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== GRAVA: Administranto aktiveco recenzo ==

Saluton. A politiko pri la forigo de "antaŭis rajtoj" (administranto, burokrato, ktp) estis adoptita de [[:m:Requests for comment/Activity levels of advanced administrative rights holders| tutmonda komunumo konsento]] en 2013. Laŭ tiu politiko, la [[:m:stewards|stevardoj]] estas revizii administrantoj 'aktiveco sur ĉiuj Vikimedia Fondaĵo vikioj sen senaktiveco politiko. Por la plej bona de nia scio, via vikio ne havas formalan procezon de migrado "antaŭis rajtoj" de senagaj kontoj. Tio signifas ke la administrantoj prizorgos ĉi laŭ la [[:m:Admin activity review| Admin aktiveco revizio]].

Ni determinis ke la jenaj uzantoj renkonti la senaktiveco kriterioj (neniu redaktoj kaj neniu log agoj dum pli ol 2 jaroj):
#Castelobranco (administranto)

Tiuj uzantoj ricevos sciigojn frue, petante ilin por iniciati komunumon diskuto se ili volas retener iu aŭ ĉiuj de iliaj rajtoj. Se la uzantoj ne respondi, tiam ilia progresinta rajtoj estos forigitaj per la administrantojn.

Tamen, se vi kiel komunuma ŝatus krei vian propran aktivecon recenzo procezo anstataŭante la suma, volas fari alian decidon pri tiuj neaktivaj rajtoj posedantoj, aŭ jam havas politikon kiu ni maltrafis, tiam bonvolu sciigi la [[:m:Stewards' noticeboard| stevardoj sur Meta-Wiki]] tiel ke ni ne scias, procedi kun la rajtoj recenzo en via vikio. Dankon, --[[Uzanto:علاء|علاء]] ([[Uzanto-Diskuto:علاء|diskuto]]) 20:17, 7 jan. 2020 (UTC)

Kiel registrite je 20:17, 7 jan. 2020

merkredo la 24-a de aprilo, 2024

Bonvenon al la diskutejo de Vikilibroj!

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Unua diskuto

Saluton al ĉiuj (?): mi vidas, ke estas jam libroj.

  1. Kelkaj enhavas kovrilon, kelkaj enhavas resumon de paĝoj, subpaĝoj de kelkaj estas faritaj per /, ... kion ni faras?
  2. Ĉu la libroj pri lingvoj nomiĝus "XXXX-a lingvo" pro formaleco?

Eble mi aldonas alian mesaĝon poste :) --★ → Airon 08:16, 12. Aŭg 2010 (UTC)

Eo-logo por Vikilibroj

Karaj, dank'al Jafeluv, Vikilibroj nun havas Esperantan logo-bildon. Ĉu iu malkonsentas ke tiu logobildo estu uzata por la Esperanta Vikilibroj? Ĝi anstataŭigos la anglan logobildon (Wikibooks, supren maldekstren). CasteloBrancodiskuto 04:00, 6. Nov 2010 (UTC)

Peto ĉe Meta: 26171. CasteloBrancodiskuto 12:01, 30. Nov 2010 (UTC)
Farita Farita. CasteloBrancodiskuto 22:40, 30. Nov 2010 (UTC)

Permespeto por roboto: CasteloBot

Mi estas administranto en eo.vikipedio, eo.wikinews, kaj pt.vikipedio, kies CasteloBot havas pli ol ses milojn da redaktoj. Ĝi povas helpi korekti artikolojn, ŝanĝi kategoriojn, ŝablonojn, k.t.p (laŭ decido de komunejo). Mi volas plibonigi kaj ampleksigi ĉi tiun projekton, ĉar ĝi estas grave rilataj al aliaj Esperantaj projektoj, kaj ĝi ŝajnas malpli uzata (aŭ granda) ol ĝi eblus. Mi faros kelkajn da redaktoj kiel provo. Dankon, CasteloBrancodiskuto 07:40, 24. Nov 2010 (UTC)

Farita Farita (mi ankaŭ erare -ĉar mi eraris pri projekto- igis Uzanto:Castelobranco adinistranto, kvankam vi ne petis. Ne malbona afero, ĉu ? ArnoLagrange 09:40, 1. Dec 2010 (UTC)

Vikinovaĵoj

La 13-an de novembro, Vikinovaĵoj akiris propran lokon kaj estas lanĉita je http://eo.wikinews.org. Ĝi estas projekto de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio celanta provizi liberan novaĵretejon. La unua novaĵo en esperantlingva versio estis publikigita la 27-an de februaro 2010, ĉe Kovilo. Dum dek monatoj, la Lingva Komitato de Meta-Vikio diskutis kaj aprobis ke la projekto uzu sian propran subdomajnon.

Ni invitas vin kunlabori ankaŭ en tiu frata projekto de Vikilibroj. Ni invitas vin verki artikolojn por Vikinovaĵoj pri temoj, kiuj gravas al vi, interesas vin, aŭ laŭ via opinio, estas tro malkonataj en aliaj novaĵo-fontoj. Por lerni kiel verki artikolojn en Vikinovaĵoj, legu Vikinovaĵoj bezonas vin. Por babili aŭ opinii pri la projekto, vi povas uzi nian Redaktejon. Se vi serĉas fontojn de aktualaĵoj por helpi vin redakti novaĵojn, vi povas trovi kelkajn en Fontoj de novaĵoj. Vi ankaŭ povas kunlabori aldonante novajn fontojn al tiu paĝo, aŭ simple disvastigante la novaĵojn kun viaj geamikoj el la plejfamaj diskonigaj retpaĝaroj, uzante la butonaron kiu estas en ĉiuj novaĵartikoloj.

Estu bonvena al Vikinovaĵoj, la libera retgazeto! Amike, CasteloBrancodiskuto 00:37, 1. Dec 2010 (UTC)

La Eta Princo

Mi ricevis retmesaĝon de Normand Fleury, nome de Kanada Esperanto-Asocio. Li asertas ke la teksto "La Eta Princo", estas kopirajtita. Tial, mi ĝin forigis. La diskuton mi forigos en unu semajno. Ankaŭ, aŭtoraj tekstoj ne taŭgas al Vikilibroj, sed al Vikifontaro, kiu akceptas nur liberajn tekstojn, same kiel Vikilibroj. CasteloBrancodiskuto 01:32, 21 Jun. 2011 (UTC)

Ŝablonoj de Babelo

Bonvesperon ! Ĉu iu povus importi kelkajn babelŝablonojn al tiu ĉi projekto? Ni ial ne havas ilin nuntempe. Antaŭe dankon Tempodivalse 01:44, 7 Jul. 2011 (UTC)

Ŝablono:Ŝakdiagramo

Saluton,ĉiuj!

Mi volus skribi vikilibron 'Ŝako'. Por tio mi bezonas uzi ŝablono:Ŝakdiagramo, kiu nunmomente ne funkcias. Do mi petas al tiu, kiu povas, aranĝi ĉi-tiun ŝablonon.--Kavalira 15:11, 8 Okt. 2011 (UTC)

Saluton, Kavalira. Mi ĵus riparis la ŝablonon. Ĝia kodigo estis malĝusta. Do vi metis kodon, kiu devus esti en la dokumento, en la ŝablonon. Tio ne povis funkcii. Amike --Tlustulimu 20:26, 20 Jan. 2012 (UTC)

Administranto-kandidatiĝo Kraŭs

Saluton. Mi volas plibonigi Vikilibrojn. Mi movus netaŭgajn paĝojn al la ĝusta vikio aŭ foriĝus ilin. Ĉu iu kontraŭas? Kraŭs (diskuto) 02:28, 27 Apr. 2012 (UTC)

Por

Kontraŭ

Komentoj

Vi ne bezonas administrantan statuson por tion fari. Simple metu {{forigu}}-n sur netaŭgajn paĝoj. CasteloBrancodiskuto 18:40, 27 Apr. 2012 (UTC)

Permespeto por roboto KuBOT

  • funkciigisto: KuboF (diskuto)
  • laboro: alinomigado de paĝoj, korektado de sintakso, ŝanĝado de ŝablonoj kaj kategorioj, laŭ bezono kaj petoj ankaŭ aliaj
  • programaro: pywikipediabot

Mi jam funkciigas la roboton en la Esperanta Vikipedio, kie ĝi havas super 35 mil redaktoj. La ĉefa tasko por la roboto estos korektado de malnovaj maltaŭgaj nomoj de paĝoj al moderna, en ĉiu funkcianta Vikilibroj uzata, sistemo Nomo de libro/Nomo de ĉapitro. Unufoje mi tion faris permane kaj neniam plu mi tion emas sperti... --KuboF (diskuto) 19:20, 26 Nov. 2012 (UTC)

Nomo-skemo por libroj

Mi vidas ĉi tie miksitajn kelkajn nomigajn skemojn, nome:

  1. Nomo de libro/Nomo de ĉapitro
  2. Nomo de libro:Nomo de ĉapitro
  3. Nomo de libro: Nomo de ĉapitro
  4. Nomo de ĉapitro

En ĉiuj evoluitaj Vikilibroj oni uzadas nur la unuan sistemon. Ĝi havas kelkajn avantaĝojn: tuj klaras al kiu libro apartenas la ĉapitro; la sistemo aŭtomate kreas ligilon (metitan tuj sub la titolo) al la baza paĝo, ĉi-kaze al la paĝo de libro. Ĉu ni faru iun oficialan rekomendon pri nomigado de ĉapitroj? Ĉu iu kontraŭas alinomigon al la sistemo Nomo de libro/Nomo de ĉapitro? --KuboF (diskuto) 14:32, 18 Dec. 2012 (UTC)

Se estas neniu kontraŭo mi komencos alinomigadi librojn laŭ la skemo Nomo de libro/Nomo de ĉapitro kaj aldonos tiun nomigskemon kiel oficialan rekomendon por Vikilibristoj. --KuboF (diskuto) 17:58, 20 Dec. 2012 (UTC)
Fakte nun mi eksciis ke ekz. Kuirlibro uzas sistemon Nomo de libro:Nomo de ĉapitro kiu multe pli taŭgas por memstara nomspaco. Laŭ komparo kun la angla Vikilibroj tie estas apartaj nomspacoj por kuirlibro kaj porinfanaj libroj. Infanlibroj ĉe ni ne funkcias sed ĉu krei nomspacon Kuirlibro? Estus strangegaĵo krei apartan nomspacon por ĉiu libro do mi preferas ne krei pli ol tri tiajn nomspacojn (nuntempe tio eblas nur por Kuirlibro). --KuboF (diskuto) 18:43, 20 Dec. 2012 (UTC)
Por solvo n° 1 --ArnoLagrange (diskuto) 21:29, 20 Dec. 2012 (UTC)

Peto pri forigo

Bonvole forigu la paĝon Terminareto de la Krea Komunaĵo. La tradukado realiĝas enkadre de la retservo Transifex (www.transifex.com) kaj en ĝi ekzistas ankaŭ vortaro, kiu helpas rekte dum la laboro, aperigante helpajn tradukojn de unuopaj vortoj, ekzistantaj en la vortaro. Ĉar dum la laboro oni ofte bezonas la tradukojn en vortaro aktualigi kaj alimaniere adapti, mi decidiĝis transloki la vortaron tien, estus ja tre tempraba afero peni sinkronigi tiujn du vortarojn. Krome, mi pensas ke neniu uzis ĉi-tiean terminaron de la Krea Komunaĵo krom mi dum la tradukado. Antaŭdankante --Petrus Adamus (diskuto) 15:38, 27 Mar. 2013 (UTC)

Universal language selector

Saluton,

Universala lingvo-elektilo (ULS) estis malaktivigita en ĉiuj vikioj de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio antaŭnelonge pro problemoj pri rendimento (Bugzilla: 46306). Ĝin nun eblas ŝalti post ensaluto. Vi povas ĝin aktivigi en Specialaĵo:Preferoj, kie vi elektu "Ebligi Universalan Lingvo.elektilon".

