User talk:Kghbln

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Misc: grok.se - NSA My highest contribution rank on this wiki: #3 on 2014-08-31

My wikilove. :) Lovely, indeed. :)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Thank you for help and encouragement on various MW.org tweaks.  :) Varnent 20:26, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your truly awesome work on many wikis, in particular the Semantic MediaWiki one :) Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 15:02, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thank you for your help though the program does confuse me quite a bit I appreciate you kindness in helping me if only you participated in adopting people then I would want you as a mentor have a beer in my kind offering to you. Kiki-kk (talk) 21:26, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for cool edit on Extension:SpecialDeleteOldRevisions2‎ ! It is late and my head is of... It's good that you are on guard!

Jehy (talk) 20:53, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

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

Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed.

Problems

• The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it.

Changes later this week

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

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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

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

Problems

• Some pages show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything.
• Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

• Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices.

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21:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

See task T173184

Hello Kghbln, you have marked Extension:Advanced Meta as archived, can you fill a phab task to clean up gerrit and so on? Thanks.

Sure, done with task T173184.

• Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style.

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

Recent changes

• You can now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized.
• The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter.

Problems

• You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to.
• The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP.
• Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months.
• Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings.

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21:45, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the appreciation!

	The Original Barnstar
	For the wonderful work you do, updating documentation and answering questions. <3

Thank you for appreciating my work here and trying to do my best. Nice to know that this does not happen unnoticed.

Not only that, but you're updating existing pages, which is often so much harder than writing pages from scratch. :-)

I do not think that it is harder, but it indeed may take more time.

• Extension:TemplateStyles extension.

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

Recent changes

• CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. This will make it easier to make templates look good on mobile devices. This now works on mediawiki.org and Wikitech. It will come to more wikis later.
• .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).
• It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications on a wiki. This new feature will accessible in your preferences, in the Notifications tab, on Wednesday, July 26. Please see the documentation.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikimedia Foundation July 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting. The meeting is about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood by the world. The meeting will be on 27 July at 19:00 (UTC). See the agenda and how to join.

Future changes

• New Filters for Edit Review, at the moment available as a Beta feature, will be released by default for the Recent Changes in September.

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15:58, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi,

I am having HUGE troubles getting your ContactPage extension to work with my wiki.

I'm getting the following error message on Special:Contact DESPITE specifying a valid email in LocalSettings.php

"No email address

This user has not specified a valid email address."

I'm using MW 1.25.2 with the master branch of ContactPage, (although the 1.25 stable ContactPage does the same thing).

The syntax I'm using is: 'SenderEmail' => 'admin AT smiliepedia DOT org',

NOTE: This *is* also the default $wgPasswordSender which also works for sending/receiving emails, just not with this extension.

Can you please assist me with getting it to work?

Kind regards, -- User:BradLeeBH

Hi BradleeBH, well this is not an extension I developed and as a matter of fact I am not even a programmer. However, I answered on the extension's help page. Cheers

Sorry, I saw you had replied on some of the threads and mistook you for one of the extension developers.

No worries. I use this one too and the docu was pretty bad back when. So I helped answer questions as good as I can.

2017 wikitext editor - WMF's schizoid software series is spreading further

Seems nice at first glance, why do you think it is going to be bad ?

It adds a dependency to a software (VisualEditor) which is still serving in alpha quality and slows down editing. I fear that this will also impact power users since switching between the modes currently appears to be an issue. I am not even speaking about wikis which cannot afford to run parsoid for one reason or the other. Still a long way to go. Let's see what happens.

Oh, I did not dig it too much, thought it is going to be just a beautified UI for source editing. But if they're going to use Parsoid, it will be a really weird solution. Though, I see no reason for Parsoid there, because Parsoid primary task is to convert html into wiki markup and vise-versa, it's unnecessary when dealing with raw source code. We'll see.

I also personally see no reason to use Parsoid, perhaps for switching somehow between the modes. Still, in case we need VisualEditor we also need Parsoid.

Hola, what is your name?

My username is Kghbln

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