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re: User:151.204.41.4

Much as I'd like to, I can't block anyone: I'm not an admin. For someone vandalising after a final warning, you can report them at the please-block-this-**** page here. For anon IPs, particularly if they're from schools, only use this for ongoing vandalism. Cheers, Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 21:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Will do. --Natsubee 21:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Suhum, Ghana

Hi! Once you wanted to expand this article, but there was a redirect there. Now there is a link to Suhum, Ghana at Sukhumi article --Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also:ә? Ә!) 20:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Razak and N'ti

I've never redicted those pages, I created both, if abdul is the correct spelling of his name and you moved the page there, I don't have any problems with that, although Abdoul Razak must still redirect to Abdul Razak, since many users may misspell the name while looking for the article.--BanRay 18:02, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Paul Boateng

Agreed. Trouble is, the IP doing the 'annoying thing' isn't stable enough to block and whilst I could set a semi-protect on there that would block any IP-only edits (which, you never know, might not be vandalism one day!). I'll keep an eye on it though too, especially as I used to know Paul very many years ago (his sister was in my year at school, etc). --AlisonW 12:18, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Your response appreciated.--Natsubee 12:22, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive!

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The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2007 – September 1, 2007.

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Sorry about that

I guess I forgot one warning. It will be added into that paragraph, and thanks for reminding me of that. --Psychless ^{Type words!} 15:37, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Bild:GhanaMarine2005.png

How do I get this picture from the German Wikipedia to English Wikipedia? I need it for the article Ghana Navy which I have just written. Thanks.--Natsubee 13:51, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I think I have it sorted. --Natsubee 14:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Request for Help

• See Request for help. --Jose77 03:30, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

There is a translation here. I hope it is adequate. --Natsubee 10:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

See Gratitude. --Jose77 22:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Law enforcement in Ghana

This sudden page move caught me by surprise. It is solely about the position of the Inspector General of Police in Ghana. Why the move? Wouldn't a new article be more appropriate? Or wouldn't placing it in a law enforcement type category have been sufficient? What does the article say generally about law enforcement in Ghana? As the article stands now, the heading to me is inappropriate.--Natsubee 09:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for writing, I hope this will help explain.

1. It's a matter of putting the cart before the horse. Many of the articles on African topics are written ex nihilo, they would maybe make sense to someone right on the ground there, but seem to spring out of nothing and don't help readers on the other side of the planet. It would be like having a list of the mayors of Accra, with no article on Accra or its significance. If one was a student (many of our users are), one might think Accra was an animal, or a musical instrument, or a planet. There needs to be a foundation before such lists are stand-alone.
2. Just the list as it is provides no context, this is a step towards expansion into a proper article with a natural beginning and follow-through.
3. Wikipedia's instructions do say to "be bold", and in this case, there being no parent article, this is a natural to become the one from which others spring as need be.
4. There is an existing and expanding series national articles on "Law enforcement in x country", there is not one on the Inspector General of Police. For someone who _wants_ to find specifically about Ghana, having it uniformly named and categorized with others makes it easier to find and gives the information better exposure.
5. You have done a great deal of work and research, and I want to help you keep it; the article does not describe why "the most senior Police Officer in Ghana" is important by itself, and Wikipedia is starting to delete things some users see and tag as non-notable.
6. I'm just trying to help get the African articles in better condition, I don't want it to lag behind other parts of the world. The USA gets plenty of coverage. Let's make the Ghanaian articles something people really want to know about.

I hope this helps. Thanks again, and going to bed, Chris 10:28, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

ps, if you really do object, we can move it back. Chris 10:33, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Note:The continuation of this discussion has been moved to the talk page of Law enforcement in Ghana.--Natsubee 11:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

RE: Law enforcement in Ghana topic

Hi, thanks for pointing that mistake out to me! It was 'Start' instead of 'Stub'. I probably rated about 50 million articles and 'lost interest' so I wasn't paying as much attention! But i will be in future! Regards Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) 15:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

re: What next with User:Legend27?