Tio signifas:

  • Pluraj vikioj nun estas kun malpli ol optimala subteno por sistem-nivela tiparo
  • la tiparo OpenDyslexic ne estas disponebla (fakte por Esperanto tute ne disponebla, sed ja mestas tio prizorgata (KuboF))
  • Ttt-bazitaj enig-metodaj redaktiloj ne estas disponeblaj (tuŝas ĉiujn uzantojn)
  • La traduka kromprogramo estas rompita por vikioj, kiuj uzas ĝin por tradukado de paĝoj
  • Vikidatumoj ne estas disponebla por ĵavaskripta API de ULS

Mi ne scias kiom rapide ĝi estos solvita, sed la espero estas, ke "frue". Se vi konas homojn aŭ projektojn kiuj estos tuŝitaj de tio ĉi, bonvolu kunhavigi la novaĵon. Whatamidoing (WMF) (diskuto) 19:03, 21 Jan. 2014 (UTC) 

(tradukita de KuboF)

Nova aldonaĵo - PropraProvejo

Mi ĵus instalis novan aldonaĵon: PropraProvejo. Ĝi kreas inter la supraj ligiloj "Diskuto" kaj "Preferoj" novan ligilon kun la teksto "Mia provejo". Per tio ensalutinta uzanto povas rapide aliri propran provejon. Mi ĝin uzas por listigi aferojn pri kiuj mi volas labori aŭ kiujn mi volas memori. Po aktivigi la aldonaĵon iru al Preferoj. --KuboF (diskuto) 20:53, 5 Jul. 2014 (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new admin activity review here.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

  1. Gangleri (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, --MF-W 10:19, 28 Aŭg. 2014 (UTC)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher
— 17:36, 14 Nov. 2014 (UTC)

Propono pri ŝanĝo de x-anstataŭado en vikiaj projektoj

En la Esperanta Vikipedio nun estis komencita diskuto pri ŝanĝo de farado de ĉapelitaj literoj en Esperantaj viki-projektoj. Mi proponis ekdiskuti tie kaj poste fari saman diskuton en aliaj viki-projektoj, inklude de tiu ĉi. Mi invitas ĉiujn interesiĝantojn veni al Diskutejo de Esperanta Vikipedio! Dum via komento bonvolu mencii, ke via ĉefa projekto estas iu alia ol Vikipedio, por bona superrigardo. --KuboF (diskuto) 13:30, 17 Feb. 2015 (UTC)

Ŝanĝo de x-anstataŭado en Vikilibroj

Mi supre menciis proponon pri ŝanĝo de x-anstataŭado en Esperanta Vikipedio. La koncerna Peto pri komento finiĝis kun klarega rezulto por ŝanĝi manieron de x-sistemo de malnova al nova per Universala LingvoElektilo. Mi lanĉas la saman diskuton pri ŝanĝo en Esperanta Vikilibroj.

Kiel vi certe scias, Esperantaj viki-projektoj montras Esperantajn ĉapelitajn literojn tute bone, sed dum redaktado de kodo ili aperas uzante x-sistemon. Do, en artikolo estas montrite eĥoŝanĝo ĉiuĵaŭde, kvankam la kodo aspektas ehxosxangxo cxiujxauxde. Kvankam la funkcio funkcias por kutima redaktado, ĝi ĉiam faras ĝenajn problemojn, kelkajn el ili mi listigas sube.

Tiu ĉi funkcio estis aldonita en fruega komenco de Vikipedio, kiam ankaŭ interreto (en multaj landoj) ne estis signife disvastiĝinta, tajpado de ĉapelitaj literoj per komputilo estis (precipe por neteĥnikistoj) koŝmaro kaj retfoliumiloj estis sufiĉe primitivaj. Mi memoras, ke en tiu tempo mi ankoraŭ uzadis diskedojn... Intertempe la aferoj ege ŝanĝiĝis - nuntempe eblas tute bone tajpi ĉapelitajn literojn en ĉiuj gravaj komputilaj operaciumoj kaj modernaj retfoliumiloj provizas mirindajn eblojn.

Aspekto de Universala LingvoElektilo por Esperanto

Nuntempe en Esperanta Vikilibroj (kaj aliaj projektoj) funkcias etendaĵo Universala LingvoElektilo, per kiu ankaŭ eblas tajpi ĉapelitaj literojn, ne nur per x-metodo, sed ankaŭ h-metodo, Zamenhofa h-metodo kaj aliaj (detala priskribo por interesiĝantoj). Universalan LingvoElektilon vi povas provi dum vi redaktas artikolon - dekstre en tekstujo dum tajpado kaj por kelkaj sekundoj post tajpado aperas kesteto kun sageto, alklaku ĝin, elektu Esperanton kaj iom testu.

Eblas ŝanĝi agordojn de Esperanta Vikilibroj tiel, ke Universala LingvoElektilo estus defaŭlte ŝaltita por ĉiuj kun specifa konverta metodo, ekzemple x-metodo. Por absolutega plejparto de uzantoj, inklude neensalutiĝintaj, tio funkcius preskaŭ same - nura diferenco estus, ke ĉapelitaj literoj montriĝadus jam dum tajpado kaj estus videblaj jam ekde komenco de redaktado. Por tiu funkcio tamen estas bezonata Ĝavoskripto (JavaScript), kiun tamen subtenas ĉiuj modernaj retfoliumiloj.

Kiel funkcias la Universala Lingvo-Selektilo?

Por mallongigi kaj faciligi la diskuton: La w:Helpo:Universala LingvoElektilo jam funkcias kaj estas disponebla. Jen kiel ĝi funkcias:

  • 1-a paŝo: Klaku sur la rado sub la iloj
    1-a paŝo: Klaku sur la rado sub la iloj
  • 2-a paŝo se estas malŝaltitaj la enigiloj: Klaku sur ŝalti enigajn ilojn
    2-a paŝo se estas malŝaltitaj la enigiloj: Klaku sur ŝalti enigajn ilojn
  • 2-a paŝo selektu "enigo"
    2-a paŝo selektu "enigo"
  • 3-a paŝo selektu lingvon Esperanto kaj x-metodon
    3-a paŝo selektu lingvon Esperanto kaj x-metodon
  • 4-a paŝo konservu
    4-a paŝo konservu
  • 5-a paŝo jam vi povas redakti. Tajpante Cx aperas Ĉ.
    5-a paŝo jam vi povas redakti. Tajpante Cx aperas Ĉ.

kelkaj problemoj de la eksmoda x-sistemo (aldonu vian!)
  • problemo pri HotCat
  • Diskutejo - problemo pri Vivanta antŭvido, teĥnika fono simila al VarmaKato
  • problemo dum kopiado de inter viki-projektoj
    • Diskutejo (nun eĉ de neesperantisto) kaj bezonata ŝango
    • kopiado de vortojn kiel Linux aŭ Bordeaux de alilingvaj artikoloj rompas la vorton, speciale ĝena ĝi estas en ligiloj
    • kopiado de tekstoj kaj ŝablonoj al nova Esperanta projekto en Vikimedia Kovilo (ekz. Esperanta Vikivojaĝo) estas problema, ĉar en Kovilo ne funkcias x-metodo same kiel en Vikipedio
  • Helpo:Alinomi paĝon - alinomado de artikolo kun fuŝa ikso estas malsimpla
  • Diskutejo - problemo pri dosiernomoj (bezonata ŝanĝo)
  • Diskuto de KuboF - problemo de robotistoj
  • luterum-kontroliloj superflue markas x-vortoj, kio malplifaciligas trovon de vere misliterumita vorto
  • pri la filozofio malantaŭ la sistemo
    • Diskutejo - Fundamenta argumento kontraŭ x-sistemo (kaj por h-sistemo)

Tial mi prezentas proponon malŝalti malnovan x-metodan konvertadon kaj samtempe ŝalti novan x-konvertadon per Universala LingvoElektilo. Io tia jam estis proponita antaŭ jaro, sed estas necesa konsento de loka komunumo, kion mi faras nun. Bonvolu subteni unu eblon el la subaj aŭ/kaj diskuti ĝin tute sube. Laŭ la rezulto mi sciigos evoluigistojn.

Ĉar plej bonus samtempe fari tian ŝanĝon en ĉiuj Esperantaj viki-projektoj, mi komencis la diskuton en la Esperanta Vikipedio. Tie estis starigitaj pluraj demandoj kaj klarigitaj neklaraj partoj. Se en la supra mallonga propono estas io neklara, bonvolu unue serĉi la temon en la Vikipedia diskuto. Se post du semajnoj ne estos kontraŭoj, aŭ eĉ estos subteno en ne-Vikipediaj projektoj, mi plu procedos la aferon kaj petos evoluigistojn pri la koncerna ŝanĝo. --KuboF (diskuto) 00:45, 14 Mar. 2015 (UTC)

Por malŝalto de malnova x-sistemo kaj ŝalto de Universala LingvoElektilo kun x-metoda anstataŭado

Por Por: kiel proponinto --KuboF (diskuto) 00:45, 14 Mar. 2015 (UTC)

Por laso de la nuna stato

Por malŝalto de malnova x-sistemo kaj ŝalto de Universala LingvoElektilo kun alia anstataŭado ol x-metoda

(bonvolu tuj mencii kiun anstataŭ-metodon vi preferus)

Sindetenas

Por tiuj, kiuj interesiĝas pri la afero sed (almenaŭ portempe) ne decidiĝis pri certa eblo.

Diskuto

Kiel oni alinomas paĝon?

Mi nun preskaŭ finverkis libron pri la svahila lingvo. La administranto KuboF konsilis min ke mi uzu subpaĝon de mia uzantopaĝo, kaj poste alinomigu tiun paĝon. Mi komencis fari tiel, sed nun mi ne scias kiel oni faras por alinomigi paĝon. Ĉu iu povas helpi min? La paĝo nun nomiĝas Uzanto:Oshifima/Svahila, kaj mi volus ke ĝi estu "Svahila" antaŭ ol mi aldonos subpaĝojn al ĝi. Oshifima (diskuto) 14:30, 16 Aŭg. 2015 (UTC)

Mi sukcesis trovi kiel fari. Mi jam alinomigis la paĝon. Mi ne plu bezonas helpon. Oshifima (diskuto) 14:23, 18 Aŭg. 2015 (UTC)

Novembraj konkursoj en Vikipedio - tradukado kaj Azio

Elstaraj kontribuantoj meritas elstaran trofeon

Dum Novembro 2015 okazas en la Esperanta Vikipedio 2 interesaj konkursoj:

  • Vikipedia traduka konkurso
    • Dank' al nova traduka helpilo EnhavTradukado estas tradukado de artikoloj signife pli facila ol iam ajn antaŭe. Aŭtomata prilaboro de bildoj, kategorioj kaj ligiloj; helpo de maŝina tradukado; proponoj de alilingvaj elstaraj artikoloj kaj aŭtomata konservado de traduko estas kelkaj de plej videblaj funkcioj de tiu helpilo. EnhavTradukado vin gvidas tra tuta traduka procezo kaj savas vin de tedaj taskoj. Por plej lertaj kontribuantoj estas preparitaj valoraj premioj, kiel 2 platkomputikoloj, pluraj libroj, muzikaj KDoj, T-ĉemizoj kaj dankletero. La konkurso estas sub aŭspicio de UEA!
  • Azia Monato
    • Azio prezentas grandan variecon - troviĝas tie kaj la plej alta kaj la plej malalta punkto sur Tero, plej antikvaj kaj plej modernaj civilizacioj. Krom helpi al tiu tre vasta temo; kontribuantoj kun almenaŭ 5 bonaj artikoloj ricevos desegnitan Vikipedian poŝtokarton.

La du konkursoj kunlaboras kaj vi povas partopreni ilin ambaŭ per la sama agado - sufiĉas per EnhavTradukado traduki artikolojn pri Azio kaj aliĝi al la konkursoj (traduka, Azia). Aŭ, laŭ via volo vi povas partopreni nur unu el ili. --KuboF (diskuto) 00:13, 4 Nov. 2015 (UTC)

Cookbook week

Hello, I want to tell you that I've made a proposal for a Cookbook event on this Meta page.

