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Apr 27 2025

Snaevar added a comment to T390982: Tech News entry about Codex v2.0.0 release (2025/23 or 24 issue).

Reccomend closing as invalid.
Firstly, there is a rule on Tech News of not posting essentially the same thing multiple times.
Secondly, the audience of Tech News are wiki users, which can not use this in gadgets (T340477) or templates (T355242) and have no use for this yet. There is a developer newsletter, use that instead.
Thirdly, wiki users are not your testers. Hire a QA person since you need this. WMF having a massive reserve fund and asking for testing is out of order.

Apr 27 2025, 8:19 AM · Design-System-Team, User-notice, Codex 2.0

Apr 9 2025

Snaevar created T391525: Table td syntax is inconsistent.
Apr 9 2025, 8:30 PM · MediaWiki-Parser

Apr 8 2025

Snaevar added a comment to T353659: V2C should be integrated into MW.

Commons revisited it's discussion on MP4 in 2019, allowing some usage. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals/Archive/2019/11#We_don't_have_enough_videos,_some_proposals_to_Improve_the_issue_of_meagre_video_files_on_Wikimedia_Commons

Apr 8 2025, 11:44 PM · video2commons, Commons

Mar 15 2025

Snaevar created T388980: Icelandic lemmatizer for OpenSearch .
Mar 15 2025, 6:43 PM · Discovery-Search
Snaevar created T388979: Icelandic tokenizer for OpenSearch.
Mar 15 2025, 6:43 PM · Discovery-Search

Feb 2 2025

Snaevar added a comment to T381922: Add support for vefsafn.is as an archive provider.

Vefsafn.is uses the Heritrix web crawler engine, with some additions, most of which affect how the site crawls the web, not the public webservice. Vefsafn.is requires a cookie, it will not work without one.

Feb 2 2025, 1:49 PM · InternetArchiveBot

Jan 28 2025

Snaevar added a comment to T304459: Add GreynirT2T for Icelandic.

I got the explanation on why the sole is.wikipedia user, Akigka supported moving from GoogleTranslate to MinT. We had a discussion on https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potturinn#Afstaða_til_vélþýðinga where he said that he dislikes Google Translate and just took the first available opportunity to move away from it. They did not know much at all about MinT/Flores/NLLB and proceeded with agreeing to find alternatives to MinT.

Jan 28 2025, 7:31 AM · ContentTranslation

Jan 26 2025

Snaevar created T384791: If template does not exist in target language, CX lies about removing it.
Jan 26 2025, 8:13 AM · I18n, ContentTranslation

Jan 18 2025

Snaevar closed T371446: Inconsistent invert on desktop vs. mobile as Declined.

Not going to be fixed locally.

Jan 18 2025, 11:56 PM · Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, dark-mode

Jan 16 2025

Snaevar added a comment to T304459: Add GreynirT2T for Icelandic.

In https://scontent.frkv1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.8562-6/196203317_1861942553982349_5142503689226033347_n.pdf?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=b8d81d&_nc_ohc=3N_gjbmpNbIQ7kNvgGB9tqb&_nc_zt=14&_nc_ht=scontent.frkv1-2.fna&_nc_gid=ALDapvsTm0A3ZSEogQwhX6F&oh=00_AYDzPuK0U348nAe5_xXD1qmCn1qWBSegpH0fuTw0u9YEmQ&oe=678E734D the Flores English to Icelandic score is 25,2% BLEU. That score is worse than even Google Translate. Compared to 66% with Greynir, the difference is 2,6x fold.
So, the writing is firmly on the wall (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/writing_on_the_wall) for flores/nllb.

Jan 16 2025, 4:48 AM · ContentTranslation
Snaevar added a comment to T304459: Add GreynirT2T for Icelandic.

There is also the research on NLLB-200 vs Greynir in Faroese. According to it, Greynir/GPT-4 is better than NLLB-200. Faroese is the closest modern language to Icelandic. Old norse is closer, but it is also an defunct language.

