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A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:
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Recent changes
Problems
- Some pages do not turn in up in categories where they should be. This is because link tables are sometimes not populated.
[3]
Changes this week
- The
Nuke extension
will work with
Flow
. This will make it easier to handle spam in Flow.
[4]
- New file uploads will now be patrollable.
[5]
- Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have
JavaScript
support. You will
still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia
if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser.
[6]
[7]
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
12 January at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed.
[8]
- The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You
can test the single edit tab
.
[9]
[10]
- There is a beta feature that
adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects
. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
[11]
[12]
- The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at
the Phabricator task
or
on MediaWiki.org
so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
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17:59, 11. Jan. 2016 (MEZ)
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Recent changes
- You will be able to find or mark bugs and suggestions in
Phabricator
that are specific for your language or wiki.
[13]
- Notifications have been upgraded with more detailed and easier-to-access information.
See the documentation
. Cross-wiki notifications will be available soon on the two test wikis.
[14]
Changes this week
- The visual editor uses the
TemplateData extension
to make editing templates easier. You will now get a warning when you edit a TemplateData form and leave it without saving.
[15]
- MediaWiki will get a new authentication and authorization system called AuthManager. This is planned to happen in a month or two. Some bots will need to change how they log in. Two new and more stable authentication methods will be available now: Owner-only
OAuth
credentials and bot passwords. You can
read more about the change
.
[16]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all Wikipedias from 21 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
19 January at 20:00 (UTC)
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how to join
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- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is governance model. The meeting will be on
20 January at 22:00 (UTC)
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18:55, 18. Jan. 2016 (MEZ)
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Hello, all.
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)
Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion,
2016 Strategy/Community consultation
.
Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created
m:2016 Strategy/Translations
to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made.?:)
If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to mdennis@wikimedia.org.
I hope you'll join us!
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Recent changes
- You can now follow when pages are added or removed from a category on German Wikipedia. The plan is to add it to Wikimedia Commons and other Wikipedias this week.
[17]
[18]
- Administrators can hide individual entries of a page with
RevisionDelete
. There is now a button to choose "all", "none" or "inverse" in Special:Log. The article history will get the same buttons soon. Wikis that have done this locally with JavaScript will be able to remove that code.
[19]
Changes this week
- You will be able to see the references when you preview a section you are editing. This will happen even if there is no <references /> tag in that section.
[20]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 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
26 January at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- There is now an extension called
ArticlePlaceholder
. It can automatically generate content on Wikipedia with data from Wikidata if there is no Wikipedia article. It will have a tag to remind the reader it is not an article and ask the reader to create one. The developer is now looking for smaller Wikipedias that want to try the extension.
[21]
- The
OTRS
system will be upgraded. The plan is to do this on
3 February at 08:00 (UTC)
. It will probably take 6 to 8 hours. OTRS will be down during the upgrade.
[22]
- Users will soon be automatically congratulated when they reach some edit count milestones.
[23]
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17:38, 25. Jan. 2016 (MEZ)
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Problems
- Sites with a
wikimedia.org
address were by mistake redirected to the
Wikimedia Foundation wiki
on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour.
[24]
- Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January.
[25]
[26]
- Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager.
[27]
Changes this week
- The page history will get a help link. This will go to
Help:Page history
on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages.
[28]
- Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read.
[29]
[30]
- The
Universal Language Selector
input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor.
[31]
- The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time.
[32]
[33]
[34]
- The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it.
[35]
[36]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (
calendar
).
Meetings
Future changes
- The
rest.wikimedia.org
domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use
/api/rest_v1/
at each individual project domain instead.
[37]
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22:02, 1. Feb. 2016 (MEZ)
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Recent changes
- Syntax highlighting
support is now available for 53 more computer languages.
[38]
- When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary.
[39]
- RESTBase
is now using
scrub_wikitext
instead of
scrubWikitext
.
[40]
Changes this week
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas.
