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Tech News: 2020-06

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20:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

License Review Request automaticly added by Upload helper

Hi, thanks for removing the license review request: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Martes_foina-(drkb)-1.webm&diff=next&oldid=370575653. I really was wondering for what purpose or intention the upload helper added it initially.

Please note, though, that it was not added actively by me (as your edit comment insinuates). I just did not remove it, as I had no clue about the purpose it was added. To reduce the backlog, it might make more sense to review the upload helper behaviour (if not done already) than admonishing users by the way of automatically added edit comments. Thanks, --Burkhard (talk) 00:29, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Drahkrub I changed the edit summary to "@UserNameOfuploader Removing licenseReview Template, not required for ownwork." The tool you uploaded was built to primarily import videos from external urls, that's the reason it adds the LR template. -- Eatcha (talk) 04:20, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Not sure if you got my point - I did a quite "normal" upload (Link: "upload file"). If the there y implicitly selected tool adds the review request despite the user states "own work", than the tool needs changed or - at least - display a hint that the user to remove the review request in case of ownwork. If the edit summary template used by your bot results in a text asking the user to stop a particular "behaviour", it's neither helpful (the user did not add the request actively) nor nice/polite. Regards, --Burkhard (talk) 09:38, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Great work! Also with edits like this! --MGA73 (talk) 08:04, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

FVC promotion template on moved file page

Hi! I don’t know how FVC promotion process works, but this edit is certainly wrong, the bot should detect if a description page is a redirect, and should not break this redirect. I restored the redirect, but haven’t removed the template yet, in the hope that the bot won’t touch the page this way even before being fixed, but I think redirects should not have this template (neither the categories) in the long run. Thanks in advance for fixing the bot! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 20:17, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Will fix it(FVCBot) before another incident, same issue with FPCBOT. Both are running the same source, with minimal changes. -- Eatcha (talk) 02:32, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

 Done -- Eatcha (talk) 10:19, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the patch, but I think it would be better to use Pywikibot’s Page.isRedirectPage() and Page.getRedirectTarget() methods—MediaWiki is quite relaxed about redirect syntax, for example it seems to permit zero or more whitespace character after the #REDIRECT (not only exactly one), the link can either have or not have a colon at the beginning (i.e. the escaping for normal file links instead of file inclusion), and there may be other caveats. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 10:52, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Tacsipacsi  Done Thanks for you suggestion. -- Eatcha (talk) 14:48, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

FV Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:Joaldunak - Puskak biltzen - Ituren (1).webm.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Joaldunak - Puskak biltzen - Ituren (1).webm.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

/FVCBot (talk) 10:14, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07

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Recent changes

• There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [1]

Problems

• There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [2]

Changes later this week

• The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [3]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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19:11, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

About FPCBot

To prevent the false alt nominations, please, read the image inside the class "wpImageAnnotatorFile" --Wilfredor (talk) 20:07, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

@Wilfredor: Can you give a diff to an example of what you are talking about? -- KTC (talk) 22:55, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Its not about diff, its about how FPCBot select the images in a nomination, it take any File: how a alternative nomination in the same nomination, however, it should have a specific syntax because in that way it gives us the freedom to add comments about the nomination with the richness of images that illustrate errors or comparisons without causing problems. My suggestion is generated how resulted of this comment [4]. --Wilfredor (talk) 00:04, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

@Wilfredor: But that doesn't solve the problem so much as make it a different one. Reading the image inside "wpImageAnnotatorFile" will stop the bot picking up any additional image as an alternative nomination sure, but actual alternative nomination don't get displayed inside "wpImageAnnotatorFile" either so the bot will also stop picking up the fact that there's alternative nominations when there are one. (pinging @Eatcha: for comments) -- KTC (talk) 22:07, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

No, What Im talking about is put each nomination inside a div with the class wpImageAnnotatorFile. --Wilfredor (talk) 02:24, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Wilfredor What about sets ? I would say select the best/main image from the set and add it in the mentioned class. -- Eatcha (talk) 04:23, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

wpImageAnnotatorFile\"\>(?:\s*|)\[\[(?:\s*|)((?:[Ff]ile|[Ii]mage):[^|]+).*?\]\](?:\s*|)\<\/div\> ?? -- Eatcha (talk) 05:07, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

@Wilfredor, if you have anything to say about the sets. I will be sending another unrelated patch to Daniel within next the 2 days, if we can sort this out I will merge it with the another patch. -- Eatcha (talk) 03:40, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

KTC https://github.com/Zitrax/FPCBot/pull/22 -- Eatcha (talk) 11:06, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

You've taken away the reason for most of the edits I make to Commons these days, but okay. :D -- KTC (talk) 19:57, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2020 International Team

Dear User:Eatcha,

Thank you for your help and guidance on Wiki Loves Folklore 2020 talk page. We would like to invite you to be a part of our International team. Waiting for your confirmation :)

--✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 18:51, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Tiven, but am I required to disclose my real life identity to WMF ? I am also unable to sign any legally binding terms with the WMF, as I am under legally codified age. //Eatcha (talk) 19:13, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Eatcha Wiki loves folklore and other events are run by volunteers like you and me. Wikimedia foundation just helps by the way of grant. There is no legally binding terms with WMf for joining the international Team. But yes we will be in touch with you on our exclusive platforms where we will be planning and plotting the contest for it's smooth working. Feel free to ask. Regards --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 19:20, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

@Tiven I sincerely appreciate you for inviting me to be a part of The International team. After much thought, It was a difficult decision to make but I’ve decided that now is not the best time for me to join this team. -- Eatcha (talk) 03:36, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

It's ok we respect your decision. Nevertheless thank you so much for your presence and contribution. :) --✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 16:29, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello Eatcha, adding into the conversation, we are having conversations with some of our team members via wiki mail or on talk page. Just wanted to present it as an option that we operate for communications. Thank you for your support for Wiki Loves Folklore. We are recruiting some team members for Categorization and Illustration team (which is in essence using the photos from the contest into relevant articles. Let us know if you have any suggestions for members for either team. With gratitute and WikiLove! Wikilover90 (talk) 21:48, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

YouTube review

Hi! The bot removed my review and added a new one in this edit. Is it a bot problem or was my review marked incorrectly? --MGA73 (talk) 19:05, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

MGA There was a problem with the review, It lacked useful parameters + YouTubeReview should not be added by humans. The template states "This file, which was originally posted to YouTube, was reviewed on 8 February 2020 by the automatic software YouTubeReviewBot". But if everyone now wants to use it for reviewing manually the template needs to be changed(the text). It also adds the file to Category:License reviewed by YouTubeReviewBot, not true. You can use the standard {{LicenseReview}} template. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:10, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Hmmm. I reviewed some still images and I used the YouTube template. I did not notice that the template said It was reviewed by the bot. --MGA73 (talk) 09:31, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

MGA Do not remove them or add the template anywhere else, I will try to change the template to support both images and videos like Flickr. -- Eatcha (talk) 09:34, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! That would be good. Because the blank template (Template:YouTubeReview) says "This file, which was originally posted to an external website, has not yet been reviewed by an administrator or reviewer to confirm that the above license is valid. ...". Personally I think it would be more logical that the templates work just like Flickr where both humans and bot can review. --MGA73 (talk) 09:37, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

MGA I will add an addition parameter |bot=UserNameOfBot -- Eatcha (talk) 09:39, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi! Here is a a new edit of a file I reviewed earlier. Should I re add |reviewer=MGA73 to the file and other like it? --MGA73 (talk) 14:42, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Yes you can add it , the bot will not remove/replace the template if it has more info than my bot can/is add(ing) to it. -- Eatcha (talk) 15:27, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Perfect! Is there an easy way to find images reviewed by the bot? I guess the bot can't really tell if the image came from the video or not so a human should check all the images? --MGA73 (talk) 18:25, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Also if the videos need to be reviewed by humans for FOP and other stuff then they should be in some sub category of license review needed? --MGA73 (talk) 18:39, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

File:President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden no watermark.webm

This would easily be featured at WP:FPC. You should nominate it. I would love to know how you got it. Please email me if you prefer. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 05:21, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Coffeeandcrumbs I contacted past Chief Official White House Photographer, his private email address that I can not share(privacy). I got it(his email) from a journalist(I helped him with Wikipedia related stuff, so I know him) based in DC. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:27, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Good to know. I may hit you up some time. If you are not interested in WP:FPC, I would like to nominate it there. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 05:33, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Coffeeandcrumbs You can if it's allowed to nominate videos there, I am on a wiki-break (will end on 10th march) right now from en-wiki so I will not nominate it there. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:40, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

FV Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:Cocaine dependence.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Cocaine dependence.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

/FVCBot (talk) 13:01, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

File:Lentil sprouting Haft-sin time lapse.webm

Is this a test? You added "self" and 4.0 instead of 2.0. --MGA73 (talk) 21:05, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

