Cycle 2, and how to do that, so we could be sure the majority of your community is informed and has a chance to feel committed, and
• facilitate the Cycle 2 discussions here, on MediaWiki.org.

We are looking forward to your feedback! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 21:41, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Cycle 2 will last from 11 May to 12 June (moved). wargo (talk) 20:05, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

The page was updated, please feel invited to Project:Wikimedia Strategy 2017. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 11:15, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

[Bug] Page information page

See Project:Support desk?action=info.

"Transcluded template (1)" is followed by a broken link "Template:/Header".

The link should be "Project:Support desk/Header". Shirayuki (talk) 08:06, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Curious, so does my talk page, and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:/Header lists those pages as containing links to that template. —Mainframe98 _talk 12:58, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

A quick test on my sandbox links expands correctly on non-flowboards, so that would indicate that this is a Flow specific bug. —Mainframe98 _talk 13:00, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

See Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag as another example.

Extension requests also contains {{/Header}}. Shirayuki (talk) 13:45, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

This error is reported on Phabricator: T167255. —Mainframe98 _talk 07:52, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! Shirayuki (talk) 13:45, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

It now actually has its own specific task: T167338. —Mainframe98 _talk 20:14, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

[Bug] "bdi" element recursive encapsulation

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See Project:Support desk/Flow/2017/05#h-[Bug]_"bdi"_element_recursive_encapsulation-2017-05-07T01:05:00.000Z Verdy p (talk) 01:26, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

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A note about a future change

Hi everyone. Some of you have already noticed this in m:Tech News as it's been already mentioned twice, but I wanted to flag again that because of an upcoming change, there's some code that may need to be fixed on this wiki:

• Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. Tech News wrote about this last week. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find false positives. You can read more about what to fix. [1][2]

You can find the list of the pages you'll want to check in a table on mw.org. In most cases those are false positives, and you only really need to fix as explained on mw.org when the "defective" syntax is inside a template or a wikilink, basically. When you have completed the checks, please edit the Notes field of the table accordingly! If you have questions, please reach the team on the talk page. Hope this helps, and thanks for your attention and your help. Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:33, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Are your scripts and gadgets working?

Some of the recent and upcoming changes to MediaWiki affect Javascript.

• Wikibits Javascript is gone. See ResourceLoader/Legacy_JavaScript#wikibits.js
• OOjs UI is coming soon to an editing window near you. See OOjs UI/Fixing scripts and gadgets for information on how to test your scripts. 

If you're having problems with your scripts, then you can ask here for help.

Please also share this information with people at other wikis. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:45, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Где узнать о возможности заработка на данном ресурсе?

где узнать о возможности заработка на данном ресурсе? Sanchoba (talk) 07:10, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

@Sanchoba Вы хотите зарабатывать деньги с помощью MediaWiki? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:54, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

False positives with "Ongoing user page spam" filter

Originally reported by @Mattflaschen-WMF on Project:Support desk:

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We should re-evaluate the false positives with Special:AbuseFilter/24 . This blocked an Outreachy intern who was attempting to add a link to her blog about the project.

Perhaps we could only do Disallow, and not Block. I realize that does potentially risk vandals re-trying until they bypass it, but everything's a tradeoff. Or we could tighten up the regex to not match borderline cases that might be legitimate.

As is, it seems we risk false positive blocks discouraging newcomers.

@Mooeypoo @Nemo bis @Jasper Deng Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:38, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

I'm for not making a filter block unless there's very very low chance to catch a legitimate user. If someone is trying to bypass it (which shouldn't be very difficult since it's not private) we should improve it by learning how they're bypassing it. Adding exceptions should be generally avoided, though, specially on a public filter. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:47, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

I changed it to Disallow. Ping me if there are any issues. Mattflaschen-WMF (talk) 03:54, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

se debe encuentar todos el resultado de busqueda wikipedia iɡual a ɡooɡle

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busco repuesta no lo encuentro debe mejorar el proyecto a mejer paso debe ser q wikipedia se debe modificar iɡual ɡooɡle para encomtrar todos cosa en wikipedia@Debadel 655467Google Code-in 2015 65546727 13:57, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

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Module:Version

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The module advertises MW 1.3 as the current alpha branch. This should be corrected. Thanks and cheers [[kgh]] (talk) 09:04, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Done

It cut last zeroes during version was converted to number (decimal). wargo (talk) 14:58, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

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Unable to edit Interwiki due to error" relation "ignore" does not exist

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MediaWiki 1.23.15, PostgresSQL 9.5.4, Interwiki 2.3 20140327

Attempting to edit existing Interwiki data to update change in URL, but always fails. Error logs show: relation "ignore" does not exist. Example: "UPDATE /* SpecialInterwiki::doSubmit first.last */ IGNORE "interwiki" SET"...etc...