[41]
[42]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (
calendar
).
Meetings
Future changes
- Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using
forced HTTPS
in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February.
[43]
[44]
- Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type.
[45]
[46]
[47]
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Recent changes
- You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript.
[48]
- You can now use the
Math extension
to write chemistry formulas.
[49]
Problems
- A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you
can report it
.
[50]
[51]
Changes this week
- There is a beta feature that
adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects
. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
[52]
[53]
- Cross-wiki notifications
will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February.
[54]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 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
16 February at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a
completion suggester
that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta.
[55]
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18:16, 15. Feb. 2016 (MEZ)
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Recent changes
Problems
- There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time.
[58]
[59]
Changes this week
- After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity.
[60]
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19:22, 22. Feb. 2016 (MEZ)
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Did you know?
Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.
If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.
Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.
You can
switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor
after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.
Many local
feedback pages
for the visual editor have been redirected to
mw:VisualEditor/Feedback
.
You can now re-arrange columns and rows in
tables
, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.
The
formula editor
has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.
The
single edit tab
project will combine the "Bearbeite" and "Qualltaxt bearbeite" tabs into a single "Bearbeite" tab.
This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (
T102398
) Initially, the "Bearbeite" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the Tekscht-Ygab tab of
Special:Preferences
:
- Den zuletzt genutzten Editor merken und anbieten,
- Den visuellen Editor anbieten, falls moglich,
- Den Quelltext-Editor anbieten, and
- Beide Editoren anbieten. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)
The visual editor uses the same search engine as
Special:Search
to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others:
Japanese
,
Korean
,
Urdu
,
Persian
,
Arabic
,
Tamil
,
Marathi
,
Malayalam
,
Hindi
,
Bengali
,
Assamese
,
Thai
,
Aramaic
.
If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
contact us
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Merci!
Elitre (WMF)
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Recent changes
- Thanks to the
Graph extension
and
Pageview API
, we now have
{{Graph:PageViews}}
templates that can show pageviews for any wiki page for any of the wikis. See
the examples
.
- The
Capiunto
extension is installed on
test wiki
. Capiunto provides flexible infobox functionality for
Scribunto
and generates HTML for infobox features such as headers and rows. It is designed for clean and modern infoboxes that are driven by data from Wikidata, easily usable across different language versions, and easily extensible.
- The visual editor now follows the TemplateData
format
setting announced in November. When you edit or add a use of a template, the wikitext will be laid out in one of the two ways.
[61]
[62]
- The order of parameters and format defined in a template's TemplateData will be now respected.
[63]
[64]
Changes this week
- On wikis where the visual editor is available in single edit tab mode, red links may open the visual editor instead of the wikitext editor, depending on user preferences.
[65]
- Anonymous editor warning is now displayed as a warningbox for consistency in both the visual editor and the wikitext editor.
[66]
- Parsoid
has been updated to fit some HTML 5 specifications.
[67]
Meetings
- Resigning executive director Lila Tretikov is taking questions at
Knowledge Engine FAQ
regarding the much talked about project.
[68]
- 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
1 March at 20:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1 GB.
[69]
- Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia already had this one.
[70]
- The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the
Eqiad cluster
have now been upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again because of this.
[71]
- It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in the Commons Android app.
[72]
- Bare attributes in tags now parse according to the HTML5 specifications.
<pages from= to= section=1>
will parse as
<pages from="to=" section="1">
instead of
<pages from="" to="" section="1">
as it used to. Please use
<pages from="" to="" section=1>
or
<pages section=1>
instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on Wikisource projects.
[73]
Problems
- Phabricator
has been a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now.
[74]
- The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February for pages with special characters in their title.
[75]
- The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to break, especially on Wikisource.
[76]
- You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of contents. This should be fixed soon.
[77]
- Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes.
[78]
Changes this week
- Cross-wiki notifications
will be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki.
[79]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (
calendar
).