MGA  fixed -- Eatcha (talk) 04:07, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Great! Thought perhaps you tested your bot :-)

• File:Lentil sprouting Haft-sin time lapse.webm
• File:Sabzeh sprouting seeds timelapse.webm
• File:Lentil sprouting time lapse-XorAOcaaIk4.webm

Those 3 seems to come from the same video but they are not marked as duplicates. --MGA73 (talk) 09:24, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Polish language template on English-language text with a German-language proper name in it

I reverted this edit. I don't think that was intended behavior. Tokfo (talk) 21:11, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Tokfo I made some changes, I hope this won't repeat again. -- Eatcha (talk) 13:56, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Category:License review needed (video)

It seems there are some youtube videos in the category. Can your bot find/review some of them? --MGA73 (talk) 10:47, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

MGA see Special:Contributions/YouTubeReviewBot, it's my bot who's filling these up for humans. I think a bot marking files for deletion is not the best way to deal with backlog. -- Eatcha (talk) 10:53, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Okay. I just noticed this one for example and this one. And there seems to be more. --MGA73 (talk) 11:36, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Also I love it! I think it will help us a lot with the backlog that we can have the bot check license and mark those we reviewed too late. --MGA73 (talk) 12:22, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

EatchaBot adds defective tags to descriptions

Last night your bot added the English flag to a lot of pages, where within the description was only one word which looked like an English word. But there was no control, if the context was English. It happened to a lot of files, that the flag was wrong, like File:Hamm, Germany - panoramio (1296).jpg or File:Gold - panoramio (5).jpg. Please examine the results of the bot. --GeorgDerReisende (talk) 12:51, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

GeorgDerReisende The primary task is to identify the language. Gold is a English world(the element). The first example is a mixture of English + German. I will increase the acceptable score (would result in less description getting tagged) but accuracy is important. There are about 10 million (human can't do this) files without language identification and I'm trying to identify the language so that we can put the into SDC caption. -- Eatcha (talk) 13:52, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-08

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Recent changes

• Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [5][6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

FV Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden no watermark.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden.ogv, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

/FVCBot (talk) 05:02, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Bot is incorrectly tagging

E.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Digital_Sundial_-_Connector_fixed_NETFABBED_preview_featured.jpg&diff=0&oldid=389048424 and https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ADigital_Sundial_-_Top_part_fixed_NETFABBED_preview_featured.jpg&type=revision&diff=396354110&oldid=388959794 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:32, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Koavf, sorry about that. I fixed the bug. -- Eatcha (talk) 11:51, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! Accidents happen. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:01, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Does YouTubeReviewBot review YouTube screenshots already?

EatchaBot just marked lots of YouTube screenshots with {{YouTubeReview}}, with the comment "@GRuban It's a file from YouTube, marking for {{YouTubeReview}}."; for example. That template says it will be reviewed by YouTubeReviewBot. However, User:YouTubeReviewBot implies that it does not do screenshots, yet. Which is it, please? --GRuban (talk) 15:01, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

GRuban The file was not reviewed just archived on WayBack Machine and categorized in Category:YouTube review needed. Currently Category:License review needed has more than 10K files, and it was very less likely than your fill will be ever found, my bot is trying to categorize files from Category:YouTube review needed. -- Eatcha (talk) 15:07, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Some new things on FP

Hi! Since the "FP categories" are now called "Galleries" to not confuse them with normal categories, there has been some changes to how the FP and FPC pages look as well as when you create a nomination. See this: Commons talk:Featured picture candidates#Galleries and Categories with links to the changes. This means you will have to update some of the images in your tutorial to match the new pages. Sorry about the extra work, but this will make things clearer in the future. --Cart (talk) 15:24, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

@Wcarter Thanks for ending the chaos. I will update the images by end of tommorow. -- Eatcha (talk)

Great! :-) --Cart (talk) 18:21, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Wcarter What about the templates ? I am in middle of a pull request, I will add the changes in code if there are any in the template. {{FPC-results-ready-for-review}} and {{FPC-results-reviewed}} are the template that will still be confusing, if the parameters are changed without changing the bot's source the bot can not park anything. I am talking about the |category= parameter. If you change the template, the current version of bot will not park anything. I can run an updated version, but I don't have write access on tool-forge, so I have to run the newer version of bot from User:EatchaBot or another account that I can write into, before it gets merged after checking for bugs if any. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:09, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

I completely forgot about the templates. Good catch! My life outside Commons is very stressful right now, so I have my mind on other things, sorry. Of course it would be best to fix both the templates and the bot's code to use the word 'gallery' instead of 'category'. The closing is usually done by experienced users, so it will work for a while yet, no rush in fixing it but it should be done eventually. Can we add a commented out info or something to the template for now? Would that work? Perhaps |category<!-- now called Gallery -->= or something. --Cart (talk) 09:06, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

W.carter The second fix was users are no longer required to fill the template with category, it should be prefilled by the bot while closing for human review. The bot will add the category parameter (which is now called gallery parameter) . {{FPC-results-reviewed/sandbox|support=7|oppose=3|neutral=6|featured=yes|gallery=Animals/Birds|sig=someone}} should print:

Confirmed results:
Result: 7 support, 3 oppose, 6 neutral → featured. /someone
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds

I made no changes to the original template as the older source code of bot that's running on tool-forge will not be able to handle it , that would also result in wrong output on the closed page. Eatcha (talk) 11:35, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

I closed a candidate with my bot (User:EatchaBot) and every thing looks fine. I will ask Daniel to merge it. If it takes time, my bot will handle the candidates till he merges it and the source's get cloned on tool-forge. -- Eatcha (talk) 13:32, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

That looks great! Many thanks for your work! :-) Much appreciated and better than I hoped for. Now, I also have a question/request that has popped up from time to time from other users, but I didn't quite know to deal with. However, during a recent conversation I got a suggestion that might make things work.

The sorting process from the 'Unsorted' section where the FPs are parked by the bot and into the right section on the page, has to be done by a human. This made total sense years ago, when sections on the pages were still being created all the time. However, now most of the sections are in place it is only rarely that new ones have to be created. So, is it possible to let the bot sort most of the FPs directly into sections, leaving only the non-sortable in the 'Unsorted' section? That would mean that for example, a nom marked

Gallery: [[Commons:Featured pictures/Objects#Lamps]]

or

Gallery: [[Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Other#France]]

are sorted directly to those sections because they exist.

But if a nom is marked just Gallery: [[Commons:Featured pictures/Sports]]

or has a section that doesn't exist yet like Gallery: [[Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Agriculture#Andorra]]

or where the section is spelled the wrong way like Gallery: [[Commons:Featured pictures/Plants#Family Arecaceae]]

such FPs goes to 'Unsorted'.

Is it possible to make the Bot do this, or is is a too complex operation? --Cart (talk) 16:47, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

@Wcarter It's not complex will implement it if I don't have anything else to do this weekend. -- Eatcha (talk) 03:44, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Great! If it works, it could mean a lot of less work. --Cart (talk) 11:12, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Changes on Template:FPC-results-reviewed

Hello Eatcha, I had to revert for now your edits as the template didn't show any text anymore after you applied today the changes. In the diff of your changes I didn't find any obvious problem, that's why I think that the best approach for now was to revert, sorry. Best, --Poco a poco (talk) 19:17, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

• It looks like the bot did all the things it's supposed to (gallery page, notify nominator, chronological, FP list, log) it is just on the template that things don't work out. Must be some small part of the code you missed. --Cart (talk) 19:32, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
• Poco a pocoWcarter, I forgot about not featured cases. If you can still find errors report here. IMO it should be fixed now. -- Eatcha (talk) 03:37, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

FV Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:Le Marché de Noël allemand de Québec.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Le Marché de Noël allemand de Québec.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

/FVCBot (talk) 05:02, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

FV Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:Lentil sprouting Haft-sin time lapse.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Lentil sprouting Haft-sin time lapse.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

/FVCBot (talk) 05:19, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09

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

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

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• There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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20:59, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Didn't found any external urls

Hi! Your bot "did n't found any external urls" on this image (File:Direktor Herman Knoops 50-aarsdag.jpg), but there are an external url with the template that is used for DigitaltMuseum photos. - Premeditated (talk) 07:19, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Premeditated Bot cannot detect URL hidden in a template. I will add {{DigitaltMuseum}} to block lust and remove the images that were misidentified. The bot is designed to find text that matches w:URL#Syntax in the wiki-text of file. -- Eatcha (talk) 08:45, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Bot also marked File:Behnaz Jafari 20180422 (cropped).jpg that links to a photo on Commons. I reviewed it. Would you like me to remove the old review templates or do you want it to stay to see if the bot removes it? --MGA73 (talk) 08:23, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