Jan 16 2025, 2:50 AM · ContentTranslation

Jan 13 2025

Snaevar added a comment to T304459: Add GreynirT2T for Icelandic.

@Pginer-WMF Since you pinged me and to answer the question.
The first thing I notice with the difference between Greynir and NLLB-200 is that Greynir does declensions but NLLB-200 seems to put a lot of words into the nominative case.
Icelandic is a declension heavy language, unlike English. Nouns, for example, commonly have around 14 different declensions. I would compare the declension usage with Spanish and Polish rather than English.
As such, the text from NLLB-200 is less complete and almost always needs fixing when it comes to declensions, while Greynir does not have that problem.

Jan 13 2025, 5:43 PM · ContentTranslation
Snaevar updated the task description for T304459: Add GreynirT2T for Icelandic.
Jan 13 2025, 5:30 PM · ContentTranslation

Jan 5 2025

Snaevar updated the task description for T382824: Cache problems with new Index pages in Wikisource.
Jan 5 2025, 12:35 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons, ProofreadPage

Jan 2 2025

Snaevar merged T367344: Deploy Reference Check at is.wiki into T361843: Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at phase 1 Wikipedias.
Jan 2 2025, 12:31 AM · User-notice-archive, Verified, Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), EditCheck
Snaevar merged task T367344: Deploy Reference Check at is.wiki into T361843: Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at phase 1 Wikipedias.
Jan 2 2025, 12:31 AM · Editing-team, EditCheck

Dec 31 2024

Snaevar added a project to T382824: Cache problems with new Index pages in Wikisource: SRE-swift-storage.
Dec 31 2024, 12:11 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler, MediaWiki-File-management, Commons, ProofreadPage

Dec 28 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T382806: Charts should link to the source data on Wikimedia Commons.

Yep. There is a precedent for this. There is an edit link in Wikidata bridge when Wikidata statements are used in Wikipedia. On top of that, multiple community templates do the same in that situation.
If there will be no link, then undoubtedly someone will create a template with a link to the chart on commons. Then it will become common practice to use said template with every chart invoke. Or the chart extension could just add that link itself.

Dec 28 2024, 3:27 PM · Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025, Charts

Dec 13 2024

Snaevar updated the task description for T381922: Add support for vefsafn.is as an archive provider.
Dec 13 2024, 1:20 PM · InternetArchiveBot

Dec 10 2024

Snaevar created T381922: Add support for vefsafn.is as an archive provider.
Dec 10 2024, 8:39 PM · InternetArchiveBot
Snaevar added a comment to T381218: Long y-axis values overlaps y-axis label.

Seems relevant:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54265699/how-to-align-the-x-axis-name-label-to-the-end-of-the-x-axis
https://github.com/apache/echarts/pull/9273
If that is not enough, then custom ticks are also a thing as an indirect fix.

Dec 10 2024, 12:54 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.8; 2024-12-17), Patch-For-Review, Charts (Sprint 13)

Dec 5 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T145604: RFC: Future of magic links.

This is stalled on T179769. Minor wikis are not going to change magic links while any VisualEditor change can change them back to magic links. It should be an obvious non-starter.

Dec 5 2024, 2:37 PM · Parsing-Team--ARCHIVED, MediaWiki-Parser, TechCom-RFC

Dec 4 2024

Snaevar created T381484: Subst and safesubst is broken on iswiki.
Dec 4 2024, 12:05 PM · MediaWiki-Parser

Dec 3 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T381318: PDF pages don't have associated images on the Polish Wikisource.

Can reproduce with the following steps

Dec 3 2024, 9:25 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler, ProofreadPage

Dec 2 2024

Snaevar added projects to T381318: PDF pages don't have associated images on the Polish Wikisource: Thumbor, ProofreadPage.
Dec 2 2024, 10:15 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-PdfHandler, ProofreadPage

Aug 14 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T372447: Consider allowing local Data pages to be used as a fallback if fetching from the remote fails.