- Wikivoyages will get the
Kartographer extension
. Kartographer will allow
<mapframe>
and
<maplink>
tags in an article to insert an interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas and suggestions to the
Maps talk page
. If you find any bugs, you can report them in
Phabricator
.
[80]
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
8 March at 20:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones.
[81]
- The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The date for this might change.
[82]
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Recent changes
- The mobile web interface no longer suggests
HiDPI thumbnails
. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections.
[83]
- The search engine on
wikipedia.org
has been updated.
[84]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this,
you will be able to read but not edit the wikis
for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can
read more about the server work
. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
- Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in
a discussion on Meta
and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis.
[85]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (
calendar
).
- The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones.
[86]
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19:37, 14. Mar. 2016 (MEZ)
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Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library
is announcing signups today for free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our
Publisher Donation Program
. You can sign up for access to research materials from:
- Cambridge University Press
- a major publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas. Access includes both Cambridge Journals Online and Cambridge Books. 25 accounts.
- Alexander Street
Academic Video Online
- a large academic video collection good for a wide range of subjects, including news programs (such as PBS and BBC), music and theatre, lectures and demonstrations, and documentaries. 25 accounts.
- Baylor University Press
- a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities. 50 accounts.
- Future Science Group
- a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research. 30 accounts.
- Annual Reviews
- a publisher of review articles in the biomedical sciences. 100 accounts.
- Miramar Ship Index
- an index to ships and their histories since the early 19th century. 30 accounts.
Non-English
- Noormags
- Farsi-language aggregator of academic and professional journals and magazines. 30 accounts.
- Kotobna
- Arabic-language ebook publishing platform. 20 accounts.
Expansions
- Gale
- aggregator of newspapers, magazines and journals. 50 accounts.
- Elsevier ScienceDirect
- an academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature. 100 accounts.
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on
our partners page
, including
Project MUSE
,
De Gruyter
,
EBSCO
,
Newspapers.com
and
British Newspaper Archive
. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
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21:30, 17. Mar. 2016 (MEZ)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact
Ocaasi (WMF)
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- This message was delivered via the
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Problems
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can
read more about the server work
. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
- In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed.
[87]
Changes this week
- It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve
CAPTCHAs
.
[88]
- You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread.
[89]
- 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
22 March at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2.
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- Hi, a minor correction: The MediaWiki deployment dates are March 22?24, not 21?23. My apologies. /
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Recent changes
Problems
- Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed.
[93]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (
calendar
).
- You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes.
[94]
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Future changes
- Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated.
[95]
- Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See
wikitech-l for details
.
Corrections
- Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.
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Translations
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Recent changes
- The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator.
[98]
[99]
- Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects.
[100]
[101]
- ORES
is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new
API
.
[102]
- The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters.
[103]
Problems
- There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed.
[104]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (
calendar
).
- The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March.
[105]
Meetings
Future changes
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.
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The
Wikimedia Foundation
will be testing its newest data center in Dallas.
This will make sure Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the new data center on
Tuesday, 19 April
.
On
Thursday, 21 April
, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in
MediaWiki
, all editing must stop during those two switches.
We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for approximately 15 to 30 minutes on Tuesday, 19 April and Thursday, 21 April, starting at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT).
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message.
We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.
If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.
Then you should be able to save your edit.
But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects
:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped.
Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal.
If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual.
Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- There will be a code freeze for the week of 18 April.
No non-essential code deployments will take place.
This test was originally planned to take place on March 22.
April 19th and 21st are the new dates.
You can
read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org
.
They will post any changes on that schedule.
There will be more notifications about this.
Please share this information with your community.
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Recent changes
- You can filter
Special:Log
in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users.
[107]
[108]
- You can use
Telnet
to read Wikimedia wikis.
[109]
- MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB.
[110]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes.
[111]
- There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.
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Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it
here
.
This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please,
join the discussion on Meta-Wiki
(and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
17:35, 21. Apr. 2016 (MESZ)
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Problems
- Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21.