This user, despite warnings for deletions and vandalism, has been at it again with series of edits on 2 consecutive days to the Stephen Appiah article. The first lot on July 23 were totally unfounded and based on speculation. The second on July 24, was just vandalism. A look at all this users contributions show a trail of vandalism since edits started on July 11. Nothing constructive has ever come from this user. Every single one of his edits have been followed by reversions. This user has already received a final warning from someone else so I thought I should leave this case to you. Please help sort it out. Thanks for your cooperation.--Natsubee 12:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

• Legend27 (talk · contribs)
• Natsubee (talk · contribs)

Looks like he has a few constructive edits--adding player numbers to football articles, assuming he's not making them up. If he vandalizes again, give him another warning. Start with {{uw-test3}}, then give {{uw-test4}}. If he vandalizes after that, report to WP:AIV, or if you see I'm online, drop me a line. I know it's frustrating to have to give further warnings, but a block should always be preventative, not punitive. Cheers, and thanks for defending the wiki from vandals! Fang Aili ^talk 23:45, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Nkwanta South (Ghana parliament constituency)

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I have crosschecked and CorenSearchBot was in error.--Natsubee 13:04, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Football in Ghana

Hey there,

I noticed your edits on Ghana national football team and your comments on a WikiProject Ghana. I just wanted to let you know that I started a Football in Ghana article tonight and I would appreaciate it if you could take a look and perhaps add your expertise, as I am far from an expert on the topic. Thanks and good work--Thomas.macmillan 05:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for my late late response. I have expanded one of the linked to articles on the page (Ghana women's national football team) with data. Will see what I can do later. Thanks. --Natsubee 09:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
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File was copied from Wikimedia commons.--Natsubee (talk) 12:47, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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Activity on Betawiki

Hi Natsubee. In the past you have done some translation work on Betawiki. Current localisation of MediaWiki for Akan is 1.51% and on Ewe it is 0.76%. I was wondering if we could look forward to you pumping those numbers up in the near future? Hope to see you soon. Cheers! Siebrand 18:31, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

translation request

Greetings Natsubee!Could I ask you to translate en:Qin Shi Huang(listed in 1000 vital articles) and en:Wuhan(a chinese city,my hometown) into Eʋegbe?You may shorten them as possible to contain only the basic informations,one or two sentences are enough. If you want me to translate any article into Chinese or Vahcuengh,contact me without hesistation. Thank you very much!--Biŋhai —Preceding undated comment added 10:18, 14 July 2009 (UTC).

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D. A. Foreman

I'm not sure you got the name right when you created the page D. A. Foreman, and I can't check the reference you gave. I've raised my worries at his talk page. Best, Dsp13 (talk) 16:50, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

The name is exactly as recorded so far as I can tell. I have added a new reference from the Ghana Armed Forces website. The original ref link appears broken and I would try to find a new link for it--Natsubee (talk) 04:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Re: Mixed Race Crusade

Natsubee, at the end of the day, I could say the same thing as you vice versa - who is on a crusade to identify all mixed race people as black and why? Note the latter is controversial, not the former! Would you deny that Obama, Hamilton, Wharton are mixed race? Of course not, because this is a fact and as Wikipedia is an encyclopedia it should deal in fact.

On the other hand, the idea that mixed race people with black heritage should identify themselves as exclusively black is not fact, but a belief in racial politics known as the one drop rule. You can check the Wikipedia link for this article. Even mixed race people, such as Tiger Woods, who have expressly said they do not wish to be identified as black as this is just one part of their multiracial identity still find a solely black identity is forced onto them.

Ultimately, the one drop rule is racist and dismisses mixed race as something which is shameful and offensive - hence why it demands such people should 'shut up and pick a race'. The fact that these people are mixed race is not something that cannot be covered up and mixed race people will continue to fight against having their ethnic identity sidelined and dismissed in deference to a racist principle. The fact that people on a 'black crusade' keep coming back and changing 'mixed race' back to 'black' won't change this. I have perfectly good reasons for editing this point - as 'black' is inaccurate and misleading term to describe such people. What is their excuse? Have I told a lie? Mixed race people are a reality and if they have a problem with this, they need to take this into a chat room, not waste their time trying to portray their racist opinions as 'fact' to the rest of the world.