It is orders of magnitude harder to move graphs from the original wiki to commons, than to have them in the data namespace on the original wiki. This is especially true if the move is done with a bot. This mostly effects the datapoints, the design is often shared between hundreds or thousands of graphs.

Aug 14 2024, 11:45 AM · Charts
Snaevar added a comment to T137291: Replace all uses of EasyTimeline and decommission it from Wikimedia's servers.

Another potential replacement of EasyTimeline would be T334372: Add support for inline SVG.

Aug 14 2024, 11:37 AM · Epic, Charts, Technical-Debt, Wikimedia-Extension-setup, EasyTimeline

Aug 11 2024

Snaevar created T372216: Imagelink removal on iswiki (s3?) takes hours.
Aug 11 2024, 9:47 AM · MediaWiki-Page-derived-data, Regression

Jul 31 2024

Snaevar updated the task description for T371446: Inconsistent invert on desktop vs. mobile.
Jul 31 2024, 11:12 PM · Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, dark-mode
Snaevar created T371446: Inconsistent invert on desktop vs. mobile.
Jul 31 2024, 12:10 AM · Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, dark-mode

Jun 21 2024

Snaevar created T368157: Support CSS grid in the same way as tables.
Jun 21 2024, 3:09 PM · VisualEditor
Snaevar created T368156: Support css grid in wikitable class.
Jun 21 2024, 3:09 PM · MediaWiki-User-Interface (Tables)
Snaevar removed a project from T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text: User-notice.

Hi @Snaevar (or anyone), given that the proposed parser function hasn't been merged yet, I'm wondering if you have any suggestions on how to most clearly help the editors who might need some guidance?

Ideally, I think we could write something like this, but I'm not sure if it's accurate enough, or detailed enough:

Editors who work with multilingual SVG files can add language tags to the SVG's labels. If the SVG contains labels that use a hyphenated Wikimedia specific language code that doesn't match the BCP47 standard, such as zh-classical, then those labels need to be changed to use the BCP47 code instead, such as lzh.

Jun 21 2024, 8:03 AM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor
Snaevar created T368128: SVGs using invalid BCP 47 language codes do not show text.
Jun 21 2024, 8:00 AM · User-notice, Thumbor

Jun 14 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

The way I see it "simple" is for all languages, so it could be simple German, simple French, simple Spanish, and so on. Using it for simple English only would not be appropriate. I do agree that using "simple" as an example is not that great. I got "en-basiceng" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codes_for_constructed_languages, but I have also seen "en-simple".

Jun 14 2024, 5:31 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor

Jun 12 2024

Snaevar added a project to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text: User-notice.

I think users need to make some fixes here. The conclusion is clearly to use standards.

Jun 12 2024, 5:09 PM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor

May 12 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T362441: Icelandic namespace translations.

Camel case is not how we write things normally, but this is just a technical approach since a literal translation here does not result in a compound noun but an adjective+noun combination.

May 12 2024, 11:54 AM · MediaWiki-Internationalization, Community-consensus-needed

May 8 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T361843: Make Edit Check (references) available to all newcomers at phase 1 Wikipedias.

Hi,
I would like to add Icelandic Wikipedia (is.wikipedia) to the list.
Community consensus: https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potturinn#Heimildalausar_greinar:_EditCheck

May 8 2024, 5:00 AM · User-notice-archive, Verified, Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board), EditCheck

May 1 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T361822: Lost saved queries.

I was able to find 60% of my queries by visiting "https://superset.wmcloud.org/sqllab/?savedQueryId=" urls from my browser history. I have those back through saving "a new query". Trying to save those by updating them did not work; I got a "Your query could not be updated" error.