If You have time to remove the template, you should remove it. The removal part of the bot is at the moment turned off. But if you don't have time to remove the template, the bot can and will remove it. -- Eatcha (talk) 08:48, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

User:MGA73 The bot's now removing the helper templates, and I am sorry about this edit. The bot should not repeat it. I will add more sites today to the supported list. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:32, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Thats really Great! I think it’s a big help when bot sorts the images in categories. I reviewed a bunch yesterday where the bot found a lot of similar images. And there is 110+ pdf ready for review in another category. I just needed a second opinion from another reviewer. About the YouTube review it’s a bit messy. The script don’t support it. So it’s easier if bot have a look first to add the template. I think it’s only a problem because I reviewed it before the bot did. --MGA73 (talk) 05:56, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Why don't you run for admin-ship ? If you plan to stay active here for some time. -- Eatcha (talk) 15:14, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I might do that later but for now there is plenty of work to do where I don't need the extra features an admin have. But thank you for thinking of me :-) --MGA73 (talk) 16:05, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Template:Motd/2020-02-25

Please be more careful when choosing MOTDs. This video already was MOTD: Template:Motd/2018-11-14. --jdx ^Re: 14:38, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

@Jdx I will fix the bot tonight. Sorry for bad results. Eatcha (talk) 15:16, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Typo in bot message

Here, I am fairly sure the bot is not meant to say "@Jo-Jo Eumerus Did n't found any external urls." as it's ungrammatical. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:07, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

J o Eumerus The new message -- Eatcha (talk) 05:31, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I wonder if "sobhanaachala.blogspot.com/search/label/పాత క్యాసెట్లు" could be converted to an URL without too many errors. Perhaps an idea for later use. For now I would just ignore it and let users check. It seems it is very few files that end in the category with no URL. --MGA73 (talk) 08:45, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

MGA about 40 % files in Category:License review needed are from the Islamic Republic of Iran. I don't see any chance of clearing the backlog without reviewing all files from Iran. -- Eatcha (talk · contribs) 15:14, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

@Eatcha: I'm not saying we should not review files from Iran. I just think there is no reason to change bot as long as the number of files in Category:Files with no external URL source is so small (54 atm). --MGA73 (talk) 20:32, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Did n't found any external urls

Hi Eatcha, thanks for reviewing my licensing! Not sure how to act here. This, like the other pictures, is a street picture taken by me. Would be enough if I add it as a work of mine? (Own) Iñaki LL (talk) 11:11, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Iñaki LL Don't add own work. I am not an expert in copyrights, but taking a picture of another picture is derivative work in my opinion. -- Eatcha (talk · contribs) 05:59, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Iñaki LL I think what we need to add is the information about the original photo. Where is the original photo taken? If Spain then we need to check Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Spain. Is it possible for you to translate the text on the file (also the text written on the photo) to English? And perhaps add location if not there? When that is done I think the right template is {{PD-review}}. --MGA73 (talk) 07:45, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi MGA73 and Eatcha, the writings on the picture do not shed more light on time or author, I have paraphrased them on the description. I do know a bit on licenses in France and Spain. Time elapsed is key (70 and 80 years respectively after the author's death), which seems to apply here.

I am not the author, which is not specified, but I took the pictures, and I took the pictures in the street, where they are posted permanently by the town council, they are now on the public domain. I can add the specific template of Spain for these cases, I used it in some photographs of the series when I had doubts over the historic period. My doubt is over {{Own}} or not (I do not think it is my work, since it is just an exact reproduction. Regards Iñaki LL (talk) 08:30, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

I add FYI relevant licensing templates, as posted in a few other pictures: {{FoP-Spain}}{{self|cc-zero}} Regards Iñaki LL (talk) 08:41, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Template:FPC-results-ready-for-review

Hi, We could consider changing it to "FPC-results-unreviewed", as it is easier to change to "reviewed" this way. Just as suggestion... --A.Savin 22:11, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

A.Savin Should take less than 5 minutes to make the appropriate changes, are most users(who close the nomination) in favor of a new template ? The bot also signs the template, remove the sign is unwanted work, maybe the bot should stop signing the template and the default option should be set to FPCBot on the template. -- Eatcha (talk · contribs) 03:51, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Only three lines are required to be changed. : L1107, L1110, and L1568 -- Eatcha (talk · contribs) 03:51, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

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Pixabay

Hi! Someone did not like my request here: Commons:Bots/Work_requests#See_if_files_in_Category:Images_from_Pixabay_are_max_size. I wonder if it would be possible to do a work around like we do with Commons:Bots/Requests/YouTubeReviewBot? What I'm looking for is a list of files where we do not use the max res. If I had a list it should be easy to check manually to see if its just because our version is cropped or it is possible to download a bigger version. Its not as important as the license review project so if it is possible it can wait 2 months or 20 months until you have time :-) --MGA73 (talk) 20:26, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

MGA Okay, you want me to do what's rejected by AntiCompositeNumber and Majora. Downloading the hi-res is not possible without creating an account. If you try to download an Image without login you get "Please register to download the high resolution images." If I create an account and start downloading, let's say I downloaded 20 images what next ? You get a message : protected by reCAPTCHA, please fill the captcha. Google captchas are impossible to fill using any publicly available automated tool. You need to make one, it's much easier to this by hand than trying to fool google's re-captcha considering the the file's are limited in numbers. Why can't I use vpn/proxy to trick re-captcha ? Cuz I need to login. Writing a smart bot for only 5000 file's not worth the hard work required. //Eatcha (talk · contribs) 04:47, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

First we keep hundreds of thousands of files and tag them with PD-art and PD-ineligible etc. and also images taken in museums even if the museums say they don't want visitors to take any photos. And if I understand it correct YouTube blocked the ip of our servers so we "cheat" and go via archive.org instead. I really can't see why that is okay but not okay to make a list of 4,600 images and compare the res on their website with the res on our website.

Second I don't want anyone to download the images. I just wanted a list of the files. Then I can check them manually and upload the high res (I have an account) :-)

I thought it was possible to read the res on Pixabay without logging in or to use the information stored in archive.org just like with YouTube.

Of course it is not worth it if you need to spend hours to get it to work. Thank you for commenting :-) --MGA73 (talk) 15:14, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

YouTube blocked the IP of our servers so we "cheat" and go via archive.org instead. -- I am NOT violating their TOS or cheating them by archiving the webpage. Their TOS is against downloading and not archiving webpage. I also don't scrape their webpage, I only read the archived version. Their robot.txt file allows archiving. -- Eatcha (talk · contribs) 15:22, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm not saying you do anything wrong. I just thought we could do the same on Pixabay. That's all :-) But lets not waste more time on this. --MGA73 (talk) 15:50, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-10

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

Problems

• Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [7]

Changes later this week

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [8]
• When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [9]
• On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [10]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [11]
• There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
• wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [12]

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EatchaBot

Edits like this performed by your bot are causing a multitude of issues. The bot needs to include the |id= parameter as it is required per {{YouTubeReview}}. Not including it not only breaks the template but causes the license reviewer script to fail. Also, by including the archive parameter it is tripping an edit filter. Every time. This is drowning out actual problematic edits that are being overrun by your bot. I mean look at the log. There are hundreds of errant hits. I can fix the abuse filter problem but the id parameter issue needs to be fixed on your end. Please do so as soon as you are able to. Thank you. --Majora (talk) 17:09, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

@Majora. I was aware of the edit filter issue, I even posted a line at COM:AN about it but none of them helped me or maybe commons doesn't have enough experienced edit filter edits like you , maybe including the bot group in the filter temporarily could have avoided it ? I am currently not doing that anymore, as all images( screenshots ) from YouTube uploaded before 20 Feb are archived. I don't have approval to review screenshots from YouTube just videos , if I plug something into the id parameter the template changes to reviewed state. The Id is a switch. The bot NOW only adds a separate template like here , it's automatically removed after the file's reviewed by a license reviewer. I will remove the archive parameter from all the images that don't have id parameter. Eatcha (talk · contribs) 04:00, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Yeah...even temporarily exempting the username "EatchaBot" would have avoided all those false positives. If you aren't running that process anymore I'm not entirely sure it would be worth it to modify the filter. I understand now what you mean when you say that adding the ID results in the template being in the reviewed state. Reviewed as in by YouTubeReviewBot. Which wouldn't have been correct. Now I understand why you didn't do that as that wouldn't have been ideal. If it isn't running that process anymore I don't see why you would have to change anything on your end at all and since it is now programmed to add a separate template, even better. Thanks for all your work on the bot. --Majora (talk) 21:57, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

FV Promotion

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FV Promotion

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FV Promotion

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Tech News: 2020-11

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Recent changes

• There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [13][14][15]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
• The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [16]

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Tech News: 2020-12

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Recent changes

• There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

• If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [18][19]
• You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:17, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