Finally, you should note that I am mixed race myself (half-black and half-white) so this is my own ethnic identity. Would you like it if I lecture you on your ethnic identity? Probably not. And what if someone kept calling you Nigerian, even though you are Ghanian? Would you not correct them? - of course you would! And if you were told by the same person that it doesn't matter casue you're West African anyway - how would you feel if someone tried to dismiss a part of your identity as irrelevent? Also, consider your reaction if it was the other way around and someone insisted because Obama is half-white, he should be described as white! Of course, this is ludicrous but how is it any different to say because Obama is half-black, he should be described as black?! Par597 (talk) 23:11, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

I was only pointing out that your point of view is not universal. Additionally, not everyone who is mixed race has the same opinion as you do. It is a very diverse world out there! Stay calm.--Natsubee (talk) 04:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

E-mail

Hey Natsubee. I sent you an e-mail around two weeks ago. You might not check that e-mail much, so I figured I'd poke you here. :-) Cbrown1023 talk 13:50, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done--Natsubee (talk) 20:33, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

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I have just had a look and this image is still in the article. It is not orphaned as suggested. It was added on 13 July 2007 and I have gone through the pages edit history. It has never been removed. It is also indicated on the file's page that it is used on this page so I am not quite clear what you want me to do.--Natsubee (talk) 07:22, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

The image placement for some reason continued to show that the image is not being used on the page. I've got it watchlisted now to see why this isn't registered as being present on the article. It's showing OK now, but if you get another one of these orphan messages, drop a note on my talk page and I'll look into it further to see what might be an 'under the bonnet' problem. Skier Dude (talk) 20:34, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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Ghana edits

I need some help in understanding some of your edits on Ghana articles. For example, Suhum/Kraboa/Coaltar District is now a district of Akanland and not Ghana. Where did that come from? Kpalime Traditional Area in the Volta Region is populated by Togolese among others. Why these new classifications? I was never taught that the Eastern Region is one of the regions of Akanland. Please enlighten me.--Natsubee (talk) 20:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Paa Kwesi Nduom is another article that is peppered with Akanland. What happened to the Republic of Ghana?--Natsubee (talk) 20:17, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

See African civilizations map pre colonial, Akanland is an Akan people historic autonomous region/country before Gold Coast and now within Ghana border. MarkMysoe (talk) 20:22, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

My problem is that Akanland is not a political entity existing now as you have rightly described. Why doesn't the articles on United Kingdom for example, talk about the current towns and cities being Saxon districts etc? I think your edits are confusing/misleading as if I did not know anything at all about Ghana, I would be led to think all I needed was an atlas to locate Akanland, then I would find Suhum/Kraboa/Coaltar District but it is a district administered as one of the districts under the Eastern Region of Ghana. The Regional Minister and the District Chief Executive are appointed by the Ghana government and its budget is partly financed by the Ghana government. The website GhanaDistricts.com lists it as a district in Ghana. You seem to have unilaterally created a geopolitical entity called Akanland and started appropriating various Ghanaian districts to it. If I do not understand your explanation, chances are many others don't. I still need convincing that Akanland is an administrative region of Ghana otherwise I may have to find time to revert all those edits. Kanem-Bornu Empire is on the map you referenced. I would like to see the articles showing the citizens and districts and current political administration of this empire. Thanks. --Natsubee (talk) 20:40, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Akanland is similar to Igboland and Yorubaland. You can see Olusegun Obasanjo article lead header where it mentions that Olusegun Obasanjo is from Yorubaland cultural region/autonomous/semi-country/historic country. Akanland is made of all the Akan peoples historic states (research Akan states) as it shown in the African civilizations map pre colonial. Akanland was colonized by British and Europeans and divided into administrative region now within Ghana (Brong-Ahafo, Ashanti, Western, Central, and Eastern Akan lands) grouped together of the historic Akan country, Akanland, as Akanland was a country before the Gold Coast existed, then within the Gold Coast, and now within Ghana. Akanland is a historic country of the Akan people before any colonization b Europeans then British and then Akanland joined with other non-Akan peoples making Gold Coast, before Gold Coast existed the Akanland was a country then now Akanland is divided into five regions grouped as the Akan people's historic independent country Akanland now within Ghana, made with the Akan peoples lands as shown in the map African civilizations map pre colonial. Akanland is the historic country of Akan kingdoms with the lands of the Akans Brong-Ahafo, Ashanti, Fante (Mankessim/Fante Confederacy) Central, (Wassa, Aowin and Sewhi) Western, (Akwapim, Akyem, Akwamu, Kwahu) and the other Akans lands in Akanland now five divided regions to administrative regions in Akanland within Ghana. MarkMysoe (talk) 20:48, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Akanland is a cultural area of Ghana, nothing more and nothing less than that. It stands for the area where the Akan people live, but is indeed not a political or administrative entity. Don't take the contributions of Mark Mysoe serious on this matter, although he has also contributed useful stuff to Wikipedia. He reasons like a dangerous nationalist who wants to stir interethnic conflict in Ghana. Most non-Akan inhabitants of Ghana are called illegal immigrants in his contributions. DrMennoWolters (talk) 20:49, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Ghana edits - Akanland and "Togolese people"