May 1 2024, 9:07 PM · Regression, superset.wmcloud.org

Apr 22 2024

Snaevar added a project to T363035: Design improvement: Minerva shows a warning that Wikipedia is made by people like you: MobileFrontend.
Apr 22 2024, 4:52 AM · Growth-Team (Sprint 15 (Growth Team)), Design-System-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MobileFrontend, MinervaNeue (Desktop)
Snaevar added a comment to T363035: Design improvement: Minerva shows a warning that Wikipedia is made by people like you.

This was addded in T87261, which asked for a gray box.

Apr 22 2024, 4:43 AM · Growth-Team (Sprint 15 (Growth Team)), Design-System-Team, MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup, MobileFrontend, MinervaNeue (Desktop)

Apr 12 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T362441: Icelandic namespace translations.

The largest thing here would be having the current namespaces as aliases, especially in the Template and Module namespaces. This will create a massive mess otherwise, although it will only be for a while.

Apr 12 2024, 9:49 PM · MediaWiki-Internationalization, Community-consensus-needed
Snaevar added a comment to T362441: Icelandic namespace translations.

The projects that we have are small and often inactive for long periods.

Not true with Wikipedia and Wiktionary, but the rest, yes. Speaking of which, there has been NO discussion of this in the Icelandic projects. Agree with the required conseus.

Apr 12 2024, 9:47 PM · MediaWiki-Internationalization, Community-consensus-needed

Apr 7 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T270736: Document "source:true" for use in Quick access characters.

MediaWiki:Visualeditor-quick-access-characters.json actually has something close to this already, albeit in an extremely undocumented fashion -- you can add source:true to a given character/replacement, and it'll only be shown when you're in source mode.

Apr 7 2024, 8:28 AM · Documentation, VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor
Snaevar renamed T270736: Document "source:true" for use in Quick access characters from Specific Special Characters for 2017 WikitextEditor to Document "source:true" for use in Quick access characters.
Apr 7 2024, 8:27 AM · Documentation, VisualEditor, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor

Apr 4 2024

Snaevar created T361822: Lost saved queries.
Apr 4 2024, 11:22 AM · Regression, superset.wmcloud.org

Apr 2 2024

Snaevar closed T361348: addPortletlink is broken on is.wikibooks as Invalid.

Fixed on wiki. Thanks for the information.

Apr 2 2024, 10:08 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-ResourceLoader

Mar 29 2024

Snaevar created T361348: addPortletlink is broken on is.wikibooks.
Mar 29 2024, 9:25 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-ResourceLoader

Mar 28 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T360431: Set wgUploadNavigationUrl for is.wikibooks.

There is something weird going on. An auto-confirmed, non-sysop can not see the link. The manual says

If $wgUploadNavigationUrl is set to a url, the link is always shown, regardless of the user's permissions.

Either that is a lie or the change was not applied correctly. It could be that I am forgetting something, but nothing is pointing me in that direction. Uploads are limited to sysops on is.wikibooks. I have a theory that only sysops can see it.

Mar 28 2024, 3:41 AM · Wikimedia-Site-requests

Mar 21 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T273220: Deploy StopForumSpam extension to production.

MediaWiki-extensions-IPReputation seems to be the exact project. It seems to use the risk data from spur, https://docs.spur.us/data-types?id=risk-enums. Spur and stopforumspan do not track the same thing. According to a security researcher, there definitely are groups that do lower risk level stuff like spamming, but not higher risk stuff like spur tracks. There are also groups that do both. LTA (Long term abusers/vandals) reports created by users on WMF projects show the same thing.
As for handing the task over to the team responsible for iPoid and IPReputation, they clearly allready have their hands full.