License review

Hi! Your bot approved a review by a non-image-reviewer user. Only admins and license-reviewers are authorized to perform reviews. Maybe the bot should check the tags for latest edits. Example: File:Eminem and Skylar Grey (2018).jpg. - Premeditated (talk) 22:20, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

@Premeditated: I reviewed the file again. I think we should have another system to catch files reviewed by non admins/reviewers. Either have the bot revert the review or to add a warning or category. If the bot just leaves the review helper template then I doubt anyone will notice the problem. --MGA73 (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Premeditated, you should ask an admin to block that user. The edit filters are set to warn, they should be changed to disallowed or block. Iteration through edits of older files will take longer time. // Eatcha (talk) 02:27, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

I do agree with your though about disallowing the action, but that is not how it works now. It was only random that I choose to look into the history of the file. This could be a problem, because the bot unintentionally makes a "cover-up" for the non-image-reviewer. - Premeditated (talk) 13:01, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

File:3 Cycles of minor thirds - BassLessons.tv.webm

Why do you keep on tagging this file over and over again? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:34, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

@Koavf: I removed the {{Licensereview}} because we have an OTRS. Lets see if bot will leave it alone now. --MGA73 (talk) 19:04, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

MGA73 is correct, I forgot about ignoring the OTRS template in main tagging script but the removing script was designed to remove the helper if OTRS found (It generated a loop). Thanks for reporting, FIXED . //Eatcha (talk) 03:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

The Wayback Machine

Sometime ago the Wikimedia Commons community adopted a policy that external links should be archived (see: "Commons:Archive external links"), but so far this hasn't been implemented on all files, I saw that your bot makes edits like these in my e-mail notifications, do you think that it will be possible to archive other external links like for example the Wellcome museum? I would be nice if you could back up all external links on Wikimedia Commons like in the diff above. Is this technically possible for the EatchaBot? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:20, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

I just noticed that it only archives files from the Flickr review template, the links that remained unarchived are in the file description, Fæ actually did a trial sample, see here. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 21:23, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Donald Trung I would wait for IABot, it's powered by The Internet Archive and is already running on multiple projects. Internet-Archive has supported many projects and is certainly interested in deploying it for commons but probably cp678 is busy. // Eatcha (talk) 04:14, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

(S)He has been busy for years, and from what I can tell you already have experience with archiving external links on Wikimedia Commons. Plus cp678 when requested did not want to bring what issues they're running into on Wikimedia Commons in the village pump and from what I can tell did not seem to share what code they've already written or what further hurdles they've been facing, despite Fæ already successfully running a test some time ago. The longer we'll wait the more link rot will occur, the more educational files we will lose that can't be verified. It's probably not best to let a single user monopolise something, especially not a paid editor. Or will the Internet Archive see your bot as spam because it's not trusted? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 08:16, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Donald Trung Fae's test had no web interface support (AFAIK, you can confirm it though), a web app to issue urgent taks is crucial if you are working with huge number of pages/files. I am running the Eatchabot at the max possible speed but still it's not even finished processing files starting with Integers, the bot is running 24*7 no breaks on 3.5 million files, you can imagine the time required to run a bot through all pages on commons. There are also legal concerns in archiving random URLs, unlike from a trusted site like Flickr/ YouTube/Twitter etc and may result in operators name in lawsuits. It's best if Internet Archives deals with this themselves.

"Or will the Internet Archive see your bot as spam ..." : They generally don't block bots run by anybody if it's behaving correctly and will not take their services down. //Eatcha (talk) 18:00, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

I understand, I will try to contact the Internet Archive then. Good luck with the whole Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo thing, I greatly appreciate it. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:39, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

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Changing tagging setting of FPCBot

Hi Eatcha.

Currently, FPCBot adds the assessments template under the information template (as far as I know). I think this needs a minor change, especially for cases like File:Koala in Zoo Duisburg.jpg (notice the {{Location}} template being separated from the {{Information}} template). I think it should be like File:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg; it should add {{Assessment}} as the title of a new section below the information section and use {{Assessments}} in that section. Is it possible to change the setting this way?

Thanks. Ahmad^talk 16:25, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Ahmad The issue with the location template was fixed about a week ago, https://github.com/Zitrax/FPCBot/blob/master/fpc.py#L755 (example edit) the bot now checks before adding the template. The section thing is controversial, there are users who complains that the section pushes down the license information( these types of users only cares about attribution in other websites, they can't live if the license information is not visible on the visible section of screen without scrolling down) and those who think adding the assessment at the bottom is unfair(these types of users have many FPs/QIs). I am not taking names to avoid conflict. There's also issue with the qicbot and vicbot, the developer is no longer active and the bots will keep placing the template at the bottom without caring about the section. I had this idea when I started working on adding POTD/MOTD templates, but I chose to avoid working on it due to the possibility of disagreement. //Eatcha (talk) 17:38, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I didn't notice this recent change (I was deciding which pictures to vote for in POTY, and I saw a couple of files having this problem). Hmmm... fair enough. The thing is that if the {{Quality image}} template is in the page, there will be a gap between the {{Assessments}} template and QI, and I know for a fact that merging QI into assessments is also controversial. Maybe the best course of action is to let it be the way it is. Ahmad^talk 18:28, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

What do I do with pages like User:EatchaBot/Files-requiring-license-review-gallery-uploaded-by/Flor WMCH?

Hi! No hurry. But what do I do with pages where I reviewed the files? Ignore them? Blank them? Nominate them for deletion? --MGA73 (talk) 14:12, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

MGA If you have time you can clean/delete, the bot cleans these pages every Saturday. Hope it helps.//Eatcha (talk) 14:16, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Great! I think I will just wait then. Yes I love the bot! --MGA73 (talk) 14:26, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Requests for autopatrol

Please screen users before nominating them for autopatrol. A lot have been inactive, or have problematic block logs that suggest a deeper look is needed than just edit count and age. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:31, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

DannyS I check for current global blocks and current local blocks on commons. I will add last edit check before nominating more users but I expect about 500 more users should be nominated to handle the patrol backlog. I assume around 80% of them will be promoted. Admins will check the logs no matter what I do. //Eatcha (talk) 05:48, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Please check more than just the last edit. I suggest at least the last 20. Please slow down your nominations. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

DannyS I will check last 50, slowing down doesn't makes sense considering the harm uncontrolled edits are causing to the projects and giving user rights to trusted users will encourage them. There are enough admins to assign user rights but they can't handle the backlog anymore it needs a solution and an urgent one. // Eatcha (talk) 05:56, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Please note that the number of unpatrolled edits you transcluded here only includes anonymous users, not registered ones. So giving autopatrol to every trusted registered user won't help reduce the unpatrolled anonymous edits backlog. pandakekok9 06:35, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

pandakekok SELECT count(rc_id) AS raw FROM recentchanges WHERE rc_patrolled = 0; ? Are you sure about what you said ? // Eatcha (talk) 06:39, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Steinsplitter ?? Am I wrong ? I think it's total unpatrolled edits (including anon and registered users) // Eatcha (talk) 06:45, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

I use exactly that query. It should pull the CNT of all unpatrolled edits. --Steinsplitter (talk) 07:25, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

@Steinsplitter: Interesting. I'm not a programmer, so can't argue that. (shrug) We should move the colored count at COM:CVN#Anonymous edits to another section then, because it's misleading. pandakekok9 07:28, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

I think it doesn't make any sense to automatically nominate this many users. If we wanted that, we could better setup any autopromotion. --Krd 10:49, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

• Please add further comments at Commons:Village_pump#Let's_brainstorm_ideas_on_how_to_defeat_the_unpatrolled_edits_backlog, it's better to discuss at a single central page than on my talk-page. //Eatcha (talk) 11:04, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

No, the VP discussion is different. This section is about your behavior. pandakekok9 11:51, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

You are not to add 500 more nominations to the request for rights page. In fact you are hereby restricted from adding any more nominations to that page until the current backlog is dealt with. My internet can barely keep up with the sheer number of sections on that page and your threat, and yes I take that as a threat, to add 500 more is totally and completely unacceptable. After the backlog is dealt with you are welcome to add more. However, you are not to add nominations via script. That is an unapproved bot like process in violation of COM:Bots. Saying that you are going to nominate 500 more and you expect 80% to be accepted still leave 100 denials. Whatever you are doing is far too broad. If you cannot abide by these restrictions I will block you from editing COM:RFR entirely. --Majora (talk) 11:37, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

• pandakekok9 You are absolutely right. The discussion belongs here. // Eatcha (talk) 03:01, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Majora Got it. -- Eatcha (talk) 02:59, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