You have also declared people of Ewe origin as Togolese people. I have edited the Kpalime Traditional Area article to correct that. I see someone has changed the edits you did on Jerry Rawlings. I am still not clear about why you would rather talk and write about Akanland rather than Ghana. It seems that you are trying to replace one with the other. I think there needs to be a debate about all these Ghana edits. Akanland so far as I am concerned is not an administrative region of Ghana. I do not deny that there are Akans in Ghana. I have Akan relatives. My problem is that you are "hijacking" parts of Ghana for an administrative region of Akanland which is not supported by any official Ghana website that I can find. I could help seek clarification from a Ghana embassy / High Commission or from the Ghana government. This Akanland region seems to be a figment of your imagination. If you still do not get me, this may have to go for arbitration because I would not like to start an editing war. I have also noted some edit comments you made on the Akanland article such as revision as of 20:34, 31 December 2012 as rather unfortunate. Last I heard, Akufo-Addo is still trying to be Ghana president, not Akanland president.--Natsubee (talk) 22:26, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

For the explanation of Kpalime Traditional Area it was quite a while ago, of my unsharp knowledge on that article. Ewe people were inhabitants of Togoland (British and French Togoland) and the demonym was Toglese. If the correct documents are given by the Akan Orthography Committee, which is responsible for promoting and protecting the Akan history and different Akan people subjects, and not the Ghana embassy / High Commission of Ghana or from the Ghana government. Because there is Ghana agency that represents the Akan people affairs. Akan people are also inhabiting Ivory Coast. The only agency that represents the Akan people is the independent agency Akan Orthography Committee (AOC). I'am sure that the AOC can get you the correct information on Akanland that you may want to look for.

Akans are divided between Akanlands territory within Ghana and in Ivory Coast. There are five administrative Akan regions (Akan lands) within Ghana (known as Ashanti Region - Ashanti Kingdom to Akans, Brong-Ahafo Region known as just Brong Ahafo to Akans, Central Region known as Central Akanland, Eastern Region known as Eastern Akanland, and Western Region known Western Akanland), the Akan people have, an Akan culture, Akan history, Akan food, Akan clothing, Akan arts, Akan names and surnames, Akan language, Akan customs, Akan religion, Akan calender, Akan music, Akan dance, Akan education system, Akan monuments, Akan architecture, Akan literature and sites and an historic Akan economy of selling Akan gold, Akan minerals, Akan agriculture, and Akan monuments, Akan architecture and Akan sites. Akan people (Akans) are Ethnic nationals with their land (Akanland) they decided with the Akan leadership and under Akan Kwame Nkrumah to voluntarily join their land and country (Akanland) as a "state union" (means voluntarily joining Akanland with other lands (the other regions that now make Ghana) in 1957 to create what is today known as "Ghana". Currently, because Akanland is not currently a sovereign state, the Akan people in Ghana have a Ghana passport. If at anytime, the Akan people choose to have a independence referendum, to make their Akanland a sovereign state they have the right to do that. The Akan people volunteered for their country Akanland (or Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Central Region, Eastern Region and Western Region) to be part of "Ghana" in 1957. Research Akan history well.

Before 1957 there was no such location as Ghana, except for a unrelated empire named Ghana empire. Before Ghana, there is Akanland which comprised Akan states (in Akan prefix - man) such as Asanteman and Bonoman, (which are known in English and to you as regions). There is no such thing as, a Ghanaian people, Ghanaian culture, Ghanaian arts, Ghanaian name and surname, Ghanaian clothing, and Ghanaian language. Akan people call them selves Akans (Akanfo) in Akan, and they call their land, Akanland (Akanman) in Akan within Ghana, as Ghana was created with their lands (Akanland), so I no one is "hijacking" parts of Ghana for an administrative region of Akanland. Akanland is not a administrative region. There are five regions as with Ghana (but named just Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, and Central Akanland, Eastern Akanland and Western Akanland) with their Akan peoples, Akan culture and combined Akan peoples and Akan lands economies as the Akan peoples Akanland, and these five regions are also five regions of Ghana but known with the word region. MarkMysoe (talk) 00:15, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Well, this seems a clear case for arbitration. Wikipedia cannot be a vehicle for separatist (and racist?) aspirations. DrMennoWolters (talk) 09:04, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Deletion request

Are you sure you want your user page on the Ewe Wikipedia to be deleted? --Natsubee (talk) 00:18, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

I give up, thanks. --Kmoksy (talk) 04:07, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

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How to type Ewe alphabets

Sir,

I never knew there is a wiki in my native language (Ewe). I got to know recently and have started correcting some mistakes. I can't do this as easy as it should be. Because I don't know where to get the other alphabets on my keyboard. I copied some characters and paste them when I started editing this wiki. This will really take much time. I guess there is a simple and better way to do this. How will I go about it? Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks.