I would be happy to see your comment ! Regards Archi38 (diskuto) 18:20, 15 maj. 2016 (UTC)[Respondi]

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

Please help translate to your language

Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. Using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page or on this discussion thread. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk) 07:04, 24 jun. 2016 (UTC)[Respondi]

x-sistemo → eks-sistemo

La hodiauxaj sxangxoj en Phabricator kaj Gerrit devos signifi, ke post du jaroj, kun helpego de Ŝablono:U, Ŝablono:U, Ŝablono:U, kaj Ŝablono:U, la deviga uzado de la x‑sistemo dum redaktado, devas baldaux fori. Grandan dankon al ili! Dankon egale al Ŝablono:U, kiu verkis tiun mesaĝon. --Psychoslave (diskuto) 13:32, 21 jul. 2016 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2016-49

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • En Special:ActiveUsers vi povas elekti vidigeblajn uzantojn el specifaj uzantaj grupoj. [1]
  • Specialan:UserRights estas nun videbla de ĉiuj. Antaŭe nur tiuj kiu povus ŝanĝi uzantajn rajtojn povis vidi ĝin. Aliaj uzantoj ricevis eraro-mesaĝon. [2]
  • ORES nun povas montri kun malsamaj koloroj kiom probable difektontan estos redakto al la vikio. Tio funkcias por lingvojn, kiuj trejnis ORES por rekoni difektantajn redaktojn. [3]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

  • Vi nun vidos kategoriojn kun 0 paĝoj en Special:Categories. Antaŭe vi ne vidis malplenajn kategoriojn tie. [4]
  • La nova versio de MediaWiki estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 6a de decembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj vikioj ekde 7a de decembro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 8a de decembro (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

  • Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la VisualEditor teamo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la 6an de decembro je la 20:00a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

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18:07, 5 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-50

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • Uzantoj kiu havas Yahoo retpoŝtaj adresoj ne povus uzi Specialaĵo:Retpoŝti_uzanton sendi retpoŝtojn. Tio ĉi nun estis riparita. Retpoŝtoj nun venos el @wikimedia.org adreso. Uzantoj, kiuj ricevas retpoŝton far vi ankoraŭ respondos al via retpoŝta adreso kaj eblos vidi ĝin. [5]
  • You can now see how many categories and pages there are in the categories in Special:TrackingCategories. This is to help you find pages that could need attention. [6]
  • Markup colours for reviewed and pending revisions in the page history and recent changes and logs now match Wikimedia standard colours. The "You have a new message on your talk page" notification will have a slightly different colour. [7]

Problemoj

  • Because of work on cross-wiki watchlists global renaming is not working. The plan is to turn it on again on 16 December. Global renaming was turned off for a while in late November and early December as well. [8]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

  • La nova versio de MediaWiki estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.org ekde 6a de decembro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj vikioj ekde 14a de decembro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 15a de decembro (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

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19:29, 12 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2016-51

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Novaĵoj pri teknologio

  • Pro la ferioj, la sekvanta afero de novaĵoj pri teknologio estos elsendita je la 9a januaro 2017.
  • La verkistoj de la teknika informilo petas vian opinion. Ĉu vi akiris la informon ke vi deziris dum tiu jaro? Ĉu ni mankis gravan teknikan informaĵon dum 2016? Kio informospeco venis tro malfrue? Bonvolu diri al ni! Vi povas skribi per via lingvo. Dankon!

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • Administrantoj kaj traduk-administrantoj nun povas uzi Specialaĵo:Paĝlingvo sur vikioj kun la traduka kromaĵo. Tio ĉi signifas ke vi povas indiki kion lingvon uzas la paĝo. La traduka kromaĵo uzos tiun lingvon kiel la fonta lingvo kiam vi tradukas. Antaŭe tio estis ĉiam defaŭlte al lingvo de la vikio. Tio ĉi estis kutime Angla. [9]
  • Vikioj konektitaj al Vikidatumoj nun povas uzi la funkcioj de sintaksa analizilo {{#statements: }} por akiri formatitan datumon. Vi ankaŭ povas uzi {{#property: }} por akiri krudan datumon. Vi povas vidi la diferencon inter la du ordonoj. Estas ankaŭ similaj novaj funkcioj en Lua. [10]

Problemoj

  • Some abuse filters for uploaded files have not worked as they should. We don't know exactly which filters didn't work yet. This means some files that filters should have prevented from being uploaded were uploaded to the wikis. MediaWiki.org and Testwiki have been affected since 13 October. Commons and Meta have been affected since 17 October. Other wikis have been affected since 17 November. [11]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

  • Neokazas novan version de MediaWiki ĉi tiu semajno. Ankaŭ nekokazos novan version de MediaWiki dum la sekvanta semajno.

Kunvenoj

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

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20:33, 19 dec. 2016 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-02

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

Problemoj

  • Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [16]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

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19:12, 9 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-03

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

Problems

  • video2commons was down for two weeks. This was because of a problem with Commons video transcoders. It is now back up. [18]

Changes this week

  • There is a new magic word called {{PAGELANGUAGE}}. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators. [19]
  • When an admin blocks a user or deletes or protects a page they give a reason why. They can now get suggestions when they write. The suggestions will be based on the messages in the dropdown menu. [20]
  • You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>. <ce> should be replaced by <chem>. [21]
  • You now can add exceptions for categories which shouldn't be shown on Special:UncategorizedCategories. The list is at MediaWiki:Uncategorized-categories-exceptionlist. [22]
  • The "Columns" and "Rows" settings will be removed from the Editing tab in Preferences. If you wish to keep what the "Rows" setting did you can add this code to your personal CSS: #wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; } You can change the number 50 to make it look like you want to. [23]
  • Sometimes edits in MediaWiki by mistake are shown coming from private IP addresses such as 127.0.0.1. Edits and other contributions logged to these IP addresses will be blocked and shown the reason from MediaWiki:Softblockrangesreason. This should not affect most users. Bots and other tools running on Wikimedia Labs, including Tool Labs will receive a "blocked" error if they try to edit without being logged in. [24]
  • When you edit with the visual editor categories will be on the top of the page options menu. [25]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on January 17 at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:24, 16 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-04

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • Vi povas vidi liston de la ŝablonoj dum paĝa redaktado per la vida redaktilo. [26]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

  • La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 24 januaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 25 januaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 26 januaro (kalendaro).

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20:14, 23 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-05

Plej Lasta tech sciigo de la Wikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj influos vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • La fasadoj de administrado por OAuth nun ŝajnas iomete malsama. [27]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

  • ElectronPdfService estos ebligita defaŭlte en Meta kaj la germana Vikipedio. Tio ĉi estas nova vojo akiri artikolojn kiel PDFaj dosieroj vi povas elŝuti. Ĝi venos al pli da vikioj poste. [28]
  • La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 31 januaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 1 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 2 februaro (kalendaro).

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

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18:45, 30 jan. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-06

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Problemoj

  • La protokolo pri bloko foje montris blokojn kiel estanta multe pli longa ol ili estis. Tio nun estis korektita. [31]

Ŝanĝoj dum tiu semajno

  • Vikimediaj paĝoj nun estos pli bonaj pri montri bildojn kiam vi komunigas ilin per socia amaskomunikilaro. Plie, la priskriboj estos malsamaj. Vi povas vidi ekzemplon laŭ antaŭa kaj posta versio. [32]
  • Estas kelkaj ŝanĝoj al la OOjs UI. Kelkaj malnovaj funkcioj ne plu efikas aŭ ne efiki kiel ili antaŭe. Tio povus esti rompŝanĝo. [33]
  • La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 7 februaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 8 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 9 februaro (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

  • Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la teamo de vidredaktilo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la 7 februaro je la 20:00a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

  • Tidy estos anstataŭigita poste dum tiu jaro. Anstataŭe, la HTMLa 5 sintaksanalizanta algoritmon estos uzita por purigi malbonan HTML en vikiteksto. Tiu kaŭzos problemojn en multe da vikioj. Ili devas esti korektita antaŭe. Vi povas vidi se via vikio ankoraŭ havas ion korektendan ĉi tie por unu el la HTMLaj problemoj. Ĉi tiu listo ne pritraktas ĉiujn problemojn. Vi povas legi pri pli da problemoj. [34][35]

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19:45, 6 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-07

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • Eventfluos estas nova vojo montri aktivecon en Vikimediaj vikioj. Nuntempe ĝi funkcias kun la abonfluo de lastatempaj ŝanĝoj. Ĝi traktos pli da aferoj poste. Ĝi anstataŭigos RCStream. Iloj kiuj uzas RCStream devus adapti al Eventfluoj antaŭ la 7a julio. [36]

Problemoj

  • La Firefogg povas kaŭzi problemojn kun la alŝuta helpilo. Tio ne estos riparita, ĉar Firefox ne subtenos Firefogg en la estonteco. La alŝuta helpilo ne plu longe funkcios kun Firefogg. [37]
  • Datenbazoj de Ilaj laboratorioj kaj Vikimediaj laboratorioj estos funkcitene dum 15a februaro. Tio komencos ĉe 17:00 (UTC) kaj daŭros ĉirkaŭ ses horoj. Kelkaj iloj povus havi problemojn dum aŭ post tiam. [38]

Ŝanĝoj dum ĉi tiu semajno

  • The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It will come to Meta and German Wikipedia this week. It is already available on MediaWiki.org. It will come to more wikis later. [39]
  • La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 14 februaro. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 15 februaro. Ĝi estos sur ĉiuj vikioj ekde 16 februaro (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

  • Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la teamo de vidredaktilo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la 14 februaro je la 20:00a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

  • Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj estos ebligitaj por ensalutantaj uzantoj en la kataluna, greka, rusa kaj itala Vikipedioj en la mezo de februaro. Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj montras al legantoj mallongan parton de ligita artikolo kiam ili ripozas ilian kursoron sur la ligo. Tio estas por helpi ilin kompreni kion ĝi temas proksimume sen foriri la artikolon ili legas. Paĝaj antaŭprezentoj estis antaŭe nomita Hovercards. Ĝi estos disponigita al pli da vikioj poste dum tiu printempo. [40]
  • La mendolisto de disvolvantoj estas listo kie disvolvantoj prioritatigas ilojn ke ili bezonas. La voĉdonado fermas ĉe la 14a de februaro 23:59 (UTC). Tiu procedo estas nur por disvolvantoj.

Review

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18:06, 13 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-08

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

Changes this week

  • Page Previews will be updated on 23 February. This fixes many bugs. Page Previews can be turned on as the Beta Feature called Hovercards. [42]
  • There has been a problem where the CSS of gadgets has been loading twice. The Gadgets extension has two new options: type and peers. The type option solves this problem. You can use peers to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about type and peers. [43]
  • OAuth will handle blocked users in a more consistent way. [44]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:25, 20 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-09

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

Problems

  • On 22 February the wikipedia.org portal did not work for an hour. This was because of a problem with a JavaScript file. [45]

Changes this week

  • You will be able to use <chem> to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor. [46]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can soon upload 3D files to Commons. The file formats are AMF and STL. The plan is for this to work later this week but it could be later. [47]
  • The name "Wikipedia" will be more obvious at the top of the page when you read Wikipedia in the mobile view. This is because many readers don't realize they are on Wikipedia. [48][49]

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19:55, 27 feb. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-10

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

Recent changes

  • You can now search on English, French, Hebrew and Greek wikis and find words even if you forget the diacritics. It also works if you use diacritics in your search but the wiki doesn't. [50]
  • When you use the mobile view and click on a link to an article in another language you will see that article in the mobile view. Previously it changed to the desktop view. [51]

Problems

  • Some watchlist gadgets didn't work for a period of time last week. This has now been fixed. [52]
  • Admins who click on "mass delete" on a user's Special:Contributions will be taken directly to a list pages created by that user. It has worked like this before, but not lately. [53]

Changes this week

  • The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It is now a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [54]
  • The "flag the edit in the abuse log" checkbox will be removed from the abuse filter interface. This is because the edits are always flagged in the abuse log. [55]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 March at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Clarification

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23:23, 6 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-11

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 this week

  • You will be able to show references from <references /> tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references /> tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists. [56][57]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some old web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [58]
  • CSS in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future. [59][60]

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15:25, 13 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-12