Mar 21 2024, 7:43 AM · Trust and Safety Product Team, Privacy Engineering, MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.17; 2023-01-02), Security-Team, user-sbassett, User-notice, Wikimedia-Extension-setup, MediaWiki-extensions-StopForumSpam

Mar 19 2024

Snaevar updated the task description for T360431: Set wgUploadNavigationUrl for is.wikibooks.
Mar 19 2024, 1:52 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests
Snaevar updated the task description for T360431: Set wgUploadNavigationUrl for is.wikibooks.
Mar 19 2024, 1:50 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests
Snaevar created T360431: Set wgUploadNavigationUrl for is.wikibooks.
Mar 19 2024, 1:49 PM · Wikimedia-Site-requests

Mar 15 2024

Snaevar updated the task description for T360174: Citation templates still being expanded (substituted).
Mar 15 2024, 8:12 AM · Regression, ContentTranslation
Snaevar updated the task description for T360174: Citation templates still being expanded (substituted).
Mar 15 2024, 6:47 AM · Regression, ContentTranslation
Snaevar created T360174: Citation templates still being expanded (substituted).
Mar 15 2024, 6:44 AM · Regression, ContentTranslation

Mar 11 2024

Snaevar created T359800: Notify user during translation of overwriting.
Mar 11 2024, 11:04 AM · ContentTranslation
Snaevar added a comment to T343131: Commons database is growing way too fast.

Template:License template tag is also in FileImporter:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/FileImporter/+/7df62d4fb3d6b49c7d96ed13045031af0632e3f3/tests/phpunit/res/IntegrationTests/detailRetriever.json line 277

Mar 11 2024, 1:07 AM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.3; 2024-11-12), Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.23; 2024-03-19), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Data-Persistence (work done), Commons

Mar 8 2024

Snaevar closed T348403: Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar as Resolved.
Mar 8 2024, 7:43 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.10; 2023-12-19), WikiEditor (2010), All-and-every-Wikisource
Snaevar added a comment to T229709: Automatically block users who hit some spam blacklist entries.

There is an false positive here. When the about.com domain was added to the Global Spam list, it was said that old versions of the domain where fine. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2023-04#about.com ) So, if an user archives an already present about.com link, they would be, under this bug, blocked from editing. That is problematic.

Mar 8 2024, 7:36 PM · OKR-Work, Stewards-and-global-tools, SpamBlacklist

Mar 5 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T359107: Paste Check: Prompt people pasting text to consider risk of copyright violation.

Sometimes new editors copy articles from one title to another because they do not know how Special:MovePage works, and are in fact fully unaware of it's existence. It is an false positive for an copy-paste copyvio check.

Mar 5 2024, 10:53 PM · OKR-Work, MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.12; 2025-01-14), Community-Tech, Community Wishlist, Editing-team (Kanban Board), VisualEditor, EditCheck

Mar 3 2024

Pppery awarded T359007: Prevent overwriting of articles with Content Translation a Like token.
Mar 3 2024, 11:28 PM · ContentTranslation
Snaevar created T359007: Prevent overwriting of articles with Content Translation.
Mar 3 2024, 10:56 PM · ContentTranslation
Snaevar added a comment to T358078: Community discussion about hacks.less.

Icelandic Wikipedia here. We mostly use English Wikipedia styles, with a handful of styles from spanish wikipedia.

Mar 3 2024, 12:15 AM · MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.9; 2024-06-11), MinervaNeue

Feb 28 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T307971: Empower people to organize and present knowledge by time.

Not that my opinion has any weight, but I have some opinions on this. I think that a lot of these ideas can be done with Vega5. Since Vega4 it has supported layers, and that unblocks potentials that where not possible with Vega2. The map provided by JTanner is doable, probably even with Vega2 (although Vega2 will not be used). I am conserned about the number of dots though, Europe would probably be better as an one highlighted area, as WMF projects rarely use map closeups, but there are third party tools users can use to reduce the number of the dots. The route-map is also doable in Vega5.

Feb 28 2024, 3:27 PM · Editing-team, VisualEditor

Feb 20 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T17294: Allow globally blocking of accounts.