My two cents for you

When in doubt, ask. Much of the conflicts could have been avoided. You would value your work far more if you had done it than if you had not, and if it causes issues the they would have already been done. On the technical side, it's often harder to fundamentally / architecturally change a piece of code than to just rewrite it from scratch. --Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 18:30, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Zhuyifei Understood -- Eatcha (talk) 02:57, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Archiving flickr pages

Just out of curiosity, why are you adding archived Flickr pages? Isn't it enough that they have been reviewed? mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 04:39, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Mrchoppers Commons:Bots/Requests/EatchaBot 5 // Eatcha (talk) 04:43, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I was wondering this too. Seems like a good idea though, just in case people change their Flickr photo. This edit of yours, however, seems to point to a non-existing Wayback Machine snapshot. — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 09:05, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Samwilson Those non-existing pages will most likely be available by tomorrow and guaranteed by end of this week. It's basically a lag. // Eatcha (talk) 10:04, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Ah cool, good to know. I'll check back later! — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 10:07, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13

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

Problems

• Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
• There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [20][21]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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MOTD Notification

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Tech News: 2020-14

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

• The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [22]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [23]
• There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [24]

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English-language text with a lot of Swedish proper names in it

I can see why this happened, but it shouldn't; maybe you can change something to prevent it. Tokfo (talk) 16:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Tokfo Will try to improve the results in the next run. And if you undo/rollback the edits (following the edit by bot), the bot is learning to not repeat similar errors while classifying. // Eatcha (talk) 17:51, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Adding description template to DRs

Hello!

These need to be avoided: Special:Diff/408043720, Special:Diff/408119220.Jonteemil (talk) 15:29, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Jonteemil, Will fix these errors in the next run. Reason : File title = Description on affected files. Eatcha (talk) 15:33, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Sounds good, cheers!Jonteemil (talk) 15:34, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

File:sghsdskahskdh.hajsj was recently deleted

I would like to let you know that File:sghsdskahskdh.hajsj was recently deleted, if you disagree with the deletion you are requested to file an un-deletion request at Commons:Undeletion requests/Current requests. Please do not make too many problematic un-deletion requests as this can lead to administrative actions.

Eatcha (talk) 10:54, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15

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

Problems

• There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [25]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [26]

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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

FV Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:BORDEAUX CORONAVIRUS - 24H AVANT LE CONFINEMENT.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:BORDEAUX CORONAVIRUS - 24H AVANT LE CONFINEMENT.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

/FVCBot (talk) 21:01, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

File:Learn Go Programming Golang Tutorial for Beginners.webm

File:Learn Go Programming Golang Tutorial for Beginners.webm has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: I MESSED UP, picked the wrong video. It's all non free license. Original video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS4e4q9oBaU Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Eatcha (talk) 03:18, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Bot

Your bot seems to be removing the {{YouTube CC-BY}} when removing the LR helper template. Could you fix that? Thanks, pandakekok9 12:51, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

pandakekok Thanks for reporting, this will be fixed when the source is pulled again at midnight by the UTC. If you are interested is reason of this error: Because of a greedy regex that I wrote, now replaced with a non greedy one. // Eatcha (talk) 13:34, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

EatchaBot tags placeholders

The bot has a bug: Special:Diff/410970121. File:No image.svg is just a placeholder sometimes used when original POTD has been deleted for some reason. Also it's worth to note that it adds the template in a rather random place and screws up the header. File:ImageNA.svg is even more funny: Special:Diff/146259103/410971365. --jdx ^Re: 08:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Jdx Thank you for reporting this bug and helping to improve EatchaBot. Examining the information you have given us, this appears to be an issue with the missing information template and a missing "\n". Closing as resolved. //Eatcha (talk) 09:16, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Location and Media of the day templates

Hey, why is {{Media of the day}} added above {{Location}}? Is that for purpose? Thanks, --janbery (talk) 09:53, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Janbery Thank you for reporting this issue and helping to improve EatchaBot. Examining the information you have given us, it's primarily because I wanted the bot to add the MOTD template just below the information template and it's pretty rare for videos on commons to have location templates. It now looks for location templates and if found adds the MOTD template below the location templates. Check new edit. // Eatcha (talk) 13:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, mate! --janbery (talk) 14:23, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16

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

Recent changes

• You can now use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [27]
• You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [28]
• You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
• When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [29]
• There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [30]

Problems

• There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [31][32][33]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes

• Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [34]
• The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
• For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

FV Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:Drawingmachine by Eske Rex.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Drawingmachine by Eske Rex.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

/FVCBot (talk) 13:01, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

File:Coronavirus President Trump Cuts US Funding to WHO.webm

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:Coronavirus President Trump Cuts US Funding to WHO.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Bot

Hi Eatcha, thanks for improving the project. Just for information, I had to fix a small problem here after Eatchabot changed the code. I don't know where the issue came from originally, maybe the translation. But the error corrupted the display of the description frame, and other users may not check their files. Perhaps you should have a look. Best regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:26, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Basile Morin Thanks for reporting, I've fixed the regex to check for newlines before returning the value. // Eatcha (talk) 03:33, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

File description bot problem

Hi, your bot corrupted the page in this edit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Michael_Ancher_portrætfoto_2_-_Restoration.jpg&diff=0&oldid=354917034&diffmode=source Matma Rex (talk) 17:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting, I reverted the change. This is just a one time run and would never be repeated again ever. This file's description was not following overall homogeneity that other more than 90% potds and motds have. I will add the template "Multilingual description" to the black list and the bot will simply skip these exceptional cases. -- Eatcha (talk) 17:28, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17

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

Tech News

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

• The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [35]
• Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [36]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [37]
• The font in the diffs will change. [38]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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18:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

This time the bot adds descriptions to the placeholder

See Special:Diff/413851517. --jdx ^Re: 06:47, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting, added to block list. It was embarrassing, considering the other script did the same mistake. Maybe I should create a global block list for all my bot tasks. -- Eatcha (talk) 09:15, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:Mantis just watches earthworm as it wiggles between its legs (shot 5-4-2019) (1456).webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

UserRightsBot

Hi, I think the bot archives requests too quickly, they shouldn't be archived for atleast 1/2 days. Thanks. -- CptViraj (📧) 02:12, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting, I was thinking about this I guess this is the right time to sort this out. I will update once the necessary changes have been made. // -- Eatcha (talk) 09:04, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

 Done CptViraj The bot will now wait for 12 hours from the last signature time. // Eatcha (talk) 10:16, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

FPCBot closing delist nomination early

I noticed that FPCBot incorrectly closed Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/File:Reflections of Earth 9.jpg because it had no supports (obviously). I believe delist nominations are not subject to early closure (and even if they were, this one shouldn't have been closed early as there is opposition). I have partially blocked the bot from editing that one specific page. In the meantime, can you fix the bug? Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:38, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

King of Hearts Are you aware that the bot never closed/parked any deleting candidate since this (29 May 2013) edit. Technically there's nothing on the delist page because it's just a redirect and the delist candidates are treated as FPC candidates because they are on the FPC candidates page. IIRC, I had asked A.Savin about it but he doesn't remember the exact reason for the redirect.

Writing a clean patch would take some time but this shit patch works. I will test this out and check it won't break anything and merge before midnight UTC. // Eatcha (talk) 05:57, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it. Always appreciate your work around featured content! -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:09, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

King of Hearts , forgot to remove the partial block ? // 09:04, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

 Done King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 13:35, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

MOTD

Hello, though I "opted out" here, I keep receiving notifications. — Racconish ^💬 07:02, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

 fixed Racconish Thanks for reporting, I actually re-wrote that script some weeks ago and forgot about the exclusion page. Eatcha (talk) 08:30, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:Dijkstra s algorithm explained.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-19

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

Problems

• Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [39]
• Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [40]

Changes later this week

• You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [41]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Coronavirus President Trump Cuts US Funding to WHO.webm

File:Coronavirus President Trump Cuts US Funding to WHO.webm has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: Copyrightef infraction : not a VOA shoot but an AP video, indicated in the top left corner Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

mikani (to talk) 14:49, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Coronavirus President Trump Cuts US Funding to WHO.webm

File:Coronavirus President Trump Cuts US Funding to WHO.webm has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

mikani (to talk) 09:20, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:The Parrot - Toyor Baby English.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:02, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Vizag Gas Leak Many feared killed after leak in chemical factory.webm

File:Vizag Gas Leak Many feared killed after leak in chemical factory.webm has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

acagastya 02:39, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20

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

• Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [42]

Problems

• Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [43]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [44][45]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [46]

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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

User:Deletion Notification Bot delivers broken deletion messages

Hi Eatcha, in case of mass deletion requests, your bot creates a flood of individual messages, all broken like this one which do not link correctly to the DR. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 08:22, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

BTW, I have reposted the same point at Commons:Bots/Requests/Deletion Notification Bot. Regards, AFBorchert (talk) 10:12, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Replied @ Commons:Bots/Requests/Deletion Notification Bot // Eatcha (talk) 10:24, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Coronavirus President Trump Cuts US Funding to WHO.webm