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 Save page button now says Publish page or Publish changes on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page is when you save a new page and Publish changes when you edit an existing page. [61]
  • DMOZ no longer works. Templates that use DMOZ can be redirected to archive.org or another mirror. DMOZ has been removed from the RelatedSites extension on Wikivoyage. [62]
  • You can see monthly page views when you click on Page information in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API. [63]
  • The Linter extension is now on smaller Wikimedia wikis. It helps editors find some wikitext errors so they can be fixed. It will come to other Wikimedia wikis later. The extension will be able to find more errors later. [64]
  • The MediaWiki-Vagrant portable development environment has been updated to use Debian Jessie. This means local development and testing will be more like on the majority of Wikimedia production servers. [65]

Problems

  • On 15 March some interwiki links to other languages were not correctly sorted. This has been fixed. If you still see pages where the interwiki links are not sorted as they should be, they should be fixed automatically with time or you can edit the page and save it without changing anything. If this doesn't work, please report it. [66]

Changes this week

  • When you edit with the visual editor, you will be able to switch the direction you write in from right-to-left to left-to-right as you are editing. This is especially important for editors who edit in languages that write from right to left. You can do this with a tool in the editing menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X on PCs or Cmd+Shift+X on Macs. [67]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 21 marto at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:03, 20 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-13

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

Recent changes

  • When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [68]

Problems

  • Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [69][70]

Changes this week

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14:46, 27 mar. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-14

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 Konservi paĝon button now says Publikigi la paĝon or Publikigi la ŝanĝojn on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publikigi la paĝon is when you save a new page and Publikigi la ŝanĝojn when you edit an existing page. [71]
  • The tracking category Kategorio:Paĝoj kun ŝablonaj iteracioj is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template. [72]
  • English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [73]

Problems

  • Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [74]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 4 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next office hour with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on 5 April at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:53, 3 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15

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

Recent changes

Changes this week

  • Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version. [77]
  • New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later. [78]
  • The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters. [79]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
  • RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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18:34, 10 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16

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 add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [80]
  • You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList. [81]
  • The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from [[File:Wiki.png]]. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way. [82]

Problems

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week

  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 aprilo at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
  • Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback. [83]
  • From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts. [84][85]

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19:32, 17 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-17

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

Recent changes

Problems

Changes this week

  • The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit. [89]
  • Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this. [90]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 24 apr. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-18

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

Problems

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.

Changes this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • All Wikimedia wikis will have cookie blocks from May 8. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again. [94]
  • The Publikigi la ŝanĝojn, Antaŭrigardo and Montri la ŝanĝojn buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1 to the URL. [95]

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19:49, 1 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-19

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 users have a problem with the watchlist. Some changes in categories make the watchlist a blank page. The developers are working on this. Until this is fixed you can try some things that have helped other editors if you have this problem. You can turn on Kaŝi enkategoriigon de paĝoj in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Etendi la atentaron por montri ĉiujn ŝanĝojn, ne nur la plej lastajn in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from Special:EditWatchlist/raw. [96]
  • There was a problem with the visual editor for several days. You could not save edits that triggered a CAPTCHA. This would for example be when a new user added external links in references. This was fixed on 2 May. [97]

Changes this week

  • When you edit you can switch between the visual editor and the wikitext editor. This works if the wiki you edit has the visual editor. The menu will now say Visual editing and Source editing instead of Switch to visual editing and Switch to code editing. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using. [98]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You will be able to get a notification when a page you created is connected to a Wikidata item. This will come to Wikivoyage on 9 May. If there are no problems it will come to most Wikipedias on 30 May. It will come to other projects and English, French and German Wikipedia later in the summer. It will be opt-in for existing users and opt-out for new users. [99][100]
  • Markup that looks like code for language variants might need to be fixed. If -{ is used in transclusions or web addresses it has to be escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{ for transclusions and %2D{ in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{ in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}. This is because of some code fixes to the preprocessor and affects all wikis. [101][102]

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02:25, 9 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-20

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

Problems

  • The mediawiki.util library does not load automatically any more. Your Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){ as the first line in the file and }); as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/18 issue. [105]

Changes this week

  • The RevisionSlider extension will be a default feature on all wikis. RevisionSlider is an easier way to move between changes in the page history. It has been a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia and a beta feature on all wikis. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences. [106]
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Older unreported changes

  • Your Meta user page is shown on all wikis where you don't have a local user page. You can now add the magic word __NOGLOBAL__ to your Meta user page to stop this. [111][112]

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21:48, 15 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-21

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

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
  • There will be a <div> tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can report new problems you think are related to this. [113]

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22:02, 22 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-22

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

Problems

  • Last week’s MediaWiki version was rolled back from some wikis because of a problem. This means planned changes did not happen. [114]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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12:18, 30 maj. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-23

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

  • You can see new files on Special:NewFiles. You can now pick which dates you want to see files from. [116]
  • When you read Wikipedia on a mobile device the first paragraph now comes before the infobox. [117]
  • You can now remove navigation elements from your results when you search. This could for example be part of an infobox that is only there to help you find the previous or next article. [118]
  • New users on Wikivoyages and Wikipedias (except French, English and German) now get a notification when a page they created is connected to Wikidata. Other wikis will get it 13 June. [119]

Problems

  • The MediaWiki version from two weeks ago was rolled back. It was fixed late last week. Changes that were planned to go out last week did not happen. [120]

Changes this week

  • Wikimedia wikis can show fewer links to articles in other languages. This is to make it easier to find the languages likely to be useful to the reader or editor. Everyone can still click to see the full list. Logged-in users who use the compact language links will see languages they have in their Babel box on their user page in the first, shorter list. You can turn the compact language list off or on in your preferences. [121]
  • You can choose what dates to look at when you look at a user's contributions. [122]
  • When you click on your watchlist in the mobile view you get a list of all pages in the watchlist instead of the latest changes to them. Logged-in users with at least ten edits will now get the latest changes instead. [123]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
  • String comparisons in Scribunto modules are now always done case-insensitively by byte order. Before they were sometimes in a case-sensitive US-English collation order. This could break some modules. [124]

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The 2006 wikitext editor will be removed the week of 27 June. This is the old toolbar with small square blue buttons. You can see a picture of it. 0.03% of active Wikimedia editors use this old tool. They will not see a toolbar at all. [125][126]
  • Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron already works on German Wikipedia. It will be on English Wikipedia later this week so you can test it there too. [127]
  • The Architecture Committee will change and get a new name. You can read and comment on the draft that describes the new committee.

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19:04, 5 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-24

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 wikis have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. When you write an edit summary there you can now see how many bytes you have left before the summary is too long. [128]
  • When you search on Wikipedia you can now find pages on other Wikimedia projects that could be relevant. You see them next to the search results. [129]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (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 13 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You will soon be able to get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account. You can test this on the test wiki. This will only work if they fail to log in to your account. [130]
  • Wikimedia wikis use OCG to create PDFs. The OCG code has a lot of problems and will stop working. It has to be replaced. An alternative is Electron. You can tell the developers what you need the PDF service to be able to do. Electron now works on all Wikimedia projects. [131]
  • Administrators can soon search for deleted page titles and find results that are similar to what they searched for. Today the search only finds pages that are exactly the same as what you search for. This is to make it easier to find pages when you don't know the exact title. Administrators on Arabic, Catalan, English, Persian, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian Wikipedia and on mediawiki.org can test this by adding &fuzzy=1 to the end of the web address when looking at Special:Undelete. [132][133]

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15:29, 12 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-25

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

Problems

  • ORES had some problems on 13 June between 16:00 and 19:40 UTC. It has now been fixed. [134]

Changes this week

  • irc.wikimedia.org has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down. [135]
  • Special:PageData will be an entry point for machine-readable page data. [136]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 June. It will be on all wikis from 22 June (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 20 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:44, 19 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-26

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

Recent changes

  • The <inputbox> has a new searchfilter parameter. You can add values like searchfilter=insource:foo. It will add that to the user's search query. [137]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
  • Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone. [138]

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 27 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next WMF Language team office hour, an open session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects. The meeting will be on 27 June at 13:00 UTC. [139]

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15:38, 26 jun. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-27

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

Recent changes

  • There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <mapframe> when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed. [140]

Changes this week

  • Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the Content Translation database will be removed. This is because of technical maintenance. If you have not worked on a translation after 1 January 2016 you will lose it after 6 July. If you want to keep the unfinished translation you need to open it before 6 July with the Content Translation tool. You can continue working on it later. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
  • There is no new Mediawiki version this week.
  • EventStreams is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace RCStream. Tools that use RCStream should move to EventStreams before 7 July. Tech News wrote about this in the 2017/07 issue. [141]

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15:32, 3 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-28

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

Recent changes

  • There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Wikipedia article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured article. [142]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 julio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 julio. It will be on all wikis from 13 julio (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 11 julio at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Mobile users will be able to edit Wikipedia without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis. [143]
  • We will not use Tidy on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the simplified instructions for editors.

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15:07, 10 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-29

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

  • "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [144]

Problems

  • On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [145]

Changes this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (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 18 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [146] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [147]

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22:59, 17 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-30

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

  • 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. [148][149][150]
  • .mw-ui-constructive modifier class is deprecated and has been removed. [151]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 julio. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 julio. It will be on all wikis from 27 julio (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. [152]

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 julio 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 julio 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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15:57, 24 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Improved search in deleted pages archive

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During Wikimedia Hackathon 2016, the Discovery team worked on one of the items on the 2015 community wishlist, namely enabling searching the archive of deleted pages. This feature is now ready for production deployment, and will be enabled on all wikis, except Wikidata.

Right now, the feature is behind a feature flag - to use it on your wiki, please go to the Special:Undelete page, and add &fuzzy=1 to the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1. Then search for the pages you're interested in. There should be more results than before, due to using ElasticSearch indexing (via the CirrusSearch extension).

We plan to enable this improved search by default on all wikis soon (around August 1, 2017). If you have any objections to this - please raise them with the Discovery team via email or on this announcement's discussion page. Like most Mediawiki configuration parameters, the functionality can be configured per wiki. Once the improved search becomes the default, you can still access the old mode using &fuzzy=0 in the URL, like this: https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=0

Please note that since Special:Undelete is an admin-only feature, this search capability is also only accessible to wiki admins.

Dankon! CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 18:39, 25 jul. 2017 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2017-31

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

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. [153]
  • 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. [154]
  • 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. [155]

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21:45, 31 jul. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-32

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

Recent changes

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 "Sendi al mi ankaŭ retmesaĝojn pro malgrandaj redaktoj de paĝoj kaj dosieroj" at the bottom of "Profilo de uzanto" in your preferences if you want to. [158]
  • The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [159]

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. [160]
  • 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. [161][162]
  • 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. [163][164]

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21:45, 7 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-33

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

  • 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. [165]

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. [166][167]

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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23:28, 14 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-34

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

  • You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [168][169]
  • Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [170]
  • If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [171]
  • The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

  • Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [172]
  • The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. 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. [173]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • 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 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:00, 21 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-35

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

  • Syntax highlighting is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on CodeMirror. [174][175]
  • You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. [176]

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 use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how on this page. [177]

Changes later this week

  • You can block users from sending you notifications. [178]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • In the future you will have global preferences. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on the talk page. [179]
  • New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [180]
  • The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can ask on Phabricator to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.

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22:09, 28 aŭg. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-36

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

Tech News

Recent changes

  • The RevisionSlider user interface has changed. You can now select revisions by clicking on the bars. You can move the blue knob past the yellow one and the yellow one will move along, and the other way around. [181][182]

Problems

  • Some users have problems loading very large watchlists. It is working better than earlier but the problem has not been solved. The developers are working on fixing it. Until it has been fixed you can turn on "Etendi la atentaron por montri ĉiujn ŝanĝojn, ne nur la plej lastajn" in your preferences and see if it helps. [183]

Changes later this week

  • New filters for edit review is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September. [184]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).

Meetings

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22:14, 4 sep. 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. [186]
  • 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. [187]
  • The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. There is now a new high-priority category: tidy-whitespace-bug. This usually affects templates with horizontal lists. You can read more about using Linter and the Tidy whitespace bug. [188]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • 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).
  • OOjs UI will be updated. This could affect some icons. You can read more about the changes.