Googling suggests Postgresql does not support the IGNORE that MySQL has. Apparently the MediaWiki core DatabasePostgres.php does not account for this. Found someone's attempt at an update to the core file, but very wary of it from a compatibility standpoint (no version information specified). Is there a patch or other way (aside from updating DB manually) to get Interwiki to work with the table in Postgresql? 162.93.80.1 (talk) 00:19, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Problems not related to MediaWiki.org website should be in Project:Support desk. Anyway this is tracked in T130634 where you can find a patch. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:24, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

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Rendered PDF files

The .pdf files are rendered but the files are faulty this means that although the .pdf can be opened the contents are jumbled, specifically anything that is numbered in the document does not number properly as per the original document, oddly the even numbers are missed out so that things number as follows 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 etc instead of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 etc. Cristian (talk) 13:45, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Oversight of this edit

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This edit has an email. Please oversight. PokestarFan (talk) 23:38, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

All of his edits need to be undone--I don't have time to deal with the translations at the moment. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:49, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

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Can I create a Chinese help page in the main namespace?

I plan to move this page to the main namespace. 星耀晨曦 (talk) 11:50, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

If I understand correctly, your help page is about installing MediaWiki on CentOS. The general consensus is to use the main installation guide instead of specifics for each OS. See Project:Village Pump/Flow/2014#h-Installation_guide_consolidation-2014-05-27T14:17:00.000Z.

Since CentOS is supposed to be compatible with Red Hat, I'd suggest to create it as a subpage of Manual:Running MediaWiki on Red Hat Linux, for example, Manual:Running MediaWiki on Red Hat Linux/zh. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 13:35, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

My help page is especially to explain the installation of mediawiki in centos 7.2, not a general description.

I think that translating the existing content is better. 星耀晨曦 (talk) 17:06, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Should import page sub-hierarchy be bullet point on API:Tutorial?

Some time ago I have tried to find the way to synchronize two mediawiki instances sub-folders without server-side access but found no useful solution. So for my wiki I have created the tool for this purpose. As wiki meant o be used by different groups with own hierarchies the synchronization supports the scope limitation and ability to filter as by hierarchy as by namespaces before syncing the content.

During initial research there was quite a buzz around such feature but no answer given. The [API:Tuporial] was a part of search results and seems to be appropriate place to put the link to solution:

https://www.apifusion.com/wiki/index.php/ApiFusion.org/Sources/ui/tools/ImportWiki.html

Should import page sub-hierarchy be bullet point on API:Tutorial? Suns94556 (talk) 16:09, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Some updates about Recent Changes pages

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Hello!

As you may already know, the Collaboration team has created a Beta feature. This feature is on your wiki since few months: "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽". You can activate it in your Beta preferences.

What is this feature again?

This feature improves Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked. It adds new features that ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:

• Filtering - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations.
• Highlighting - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring. It helps quick identification of changes that matter to you.

You can know more about this project by visiting the quick tour help page.

What's new?

Since the release, we have fixed small bugs and improved the interface. We have also released a way to bookmark your favorite configurations of filters.

We plan to add more new features! The full list is on this Phabricator page (in English) but here are the most important ones:

• Filters for Namespaces and tagged edits and, later, filters for Categories and Usernames; they will help you to patrol specific changes more accurately
• Redesign navigation by using an improved time selector and better integrated navigation options
• Add live updates
• Have a more clear interface by putting community-defined 'related links' into a collapsible panel

This last change is about links displayed on top of the RecentChanges (see how they look like on your wiki). We do that change because we have discovered that those links are not that much used. Also, they sometimes take a lot of space on small screens. To help people to focus on recent changes patrolling, we will hide those links, with an option to show them. We have created some examples to show you how it will look like. If you like to see those links all the time, you will have to click on the link to show them and they will remain open. We welcome your feedback about this change.

Most of this information was already introduced in the Collaboration monthly newsletter. Please subscribe to get regular updates!

You can ping me if you have questions.