Blocks of expired temporary accounts make no sense (but admins may tend to use indefinite block for VOA) and they will inflate the database and confuse users. So some proposed ideas:

  • Prevent blocks of temporary accounts for more than the lifetime (one year in Wikimedia wikis)
  • Prevent blocks of already expired temporary accounts
  • Automatically purge blocks of temporary accounts upon expiration
Feb 20 2024, 10:19 AM · User-notice-archive, Temporary accounts (Blockers to minor pilot wiki deployment), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), MediaWiki-Blocks, Goal, Epic, Stewards-and-global-tools, GlobalBlocking

Feb 17 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T357802: Prompt user to create a regular account after temp account creation rate limit trip.

Maybe just block them?

Feb 17 2024, 2:23 PM · Trust and Safety Product Team, Temporary accounts, Growth-Team

Feb 9 2024

Snaevar created T357161: Investigate using WDQS graphs in WMF wikis, instead of supporting WDQS in Extension:Graph.
Feb 9 2024, 5:39 PM · Wikidata, Wikidata-Query-Service, MediaWiki-extensions-Graph

Jan 28 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T352571: Evaluate WorldCat Search API v2.

Icelandic ISBN numbers are also a problem. They are managed by the National library (https://landsbokasafn.is), which does not have an search engine for them. They are added to "Global register of publishers" (https://grp.isbn-international.org), but that only shows publishers, not books, and is thus inadequate for Wikipedia use.
Prior to WorldCat's removal from Citoid, they showed up just fine.

Jan 28 2024, 2:21 AM · Platform Engineering, Citoid

Jan 26 2024

Snaevar updated subscribers of T354002: Request to add a link to Minerva mobile sidebar in zhwikinews.

Stalled until tasks mentioned in T229953#5398372 are resolved

Jan 26 2024, 4:56 PM · Local-Wiki-Template-And-Gadget-Issues, Chinese-Sites

Jan 24 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T343131: Commons database is growing way too fast.

Another way to reduce size of transclude table used in the past was to run a bot job of substituting template redirects. Does anybody have a good SQL query to see if we have any templates with often used redirects? I run many such bot jobs in the past but not in the last decade or so.

Jan 24 2024, 5:05 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.3; 2024-11-12), Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.23; 2024-03-19), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Data-Persistence (work done), Commons

Jan 21 2024

Snaevar added a comment to T343131: Commons database is growing way too fast.

Some more specific templates (more to add): [...]

Those need an function that accepts arguments, not frame. For example, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:SDC_tracking needs "function p._SDC_statement_exist(args)", "function p.SDC_statement_exist(frame)" will not work.

Jan 21 2024, 7:05 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.3; 2024-11-12), Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.23; 2024-03-19), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Data-Persistence (work done), Commons

Oct 29 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T349781: Add some PageTriage components and icons to the Codex library.

All of those icons are in codex, their names are (from top to bottom):
cdxIconMoveLast ltr version, cdxIconInfoFilled, cdxIconHeart, cdxIconSuccess, cdxIconTag rtl version, cdxIconTrash, cdxIconDoubleChevronStart rtl version.
They are all the largest variants of the icons, 20px.

Oct 29 2023, 4:37 PM · PageTriage

Oct 15 2023

Snaevar closed T346835: Visual Editor "Media settings" dialog should allow more room for Alternative text as Invalid.

The solution here is fine, but the problem is non-existant. It is a classic case of an solution looking for a problem.
In W3Cs standard (the same organization as was behind HTML4) alternative text is supposed to be short. See https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20081211/G94
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility/Alternative_text_for_images#Basics says the same, so the editor is trying to violate the rules of the project he edits the most to. It so happens that the creator of this ticket pointed out the latter point out to me, so I know he has no valid argument here.
Let's not waste more time than necessary.