File:Coronavirus President Trump Cuts US Funding to WHO.webm has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

I am a software, please do not ask me any questions but at the help desk. //Deletion Notification Bot (talk) 10:08, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:BORDEAUX CORONAVIRUS - 24H AVANT LE CONFINEMENT.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

File:PAPER TURTLE ORIGAMI TURTLE (Akira Yoshizawa) - Remake.webm

File:PAPER TURTLE ORIGAMI TURTLE (Akira Yoshizawa) - Remake.webm has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

El Grafo (talk) 09:20, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21

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

Recent changes

• If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [47][48]

Problems

• There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [49]
• Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [50][51]

Changes later this week

• The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [52]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [53]
• Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [54]
• Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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17:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:Lentil sprouting Haft-sin time lapse.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-22

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

Changes later this week

• The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [55]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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14:17, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:Drawingmachine by Eske Rex.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:NASA and SpaceX prepare to -LaunchAmerica.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Deletion Notification Bot

Talking about your bot, Deletion Notification Bot. Please make it write down the reason for the deletion nomination on the user's talk page or the user might get confused why their file is getting deleted. --Red-back spider (talk) 09:25, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Red black spider please provide examples (diff link) where the bot was unclear/vague. And state what changes you want. // Eatcha (talk) 11:08, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

@Eatcha: I already deleted the bot's message from the owner user talk, the bot's message said it requires speedy deletion but doesn't say "why it requires speedy deletion?" --Red-back spider (talk) 21:30, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

User:Red-back spider, I found the diff. Will fix this issue ASAP. Thanks. // Eatcha (talk) 02:56, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. --Red-back spider (talk) 09:42, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23

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

• There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [56]

Problems

• There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [57][58][59]
• The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [60]

Changes later this week

• You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [61]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

File:Guzheng Much Sorrow 古筝 几多愁.webm

File:Guzheng Much Sorrow 古筝 几多愁.webm has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: music of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDCab4FMXQM composer zh:譚健常 still alive. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Roy17 (talk) 00:37, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

YouTubeReviewBot problem

Yikes! It removed everything I wrote and replaced it with a whole lot of completely unrelated categories/description? — Rhododendrites ^talk |  21:24, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

another — Rhododendrites ^talk |  02:00, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

I have temporarily blocked the bot, pending debugging of the issue. Platonides (talk) 02:42, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

 fixed Platonides and Rhododendrites. // Eatcha (talk) 06:29, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

@Platonides: @Rhododendrites: I have unblocked the bot as per this request. Hope thats fine. Thank you - FitIndia ^{Talk ✉} 10:13, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Completely fine, Fitindia. Thanks. And to Eatch too for the quick fixing. Platonides (talk) 21:34, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

UserRightsBot

Hi, Currently bot's edit summary is "Removing <username> <userright> request (Status: <Approved/Denied>)". How about replacing Removing with Archiving? IMO that would be more descriptive. -- CptViraj (talk) 12:42, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

CptViraj  done // Eatcha (talk) 12:58, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

 Thank you. -- CptViraj (talk) 13:00, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Clarification please...

Have you considered my report on Eatchabot replacing {{License review}} with {{Flickr review}}? Geo Swan (talk) 16:33, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Geo Swan AFAIK the task is inactive for more than 2 weeks, I will restart it ASAP. When it's restarted your uploads(from User:Geo Swan account only) will not be processed. // Eatcha (talk) 17:50, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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

• Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [62]
• Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [63]
• There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [64][65]

Changes later this week

• You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [66]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [67]

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21:11, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Problematic bot message

Hi. The message left by your bot here is problematic. It's assuming all speedy deletions are for problematic reasons, while some of them are for procedural ones. Would it be possible for the bot to scrape the deletion rationale from the log and use that instead? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:04, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

The pre deletion notification job is paused until this issue is fixed. // Eatcha (talk) 04:45, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

 Done The Squirrel Conspiracy // Eatcha (talk) 08:29, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25

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

• Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

• There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [68]
• Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [69]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [70]
• The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [71]

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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

User Research - Looking for volunteers

Hello @Eatcha:

I write to you, because you have been very active on Commons in the past, even if you state now that you are semi-retired. Especcially because you said on your userpage, that you wanted to take a break from Wikipedia and ended up on Commons, your input would be very important for us. So I just hope, that you this this :)

For a current research project we are looking for active community members in Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons who are interested in filling out a survey and participating in an interview. The aim of the research is to identify opportunities for participation and access for new volunteers in the Wikimedia projects. For this purpose we would like to learn from the experiences of the already active community members and find out success factors for participation in the projects. Participation includes filling out a preliminary survey, a self-study and an interview.

If you are interested in participating, simply fill out this survey. The participants in the interviews will be selected on the basis of the answers in order to be able to consider as many different perspectives as possible.

All selected interview partners will receive a book or photo voucher of 25 euros as a thank you.

Feel free to forward this call to other people you think might share interesting experiences about Commons. If you have any questions you can of course contact me or check the project page :) On the Project Page you can also find more information.

Regards --Merle von Wittich (WMDE) (talk) 12:31, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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FM Promotion

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Tech News: 2020-26

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

Problems

• There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [72]
• Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [73]

Changes later this week

• The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [74]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [75]

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18:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Bot User:Deletion_Notification_Bot messes up discussion pages

Hi, see please Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard#Bot_User:Deletion_Notification_Bot_messes_up_discussion_pages. Thanks.--Mahlzahn (talk) 14:09, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

replied there.//Eatcha (talk) 04:43, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Allow uploading of MP4 files

Hi! You made a good suggestion for videos and the result was clear but per Commons:Village_pump/Proposals/Archive/2019/11#Wrap_up_the_proposal someone need to do something. Before I ask around I would like to hear if you know anything about the status. --MGA73 (talk) 10:29, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

MGA No, I don't. IMO fastest option is to implement Proposal 1 in the upload wizard, video2commmons is already a nice implementation of the proposal 1 upload wizard should probably embed it. // Eatcha (talk) 04:34, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Does your concern about the legal aspect not apply for both option 1 and 2? (Can WMF legally host mp4?) --MGA73 (talk) 06:52, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

MGA Both both option 1 and 2 are illegal, it's illegal to run an unauthorized transcoder and also hosting MP4 files(H.264). Why V2C is running an illegal trans-coder ? It's community managed tool, WMF is not directly responsible for it. But "On August 26, 2010, MPEG LA announced that royalties won't be charged for H.264(patent expiring in 2027) encoded Internet video that is free to end-users." maybe it's legal for Wikimedia commons. "Can WMF legally host mp4?" , best answered by the WMF legal staff. // Eatcha (talk) 03:08, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes I agree legal should answer that question. I will see if I can find someone to ask. --MGA73 (talk) 07:06, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

I have now sent an email to someone from Legal now and will inform you about their reply. Thanks a lot for bringing up the suggestion! --MGA73 (talk) 07:43, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

FM Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk - Original NASA EVA Mission Video - Walking on the Moon.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk - Original NASA EVA Mission Video - Walking on the Moon.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

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Tech News: 2020-27

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

Problems

• Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [76]
• Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [77]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:01, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Archiving eBay urls with EatchaBot

Hi! I've happily noted EatchaBot archiving flickr sources, and I was wondering if that could be extended to eBay sources as well. eBay links usually 404 starting 90 days after a listing ends, so link rot is guaranteed to happen without archiving. The rate is fairly low - Commons currently has only ~4500 images from eBay, and the maximum per day is probably a couple dozen if I go on an upload binge. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:23, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Will look into it when I have time, before the end of this week. // Eatcha (talk) 08:41, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Pi Any example image ? Top results in this query are not machine-readable and thus can only be archived but not replaced with the archive URL. I know the URLs are 404 but I'm more interested in the processing and I couldn't found any status 200 URLs. // Eatcha (talk) 10:13, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! File:Hotel Somerset white border Tichnor postcard.jpg is one that I uploaded this week with a live url. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

FPCBot

Hi, if/when you have the time... FPCBot has done some strange things lately [78] [79]. I've seen it on some other gallery pages before, [80], but thought it was just a random glitch. Now it is happening a bit too often. Have I missed something? Be well, --Cart (talk) 11:09, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Will look into it when I have time, before the end of this week. // Eatcha (talk) 08:42, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. It also seems to ignore some fifth-day promotions. --Cart (talk) 14:01, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

W.carter Any example(link) for fifth-day-ignore-bug  ? // Eatcha (talk) 14:07, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Ther is [81] and I'm about to take care of [82] and [83] manually. --Cart (talk) 14:14, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

W.carter There's a bad news, I couldn't find the bug in the fifth-day promotions methods. But I'm sure it's not related to any counting error of the votes. When was the first time you noticed the bug ?