All the best --, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 10:27, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

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I can not find text into the new page

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After create new page i search any text into search box, but not find text, only work when search the exact page name.

Thank 190.226.53.178 (talk) 14:38, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Search index gets updated in the Job queue so it may take a while to update. If your question is not about MediaWiki.org website but a specific wiki, you should ask in Project:Support desk instead, providing configuration details. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:25, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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User group expiry

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In MediaWiki 1.29, there is a new feature called user group expiry. Shouldn't the page Manual:User groups table then be updated? The previous schema summary should say {{TNT|MW version|version=1.22|version2=1.28}} and the current one (with a new column named "ug_expiry") should say {{TNT|MW version|version=1.29|comment=and after}}. The "fields" section should also be updated to include the new feature. GTrang (talk) 23:44, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Please update it since you know what changed and when :) Legoktm (talk) 00:45, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

I gone ahead and made the changes myself. GTrang (talk) 02:12, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

And marked for translation. Thanks for the updates! ~ Seb35 [^_^] 15:40, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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Mark for translation

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Major changes were made on Manual:Pywikibot/Installation, please mark the page for translation Dvorapa (talk) 17:57, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Done MacFan4000 (talk) 18:16, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

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Namespace changed from definition

In outdated strings to translate here on MediaWiki.org for Czech language there are still messages like Help:Links or Help:Preferences. Whatever I change them to or however I edit them, they are still listed as outdated and I can not make them OK. How are we supposed to change them in order not to be outdated anymore? Dvorapa (talk) 18:07, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

When editing the page directly there's a warning saying the namespace differs from the original. So basically you should leave the Help: namespace as is. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 18:56, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

My warning on edit page is "Namespace changed from the definition". This message is nonsense to me per my english understanding. But if it means something like "Namespace differs from the original", then the error message should be more clear I think. Dvorapa (talk) 19:27, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, I read the Spanish translation and it says something more similar to "Namespace differs from the original" Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 19:54, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Where can I change that nonsense text? Dvorapa (talk) 22:04, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Czech translation is similar nonsense. Just a translation of its origin Dvorapa (talk) 22:12, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

I've asked on translatewiki, I hope they'll help Dvorapa (talk) 22:19, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Mark for translation

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Could someone please mark Miraheze for translation? Reception123 (talk) 05:17, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Done by User:Mainframe98 Reception123 (talk) 18:22, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

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Beta feature: advanced filters and more options for Watchlists, starting September 5

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Hello!

As you may already know, the Global Collaboration team has created a Beta feature. This feature is on your wiki since few months: "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽". You can activate it in your Beta preferences.

What is this feature again?

This feature improves Special:RecentChanges and Special:RecentChangesLinked. It adds new features that ease vandalism tracking and support of newcomers:

• Filtering - filter recent changes with easy-to-use and powerful filters combinations, including filtering by namespace or tagged edits.
• Highlighting - add a colored background to the different changes you are monitoring. It helps quick identification of changes that matter to you.
• Bookmarking to keep your favorite configurations of filters ready to be used.
• Quality and Intent Filters - those filters use ORES predictions. They identify real vandalism or good faith intent contributions that need help.

You can know more about this project by visiting the quick tour help page.

What's new?

On September 5, the Beta feature will have a new option. Watchlists will have all new features available on Recent Changes Beta now.

If you have already activated the Beta feature "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽", you have no action to take. If you haven't activated the Beta feature "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" and you want to try the filters on Watchlists, please go to your Beta preferences on September 6. It will not be possible to try the filters only on Recent Changes or only on Watchlist.

Please also note that later in September, some changes will happen on Recent Changes. We will release some features at the moment available in Beta as default features. This will impact all users, but we will provide an option to opt-out. I'll recontact you with a more precise schedule and all the details very soon.

You can ping me if you have questions.