Oct 15 2023, 3:42 AM · VisualEditor-MediaWiki-Media, VisualEditor

Oct 9 2023

Snaevar updated the task description for T348403: Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar.
Oct 9 2023, 1:00 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.10; 2023-12-19), WikiEditor (2010), All-and-every-Wikisource
Snaevar added a comment to T348403: Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar.

The problem is that button is not in the Page namespace - random example: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Page:Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(German_II).djvu/1&action=edit

Oct 9 2023, 12:53 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.10; 2023-12-19), WikiEditor (2010), All-and-every-Wikisource

Oct 8 2023

Snaevar added a project to T348403: Wikisource misses very much the <ref> button in the toolbar: WikiEditor (2010).
Oct 8 2023, 3:16 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.10; 2023-12-19), WikiEditor (2010), All-and-every-Wikisource

Sep 29 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T347732: Mock up a 100% Codex front end for PageTriage.

Things missing (probably not exhaustive):

  • Green button in "Set filters" under the "Set filters" link on the special page - or decide to use a blue one
  • Date picker for "Set filters" under data range - T91148
Sep 29 2023, 10:23 PM · Moderator-Tools-Team, Design-System-Team, PageTriage

Sep 21 2023

Snaevar added a project to T337887: Consult Dumps users and other community members about the future of Dumps: AutoWikiBrowser.

AutoWikiBrowser has an database scanner using the dumps. Just pointing it out, seems relevant.

Sep 21 2023, 9:08 PM · DPE-Mediawiki-Content

Sep 16 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T346469: Is codex-search-styles stable for templates to use? What should templates do going forward?.
<span class='cdx-button'>Button text</span>

on a wiki page gives incorrect background color and color of the border. Tested on old vector skin.

Sep 16 2023, 12:35 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.12; 2024-01-02), Codex, Design-System-Team

Aug 29 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T276857: [Ref. Reliability Check] Offer volunteers feedback about the reliability of the source they are attempting to add.

It would be nice to have the "Perennial sources" list under the community config page so it can be turned off on the small and medium sized wikis, most of which do not have one.

Aug 29 2023, 7:48 PM · Editing-team, Community-Wishlist-Survey-2023, EditCheck, VisualEditor

Aug 27 2023

Snaevar added a subtask for T255366: SameSite cookie issues: T345032: Some cookies are misusing the recommended “SameSite“ attribute.
Aug 27 2023, 8:32 AM · MediaWiki-General
Snaevar added a parent task for T345032: Some cookies are misusing the recommended “SameSite“ attribute: T255366: SameSite cookie issues.
Aug 27 2023, 8:32 AM · MediaWiki-Platform-Team, MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager, Beta-Cluster-reproducible

Aug 19 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T344534: Explore bot-replacing all WikiHiero uses with Unicode glyphs, and switching off the extension.

As for inserting the characters from the perspective of medium and small wikis, it would be best to add them to "special characters" in the editors, preferrably all three (Wikieditor, VisualEditor, 2017 wikitext editor).

Aug 19 2023, 9:53 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.27; 2023-09-19), WikiHiero

Jun 30 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T340046: Targets system gives deprecation warnings for gadget modules.

Might want to send a message to Arjunaraoc user talk page at https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:Arjunaraoc since he is the only interface admin on that project and that te.wikisource was mentioned in T340682

Jun 30 2023, 5:16 AM · Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (Needs Prioritization (Tech)), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.15; 2023-06-27), affects-translatewiki.net

Jun 23 2023

Snaevar updated the task description for T338155: Investigating caching issues (frontend).
Jun 23 2023, 12:41 AM · ProofreadPage
Snaevar added a comment to T338155: Investigating caching issues (frontend).

It would be nice to fetch the first page thumbnail up on visiting the Index page, using the same method as with the "Page" namespace. The "Page" namespace preloads 1024px for the previous and next page. That way, an user can upload PDF/DjVu, create an index and the first page is ready when the user saves the index.