And the problem with galleries is fixed and will be pulled on servers ASAP. -- Eatcha (talk) 15:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

@W.carter: probably ping failure. Eatcha (talk) 15:38, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

The first time I noticed it was when I got pinged on the Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:St. Venantius, Wertheim, Nave 20160802 1.jpg. But then again, I've been busy IRL these past months so I didn't pay much attention to things like that. From what I can see, it closes fifth-day 'not featured', it's just the featured that is lagging. Thanks anyway for fixing the gallery bug. That was the most urgent item. People usually yell at someone ( me) when their noms aren't closed in time, so we can do that manually if it keeps happening. I'll try to keep a logg on it and get back to you in a month or so if it hasn't improved. --Cart (talk) 15:45, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Update: It seems it actually did close one fifth-day today [84]. Perhaps your prodding it helped. ;) --Cart (talk) 15:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Something really strange happened here and here. --Cart (talk) 11:23, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Wcarter fixed, but there's a problem. I don't have access to the tool account on tool forge and the code can't be updated manually, there might be some more buggy edits today( at 21:00 UTC). Sorry. // Eatcha (talk) 12:02, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

No problem. I know you are doing the best you can, when you can. We are very grateful for that!! I'll keep an eye on things and fix in the meantime. :-) --Cart (talk) 12:36, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

File:DAL Love Field.svg - from where?

Thanks to your wonderful bot, I'm able to go through Category:Files_requiring_license_review_sorted_by_user_name and license review one user at a time. Naturally I decided to go to User:EatchaBot/Files-requiring-license-review-gallery-uploaded-by/Eatcha early. However, the only file there, this one, is hard to review, since source is listed as https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_products/dtpp/search/results/?cycle=1702&ident=dal which is a list of 89 different PDFs, with inscrutable titles, and no clue which of those this particular image might have come from. Could you please be a bit more specific? Thanks. --GRuban (talk) 23:40, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

GRuban The files was vectorized by me from File:DAL Love Field.pdf which was uploaded on 3 September 2014 on Wikipedia. I checked all the links on the source page and it appears that the file is no longer available on FAA's website(404 - File or directory not found). Should I open a DR for both the files ? And thanks for taking the time to review my uploads. // Eatcha (talk) 04:55, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

No, I wouldn't. The claim is that it was made by the federal government, which seems quite likely. We accept lots of files on the uploader's say-so that they took the photo themselves, license review is, as Commons:License review says " to check whether an image currently marked as non-free was uploaded under a free license" in case that free license is ever removed, which does happen, but the federal government can not remove their license. Plenty of our files are never license reviewed, that doesn't mean they should automatically be deleted. --GRuban (talk) 14:03, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

FM Promotion

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Tech News: 2020-28

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

Problems

• The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [85]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [86]
• The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
• Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Deletion Notification Bot

Your bot is apparently substituting notification templates, rather than using the standard system of using the templates as designed, and as every other tool uses them. Could you please stop unnecessary substitutions, this leaves large amounts of haphazard format and style tags in the wiki text and becomes impossible for other tools to navigate. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 13:13, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

 updated Thanks for feedback. // Eatcha (talk) 03:59, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Deletion Notification Bot (2)

Hi, I have had 2 notifications for redirects that were nominated for deletion. See the history of my talk page. I am a file mover, and those redirects were automatically created after a file move. As file mover I don't need to be informed about these nominations. I don't know if this can be fixed or not. I haven't had any problem with this before abd it happened twice now, so I think something has changed. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 14:08, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

 fixed // Eatcha (talk) 14:10, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

FM Promotion

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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Representing Polynomials in Python Using Numpy.webm

Copyright status: File:Representing Polynomials in Python Using Numpy.webm

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Tech News: 2020-30

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

• A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems

• There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [87]
• Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [88]
• Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [89]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [90]

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19:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

FM Promotion

This file has been promoted to Featured media! The file File:Continuing Promise transits the Panama Canal-ZLIWzvfdisQ-248+251.webm, which you nominated at Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Continuing Promise transits the Panama Canal-ZLIWzvfdisQ-248+251.webm, has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another file, please do so.

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FM Promotion

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Tech News: 2020-31

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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [91]
• The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
• On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems

• The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [92][93]
• Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [94]
• Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [95]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

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//EatchaBot (talk) 00:02, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

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

Problems

• All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [96]
• Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [97]
• There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [98]
• A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [99]

Changes later this week

• The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [100]
• Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [101]
• In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
• Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [102]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Delete notification bot add colon

Hi. Can you please see this edit. Your bot added colon ":" in front of word "Category" and therefore it's showing red link in this talk page, instead of correct link as in template in file. --Smooth O (talk) 14:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33

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

• FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [103]

Problems

• The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [104]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [105][106]

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

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

Recent changes

• If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [107]
• The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [108]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [109][110]

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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Proposal

		The Commons Barnstar
		For proposing grid view! Regards, Jeromi Mikhael (marhata) 12:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

SignBot

Hi. Special:Contributions/SignBot It hasn't edited since 14 August, and Zhuyifei1999 would prefer not to do anything in regards to Commons, so would you please help?   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 05:06, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

File:Akhil singer.jpg

Hi @Eatcha: ! I noticed this file. It was reviewed in June but it is still in Category:YouTube review needed. I thought the bot removed templates etc to remove the files from the review category. Do you have any idea why the file is still in the category? And do you have any idea on how to remove all reviewed files from the category in an easy way? --MGA73 (talk) 15:12, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Is featured media bot closing votings too early?

Either I do not understand the FMC voting rules or this bot is closing the votings too early. For example Commons:Featured_media_candidates/candidate_list#File:Lorentz_сhaos_as_black_hole.ogv,_featured,_featured has a voting period end on 2020-08-31 but has been closed 13:00, 14 August 2020 (UTC). Is this behaviour intended? -- Dr. Schorsch (talk) 09:59, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

UserRightsBot

Hi, for some reason bot isn't archiving Commons:RFR#Epicgenius. Can you please take a look? Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 15:55, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).

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17:58, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

youtubebot was all wrong

special:diff/440425686 added entirely irrelevant info.--RZuo (talk) 10:42, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Вікі любить пам'ятки 2020 в Україні / Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in Ukraine

Привіт!

З 1 по 30 вересня вже традиційно пройде українська частина міжнародного фотоконкурсу «Вікі любить пам'ятки»! На конкурс можна подавати власні фото пам'яток історико-культурної спадщини України — і змагатися за призи. Більше можна прочитати за посиланням.

Радимо ознайомитися із детальними правилами, а також із відповідями на часті питання. З найважливіших змін цього року:

• у номінації «За найбільшу кількість сфотографованих пам’яток» — збільшився додатковий бал за фотографії пам'яток (якщо світлин пам'ятки раніше не було завантажено, то можна отримати 21 бал.

Нагадаємо, що всі фотографії автоматично беруть участь у номінації «За найбільшу кількість сфотографованих пам’яток»; однак для того, щоб фото позмагалося у номінації «Найкраще фото», потрібно підтвердити це при завантаженні.

Цього року теж є спецномінації «Єврейська спадщина», «Млини» та «Відео». Також є спеціальна номінація від проєкту «Via Regia Ukraine» — у ній автоматично беруть участь світлини всіх пам’яток міст України, через які пролягає Via Regia — Дубно, Рівне, Острог, Львів, Броди, Городок (Львівська область), Луцьк, Володимир-Волинський, Радомишль, Житомир та Київ. Цього року у Завантажувачі не передбачено окремих параметрів для спецномінацій — світлини зараховуватимуться автоматично з відповідних списків.

Усі номінації та спецномінації конкурсу описані тут.

Приєднуйтеся!

Зі списками пам'яток можна ознайомитися тут. Більше інформації про конкурс дивіться за посиланням. Щоб отримувати інформацію про новинки у конкурсі — підпишіться на наші блог та сторінку у фейсбук.

Якщо у Вас є запитання, можете звертатися wlmwikimedia.org.ua чи у фейсбук – З повагою, Оргкомітет «Вікі любить пам'ятки». 06:29, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Ви отримали це повідомлення, оскільки Ви брали участь в одному із фотоконкурсів «Вікімедіа Україна» чи допомагали (наприклад, редагували файли з цих конкурсів).

If you do not speak Ukrainian, but you are interested in a contest, you can check out our page in English here.