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 15:20, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

@Trizek (WMF) Is there any option to disable it by default or for any user? Some of the users don't like it as it has been activated for all. Jnanaranjan sahu (talk) 07:54, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

You can opt out of the new filters by going to the "Opt out" section at the bottom of Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rc on the wikis you are active on. How ever, like any new change, you should give a chance to that new interface: maybe you will get used to it and find the new features we have added very useful. Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 08:41, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank You @Trizek (WMF). I am already using it since many days, but some user are not interested. Though I have suggested them to use the new feature but they are not convenient for them due to slow internet or something. Jnanaranjan sahu (talk) 05:42, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

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Removing translation state from Manual:Configuration settings

Manual:Configuration Settings has been marked for translation when it shouldn't have been. Trying to remove it's translated state is not possible due to older-style translations (pre-Extension:Translate) that still exist as subpages. Attempting to delete the translatable page will also result in deleting those translations. Is there a way to remove the translation state without removing those older translations? —Mainframe98 _talk 10:04, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

I have unmarked the page for translation and restored. /es, /pl, /ru and /zh should be restored (or merged) manually. Shirayuki (talk) 02:06, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

What is the reason "it shouldn't have been marked for translation". I don't see an obvious one. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 11:08, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

The Newsletter extension is now enabled in MediaWiki.org

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Hi, after a long long journey... Special:Newsletters!

The Newsletter extension is a tool to facilitate subscription and delivery of newsletters hosted on MediaWiki-based sites. You can learn more about this extension at Help:Extension:Newsletter.

Any newsletters within the scope of MediaWiki.org can be created. In previous discussions it was agreed to only allow administrators to create newsletters. Once a newsletter is created, their publishers can announce new issues at will without requiring administrators anymore.

If you want to create a newsletter and you need an administrator to do it, just reply here specifying:

• the name of the newsletter
• a short description, allowing this newsletter to be recognized in a list with all the newsletters
• a wiki page for its home
• at least one publisher (MediaWiki.org username)

If you want to report problems, request features, or get involved in the project, please check MediaWiki-extensions-Newsletter in Phabricator. Qgil-WMF (talk) 11:09, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello. Congratulations, great job!

As always, hewiki can help in finding rtl errors. And there always are rtl errors. So, we'd like to create a newsletter, meanwhile in mediawiki, and one day it will move to hewiki, when available. The notifications will be redirections to upcoming sections in he:project:news. So all notificatons will come from mediawiki to hewiki using Echo interwiki system, and will appear on rtl to subscribers. I created this news project, and publish about 80% of messages there for users, every time there is some interesting new mediawiki engine feature, for example. So naturally, I'll write the notifications.

So, could you please create a new newsletter:

1. הפומפיה

(the grater in hebrew)

2. עדכונים שוטפים על ידיעות חדשות בדף ויקיפדיה:חדשות

(ongoing updates about new issues on wikipedia:news)

3. Sorry, what do you mean in home page? I should create something here in mediawiki? In which namespace?

4. User:IKhitron

Thank you very much. IKhitron (talk) 20:17, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi @IKhitron, thank you for your interest. There is one problem: interwiki prefixes like he:project:news are not supported yet (see phab:T174664). I recommend you to wait until that is solved. Also, the idea of "migrating later to Hebrew Wikipedia" is not clear either (phab:T110645 is where we discuss interwiki / multiwiki support). Would it be an option for you to start testing in https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Newsletters? I'm sorry for not having better answers currently. Qgil-WMF (talk) 20:43, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Qgil-WMF. I think I did not explain myself well. I do not talk about an hewiki newsletter, but a mediawiki one. Local. It's issues will be wikilinks to hewiki in regular wikicode, that's all. There isn't something that doesn't allow to create it just now. And I did not talk about technical migration. One day when the extension will be deployed on other wikis, we'll ask the subscribers to subscribe once more, locally. So, could you do this now, please? Thank you very much.

N3 Thanks for phab link, I don't need it, because I don't need interwiki service, as I said. IKhitron (talk) 20:50, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

> It's issues will be wikilinks to hewiki in regular wikicode

This is not supported now. The extension will not accept a syntax like "he:project:news". This is exactly what phab:T174664 is about. Qgil-WMF (talk) 21:11, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Maybe I did not understand, Qgil-WMF. But I still think we are talking about different things. I'm not talking about interwiki link in notification - there will be regular mw:homepageofnewsletter#something link there. If somebody clicks and comes to this page, they'll find the interwikilink there, in the text (of the issue), on regular wikitext content model page. Thank you. IKhitron (talk) 21:16, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Alright, sorry, now I understand. The main page is required. It is where you explain what the newsletter is about so users can decide whether they are interested in subscribing, and any other details you want to add. Newsletter issues point to pages, and they don't take into account #sections. In wikitext pages sections are pure representational, and things are prone to go wrong if someone edits the sections (as opposed to renaming pages, which by default leaves redirects). A simple option would be to use Flow topics for new announcements, from the discussion page of the newsletter main page. Each Flow topic is a page indeed. Qgil-WMF (talk) 08:14, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Very well, Qgil-WMF. Looks good for me. So the main page could be the flow border, and subscribe button will be added to the description, or I need a wikitext page as the main one and flow page for issues? IKhitron (talk) 09:18, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