[112]
- When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can
read more about how to find the edits
.
- Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed.
[113]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26.
[114]
- It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard.
[115]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (
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
April 26 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- The "Syte spychere" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis.
[116]
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Recent changes
- Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3.
[121]
- You can use
Wikipedia GapFinder
to find missing articles between languages.
[122]
- Users are invited to try
Cross-wiki Notifications
on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC.
[123]
[124]
- You can use
keyboard shortcuts
to open the visual editor (
meta
+V) or the wikitext editor (
meta
+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor).
[125]
- Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore.
[126]
- The
UploadsLink
extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
[127]
- Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved.
[128]
- Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org.
[129]
Problems
- MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue.
[130]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (
calendar
).
Meetings
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- Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please
tell the developers
if the change will cause problems.
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Recent changes
- Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth.
[132]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis.
[133]
Changes this week
- Special:Notifications
will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later.
[134]
- Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce.
[135]
- A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users.
[136]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (
calendar
).
Meetings
Future changes
- Using self-closing tags like
<div/>
and
<span/>
to mean
<div></div>
and
<span></span>
will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When
Phabricator ticket T134423
is fixed these tags will parse as
<div>
and
<span>
instead. This is normal in HTML5.
[137]
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Recent changes
Problems
- Commons had problems with server lag. This meant that it took longer time for files to turn up in categories.
[139]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 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
May 24 at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- All HTTP access to Wikimedia sites and APIs will stop working. Some bots still use HTTP. They will need to use HTTPS instead. This will happen on June 12.
[140]
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Recent changes
- There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module.
[141]
Problems
- A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review.
[142]
[143]
- CentralNotice
didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed.
[144]
Changes this week
- When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place.
[145]
- The
Translate extension
will get an edit summary field.
[146]
- A change to the
<charinsert>
feature could break some user scripts. Contact
Bawolff
if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki.
[147]
[148]
- Elasticsearch
will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason.
[149]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (
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
31 May at 19:00 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Changes this week
- The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in
Vector
as in other
skins
. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week.
[152]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (
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22:51, 6. Jun. 2016 (MESZ)
Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about
Wikipedia to the Moon
, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today,
you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki
, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
17:31, 10. Jun. 2016 (MESZ)
20:41, 13. Jun. 2016 (MESZ)
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Recent changes
- Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen.
[160]
Changes this week
- The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages.
[161]
[162]
- Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup.
[163]
- When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks.
[164]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (
calendar
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Recent changes
- The
ORES service
has now moved to
a new location
. This should make it easier to use ORES. The
ORES review service
is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors.
[165]
- The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed.
[166]
- A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added:
Kategorie:Seiten mit Math-Fehlern
.
[167]
Problems
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (
calendar
).
- The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear.
[170]
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 June at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help.
[171]
- An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation.
[172]
- The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually.
[173]
[174]
[175]
- From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected.
[176]
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later.
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Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in the
Tech News
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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). This will be enabled as a feature in the soon for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the
project documentation
.
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. The main announcement can also be translated on
this page
. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team:
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Hilf bitte mit, in deine Sprache zu ubersetzen
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. However, 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
. 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:
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Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an
overview and more information there
. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!
Best,
Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland
16:10, 1. Jul. 2016 (MESZ)
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It's quick and easy to insert a references list.
Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "Yyfiege" menu and click the "Einzelnachweisliste" icon (three books).
If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references.
Finally, click "Einfugen" in the dialog to insert the Einzelnachweisliste. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. Their
current priorities
are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.
The visual editor is now available to all users at most
Wikivoyages
. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.
The
single edit tab
feature combines the "Bearbeite" and "Qualltaxt bearbeite" tabs into a single "Bearbeite" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "Tekscht-Ygab" tab of
Special:Preferences
. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.
The "Syte spychere" button will say "Syte spychere". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More
information is available on Meta
.