Meetings

  • 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.
  • 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. [190]

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19:15, 11 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-38

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (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 19 September at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:31, 18 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-39

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

Changes later this week

  • You now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. For security reasons you will soon get an email by default when someone tries to log in to your account and when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address. This can be turned off in your preferences. [197]
  • Users with extremely old browsers (for example Netscape 2–4, released from 1995–1997) which do not support Unicode will no longer be able to edit. They should try to install a new browser. [198]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September. (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Readers department has proposed changing the mobile website. You can read more on mediawiki.org. This would be a big change.
  • You can't use OCG to create PDFs after 1 October. This is because of technical problems. You can still create PDFs. Tech News 2017/37 said the function to create PDFs from books would still work. It is now clear it will not work for the next few months. The developers are working on fixing this. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

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15:59, 25 sep. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-40

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

  • You can now use preload features in the visual editor. This means you can create links to create new pages and some text will already be in the edit window when someone clicks on it. [199]

Changes later this week

  • If you have turned on "Aŭtomate ŝalti plejparton de betaj funkciojn" you will now get the 2017 wikitext editor. Before this you had to turn it on manually even though it is a beta feature. [200]
  • Special:Block and Special:Unblock will get the OOUI look. [201]
  • The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 on all Wiktionary wikis from 2 October. It will be on all non-Wikipedia wikis from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October. [202]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (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 3 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • A new feature called Reading Lists are coming to the Wikipedia mobile apps. First it will be in the Android version. Reading Lists are a private user preference where you can see lists of articles on multiple devices. You can give feedback on this feature. [203]
  • The search function has used fallback languages for language analysis. This means a language could be analysed with the grammar of a completely unrelated language to find related words. This will be removed from most wikis the week starting with 9 October. You can read more and give feedback.

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23:25, 2 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-41

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

Problems

  • You will not be able to edit or upload files to Commons for around 30 minutes on 11 October. This will start at 06:00 UTC. This is because of work to let Commons show 3D models. [206]

Changes later this week

  • The font in the edit window is monospace by default. Today you can change preferences to another font family or use "the browser default" instead of monospace. Switching to the browser default has only changed the font on Macs. The option to use browser default will be removed this week. [207]
  • If you want to print a page or make a PDF of a page you can do so in the side menu. The way the pages look when you do this will change. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (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 10 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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14:20, 9 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-42

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

Recent changes

  • When you edit a template with the visual editor it follows the template's format configuration on how to save it. You can now change the format in more powerful ways if your wiki wants it. [208][209]
  • The TwoColConflict extension is a new way to solve edit conflicts. It makes it easier to copy and paste the relevant text to the text field. It has been a beta feature for the last five months. You can now try out the new interface on a page where you will actually get simulated edit conflicts. You can give feedback to the developers.

Problems

  • There is a problem with recent changes pages and your watchlist that show a large number of pages. Until it is fixed, Wikidata edits will not be shown on recent changes or in your watchlist on Commons or Russian Wikipedia. If necessary, Wikidata edits will be removed from all wikis. [210]
  • Notifications are not working for some actions. For example some users don't get a notification when they are mentioned. The developers are working on fixing this. [211]
  • Users on some wikis could not change their preferences. This has now been fixed. [212]

Changes later this week

  • Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia from 17 October. 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. [213]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (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 17 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:31, 16 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-43

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

Recent changes

  • You can use ccnorm_contains_any when you create an abuse filter. This can be used to look for multiple words or phrases within a string. It will find words where some characters have been replaced. You can read more in the documentation. [214]

Changes later this week

  • When you search in some languages the search function could use specific other languages if the first language didn't work. This is called a fallback language. This didn't work properly and created bad searches. The search index is being fixed to work better. [215]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (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 24 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:18, 23 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-44

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

Recent changes

  • You can now block users from emailing you through the Wikimedia wikis. [217]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (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 31 October at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:20, 31 okt. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-45

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 will no longer see the patrol log on Special:Log unless you specifically select it. [218]

Changes later this week

  • The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 6 November. You can post proposals from 19:00 UTC and until November 19.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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18:44, 6 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-46

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

  • The diff you see when you compare two different versions of a page has changed on MediaWiki.org and the test wiki. This is to make it easier to find a text change in a moved paragraph. It will hopefully soon come to more wikis. You can report bugs in Phabricator. [221]
  • A new user group on Commons will be able to upload MP3 files. The plan is to have this user group from 17 November. [222]
  • Wikis using Flagged Revisions will get the New filters for Edit Review by default on the recent changes pages. It will be possible to opt-out in user preferences. [223]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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19:19, 13 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-47

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

  • If you use the Chrome web browser on Android you can see a download icon on the mobile website. You can download a formatted PDF. It will work in other mobile browsers in the future. [225]
  • The abuse filter now has a function called get_matches. You can use it to store matches from regular expressions – one of each capturing group. You can read more in Phabricator.

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version didn't come to all Wikipedias because of a database crash. It will be on all wikis on 20 November. [226][227][228]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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 21 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Language converter syntax will no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}- must be replaced. You will have to write -{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }- instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. This will happen next week. [229][230]

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19:18, 20 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-48

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (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 28 November at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:30, 27 nov. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-49

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 December. It will be on all wikis from 7 December (calendar).
  • Very old versions of the Opera Web browser are no longer supported. This means that technical development will not be tested to make sure it works with those Opera versions. Use Opera 15 or above or another browser if you have problems. [237]
  • Almost 170 wikis with no high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. A few larger wikis such as German and Italian Wikipedia will also make this switch. It will happen on 5 December. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [238][239]

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 5 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:50, 4 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Blocking tools consultation

Hello all,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team invites all Wikimedians to discuss new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools in December 2017 for development work in early 2018.

How can you help?

  1. Share your ideas on the discussion page or send an email to the Anti-Harassment Tools team.
  2. Spread the word that the consultation is happening; this is an important discussion for making decisions about improving the blocking tools.
  3. Help with translation.
  4. If you know of previous discussions about blocking tools that happened on your wiki, share the links.

We are looking forward to learning your ideas.

For the Anti-Harassment Tools team SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 23:23, 7 dec. 2017 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2017-50

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (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 12 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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17:58, 11 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2018.

Problems

  • When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [246]
  • Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

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 19 decembro at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:27, 18 dec. 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-02

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

  • On Wikidata, the "konservi" button when you edit is now called "publikigi". This means all Wikimedia wikis have now changed from "Konservi paĝon" to "Publikigi la ŝanĝojn". This is to help new editors understand what it does. [247][248]
  • Some edits will get an automatic tag on all wikis. This will happen when making a page a redirect, blanking a page, removing almost all content, undoing an edit, or rolling back an edit. You can see the tags for example in the recent changes feed, article history, user contributions or on your watchlist. Some wikis had already marked edits like these in other ways. [249]
  • Special:UnusedFiles shows files that have been uploaded but are not used. It will show a file that is not used on the wiki it has been uploaded to, even if the file is used on another wiki. The new Special:GloballyUnusedFiles page on Commons only shows files that are not used on any wiki. [250]
  • Structured discussions now uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This will work with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. The documentation has been updated. [251][252]

Problems

  • Older versions of the Chrome web browser on mobile devices may see the PDF download button, but it does not work. The developers are looking into the problem. [253]
  • With the new filters in the recent changes, "Ekskludi la elektitajn" in "Nomspacoj" did not work for "Konservitaj filtriloj" between 13 December and 2 January. When you loaded the saved filter all other namespaces were excluded instead. This has now been fixed. If you made any changes to your saved filters between 13 December and 2 January, you need to save your filters with excluded namespaces again. [254]
  • The latest version of Google Chrome broke how section links are shown in the address bar. You now see #R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 instead of #Résumé even if MediaWiki did not encode it that way. This happened in early December. This problem has been solved. The fix will be in Chrome 64 (23 January) or Chrome 65 (6 March). [255]
  • Some POST requests to the API took longer than usual in parts of December. This affected the Wikidata UI and some gadgets the most. It has now been fixed. [256]

Changes later this week

  • Wikidata will be moved to its own database servers. This is because it is growing and needs more resources. Because of this you will be able to read but not edit Wikidata and the German Wikipedia between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 9 January. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. This includes editing the language links on other wikis. [257]
  • The font size in the editing window will change slightly for some users. It will now look the same on all browsers and operating systems. [258][259]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar).
  • WikiEditor's ResourceLoader modules have been simplified to one: ext.wikiEditor. All the other modules are now deprecated aliases and should be removed. [260]

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 9 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:19, 8 jan. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-3

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 on Wikimedia wikis where the Translate extension is installed can now add and remove the translation administrator permission by default. Administrators of wikis where this extension is enabled can add and remove this permission to or from themselves. Wikis that used a different configuration before have not changed. [261]
  • There is a new Discourse test support channel for Wikimedia developers. You can ask questions or answer others questions about MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development. [262]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a bug that changed non-ASCII characters when a page was edited. [263][264]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (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 16 January at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • A few hundred wikis with less than ten high-priority errors in Linter categories will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 31 January. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [265][266]

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18:46, 15 jan. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-04

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

Problems

  • With the new OOUI look menus and popups can open upwards instead of downwards. This was meant to make long dropdown menus easier to use. Sometimes these menus have been overlapped by other things. This is now fixed. [269]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • irc.wikimedia.org will be rebooted on 22 February. Some bots use this to get the recent changes feed. They need to be able to reconnect automatically or they will not work until they have been fixed. Most bots can reconnect automatically. [270]

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23:56, 22 jan. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-05

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.

Meetings

Future changes

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17:06, 29 jan. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-06

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 add and remove the accountcreator permission by default. This means the user can help create a large number of accounts, for example for an editathon. Wikis can change this if they want to. [272]
  • The Wikidata vandalism dashboard is a new tool to monitor vandalism on Wikidata labels and descriptions. It is filtered by language. [273]
  • Info pages for file pages now show the file's SHA1 hash value in the table of basic information. This is so users can see that the file is the same as the one they uploaded. [274]

Problems

  • Special:Export has a higher error rate right now. This means that the export does not always work. You should check to make sure your page exports worked. The developers are working on fixing this. [275]

Changes later this week

  • When you review an edit made with the visual editor you can check a visual diff of your changes besides the wikitext diff. If you pick one diff type it will remember and show you that in future. The visual diff will now be the type first shown to new users. [276]
  • When you use a gallery to show images you can define the size, like gallery widths="150px". You could use em or % instead of px but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px or nothing (150). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px, it will not work. [277]
  • The wording when you send a thanks message will change. Instead of Jes or Ne it will say Thank and Cancel. It will also be easier to understand that all thanks are public. [278]
  • Redirects connected to Wikidata can create double Wikidata items. There will now be a tracking category for this. Wikis that don't want it can disable it. [279]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 6 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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20:51, 5 feb. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-07

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

  • TemplateStyles has been deployed to the Swedish Wikipedia. TemplateStyles is a feature to make it easy to add CSS to templates without administrator privileges. This allows for better adaptability to screen sizes, especially on mobile where are half our total page views. If your community would like to be the next to have the feature, please submit a task on Phabricator. [282][283][284]
  • Registration pages now collect keyboard/mouse usage information for research on identifying spambots.