You need a main wikitext page, otherwise you will not have a discussion page to refer to.  :) Qgil-WMF (talk) 10:03, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Great. So, I'll create a page and ask to convert its talk page to flow. So, it's the same question I asked at the beginning: In which namespace should I create the main page? I don't know this wiki structure. And "User" is not a good idea. Thank you very much. IKhitron (talk) 10:09, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

A page in the main namespace is ok. You will get the Flow page automatically. There is no need to request anything. Qgil-WMF (talk) 10:29, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind recomendations. Done.

Could you, please, create a new newsletter:

1. הפומפיה

   (the grater in hebrew)

2. עדכונים שוטפים על ידיעות חדשות בדף ויקיפדיה:חדשות

   (ongoing updates about new issues on wikipedia:news)

3. הפומפיה
4. User:IKhitron

Thank you very much. IKhitron (talk) 13:23, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

@IKhitron Done Newsletter:הפומפיה

As a first publisher not involved in the development or testing of the Newsletter extension, your feedback is highly appreciated. Qgil-WMF (talk) 13:53, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much.

Sorry for the time I spent you.

Three points:

• I think you can make a summary of our conversation (flow, main namespace and much more) and put it on the project page, so these questions will not be asked every time.
• You thought I'm talking about interwiki newsletter at the beginning. I didn't. I didn't even think it's possible, otherwise you would not deploy this extension on any wiki, even here on mediawiki. Just once on meta, and it could be enough for all wikis.
• But all this made me find a bug in Flow: it does not work well on Timeless. So it's an adventage. :-)

Thank you again. IKhitron (talk) 13:57, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Congratulations to all those who made Newsletter possible. Looking forward testing and trying to better the extension. Regards. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 21:17, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

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Account creator right on mediawiki.org

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Bureaucrats can now grant account creator right, thanks to @Bawolff.

A follow-up change has been prepared to revoke it. This is discussed on T175903.

The initial need was to allow @Alangi Derick to create accounts. Dereckson (talk) 13:25, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

I support a posteriori this change as sensible and useful.

There is also obvious implicit support from @Bawolff and @MarcoAurelio as they authored the two changes. Dereckson (talk) 13:28, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

I really dont see why small non controversial changes to config of mediawiki.org require this level of discussion. Bawolff (talk) 14:30, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Same as Bawolff. This is just looping the loop. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:16, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

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IRO bot showing timeout on map server

IRO bot showing timeout on map server 2601:246:4B00:1455:A8FF:4356:202A:BECB (talk) 02:32, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Please elaborate Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:31, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Update to UTC clock gadget

Hi everyone. I've proposed an update to the UTC clock gadget which will stop the personal toolbar from jumping to the left when it's loaded. I'd be grateful if people could give the new code a review. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:37, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

unable to put a picture into my wiki

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hi everyone

My problem: I wanted to upload a picture (png.) from my computer into my wikipage.

Everything looks good until i get this:

We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera, or see what else is acceptable. See the guide to make sure the file is acceptable and learn how to upload it on Wikimedia Commons.

I've got the permission to use this picture, it shows nothing sexualthere is nothing violent or anything at all in it. What should i do?

thanks. DA95 (talk) 14:55, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Looking at T146938, it looks like a filter used to prevent newbie users from uploading files to commons directly from other wikis (from the visual editor of a wiki different from commons). You should be able to upload it from commons: and then link to it from your page. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 20:48, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

I don't understand :( Tobias1xv (talk) 18:41, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Me too :( Tobias1xv (talk) 18:40, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

@Ciencia Al Poder Hi, even in commons link which you have provided above, I tried to upload my pics and I've authorised lisence to use these photos as the photos I'm trying to upload belongs to me but still I'm getting an automated error

"We could not determine whether this file is suitable for Wikimedia Commons. Please only upload photos that you took yourself with your camera, or see what else is acceptable. See the guide to make sure the file is acceptable and learn how to upload it on Wikimedia Commons.

The content must be freely licensed. Do not copy files illegally (in violation of copyright) from other websites.

