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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
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- 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
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and
WorldCat
databases and add the top result.
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- 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.
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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.
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The
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- 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.
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- You can vote on proposals in the
Community Wishlist Survey
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Community Tech team
will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
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.
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Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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.
[12]
- 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__
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mw.util.jsMessage
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mw.notify
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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
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