Jun 23 2023, 12:39 AM · ProofreadPage
Snaevar added a comment to T338155: Investigating caching issues (frontend).

Confirmed. 1024px is pre-fetched from looking at the previous page in the "Page" namespace. It does preload 1024px even if you use an higher resolution. Making it dynamic/calculated from the users resolution would fix the issue.

Jun 23 2023, 12:35 AM · ProofreadPage

Jun 22 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337649: Thumbor fails to render thumbnails of djvu/tiff/pdf files quite often in eqiad.
Jun 22 2023, 5:18 PM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.13; 2023-06-13), All-and-every-Wikisource, serviceops, Thumbor
Snaevar updated subscribers of T337149: CAPTCHA required to edit any page on testwiki containing a link with no path.
Jun 22 2023, 8:06 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.12; 2023-06-06), DBA, ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension)
Snaevar merged T340056: fullurl should not output proto-relative url into T118413: Wikimedia wikis should use https:// in $wgServer.
Jun 22 2023, 8:05 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.10; 2023-05-23), User-Tgr, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Snaevar merged task T340056: fullurl should not output proto-relative url into T118413: Wikimedia wikis should use https:// in $wgServer.
Jun 22 2023, 8:05 AM · Parsoid, MediaWiki-Parser

Jun 21 2023

Snaevar updated the task description for T340056: fullurl should not output proto-relative url.
Jun 21 2023, 8:14 PM · Parsoid, MediaWiki-Parser
Snaevar created T340056: fullurl should not output proto-relative url.
Jun 21 2023, 6:50 PM · Parsoid, MediaWiki-Parser

Jun 19 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337431: Rework MediaWiki:SpamBlacklist.

If I create the json page, I get blocked with the error message "JSON should be an array". There is "{}" in the edit box by default, I did not add to that.

Jun 19 2023, 3:09 PM · Patch-Needs-Improvement, MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.22; 2023-08-15), User-notice, Wikimedia-Hackathon-2023, AbuseFilter, SpamBlacklist
Snaevar added a comment to T169452: Replace Quarry with an installation of Superset.

Looked at Recent activity on my account and saw nothing. That is despite me having around 30 saved queries. I have alpha and OAuth rights.

Jun 19 2023, 2:21 PM · cloud-services-team (FY2024/2025-Q1-Q2), superset.wmcloud.org, Quarry

Jun 18 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337649: Thumbor fails to render thumbnails of djvu/tiff/pdf files quite often in eqiad.

Looked at my browsers networking tab, loaded the same wikipage in "Page" namespace on wikisource and switched my resolution around, with these results:

Jun 18 2023, 7:35 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.13; 2023-06-13), All-and-every-Wikisource, serviceops, Thumbor

Jun 17 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337649: Thumbor fails to render thumbnails of djvu/tiff/pdf files quite often in eqiad.

I would suggest keeping ladsgroups patch, but limiting the max to 10, instead of 50.

Jun 17 2023, 8:08 AM · MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.13; 2023-06-13), All-and-every-Wikisource, serviceops, Thumbor

Jun 14 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T337139: Hyphenated langtags in Thumbor/7.3.2 and librsvg 2.44.10 do not show any text.

Looks like it's not just hyphenated codes, the "simple" has the same problem.

Jun 14 2023, 9:27 AM · Patch-For-Review, Platform Team Workboards (Platform Engineering Reliability), Wikimedia-SVG-rendering, Thumbor Migration, Thumbor

Jun 11 2023

Snaevar added a comment to T270855: Add support for JPEG XL: allow JXL uploads in MediaWiki.

Debian 12 has libjxl 0.7 integrated into its repositories.

And Apple has recently announced support for the format in Safari 17, since the last time this issue has been commented on: Google has dropped support for jpeg xl in Chrome, Firefox's implementation is still not ready.

Jun 11 2023, 5:54 PM · MediaWiki-File-management, Upstream, Commons, Thumbor