If you believe that the file meets our licensing standards: Upload the file again or click "Retry failed uploads"/"Submit modified file description"

Please guide me how can I upload these pictures. Naveen Kr Jindal (talk) 16:57, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Please ask in c:Commons:Help_desk Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:14, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

I am getting exactly the same issue with my picture - one that I took, Any solutions? 2405:201:8006:38:AC54:1060:9D5A:10F (talk) 08:34, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

No solution if you're asking here. See previous comment. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:48, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

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Image insert mixed Datei: and File:

Hello everyone!

Since a short time, i've the phenomen that the editor inserts [[File:xxxx.filetype]] instead of [[Datei:xxxx.filetype]].

Since my wiki is formerly used in German languge, this is a problem, so most of the images are only shown as links, which are not working.

My Questions:

1) Where can i set the inser languge of the editor to makje him always produce "Datei:" links?

2) Can i set the Wiki to accept both "File:" and "Datei:" as Image-Links?

kr

Steve SteveStx (talk) 08:14, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Mark three pages for translation

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Please mark Manual:Pywikibot/Installation, Manual:Pywikibot/Version table and Manual:Pywikibot/i18n for translation Dvorapa (talk) 14:34, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Done. Note that I had to drop some of the comments from the middle one as you can't re-use translation marker numbers. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 21:59, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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changer de skins

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Bonjour,

Je viens d'installer mediawiki-1.29.1 et je ne vois pas ou je peux changer de skins, pouvez m'aider SVP Le nain23 (talk) 14:50, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

See Manual:$wgDefaultSkin Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 17:47, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

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Hidden Pages

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Hello,

Is there a possibility to do the Opposite of whitelist:

Manual:User rights

So like a Blacklist with 2-3 pages which are hidden for everyone exept 1 usergroup like "HiddenWatchers"

Or how does that work with the whitelist? Do I have to add everypage manually to the whiteliste or will be very page automatically added and i just need to delete the "hidden" pages out of the whitelist?? 194.154.213.140 (talk) 07:53, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

See Manual:Preventing access. Also this is not the place to ask for support, see Project:Support desk. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 09:31, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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About mobile view

My English no very good,

My mobile phone's web browser will no image if without wi-fi,and some important symbol (like the star witch in the talk-box right-top) lost in wiki website.

What's my mean,

我的手机浏览器会在没有wi-fi的情况下屏蔽图片，而这造成了维基网站上一些重要图标（比如这个讨论串右上角的星标）的缺失，从而导致使用上的困难，我们可以为那些图标添加替代文本吗，就像某些网站所做的那样? 脂肪酸钠 (talk) 12:45, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Tags in Spoiler Tag

Hi. I wrote a simpel spoiler extension. It works, but when i use other tags in the spoiler tag it can't recognize them. How can i solve this problem? 193.175.120.49 (talk) 12:21, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

use named parameters when this happens. For example, {{spoiler|1=text to be hidden that contains <span style="color:red">tags</span>}} Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 20:53, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, but i solved the problem with

$spoiler = $parser -> recursiveTagParse($input, false);

return $spoiler;

But now i have another problem. when i use return htmlspecialchars($spoiler); it doesnt work. How can i prevent cross site scripting regardless?

When i use with my methode things like <script>alert(test)</script> the alert doesnt work. This is good but is it safe enoug? 193.175.120.49 (talk) 11:30, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Please block User:Vashikaranspecialist

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This user spams for many consecutive hours now. Thanks [[kgh]] (talk) 15:18, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Done, and Nuke'ed. Cleaning up the rest now. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 16:15, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you.

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I just wanted to say thank you for whoever was trying to help me earlier I’m not very good at the computer obviously although I was able to gather up the information this time I just wasn’t able to interpret it. So whoever was trying to help me I really appreciate it I’m just gonna give up I guess. I was trying to check my accounts because my ex-boyfriend has been hijacking my email account for the past year and a half it’s being investigated it has been being investigated for about a year now. I don’t know he watches everything I do not that I do anything that interesting to start with. I guess it’s just a little scary for me. But I really appreciate you taking the time to try to help me whoever it was thanks

PS I’m sure I put this note in the wrong place I’m sorry . Yeah seems to be extremely serious about what you do and I just don’t want to mess anything up. And FYI I didn’t tear up any pages are whatever I guess that’s why I was I’m restricted you so whatever that was probably my ex-boyfriend I don’t even have it I’m in email account with that name but it probably came through my Wi-Fi 2600:387:1:805:0:0:0:A1 (talk) 16:10, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

that not good Ryan.balch (talk) 19:28, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

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Proposal for a developer support channel

The Technical Collaboration team proposes the creation of a developer support channel focusing on newcomers, as part of our Onboarding New Developer program. We are proposing to create a site based on Discourse (starting with a pilot in discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org) and to point the many existing scattered channels there.

