User talk:MacFan4000

MyWikis Hosting Service
Dear LegoFan4000,

I am reluctant to contact you, but need to ask you about the MyWikis hosting services. I have signed up for their services and have not had any response from them. Do you know if they are still in business?

If this message is inappropriate for you and your role in helping with MediaWiki, please forgive my ignorance.

HarryDearing (talk) 16:43, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I am not the person to ask. LegoFan4000 (talk) 19:48, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Translate tags for hub pages
Hi MacFan4000, maybe you can help me. I'm going to redesign some hub pages (user, admin, developer ...) to make them look a bit nicer and more modern with MediaWiki colors. I have a draft here: User:RichardHeigl/Draft. But this page has many translations and I don't know how rebuild this page without crashing the translation system. You're an expert for translation tags. Can you give me some hints how I can help myself? I've studied the help pages, but still didn't get it. :-( RichardHeigl (talk) 13:29, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Basically just wrap anything that should be translatable (except templates), in Translate tags. Just be sure you leave any <!-T:x-> markers where they are and don’t try to add any yourself, they are managed by the translate system. For templates that are translatable, use .  MacFan4000 (talk) 14:15, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your quick answer. I'll try this way from bottom up. The problem is, that this portals will get a complete template for the page. That makes it tricky :-) RichardHeigl (talk) 14:27, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * At the draft page it works perfectly, if I try to copy it to the user hub page, I got one error message after another. I also can't do a rollback. Maybe you have more rights and you don't get these error messages which stopp me? RichardHeigl (talk) 08:25, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I fixed it. MacFan4000 (talk) 11:22, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hero!! Great! RichardHeigl (talk) 11:24, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Hey! User:Elitre (WMF)/test doesn't need to be translated, do I need to do something about that? Thanks. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 17:01, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I removed it from translation. I was trying to clean up the list of pages that are,t marked for translation. MacFan4000 (talk) 17:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-37
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. You can choose to get these notifications in your preferences. Some wikis already had this option. It is now available on all wikis.
 * The Newsletter extension is now on mediawiki.org. The newsletter extension is for newsletters where you can subscribe by getting a notification when a new issue has been published. It will come to more wikis later.
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: . This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug.

Problems
 * Tech News 2017/36 reported about new filters for edit review coming to watchlists. This was planned to happen last week. It will happen next week instead.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can use Electron instead. Most PDFs are already created with Electron. Electron will get missing features before 1 October. You can create books but they will not have all planned features until November or December. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
 * New filters for edit review are available now on recent changes as a beta feature. Some of those filters and other features will be deployed as default features in the coming weeks. Users will be able to opt out in their preferences.

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