Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-11-29/Technology report

• The 2019 Wikimedia Technical Conference for developer productivity was held from November 12–15 in Atlanta, Georgia. Daily summaries with links to session notes and further reading are available from the Wikitech-l mailing list: day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4.
• Popular user scripts: Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts now lists user scripts by the number of times they have been imported. Many of the top scripts are broken, obsolete, deprecated, or superseded by gadgets.
• Gadget proposal: At the village pump, there's a proposal to make an updated version of the prosesize user script into a gadget.

• DannyS712 bot III (task · contribs) – Patrol redirects where periods are the only difference between the redirect title and the target
• YiFeiBot (task · contribs) – Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests archival
• BHGbot (task · contribs) – When a portal has been deleted at MFD, remove or replace links to it which are generated by one of 4 templates
• MilHistBot (task · contribs) – Assess articles that need a full B-Class checklist.
• WOSlinkerBot (task · contribs) – Fix lint errors related to {{legend2}}
• HasteurBot (task · contribs) – Nominate for Speedy Deletion articles that are valid for CSD:G13
• DannyS712 bot (task list · contribs)
  • task 59 – Update various Wikipedia:Database reports
  • task 62 – Tag talk pages that meet specific requirements as being within the `Maritime-task-force` and/or `Aviation-task-force` of wikiproject military history
  • task 47 – Help implement TfD closes
• PearBOT (task list · contribs)
  • task 4 – Merge WikiProject banners after consensus at TfD
  • task 2 – Remove infobox requests for articles having an infobox.
• Pathbot (task · contribs) – Adding navigation boxes in the bottom of articles.
• OAbot (task · contribs) – Add and maintain supported identifiers to citation templates (mostly {{cite journal}})

• Open:
  • MajavahBot (task list · contribs) – Patrol WP:EFFPR: adding messages, fixing typos or formatting, and archiving old reports
  • DemonDays64 Bot (task list · contribs) – Replace HTTP with HTTPS in links to HTTPS-secured sites
  • Monkbot (task · contribs) – replaces the various {{xx icon}} templates (and their redirects) with {{in lang}}
  • SteveBot (task · contribs) – Update categories based on results of requested moves
• In trial:
  • Creffbot (task list · contribs) – Maintain CAT:UAA by removing the template from users who have had the template applied for a long time and users who are blocked
  • Xinbenlv bot (task list · contribs) – Notify (on Talk page) cross language inconsistency for birthdays
  • SportsStatsBot (task · contribs) – Automatically update football (soccer) players' career statistics
• Trial complete:
  • PearBOT (task · contribs) – Add automatically generated short descriptions to some biographies
  • Qbugbot (task · contribs) – Resolve self-redirect links in arthropod articles

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community: 2019 #45, #46, #47, & #48. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available on Meta.

• MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [1]
• MediaWiki2LaTeX can create a PDF document containing pages from a Wikimedia wiki. Previously limited to around 800 pages, it now supports approximately 5,000 pages.
• The mobile beta mode will be disabled to reduce maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the page categories. To restore the ability to return to the top of an article via a link, you can use a gadget or user script. [2]
• Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [3]

• Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. See MediaWiki's Google Code-in page for more details. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
• Similar to the desktop view, in future tabs will be used in the mobile view to switch between an article and its talk page. [4]

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting takes place every Wednesday from 4:00–5:00 p.m. UTC. See MediaWiki's page on the Technical Advice meeting for instructions on how to participate.