Tech News: 2020-36

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

Problems

• This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [111][112]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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20:07, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37

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

Changes later this week

• Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [113]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
• All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [114]

Future changes

• The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
• OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [115]
• The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [116][117]
• Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
• Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Your bot needs to write | instead of | for template parameters

For example special:diff/436640768 2=«Давайте снова сделаем выборы праздником!» Светлана Тихановская в Бобруйске | Новости Бобруйска led to an error.--RZuo (talk) 20:15, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for Deletion Notification Bot

Seems like a useful little fellow! --Palosirkka (talk) 11:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Youtube review bot needlessly removes templates

Hello, I believe that your bot is making a mistake when it removes a {{published on}} template. It is a minor annoyance, and, of course, it is trivial to readd it, but it shouldn't do that. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 08:50, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-38

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Problems

• The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [118][119]

Changes later this week

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

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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Вікі любить пам'ятки 2020 в Україні: залишилося два тижні! / Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in Ukraine: two weeks are left!

Привіт!

Українська частина міжнародного фотоконкурсу «Вікі любить пам'ятки» триватиме ще два тижні, до 30 вересня!

За перші два тижні учасники завантажили понад 16 тисяч фото українських пам’яток. Це поки найбільший результат серед усіх 29 країн, які цьогоріч організовують конкурс. Свої роботи на українську частину конкурсу вже подали 239 авторів, половина із них вперше долучилися до змагання. На знімках представлені пам’ятки з усіх регіонів України. Загалом сфотографовано 5568 об’єктів із конкурсних списків.

Найменш представленими поки є Луганська (69 фото 45 об’єктів) і Херсонська (81 фото 38 об’єктів) області та місто Севастополь (136 фото 39 об’єктів). Якщо у вас (чи у ваших друзів та знайомих) є світлини з цих регіонів — без вагань долучайтеся до фотозмагання!

У рамках спеціальної номінації «Єврейська спадщина» завантажено понад 650 світлин 126 пам'яток, з яких знімки 42 — завантажено вперше. Якщо ваш населений пункт має об'єкти єврейської культурної спадщини, але їх нема у списках, напишіть нам, щоб ми їх додали до списків!

Спеціальна номінація «Млини» — понад 640 фото 144 об'єктів, знімки 44 — завантажено вперше. Загалом база млинів зараз нараховує понад 615 об'єктів, і вона постійно доповнюється.

Вперше цього року ми втілюємо спеціальну номінацію від проєкту «Via Regia Ukraine» — на жаль, ще зовсім нема світлин із Бродів та Радомишля. І з Житомира є тільки 7 світлин, а з міста Рівного — 8 фото.

У спеціальній номінації «Відео» — понад 20 робіт.

Попереду ще два тижні конкурсу. Встигніть долучитися самі та запрошуйте друзів.

Чекаємо на ваші роботи!

Усі номінації та спецномінації конкурсу описані тут.

Зі списками пам'яток можна ознайомитися тут. Більше інформації про конкурс дивіться тут: wlm.photo. Щоб отримувати інформацію про новинки у конкурсі — підпишіться на наші блог та сторінку у фейсбук.

Якщо у Вас є запитання, можете звертатися wlmwikimedia.org.ua чи у фейсбук – З повагою, Оргкомітет «Вікі любить пам'ятки»

Ви отримали це повідомлення, оскільки Ви брали участь у конкурсі «Вікі любить пам'ятки» раніше чи допомагали (наприклад, редагували файли з цього конкурсу).

If you do not speak Ukrainian, but you are interested in a contest, you can check out our page in English here. 22:44, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-39

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

Recent changes

• There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [120][121]

Changes later this week

• The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [122]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21:25, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Video not being checked

Not sure why, but File:Catullus 63 (Attis), Latin recitation, Galliambus.webm isn't being checked by the Yotube Review bot – I have of course added {{Licensereview}} JimKillock (talk) 09:43, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Your Bot notifications

are not adding a section header to the user talk pages, which is minunim confusinf when somebody likes to edit this sectio or the one above. Can you please fix this. PS: i.e. see here. --JuTa 22:03, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

The easyest way to fix that, would be IMHO to subst there templates. --JuTa 03:33, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

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

• Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [123]
• Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [124]

Problems

• Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [125]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
• The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
• In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [126]
• You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
• You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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21:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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

• There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
• You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [127]

Problems

• There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [128]
• Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [129]
• Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
• Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [130]

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [131]

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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42

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

• Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [132][133][134]

Changes later this week

• Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [135][136]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

• A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [137]

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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

The photo couldn't be found on reverbnation

The photo couldn't be found on reverbnation Rubiesar (talk) 03:20, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

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 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [138]
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [139]
• Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

How do I stop your bot from reviewing my uploads?

Your bot is breaking the wikicode horribly. How do I stop it from reviewing my files. I find it a better alternative. ℺ Gone Postal (〠 ✉ • ✍ ⏿) 14:54, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

I blocked your bot because it was malfunctioning. Please request unblock when it's fixed. Ciell (talk) 16:40, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Something with mismatching between the YT-channels the movies where taken from:

• Not a White House video
• same
• same

This might not be the bots fault: YT is deleting account today, that violated their regulations several times. There might be a shift in numbering or something..? Ciell (talk) 17:16, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44

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

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [140]
• Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [141]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [142]
• There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [143]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [144]

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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45

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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [145]
• There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [146]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
• Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [147]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [148]

Future changes

• A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [149]
• In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:07, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

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.

Future changes

• You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [150]
• From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [151][152]

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15:48, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

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

• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [153][154]

Changes later this week

• If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [155]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:35, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

File:Kashmir Singh.png

File:Kashmir Singh.png has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: source=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/will-do-it-all-again-says-punjab-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold/article22482714.ece Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

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Tech News: 2020-48

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

• Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [156]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [157]

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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

POTD tagging

Hi, Eatcha. Please fix POTD tagging by your bot -- POTD is already included in assessments. --A.Savin 14:15, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

@A.Savin Thanks for the informing. The bot shouldn't repeat the behavior again. -- Eatcha (talk) 04:02, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-49

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 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

• The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [158][159]
• The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [160]

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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

MOTD Notification

⭐ A file you uploaded is on the main page! ⭐ File:360 Video Syrians "Have to Survive Having No Rights" in Lebanon.webm, that you uploaded, is on the main page today. Thank you for your contributions to this project.

//EatchaBot (talk) 00:00, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

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

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [161][162]

Changes later this week

• Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [163][164]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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16:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Bot bad edits

Your bot is changing good links to individual videos to error / bad links. Please check and revert all your bad links on Category:Welsh Government videos and all sub cats. For example: this one. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 09:55, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Doing ASAP. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:17, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

@Llywelyn are all files on Welsh Government's channel UCqLR2NQK4a7P6dwsn02srng compatible with Wikimedia Commons licensing policy? If yes, should I add the channel-ID (UCqLR2NQK4a7P6dwsn02srng) to User:YouTubeReviewBot/Trusted? Adding to trusted page will make the bot pass the review even if videos aren't explicitly marked "creative commons" on YouTube. -- Eatcha (talk) 06:26, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Eatcha, and many thanks for the quick response. Welsh Government have changed their policy, whereby ALL their vidoes on YouTube will, in the next few days, be tagged as CC-BY. They've also asked for all videos uploaded to Commons could also have an OGL licence. I'll be writing a blog on this shortly. Many thanks again. PS Yes, please add to the list! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 04:19, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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

Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [165]

Changes later this week

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

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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks

I'd like to thank you for adding Ukrainian translations to the photo of the day! --Goo3 (talk) 16:19, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Archiving eBay urls with EatchaBot

Hi Eatcha - I asked you about this back in July, and I'm sorry for missing your response. If you're still willing to work on it, File:Sausalito ferry terminal postcard.jpg and File:Pieta station 1912 postcard.jpg have live urls as you requested. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:12, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Pi.1415926535 see Commons:Bots/Requests/InternetArchiveBot. -- Eatcha (talk) 05:14, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

• The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [166]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
• Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [167]
• Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [168]

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20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy holidays 2020/2021!

		* Happy Holidays 2020/2021, Eatcha/Archive! *
		Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Joyeux Noël! Bonne année! Frohes Weihnachten! Frohes Neues Jahr! Счастливого Рождества! С Новым годом! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Щасливого Різдва! З Новим роком!    -- George Chernilevsky talk 13:48, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

@George Chernilevsky Thank you. Happy Holidays to you too! // Eatcha (talk) 08:51, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

UserRightsBot

Hi. Please adjust the bot to respect {{D}} so that edits like this by CptViraj are no longer necessary.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 12:50, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

@Jeff G. The bot can recognize the {{D}} template. See regex101.com/r/4nI9Zc/1. The relevant line is at github.com/eatcha-wikimedia/commons-rfr-archive-bot/blob/master/main.py. The nomination was full of exceptions. The regex generator is designed to generate regexen that doesn't look beyond one "newline/EOL character" for candidate text. The issue can be avoided if users don't use more than one EOL for comments. I can not increase EOL lookahead limit because I want to avoid accidental defacing of the RFR page by my bot, not handling some candidates is less disgraceful. -- Eatcha (talk) 14:34, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 14:38, 27 December 2020 (UTC)