Enock4seth (talk) 22:36, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Apologies for not responding earlier. If you click on "Trɔ asi le eŋu" in the Ewe Wikipedia to reach the edit page, I have added the Ewe letters which are not in English. They can be found below the edit box, equivalent to the "Insert" or "Wiki markup" area below the edit box in the English Wikipedia. What is available is as follows.

"Eʋegbe: Ɖ ɖ Ɛ ɛ ɛ̃ Ƒ ƒ Ɣ ɣ Ŋ ŋ Ɔ ɔ ɔ̃ Ʋ ʋ  |  Á á É é Í í Ó ó Ú ú  |  À à È è Ì ì Ò ò Ù ù  |  Ã ã Ẽ ẽ Ĩ ĩ Õ õ Ũ ũ "

Clicking on any of these puts it automatically into your edit at the point where your cursor is. If this is not clear, please let me know.--Natsubee (talk) 18:40, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. But I found another alternative (Kasahorow Keyboard) which I used to configure my keyboard to type most of the alphabets directly. Are you an Ewe? --Enock4seth (talk) 06:47, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Deletion Request on Eυe Wikipedia

Kindly check this for deletion [1]. Leave a message on my talk page when done. Thanks --Enock4seth (talk) 17:19, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Done--Natsubee (talk) 22:56, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Article Rename (Eʋe Wikipedia)

Please Kindly rename this article. The correct name for the animal is Tedzi not Tedzid. Thank you. --Enock4seth (talk) 21:47, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Please I've moved the page to Tedzi and Tedzid is now a redirect page. So kindly remove, Tedzid. Thanks --Enock4seth (talk) 22:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Done--Natsubee (talk) 06:04, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Verified and Thanks. Enock4seth (talk) 06:12, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-42

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

New features

• You can now choose which language to show for SVG files that contain several languages, using the "lang" option, like [[File:Gerrit_patchset_25838_test.svg|lang=de]] for the German layer of File:Gerrit patchset 25838 test.svg.
• Developers are looking for wiki communities to try the new search system. [2]

VisualEditor news

• You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [3]
• You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content. [4]
• When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [5] [6]

Future

• The new notifications system ("Echo") will be added to almost all wikis that don't already have it on October 22. It will notify you of changes and events that affect you. [7]
• MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
• The interface to reset your password will soon be changed. [8]

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Tech News: 2013-43

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

New features

• The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [9]

VisualEditor news

• On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [10]

Problems

• On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [11]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
• In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [12]
• You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.

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09:43, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-44

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

New features

• The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [13]

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it possible in the future. [14]

Problems

• There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.

Future

• Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2, the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.

JavaScript / Gadget developers

• Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded by default. [15]
• Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [16]

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10:33, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-45

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

New features

• You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector (ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class "autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. [17]

Problems

• There was a problem with Parsoid (the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page. [18]

Future

• The Beta Features tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to all wikis on November 21. [19]
• MediaWiki 1.23wmf3 was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar). [20]
• The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [21]
• The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [22]
• You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for {{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}. [23]
• In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [24]

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Tech News: 2013-46

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

Problems

• There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [25]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf4 was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
• The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [26]
• The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [27]

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08:50, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-47

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

New features

• The Beta Features announced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferences. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [28]
• Tools developers can now create tools that use the OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [29]

Problems

• Wikis that are currently testing CirrusSearch had problems with search results on November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.

Future

• There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgiving.
• The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page extension) will soon also work without JavaScript. [30]

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06:47, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-49

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

This newsletter is now posted using MediaWiki message delivery.