Changes later this week

  • You can opt in to a new beta feature that lets you use visual diffs on history pages. [285]
  • The visual editor shows and lets you edit templates in one way, and reference lists in another. This meant that templates that only contain a fake reference list, like {{reflist}}, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates. [286]
  • The abuse filter extension has a new feature contains_all that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string. [287]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 13 February at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:59, 12 feb. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-08

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 explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [289][290]
  • You can now see statistics for pageviews per wiki per country. You can see this on maps or in a table. [291]

Problems

  • Linter is reporting estimated counts instead of actual counts for some wikis. This is because of performance problems. You might notice a false higher number in linter counts for some categories. This will be fixed as soon as the performance problem has been fixed. [292]
  • Last week the way that Visual Editor displays references lists was changed. As a result, the references generated by specific templates like {{sfn}} are not visible in the references list whilst editing. [293][294]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 20 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:54, 19 feb. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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

Recent changes

  • Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly. [296]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug. [297][298]
  • Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [299]
  • Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated. [300][301][302]

Changes later this week

  • Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version. [303]
  • Advanced item The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [304][305]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 27 February at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:52, 26 feb. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-10

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

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • Vi nun povas fari pli longan redaktan resumon. [306]

Ŝanĝoj poste dum tiu semajno

  • Vi povas sciigi uzantojn en redaktaj resumojn. Ili ricevos sciigon kiel se ili estis menciita sur vikia paĝo. [307]
  • En Specialaĵo:Protokolo_pri_misuzado vi nun povas elekti enlistigi nur agojn kiuj efektive faris redakton. Aliaj agoj estas kiam la filtrilo avertis la redaktoron aŭ blokis la farita de redakto. Estas ankaŭ pli da serĉaj opcioj. [308][309]
  • Altnivela ero Vikioj povas ebligi Citoid por provizi aŭtomatan referencan elserĉon en la vida redaktilo kaj la 2017 vikiteksta redaktilo, sed tio estas kompleksa. La ilo nun avertos en la JavaScript konzolo se la agordo ne estas taŭga. Baldaŭ Citoid memmalebligos se la argord ne estas taŭga. Kontrolu ke via vikio estas formita taŭge. Vi povas peti helpon se vi bezonas iom. [310]
  • Ripetiĝanta ero La nova versio de MediaVikio estos en testaj vikioj kaj MediaWiki.Org ekde 6 marto. Ĝi estos en ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipedioj ekde 7 marto. Ĝi estos en ĉiuj vikioj ekde 8 marto (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

  • Ripetiĝanta ero Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan renkontiĝon kun la teamo de vidredaktilo. Dum la renkontiĝo, vi povas diri al disvolvistoj, kiujn cimojn opinias vi estas la plej gravaj. La renkontiĝo okazos la 6 marto je la 19:30a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.
  • Altnivela ero Vi povas aliĝi la sekvantan konsilan renkontiĝon per IRC. Dum la renkontiĝo disvolvistoj povas peti konsilojn. La renkontiĝo okazos la 7 marto je la 16:00a horo (UTC). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

Estontaj ŝanĝoj

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17:12, 5 mar. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-11

Plej lastaj teknologiaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu paroli al aliaj uzantoj pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj efikos al vi. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • 3D modeloj nun povas esti elŝutita al Commons. [311]
  • Paĝaj Antaŭrigardoj estis ĝisdatigita por uzi HTML por antaŭrigardoj. Tio ĉi riparis multajn aferojn. A/B testojn estis farita sur Angla kaj Germana Vikipedioj por mezuri kiel ĝi estas uzita. Aliaj ŝanĝoj estis ankaŭ faritaj. [312]
  • Kelkaj redaktoj devas esti kontrolita kontraŭ tro da kondiĉoj antaŭ ili povas ekkaŭzi filtrilon de fitrakto. Se tio estas la kialo neniu filtrilo estas ekkaŭzita la redakto estos etikedita por revizio. [313]
  • Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [314]

Problems

  • The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [315]

Changes later this week

  • You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [316]
  • It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [317][318]
  • Advanced item A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [319][320][321]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 marto. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 marto. It will be on all wikis from 15 marto (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 13 marto at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 marto at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:43, 12 mar. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-12

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

  • On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [322]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 marto. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 marto. It will be on all wikis from 22 marto (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item There is no Editing team meeting this week.
  • Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 marto at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [323][324]
  • In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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15:03, 19 mar. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-13

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

Changes later this week

  • Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [325] [326]
  • Advanced item The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [327]
  • TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [328]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [329]
  • Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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20:04, 26 mar. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-14

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

  • Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
  • Advanced item The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

  • MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [330][331][332]
  • The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [333]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
  • Advanced item User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [334]
  • Advanced item Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [335][336][337]
  • Advanced item AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [338] [339]
  • In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reŝargi la atentaron aŭtomate ĉiam, kiam filtrilo estas ŝanĝita (bezonas Ĝavoskripton)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [340]
  • You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [341]
  • You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [342]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
  • Advanced item On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [343][344]

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19:28, 2 apr. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

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

Recent changes

  • Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [345]
  • You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [346]
  • The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [347]
  • Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [348]

Problems

  • The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [349]
  • For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [350]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
  • Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [351]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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18:09, 9 apr. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-16

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

Changes later this week

  • Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [352]
  • Advanced item Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [353][354]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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15:20, 16 apr. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

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

Recent changes

  • All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
  • The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
  • The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [357]
  • The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [358]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [359]
  • The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 apr. 2018 (UTC)

ELiSo partoprenis la Vikimedian Konferencon 2018

Trovu la 8 esperantistojn kaj vicon da pluŝuloj!
Organizuloj viciĝas

Saluton karaj kunredaktantoj!

Mi ŝatus informi vin, ke lastan semajnfinon, ekde la 20a ĝis la 22a de Aprilo 2018 okazis la Vikimedia Konferenco 2018, pinta renkontiĝo de organizita parto de la Vikimedia movado. Kaj kompreneble partoprenis ankaŭ Esperanta Vikimedia grupo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio (ELiSo) en konsisto Ivan Quintero Santacruz kaj KuboF Hromoslav (kaj pluraj esperantistoj reprezentante aliajn organizojn / grupojn).

Dum la konferenco ni multe lernis, diskutis, konektiĝadis kun aliaj aktivuloj, laboris kaj eĉ trovis tempon por amikumi. Okazis tiom multaj aferoj, ke ni bezonos kelkan tempon por ilin pritrakti; ni informos vin iom-post-iom, precipe en la dissendolistoj eliso kaj eliso-anoncoj (do aliĝu por ricevi novaĵojn plej frue kaj plej komplete!). Sed nun mi alemanŭ prezentos mian koncizan superrigardon.

Mi konscias pri 8 esperantistoj dum la konferenco. Entute partoprenis ĉ. 300 homoj, do esperantistoj jam trapasis la sojlon de 2% kaj transiris de "pioniroj" al "fruaj adoptantoj" (laŭ la teorio de difuzo de novaj aferoj).

Entute 6 homoj partoprenis la kunsidon de ELiSo. La raporton mi ankoraŭ preparas, sed mi konscize diru, ke ni decidis puŝi nian grupon al pli alta nivelo kun funkcianta strukturo (pri tio mi sendos memstaran mesaĝon) kaj ĝis 2 jaroj iĝi Tema Organizo de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio kaj (dum nedefinita tempo) Faka Asocio de UEA.

Ni lernis pri novaj (aŭ nove malkovritaj) iloj por helpi al laboro de redaktantoj kaj organizantoj, ekz. Mapo de komunumaj kapabloj, w:Ŝablono:Uzanto sandbox+, Stirpanelo por programoj kaj eventoj kaj UserViews. Tio estas vere mojosaj iloj, certe provu ilin!

Granda parto de la konferenco estis la 2a fazo de konsultado por la Strategia direkto de la Vikimedia movado 2030. Ĉar estas ĝenerala konsidero, ke per nuntempa laborado ni ne atingos la trovitan vizion, en la tutmonda vikimedia movado komenciĝis tempo de prikonsiderado de ĉio ajn kaj sekve estas akceptataj ankaŭ disrompaj ideoj (ĝis grado de malfondo de ĉiuj komisionoj kaj organizoj). Aŭdiĝis ankaŭ la opinio, ke la internacia vikimedia movado prefere transiru de uzado de la angla al Esperanto, ĉar ĝi estas multe pli justa - la opinion prezentis neesperantisto! Li laŭpete tion deklaris ankaŭ dum videoregistrado - la videon mi publikigos baldaŭ.

Parolante pri videoj... Mi faris kelkajn mallongajn video-monologojn kun kelkaj homoj kun intresaj ideoj. Ĝi estis tre improvizita, ĉar mi ĝin pripensis maljam veturante al la konferenco. Tamen, mi havas plurajn bonajn registraĵojn, kiujn mi publikigados dum sekvaj tagoj (tamen ne tuj) en la YouTube-kanalo de ELiSo, do ekabonu la kanalon jam nun por esti sciigita tuj post publikigo (kaj memoru klaki la sonorileton por vere ricevi la sciigojn...).

Do, jen fino de tiu ĉi baza sciigo! Nome de nia grupeto de reprezentantoj mi denove dankas pro esperantista subteno de nia partopreno kaj mi antaŭĝojas nian pli intensan kunlaboradon en kaj ekster Vikipedio, kiu ĵuse plikonkretiĝias.

Amike, --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 11:58, 29 apr. 2018 (UTC)[Respondi]

Helpu puŝi organizon Esperanto kaj Libera Scio al sekva nivelo!

Aliĝu al la laborgrupo por puŝi ELiSon al sekva nivelo!

Saluton ĉiuj!

En mia antaŭa mesaĝo mi koncize (nu, eble ne tiom koncize...) prezentis superrigardon pri parto de Esperanta agado dum la Vikimedia Konferenco 2018. Pluraj el unuopaj punktoj tamen bezonas aktivan partoprenon de ĝuste vi! Ankaŭ la jena.

Nia grupo estis sub la nomo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio oficiale rekonita fare de la Fondaĵo Vikimedio kiel Vikimedia Uzanto-Grupo en 2013. Ekde tiam ni funkcias kiel neformala grupo kun distribuita (ni povas diri "laŭokaza") gvidado. Tio certagrade funkcias (ja vidu niajn ĝisnunajn sukcesojn kaj nune faratan laboron, ekz. Vikio amas ZEOjn). Sed dum la kunsido dum la Konferenco ni unuanime konstatis, ke ni povas atingi pli multe, helpi al pli da homoj kaj disvastigi vikimedion pli foren se ni pli intence zorgos pri bontenado kaj evoluo de niaj strukturo kaj strategio.

Tial ni starigis laborgrupon, kiu nin gvidos tra la procezo de starigo de tiu strukturo. Ni ankaŭ konscias, ke ne ĉiuj povis partopreni dum la konferenco kaj ke indas inkludi homojn kun diversaj kapabloj kaj talentoj por atingi elstaran sukceson!

Tial ni invitas vin al la laborgrupo por gvidi ELiSon al sekva nivelo!

Kio estos la laboro?
En la laborgrupo ni unue diskutos estontecon de ELiSo. Mi antaŭvidas 2-3 videovokojn kaj intertempan retpoŝtumadon kaj prilaboradon de dokumentoj. Laŭ rezultoj de tiuj diskutoj ni faros sekvajn agojn. Ni ĝenerale supozas, ke ni gvidos verkadon de statuto laŭ kiu ĉiu ELiSano elektos estraron. Detaloj estas por laborgrupa diskuto.
Kiel aliĝi al la laborgrupo?
Ĝis la 13a de Majo 2018 23:59 UTC deklaru vian intencon aliĝi per retmesaĝo al la dissendolisto eliso, al mi persone aŭ en la Diskutejo de la Esperanta Vikipedio.
Ĉu aliĝante al la laborgrupo oni eniras estraron?
Ne. La laborgrupo ekzistos por gvidi procezon por ekhavi funkciantan kaj firman strukturon; kiam tio estos atingita, la laborgrupo disiĝos. Membroj de la laborgrupo estas tre bonvenaj kaj invitataj plufunkcii en gvida rolo en ELiSo, sed tio ne estas deviga. Ĉiuokaze, precizan strukturon de estonta ELiSo ni interkonsentos en la laborgrupo kaj ni antaŭvidas diversajn manierojn kiel partopreni en ELiSo, ĉu en "estraro" aŭ ekster ĝi.
Kiuj estas membroj de la laborgrupo?
Dume estas 5 homoj: Leidy Sandoval Galindez, Juan Quintero Santacruz, Ivan Quintero Santacruz, Mathieu Stumpf Guntz kaj mi (KuboF Hromoslav). Mi volontulis por gvidi la laborgrupon.

Do, se vi volas vidi ELiSon atingadi pli multe kaj labori pli profesie, aliĝu!