This is an initial proposal for a pilot. If the pilot is successful, we will move it production. For that to happen we still need to sync well with Wikimedia Cloud Services, Operations and the Wikimedia technical community.

Please check the plan and share your feedback. Qgil-WMF (talk) 23:41, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Broken list at Manual:Hooks/UploadVerifyUpload

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Can anyone check why the list at Manual:Hooks/UploadVerifyUpload#Details is broken? The $props element is where the list becomes broken Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:58, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Should be fixed. Looks like there were zero-width characters immediately before the last four asterisks. AttemptToCallNil (report bug; view backtrace) 11:25, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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Extensions that were hosted in SVN

Links to the old SVN repo are broken and just redirect to Phabricator in a rather unhelpful way. And apparently some extensions were never migrated out of there in the first place (example). List of things that probably need to be updated: [3] [4]

I suppose there is not much chance for the mapping from SVN to git project names to be deterministic? Tgr (WMF) (talk) 23:17, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Backlog at Category:Candidates for deletion

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Hello. Noob admin here. I saw that a lot of pages are listed for deletion (NOT speedy deletion) at Category:Candidates_for_deletion. Since they've been proposed for deletion and I'm not sure if there's any historical need to keep them, I'd appreciate if a more experienced admin could have a look at those. Thanks. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 12:03, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

This was discussed in Manual talk:Interface#Document_all_messages_here?. Nobody opposed, so I guess it should be fine to delete them.

Translatable pages, however, can only be deleted by a translation admin :( Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 12:53, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

Surprisingly, a translation admin marked those pages for translation after the delete template was put at them... Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 14:19, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

I see you managed to delete the first (I tried for all three and it didn't delete the top page). Kick it again? Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 22:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Reapplied deletion, sorry for doing it prematurely three days ago. It also appeared I didn't undelete it properly... Tropicalkitty (talk) 22:36, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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New permission required to hide flow topics?

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I used to be able to hide spam topics for flow. I realized last week that I am no longer able to do so. Is there some new permission required and if yes, to which usergroup is it connected? [[kgh]] (talk) 15:23, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Answering self. It appears to be "flow-hide" which supposedly may be performed by everybody. So this is a bug. Never mind. I'll wait for the fix. [[kgh]] (talk) 15:25, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, available for everybody (Special:ListGroupRights). However, I haven't seen it reported. Did you report it? Otherwise don't expect it to be fixed :) Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:29, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

No, since this happened quite a while back I figured that this has probably already been reported. Done now with T181765 [[kgh]] (talk) 23:19, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

That's why I usually do not report flow issues. This is utterly painful. [[kgh]] (talk) 23:43, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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Template:MediaWikiHook

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Could someone knowledgeable please mark that template for translation so my changes will show up? Thanks in advance :) Legoktm (talk) 17:52, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

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Delete bad translations

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The IP Special:Contributions/95.54.177.129 seems to have just applied Apertium machine translations without any kind of post-editing. I recommend deleting all the translations made from this IP. Nikerabbit (talk) 07:46, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Done Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:49, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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Where are the User Groups?

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I'm trying to find a list of the User Groups, the mission of each and how to join one. I've looked around but Wiki is now so big that I can't find it. Any guidance would be appreciated. Dmcguerty (talk) 16:49, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

See

. They usually have project pages linked from Special:ListGroupRights Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:02, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

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Deleting A Broken Wiki

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Hello,

I'm a moderator in the Swisscraft staff team and I'm contacting you on behalf of them as well as our server owner. One of our previous staff members made the wiki and we have all since lost access to the page. Here is the address: http://wiki.swisscraft.eu/index.php?title=Main_Page

We would like to delete the page completely as it is broken. If anyone could assist us in this endeavor it would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Zephez

Moderator, Swisscraft.eu SwissCraft (talk) 21:42, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Or if anyone can tell us what is wrong so that we can fix it. Either way, thank you for your time. SwissCraft (talk) 16:17, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

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