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. This will affect several languages, including:
Arabic
,
Hindi
,
Thai
,
Tamil
,
Marathi
,
Malayalam
,
Urdu
,
Persian
,
Bengali
,
Assamese
,
Aramaic
and others.
The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (
T138966
)
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a
general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list
.
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
Translators mailing list
or
contact us
directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Merci!
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- A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity.
[178]
Changes this week
- The "?citoid-citefromidtool-title?" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Yyfiege" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much.
[179]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (
calendar
).
Meetings
- You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See
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- A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up.
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[181]
[182]
- Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first.
[183]
[184]
[185]
- Special:Notifications
now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed.
[186]
[187]
[188]
Problems
- On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too.
[189]
- Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting
Special:Notifications
page on their wiki.
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (
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
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Recent changes
Problems
- Sometimes, the visual editor required saving twice. That problem is now fixed.
[204]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (
calendar
).
- It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on
Special:Notifications
, by clicking on the cog icon.
[205]
- Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages.
[206]
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
26 July at 19:00 (UTC)
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how to join
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- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on
27 July at 21:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
[207]
Future changes
- The current icon for Notifications "Mitteilungen" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency.
[208]
- Special:Notifications
page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly.
[209]
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Recent changes
- A prototype for
structured data
on Commons is available now.
[210]
- The
RevisionSlider
beta feature can now be tested on mediawiki.org, German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia.
Problems
- Renamed users on some wikis were not connected to their account on other wikis between 20 July and 21 July. This has been fixed.
[211]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (
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Recent changes
- In notifications, the icon for Mitteilungen has been changed from a speech-bubble icon (
) to a tray icon (
) for consistency. The Hiwyse icon has been redesigned too. The colors have been changed for accessibility.
[212]
Problems
- If you use the
wikEd gadget
, changes you made were not kept when you switched from the wikitext editor to the visual editor while you were editing. This has now been fixed.
[213]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia search will now ignore question marks at the end of the sentences or words you use when you search. Until now the question mark was just a
wildcard
.
[214]
- On Commons,
UploadWizard
will now be available on mobile, rather than just the old upload form. This should reduce the workload for the community in reviewing images.
[215]
- When you edit with the visual editor a puzzle symbol tells you there is an invisible template in the article. It will now mention the name of the template.
[216]
- The button to read something in another language will move for mobile users. This will happen on 9 August.
[217]
- When someone mentions you and links to your user page you get a notification. You will now get a notification when you mention yourself this way.
[218]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 August. It will be on all wikis from 11 August (
calendar
).
- A message on Notifications panel will invite users to try
Special:Notifications
page.
[219]
Meetings
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The
Editing
team is planning to change the name of the
“
Syte spychere
”
button to
“
Syte spychere
”
and
“
Anderige spychere
”
. “
Syte spychere
” will be used when you create a new page. “
Anderige spychere
” will be used when you change an existing page. The names will be consistent in all editing environments.
[220]
[221]
This change will probably happen during the week of 30 August 2016. The change will be announced in
Tech News
when it happens.
If you are fluent in a language other than English, please check the status of translations at translatewiki.net for
“
Syte spychere
”
and
“
Anderige spychere
”
.
The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors. Repeated user research studies with new editors have shown that some new editors believed that
“
Syte spychere
”
would save a private copy of a new page in their accounts, rather than permanently publishing their changes on the web. It is important for this part of the user interface to be clear, since it is difficult to remove public information after it is published. We believe that the confusion caused by the “
Syte spychere
” button increases the workload for experienced editors, who have to clean up the information that people unintentionally disclose, and report it to the functionaries and stewards to suppress it. Clarifying what the button does will reduce this problem.
Beyond that, the goal is to make all the wikis and languages more consistent, and some wikis made this change many years ago. The
Legal team
at the Wikimedia Foundation supports this change. Making the edit interface easier to understand will make it easier to handle licensing and privacy questions that may arise.