Nome de la prepara laborgrupo, --KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 12:18, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-18

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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [360]

Problems

  • Advanced item We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [361]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [362]
  • When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [363]
  • Advanced item You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Redaktado section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [364]
  • Advanced item There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jhareŜablono:@wikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
  • Advanced item All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [365][366][367]

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16:18, 30 apr. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19

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

Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [368]

Problems

  • Advanced item The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [369]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [370]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Advanced item All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [371][372]

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16:27, 7 maj. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

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

  • Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
  • The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [373]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
  • The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [374]

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22:22, 14 maj. 2018 (UTC)

Novaj monpetoj por informado

Por agado de la organizo Esperanto kaj Libera Scio mi malfermis 2 novajn monpetojn ĉe la Fondaĵo Vikimedio:

  1. prezentado de Vikio Amas ZEOjn dum UK 2018
  2. novaj, modernaj informiloj pri Vikipedio

Unue, dankon al Sahaquiel9102 kaj Peter Baláž pro bona kunlaboro, kuncerbumado, ĉiama puŝado kaj helpado! Ni laboris sub tempa streĉo, do mi ĝojas, ke almenaŭ nun mi povas anonci la projektojn.

Emblemo de la fotokonkurso Vikio amas ZEOjn

Ambaŭ projektoj celas plipopularigi precipe Esperantajn viki-projektojn kaj enhavojn inter esperantistoj. Parte temas ankaŭ pri ĝenerala informado pri vikimedio. Grava parto estas la konkurso Vikio amas ZEOjn 2018, kie ni invitas homojn kontribui per fotoj pri ZEOj. Ni supozas vastan informadon al ĝenerala publiko per Vikipedioj - multaj el ili supozeble ekkonos ZEOjn kaj Esperanton por la unua fojo! Por la projekto estis Petro Baláž bonkora kaj akceptis dum UK 2018 prelegi kaj informi pri la projekto.

La dua projekto temas pri kutimaj informaj / instruaj materialoj, kiujn ni uzados dum estontaj prelegoj kaj trejnadoj por helpi al homoj pli bone memori kaj uzi la informojn. Ĉar ankaŭ ni estas nur homoj kaj ne povas plurobliĝi, pripensu ankaŭ vi prelegi kaj trejni pri Vikipedio kaj aliaj vikiaj projektoj. En ELiSo ni laŭeble provizas helpon, per tiu ĉi monpeto strebas pri distribuo de instruaj flugfolioj kaj plurfoje jam sukcese monpetis por helpi financi la vojaĝon.

Fine, se vi ŝatas la agadon, mi petas vin esprimi vian subteno pri la monpetoj en la suba sekcio "Endorsements", konkrete prezentado pri ZEOj kaj informiloj. Nia Esperanta grupo jam estas konata en la Vikimedia mondo, sed akcepto de monpetoj dependas ankaŭ de montrita intereso de la komunumo. Antaŭdankon! --KuboF Hromoslav (diskuto) 21:41, 17 maj. 2018 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2018-21

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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17:33, 21 maj. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-22

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

Recent changes

  • You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [375][376]
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [377]
  • Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [378]
  • Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [379]
  • Advanced item There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [380]

Problems

  • Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [381]

Changes later this week

  • There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [382]
  • A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [383]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
  • Advanced item Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [384]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [385]
  • A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [386]
  • Advanced item Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [387][388]

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12:40, 29 maj. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-23

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

  • The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [389]
  • Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [390][391]
  • Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [392]

Problems

  • You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
  • MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [393]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 5 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:54, 4 jun. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

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

  • In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [396]
  • Advanced item There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [397]

Problems

  • The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [398]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item 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 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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21:55, 11 jun. 2018 (UTC)

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Please help translate to your language Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

  • The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
  • Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
  • Readers care about page issues and consider them important
  • Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 jun. 2018 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2018-25

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

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [402][403]
  • The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [404][405]
  • Advanced item All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [406]

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21:47, 18 jun. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [407][408]

Changes later this week

  • Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [409]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:10, 25 jun. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

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

Recent changes

  • The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [410]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [411]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:46, 3 jul. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

Recent changes

  • WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [412]
  • The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [413]
  • Advanced item All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [414]

Problems

  • When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [415]
  • Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [416]

Changes later this week

  • When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [417][418]
  • On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [419]
  • When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [420]
  • Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [421]
  • Advanced item When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [422]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [423]
  • Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [424]

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23:10, 9 jul. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-29

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

Changes later this week

  • Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [428]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
  • You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:01, 16 jul. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

Plej lastaj teĥnikaj novaĵoj de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri al aliaj uzantoj pri tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj influos vin. Tradukoj estas haveblaj.

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • Kiam vi ensalutas al via konto vi povas elekti resti ensalutita. Tiu opciilo nun efikas plibone ol antaŭ ĉe portebla versio por uzantoj sen Ĝavoskripto. [429]
  • Vikioj kiuj uzas Citoido, aŭtomate povas produkti citaĵojn por svedaj sciigaj retejoj. Tio nur efikas per la vida redaktilo. Tio nun efikas por radio de sveda publika servo. Pli da eblecoj okazos. Aliuloj povus uzi tion por aldoni sciigajn retejojn en aliaj lingvoj en la estonteco. [430]
  • Kontribuuloj povas fari maksimume po 90 redaktojn por minuto. Tio estas nova ekde lasta monato. [431]

Ŝanĝoj poste ĉi tiu semajno

  • Ripeta kozo La nova versio de Mediavikio estos ĉe testaj vikioj kaj mediawiki.org ekde 24 julio. Ĝi estos ĉe ne-Vikipediaj vikioj kaj kelkaj Vikipediaj ekde 25 julio. Ĝi estos ĉe ĉiuj vikioj ekde 26 julio (kalendaro).

Kunvenoj

  • Ripeta kozo Altnivela kozo Vi povas aliĝi la teknikan konsilan renkontiĝon ĉe IRC. Dum la renkontiĝo, volontulaj ellaborantoj povas peti konsilon. La renkontiĝo estos la 25 julio je 15a horo (UTK). Vidu kiel aliĝi.

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09:44, 24 jul. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-31

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 design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [432]

Problems

  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [433][434]
  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [435][436]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 31 julio at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 aŭgusto at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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14:05, 30 jul. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-32

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [438][439]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:39, 6 aŭg. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-33

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

  • CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [440]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [441]

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17:53, 13 aŭg. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-34

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:46, 20 aŭg. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-35

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 moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [443]
  • Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [444]

Problems

  • Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [445]

Changes later this week

  • The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [446]
  • AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [447]
  • Advanced item Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [448]
  • Advanced item Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age. [449]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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16:16, 27 aŭg. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-36

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

Recent changes

  • There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [450][451]
  • There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [452][453]
  • You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [454]
  • wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [455]
  • When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [456]

Problems

  • UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [457]
  • You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [458]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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16:48, 3 sep. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-37

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

  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [460]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [461]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [462]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [463]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [464]
  • When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [465]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item 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 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:35, 10 sep. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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 Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [466]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [467]

Problems

  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [468]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [469]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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21:58, 17 sep. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-39

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

Changes later this week

  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [470]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:23, 24 sep. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

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

  • Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [471][472]

Problems

  • New and updated translations from will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [473][474]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:35, 1 okt. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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Recent changes

Problems

  • There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [476]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

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23:38, 8 okt. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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Problems

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [477]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [478]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [479]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [480]
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:41, 15 okt. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-43

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Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 October. It will be on all wikis from 25 October (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:12, 22 okt. 2018 (UTC)

Mezurilaro de komunuma sano

La mezurilaro de komunuma sano estas nova projekto por mezuri pli da aspektoj de niaj komunumoj. Se vi estas interesita en mezuroj, statistikoj kaj mezurado de redakto kaj kontribuado, bonvolu aliĝi nin je Meta por diskuti kiel kaj kio la nova projekto devus mezuri!

Ĉi tiu mesaĝo estas ankaŭ havebla en aliaj lingvoj. JSutherland (WMF) (diskuto) 23:46, 25 okt. 2018 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2018-44

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

Recent changes

  • You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
  • Advanced item The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [481]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [482]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [483][484]

Meetings

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20:09, 29 okt. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

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Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [486]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:29, 5 nov. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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Recent changes

  • Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [487]

Problems

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [488][489][490]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [491]

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19:22, 12 nov. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-47

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

  • You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
  • Advanced item There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [492]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [493]
  • The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [494]

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23:29, 19 nov. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

  • On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [495]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [496]
  • Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [497]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Advanced item The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [498]

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22:22, 26 nov. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-49

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

Recent changes

  • Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [499]
  • Small SVG images are now bigger when you see them in MediaViewer. [500]
  • You can go to a section from the edit summary by clicking on the section name. Before this you had to click on the arrow. [501]
  • When you jumped to a footnote that was referenced several times in an article it could be difficult to see where you were in the text. Now there are jump marks and highlights to help you find your way back. [502][503]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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16:13, 3 dec. 2018 (UTC)

Mi ne scias kiel fari ĉapelitajn literojn

Mi verkis novan libron, "Proksomuma kalkulo". Bedaŭrinde mi skribis ĝin per la x-sistemo, kaj nun mi ne scias, kiel ŝanĝi ĝin. Ĉu iu povas helpi? Oshifima (diskuto) 23:21, 9 dec. 2018 (UTC)[Respondi]

Nun mi mem sukcesis ŝanĝi al ĉapelitaj literoj. Mi ne plu bezonas helpon. Dankon. Oshifima (diskuto) 02:36, 21 dec. 2018 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2018-50

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Changes later this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • New accounts will need passwords that are at least 8 characters long. Admins, interface admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, CentralNotice admins, global renamers, check users, stewards and some other user groups will need passwords that are at least 10 characters long. This is because an attacker could cause damage to the wikis if they took over these accounts. [504][505]
  • When you hover over a footnote it will show you the reference as a pop-up. This is so you don't have to jump down to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will happen in 2019. Some wikis already have gadgets that do this. You will be able to turn it off. [506]

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17:34, 10 dec. 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-51

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Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.

Recent changes

  • Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [507][508]
  • Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [509]
  • Advanced item The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.

Problems

  • <ref> tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example <ref name="adams" group="books">. If a <ref> tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [510]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
  • Advanced item tiles.wmflabs.org and wma.wmflabs.org will stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [511]

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20:35, 17 dec. 2018 (UTC)

Vandalismo de Dumbmoron2018

Dumbmoron2018 fuŝis centojn da artikoloj. Nun ĝi estas forbarita en ĉiuj vikioj, sed necesas ankaŭ nuligi liajn fiagoj.RG72 (diskuto)

Tech News: 2019-02

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Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.

Recent changes

  • RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [512]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [513]
  • Advanced item codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [514]
  • Advanced item On several wikis, an account named "Filtrilo de misuzo" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.

Problems

  • Advanced item In AbuseFilter, the "Trafik-limigilo" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [515]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.

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18:30, 7 jan. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-03

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 Google Translate in the content translation tool. [516][517]
  • You can now add captions to files on Commons. Captions are short descriptions of the file. They can be translated to all languages we use. They can't use wikitext markup.
  • Earlier a quoted HTML attribute had to be followed by a space. Now it doesn't. This means that some pages could look different when you save them even if you didn't edit that part of the text. [518][519]
  • Advanced item Templates with <templatestyles> could not show the difference between the live template and the sandbox version when they were tested. This has now been fixed. <templatestyles> has a new wrapper parameter now. You can use it for selectors like .mw-parser-output <wrapper parameter value> <selector from CSS page>. [520]

Problems

  • When you see an edit in the recent changes feed or in the history of a page some of them have tags. Some tags are added automatically. You can also add tags manually. Tags for edits that have been added manually can be edited. This didn't work for a little while. This has now been fixed. [521]

Changes later this week

  • You can move files from your wiki to Wikimedia Commons and keep the file history with the new FileExporter. It will be a beta feature on all wikis from 16 January. If you want to test it you activate it and check your wiki's configuration file.
  • Users who could cause more damage to the wikis if someone took over their account have to have more secure passwords. This includes administrators and other user groups. They can't use passwords that are in a list of common passwords. Accounts with common passwords are easy to take over. The list of common passwords was made longer a few weeks ago and has a different error message. Some user groups have been added to those who can't use common passwords. This is to protect all accounts with user rights that could cause damage. [522]
  • Advanced item The AbuseFilter variable minor_edit has been removed. It was deprecated in 2016. Now you can't use it. You can fix the filters using it. You can find them if you use the search bar on Special:AbuseFilter.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 15 17:55, 14 jan. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-04

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Tech News

  • Some people did not get last week's issue of Tech News. This was because of a problem with MassMessage. If you did not get last week's issue, you can read it on Meta. [523]

Recent changes

  • The content translation tool can now use version 2 as the default version for users who turned on the beta feature. For example it adds the tracking category Paĝoj kun nereviziitaj tradukoj to translations that might have used machine translations without fixing the problems. This is so others can find them. You can find this category in Special:TrackingCategories on Wikipedias.
  • https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org can now convert collects of up to 800 pages to PDF, EPUB or ODT. Previously this was 200 pages.

Problems

  • When a template was edited with the visual editor, it would sometimes put all information on one line. This makes it difficult to read for editors who use the wikitext editor. It also makes it more difficult to see what happened in a diff. This problem affected edits made between 8 and 17 January and is now fixed. [524]
  • MassMessage is used to post a message to many pages. It has not been working reliably. Some messages have not been posted to everyone. [525][526]
  • Because of a database problem that had to be fixed immediately you could not edit most wikis for a couple of minutes on 17 January (UTC). This has now been fixed. [527]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able to use template styles in the Module namespace. [528]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 January. It will be on all wikis from 24 January (calendar).

Meetings

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20:33, 21 jan. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-05

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Recent changes

Problems

  • When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed. [529]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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18:15, 28 jan. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-06

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Changes later this week

  • It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed. [530]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (calendar).

Meetings

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17:12, 4 feb. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07

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Recent changes

  • You can use the ambox CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use ambox there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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18:46, 11 feb. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08

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Recent changes

  • When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident. [531]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback. [532]

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23:14, 18 feb. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-09

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown. [534]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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21:17, 25 feb. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-10

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Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
  • The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts. [535][536]

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16:38, 4 mar. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-11

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Recent changes

Problems

  • Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
  • Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed. [537]
  • Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. This has been fixed. [538][539]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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19:29, 11 mar. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12

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Changes later this week

  • When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March. [540][541]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers. [542]
  • Advanced item Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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19:44, 18 mar. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13

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

Recent changes

  • The new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version. [543]

Problems

  • There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed. [544]
  • The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon. [545]
  • Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them. [546]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:05, 25 mar. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-14

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

Changes later this week

  • Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [547]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:29, 1 apr. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-15

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [550]
  • A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [551]
  • Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [552]

Changes later this week

  • When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [553]
  • The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [554]
  • Advanced item The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return "" (empty string). When you read a page it will return "-" (dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [555]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [556][557]
  • Advanced item The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.

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18:24, 8 apr. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-16

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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23:00, 15 apr. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-17

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

Recent changes

  • The advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [560][561][562]
  • The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [563]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Wikipedia articles will have the sameAs meta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [564][565]

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19:08, 23 apr. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-18

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

Lastaj ŝanĝoj

  • The Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [566][567]

Problemoj

  • Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [568]

Changes later this week

  • You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [569]
  • When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [570]
  • You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [571]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 aprilo. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 majo. It will be on all wikis from 2 majo (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 majo at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Advanced item The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
  • Advanced item Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [572]

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22:28, 29 apr. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-19

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

Problemoj

  • Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [573]

Ŝanĝoj okazontaj poste ĉi-semajne

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

Kunvenoj

  • Ripetiĝanta ero Altnivela ero You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 majo at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:28, 6 maj. 2019 (UTC)

Multilingual Shared Templates and Modules

Hello eo-wiki community! (Please help translate to your language)

I recently organized a project to share templates and modules between wiki projects and languages. It allows modules and templates to be “language-neutral”, and store all text translations on Commons. This means that it is enough to copy/paste a template without any changes, and update the translations separately. If someone fixes a bug or adds a new feature in the original module, you can copy/paste it again without any translation work. My bot DiBabelYurikBot can help with copying. This way users can spend more time on content, and less time on updating and copying templates. Please see project page for details and ask questions on talk page.

P.S. I am currently running for the Wikimedia board, focusing on content and support of multi-language communities. If you liked my projects like maps, graphs, or this one, I will be happy to receive your support. (any registered user group can vote). Thank you! --Yurik (🗨️) 04:07, 12 maj. 2019 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2019-20

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:49, 14 maj. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21

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

Problems

  • File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [574][575]
  • Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [576][577]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 majo at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [578]
  • Advanced item The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [579]


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13:04, 20 maj. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-22

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

  • Advanced item Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [580][581]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:34, 27 maj. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-23

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

  • You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [582]
  • There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [583]
  • Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [584][585]

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [586]

Changes later this week

  • Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [587]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 3 jun. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-24

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

  • When you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [588][589]
  • The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [590]
  • Advanced item Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [591]

Problems

  • Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [592]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:07, 10 jun. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25

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

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [593]

Changes later this week

  • MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [594]
  • A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [595]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Advanced item Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [596]

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20:38, 17 jun. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-26

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

  • The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [597]
  • Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [598]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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17:30, 24 jun. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-27

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

Recent changes

  • The development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [599]

Problems

  • Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [600]
  • Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [601]

Changes later this week

  • You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [602]
  • There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:23, 1 jul. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-28

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

Recent changes

  • For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [603]
  • Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [604]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
  • The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [605]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [606]
  • Advanced item There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [607]

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20:13, 8 jul. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-29

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 mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [608]

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Filtrilo de misuzo and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [609]

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15:30, 15 jul. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-30

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

Problems

  • The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [611]

Changes later this week

  • Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [612]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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13:07, 22 jul. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-31

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

Problems

  • Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [617]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:42, 29 jul. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-32

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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13:25, 5 aŭg. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-33

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

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [620]
  • Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [621]

Changes later this week

  • Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [622]

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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18:19, 12 aŭg. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-34

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

Tech News

  • There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

  • Advanced item Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
  • Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [623]

Changes later this week

  • Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [624]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
  • Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [625]

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15:21, 19 aŭg. 2019 (UTC)

New tools and IP masking

Hey everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to work on two things that affect how we patrol changes and handle vandalism and harassment. We want to make the tools that are used to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling.

We have an idea of what tools could be working better and how a more limited access to IP addresses would change things, but we need to hear from more wikis. You can read more about the project on Meta and post comments and feedback. Now is when we need to hear from you to be able to give you better tools to handle vandalism, spam and harassment.

You can post in your language if you can't write in English.

Johan (WMF)
14:18, 21 aŭg. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-36

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

Recent changes

  • You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [626]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
  • The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [627]
  • The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [628]
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [629]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 septembro. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 septembro. It will be on all wikis from 5 septembro (calendar).
  • When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [630]

Meetings

Future changes

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09:08, 4 sep. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-40

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

Problems

  • Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [635]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 oktobro. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 oktobro. It will be on all wikis from 3 oktobro (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 oktobro at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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16:49, 30 sep. 2019 (UTC)

The consultation on partial and temporary Foundation bans just started

Hello,

In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".

Accordingly, the Foundation's Trust & Safety team invites all Wikimedians to join this consultation and give their feedback from 30 September to 30 October.

How can you help?

  • Suggest how partial and temporary Foundation bans should be used, if they should (eg: On all projects, or only on a subset);
  • Give ideas about how partial and temporary Foundation bans should ideally implemented, if they should be; and/or
  • Propose changes to the existing Office Actions policy on partial and temporary bans.

We offer our thanks in advance for your contributions, and we hope to get as much input as possible from community members during this consultation!

-- Kbrown (WMF) 17:13, 30 sep. 2019 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2019-41

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

Problems

  • There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [638]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
  • The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
  • There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
  • Advanced item Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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15:34, 7 okt. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-42

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

  • Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [640]
  • In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

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23:32, 14 okt. 2019 (UTC)

Feedback wanted on Desktop Improvements project

Please help translate to your language

Saluton. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.

We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.

We would like individual feedback on the following:

  • Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
  • Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
  • Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far

We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.

When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:

  • Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
  • Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
  • Put things in logical and useful places
  • Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
  • Eliminate clutter
  • Plan for future growth

As well as the following constraints:

  • Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
  • Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
  • No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors

Please give all feedback (in any language) at mw:Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements

After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.

Dankon! Quiddity (WMF) (talk)

06:53, 16 okt. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43

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

Recent changes

  • Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [641]

Problems

  • There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [642]
  • The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [643]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
  • Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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14:18, 21 okt. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44

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

Recent changes

  • You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
  • Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [644][645]
  • You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
  • Advanced item OOUI now allows using px (pixels) instead of em (em) for some specific cases. [646][647]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 oktobro. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 oktobro. It will be on all wikis from 31 oktobro (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [648]
  • Advanced item Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named wg* to mw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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16:09, 28 okt. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-45

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

  • At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [649]

Changes later this week

  • 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. [650]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings

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16:47, 4 nov. 2019 (UTC)

Community Wishlist 2020

La Enketo pri Komunumaj Deziroj de 2020 estas nun partoprenebla! Tiu estas la procedo, per kiu komunumoj decidas tion, kion la Komunuma Teknologia teamo prilaboru la venontan jaron. Ni We encourage everyone submeti proponojn ĝis la templimo 11 novembro, aŭ komenti aliajn proponojn por poluri ilin.

Ĉi tiun jaron, ni ekskluzive koncentras nian atenton sur pli malgrandajn projektojn (Vikilibron, Vikivortaron, Vikicitaron, Vikifontaron, Vikiversitaton, Vikispeciaron, Vikivojaĝon kaj Vikinovaĵojn). Ni volas helpi tiujn projektojn kaj signife plibonigi diversajn komunumojn. Se vi estas ano de iuj el tiuj projektoj, bonvolu partopreni en la enketo! Por submeti proponojn, vidu la gvidnormojn en la enketa paĝo. Vi povas verki proponon en ajna lingvo, kaj ni tradukos ĝin por vi. Dankon, kaj ni esperas ke ni vidos viajn proponojn!

IFried (WMF) 19:30, 4 nov. 2019 (UTC)[Respondi]

Tech News: 2019-46

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

Recent changes

  • MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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22:02, 11 nov. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47

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

Problems

Changes later this week

  • You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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20:16, 18 nov. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-48

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

Changes later this week

  • The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [652]
  • 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. [653]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings

Future changes

  • You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [654]

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16:51, 25 nov. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49

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

Recent changes

  • Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • Advanced item There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [655]
  • Advanced item The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [656]

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16:57, 2 dec. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

Future changes

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16:35, 9 dec. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51

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

Problems

  • The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [659]
  • Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [660]

Changes later this week

  • You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [661]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [662]

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00:15, 17 dec. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52

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 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

  • All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

  • You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [663]

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20:03, 23 dec. 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-02

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

  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [664]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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21:18, 6 jan. 2020 (UTC)

GRAVA: Administranto aktiveco recenzo

Saluton. A politiko pri la forigo de "antaŭis rajtoj" (administranto, burokrato, ktp) estis adoptita de tutmonda komunumo konsento en 2013. Laŭ tiu politiko, la stevardoj estas revizii administrantoj 'aktiveco sur ĉiuj Vikimedia Fondaĵo vikioj sen senaktiveco politiko. Por la plej bona de nia scio, via vikio ne havas formalan procezon de migrado "antaŭis rajtoj" de senagaj kontoj. Tio signifas ke la administrantoj prizorgos ĉi laŭ la Admin aktiveco revizio.

Ni determinis ke la jenaj uzantoj renkonti la senaktiveco kriterioj (neniu redaktoj kaj neniu log agoj dum pli ol 2 jaroj):

  1. Castelobranco (administranto)

Tiuj uzantoj ricevos sciigojn frue, petante ilin por iniciati komunumon diskuto se ili volas retener iu aŭ ĉiuj de iliaj rajtoj. Se la uzantoj ne respondi, tiam ilia progresinta rajtoj estos forigitaj per la administrantojn.

Tamen, se vi kiel komunuma ŝatus krei vian propran aktivecon recenzo procezo anstataŭante la suma, volas fari alian decidon pri tiuj neaktivaj rajtoj posedantoj, aŭ jam havas politikon kiu ni maltrafis, tiam bonvolu sciigi la stevardoj sur Meta-Wiki tiel ke ni ne scias, procedi kun la rajtoj recenzo en via vikio. Dankon, --علاء (diskuto) 20:17, 7 jan. 2020 (UTC)[Respondi]

Elŝutita el "https://eo.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Vikilibroj:Diskutejo&oldid=24084"