Any help pages or other basic documentation about how to edit pages will also need to be updated, on-wiki and elsewhere. On wiki pages, you can use the wikitext codes
{{int:Publishpage}}
and
{{int:Publishchanges}}
to display the new labels in the user's preferred language. For the language settings in
your account preferences
, these wikitext codes produce “
Syte spychere
” and “
Anderige spychere
”.
Please share this news with community members who teach new editors and with others who may be interested.
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Problems
- Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead.
[222]
- Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor.
[223]
- For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon.
[224]
[225]
Changes this week
- The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will
now last a year
. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16.
[226]
- Some
abuse filters
will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed.
[227]
- In
compact language links
, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article".
[228]
[229]
- The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors.
[230]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (
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
August 16 at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world.
[231]
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Recent changes
- The
ORES review tool
is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia.
[232]
- The
norm
and
ccnorm
functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the
TitleBlacklist
extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore.
[233]
- The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the
new pageview data here
. This happened on August 5.
[234]
Problems
- Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed.
[235]
- When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed.
[236]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (
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
23 August at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
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.
Future changes
- Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the
test wiki
.
[237]
[238]
- How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test
the prototype
.
[239]
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Recent changes
- Wikimedia mobile sites now
don't load images
if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster.
[240]
- When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing
Tab
in the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. Pressing
Shift
and
Tab
in the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row.
[241]
Changes this week
- The name of the "
Syte spychere
" button will change. The button will say
"
Syte spychere
"
when you create a new page. It will say
"
Anderige spychere
"
when you change an existing page.
[242]
[243]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (
calendar
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Recent changes
- Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs.
[244]
- Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta.
[245]
- When you preview the
MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist
page it will show a validation output of the listed
IP addresses
instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not.
[246]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use
<maplink>
on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map.
[247]
[248]
- Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in.
[249]
[250]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (
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
6 September at 19:00 (UTC)
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From September 13th on,
RevisionSlider
will be available as a
beta feature
in your wiki. The RevisionSlider adds a slider view to the diff page, so that you can easily move between revisions. The feature fulfills a wish from the
German Community’s Technical Wishlist
. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!
Birgit Muller (WMDE)
16:56, 12. Sep. 2016 (MESZ)
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20:04, 12. Sep. 2016 (MESZ)
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Problems
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (
calendar
). This is the version that was meant to go out last week.
Meetings
Future changes
- Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at
the development plan
.
[260]
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Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (
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 October at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- Tidy
will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This
would cause problems
on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first.
[268]
<slippymap>
will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use
<mapframe>
instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should
ask for it
as soon as possible.
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23:30, 3. Okt. 2016 (MESZ)
Hello! I'm writing from the Wikimedia Foundation to invite you to give your feedback on a proposed move from CC BY-SA 3.0 to a CC BY-SA 4.0 license across all Wikimedia projects. The consultation will run from October 5 to November 8, and we hope to receive a wide range of viewpoints and opinions. Please, if you are interested,
take part in the discussion on Meta-Wiki
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Apologies that this message is only in English.
This message can be read and translated in more languages here
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03:35, 6. Okt. 2016 (MESZ)
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Recent changes
- You can show
Special:RecentChanges
on a page by using
{{Special:RecentChanges}}
. You can now use tag filters by using
{{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}
.
[270]
- The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one.
[271]
- Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them
easier to see
for readers and editors with reduced eyesight.
[272]
Changes this week
- Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
<!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. -->
[273]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
Future changes
- Language converter syntax will soon 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.
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The Wikimedia Developer Summit is the annual meeting to push the evolution of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. The next edition will be held in San Francisco on January 9?11, 2017.
We welcome all Wikimedia technical contributors, third party developers, and users of MediaWiki and the Wikimedia APIs. We specifically want to increase the participation of volunteer developers and other contributors dealing with extensions, apps, tools, bots, gadgets, and templates.
Important deadlines:
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Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?
Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.
You can read and help translate
the user guide
, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the
VisualEditor Team
has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available
in Phabricator
. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at
mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings
. Their
current priorities
are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a
beta feature
, and improving language support.
- You can now set text as small or big.
[275]
- Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.
[276]
A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
[277]
- Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
[278]
- At many wikis, you can now add
maps
to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department is adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more at mediawiki.org.
[279]
- The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page.
[280]
In the future, the "Syte spychere" button will say "Syte spychere". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More
information is available on Meta
.
- Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image. Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.
[281]
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10
"Phase 6" Wikipedias
during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at
the feedback thread on mediawiki.org
. This will affect several languages, including
Thai
,
Burmese
and
Aramaic
.
The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The
2017 wikitext editor
will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a
general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list
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- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the
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19:50, 15. Okt. 2016 (MESZ)
18:42, 17. Okt. 2016 (MESZ)
19:39, 24. Okt. 2016 (MESZ)
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Translations
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Recent changes
- Now you can include Commons video films with
subtitles
in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only.
[288]
- Search now has
an updated preference tab
to configure the search completion suggester.
[289]
- The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script.
[290]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1
st
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2
nd
. It will be on all wikis from November 3
rd
(
calendar
).
- Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Vorschau der Seite mit dieser Vorlage anzeigen" field when editing templates.
[291]
- Special:NewPages
can now be filtered by page size.
[292]
Future changes
- New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29.
[293]
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We are having a problem with attackers taking over wiki accounts with privileged user rights (for example, admins, bureaucrats, oversighters, checkusers). It appears that this may be because of weak or reused passwords.
Community members are working along with members of multiple teams at the Wikimedia Foundation to address this issue.
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Latest
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Recent changes
- When you edit with the visual editor you can use
meta
+
shift
+
k
to add a reference. The meta key is often the control key or command key.
[302]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 16. It will be on all wikis from November 17 (
calendar
).
- In
Special:Preferences
you can choose which language menus and buttons will be in. If there is no translation for that language, MediaWiki has a list of
fallback languages
. A fallback language is a language many will understand better than English. MediaWiki will now use English when there is no Ukrainian translation.
[303]
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
15 November at 19:00 (UTC)
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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
- Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers can now use
two-factor authentication
. This makes their Wikimedia accounts more secure. This can be turned on in
Special:Preferences
. There are discussions on how to best turn it on for everyone.
[305]
- You can now search for file properties. For example you can search for media type, how big a file is or what resolution it has.
[306]
- The latest
Collaboration team products newsletter
has been published. It has more details about their work than Tech News has.
Problems
- A hacker group is hacking Wikimedia accounts. They can probably do this because users have the same passwords on Wikimedia wikis as on other sites. Please have a password you use only on the Wikimedia wikis and nowhere else. This is especially important for administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters and checkusers. These users can also turn on
two-factor authentication
.
[307]
Changes this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- RevisionSlider
will be a default feature on German, Arabic and Hebrew Wikipedia. This will happen on 22 November. It will come to other wikis later.
[308]
[309]
[310]
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
22 November at 19:00 (UTC)
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how to join
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Future changes
- It will be possible to do cross-wiki search. The developers who work on this are looking for communities that want to test this.
[311]
- Hovercards
will leave the
beta stage
. The Wikimedia Foundation
Reading Web
team wants communities to set Hovercards as a default option for readers who are not logged in. Communities that are interested can say so on the
Hovercards talk page
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[312]
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16:33, 21. Nov. 2016 (MEZ)
Latest
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Changes this week
- When someone tries to log in to a blocked account they will be blocked by a
cookie
. This means their
browser
will be blocked even if they change their
IP address
. This makes it more difficult for returning vandals.
[313]
- When you use
Content Translation
to adapt a template to a new translation it will work differently. You can adapt big templates such as infoboxes. Translators will have control over the template parameters. A first version of this is released this week. It is possible it will not work correctly with all templates. There will be more updates for this soon.
[314]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (
calendar
).
- Gadgets will have a new option called "hidden". This means you can register gadgets that can't be turned on or off from the preferences page. Hiding gadgets was already possible by using
[rights=hidden]
. You should now use
[hidden]
instead.
[rights=hidden]
in old gadgets should be changed to
[hidden]
.
[315]
[316]
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
29 November at 19:00 (UTC)
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Latest
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Recent changes
- You can choose to see users from specific user groups in
Special:ActiveUsers
.
[317]
- Everyone can now see
Special:UserRights
. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message.
[318]
- ORES
can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have
trained ORES
to recognize damaging edits.
[319]
Changes this week
- You will now see categories with 0 pages in
Special:Categories
. Previously you did not see empty categories there.
[320]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (
calendar
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Latest
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Recent changes
- Users who have Yahoo email addresses could not use
Special:EmailUser
to send emails. This has now been fixed. Emails will now come from a @wikimedia.org address. Users who get an email from you will still reply to your email address and be able to see it.
[321]
- 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.
[322]
- 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.
[323]
Problems
- 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.
[324]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (
calendar
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Meetings
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Summary
: There's a new opt-in Beta Feature of a
wikitext mode for the visual editor
. Please
go try it out
.
We in the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing department are responsible for making editing better for all our editors, new and experienced alike. We've been slowly improving
the visual editor
based on feedback, user tests, and feature requests. However, that doesn't work for all our user needs: whether you need to edit a wikitext talk page, create a template, or fix some broken reference syntax, sometimes you need to use wikitext, and many experienced editors prefer it.
Consequently, we've planned a "wikitext mode" for the visual editor for a long time. It provides as much of the visual editor's features as possible, for those times that you need or want wikitext. It has the same user interface as the visual editor, including the same toolbar across the top with the same buttons. It provides access to the
citoid service
for formatting citations, integrated search options for inserting images, and the ability to add new templates in a simple dialog. Like in the visual editor, if you paste in formatted text copied from another page, then formatting (such as bolding) will automatically be converted into wikitext.
All wikis now have access to this mode as a
Beta Feature
. When enabled, it replaces your existing
wikitext editor
everywhere. If you don't like it, you can reverse this at any time by turning off the Beta Feature in your preferences. We don't want to surprise anyone, so it's strictly an
opt-in-only
Beta Feature. It won't switch on automatically for anyone, even if you have previously checked the box to "Alli noue Beta-Funktionen automatisch aktiviere".
The new wikitext edit mode is based on the visual editor, so it requires JavaScript (as does the
current wikitext editor
). It doesn't work with gadgets that have only been designed for the older one (and
vice versa
), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to
work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work
with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitext editor on desktop in the foreseeable future. We're also not going to remove the existing ability to edit plain wikitext without JavaScript. Finally, though it should go without saying, if you prefer to continue using the current wikitext editor, then you may so do.
This is an early version, and we'd love to know what you think so we can make it better. Please leave feedback about the new mode
on the feedback page
. You may write comments in any language. Thank you.
James Forrester
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20:31, 14. Dez. 2016 (MEZ)
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Tech News
- Because of the
holidays
the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2017.
- The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2016? What kind of information was too late?
Please tell us
! You can write in your language. Thank you!
Recent changes
- Administrators and translation administrators can now use
Special:PageLanguage
on wikis with the
Translate extension
. This means you can say what language a page is in. The Translate extension will use that language as the source language when you translate. Previously this was always the wiki's default language. This was usually English.
[325]
- Wikis connected to Wikidata can now use the parser function
{{#statements: }}
to get formatted data. You can also use
{{#property: }}
to get raw data. You
can see the difference
between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua.
[326]
Problems
- 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.
[327]
Changes this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.
Meetings
- The next meeting with the VisualEditor team will be on
3 January at 20:00 (UTC)
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