New features

• The CommonsMetadata feature was added to all wikis. It creates metadata information about multimedia files (like their license) that can be read automatically by computer programs. It not only works for Commons, but for all wikis, and you can use it for files on your wiki by editing templates used to describe metadata. [31]
• JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. [32]

VisualEditor

• You can now paste formatted content copied from external sources (not just as plain text) into VisualEditor; this includes copy/pasting from other VisualEditor windows. [33]
• You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. [34]
• Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. [35]

Problems

• Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. [36]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf6 was added to test wikis on December 5. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 10 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 12 (calendar).
• The old Etherpad tool (replaced by a new version) will be removed on December 30, 2013. You can still save old pads before that date using the old address: https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org. [37]

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08:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-50

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

New features

• You can now see a legend on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist that explains the symbols used. [38]
• If your wiki is testing the new search tool ("CirrusSearch"), you can now test it by adding "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [39]

VisualEditor

• The toolbar is now simpler; all text styles (bold, italics, underline, subscript, etc.) are in the same menu, and the "More" menu is called "Insert". [40]
• You can now use a basic tool to add special characters to your text. You can add more characters (useful in your language) by editing the MediaWiki interface on translatewiki.net.
• The tool to add and edit mathematical text is now called "formula". [41]

Problems

• There was a problem with the "Create a book" tool (Collection); books could only be exported to PDF format. The change has been undone. [42]
• The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. [43] [44]
• Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot. [45]

Future

• MediaWiki 1.23wmf7 was added to test wikis on December 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on December 17 and all Wikipedia wikis on December 19 (calendar).
• You will soon be able to select the language of SVG images that have translations using a drop-down menu on the image page. (see example) [46]
• GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [47]
• A Draft namespace will be added to the English Wikipedia to make it easier to create new pages. You will be able to use VisualEditor for drafts if you have enabled it. [48] [49]

Other

• You can read the summary of the technical report for November 2013 to learn more about VisualEditor, Mobile and other features. [50]

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08:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-51

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendar).
• You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferences. [51]
• There was a bug where notifications were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites. [52] [53]
• You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login. [54]
• If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript code. [55]
• You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [56] [57]
• All edits made through Flow, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk page on MediaWiki.org. [58] [59]
• You can test a visual tool that shows edits made to an article over time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles. [60]
• You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. [61]
• Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account. [62]

Future software changes

• There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays.
• When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed. [63] [64]
• New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. [65] [66].
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden. [67] [68]
• You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool. [69] [70]

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08:22, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-01

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

Recent software changes

• You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [71] [72]
• With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [73]

VisualEditor news

• Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5 <figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [74]
• You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.

Problems

• On December 23, Wikimedia Labs was broken for 4 hours due to an NFS problem. [75]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their Beta Features options.
• AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [76] [77]
• It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [78] [79]
• It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [80] [81]

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08:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-02

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar).
• The old note-taking site (Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site. [82]

Problems

• On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues.
• On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

Future software changes

• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [83]
• Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [84]
• Plural form rules for some languages will be changed. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [85] [86] [87]
• You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [88] [89]
• You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [90] [91]
• You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [92] [93]
• E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [94] [95]
• Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [96] [97]

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08:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-03

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

You can read a recent blog post about how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across wikis each week.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (calendar).
• Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due to a search engine issue. [98]

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [99]
• You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [100] [101] [102]

Problems

• For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using the Translate tool on Wikimedia Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error. [103] [104]
• For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

• Wikidata will be added to all Wikisource wikis on January 14. [105]
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to test it by adding it in your Beta Features options.
• You will soon be able to export page collections into other formats than PDF. [106]
• It will soon be possible to upload groups of photos from Flickr using UploadWizard. [107] [108]
• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared a multimedia vision for 2016. You are invited to comment. [109]

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09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-04

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).
• You can now see relatively recent results on special pages like Special:DoubleRedirects, Special:UncategorizedPages or Special:WantedCategories. They were disabled before because they were very slow. The results are now updated once a month. [110]
• As of January 16, you can make and use guided tours on the Asturian, Farsi and Russian Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [111] [112]
• You can give comments on an idea to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [113]
• You can watch a video to learn how to report problems in Bugzilla. [114]

VisualEditor news

• In the toolbar, the menu to edit the styles (like bold, italic, etc.) now has a down arrow (). The order of the Insert menu has also changed a little.
• You can now edit <gallery /> tags with a very basic tool. [115]
• You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [116]
• When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [117]
• When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [118] [119]
• The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [120]
• Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [121]

Problems

• There was a problem with search on the English and German Wikipedias between January 6 and January 14. You could not see new pages and changes in search results. [122]
• There were "pool timeouts" errors on several wikis on January 13; it was caused by a code change that was made to fix another problem. [123]
• On January 17, Bugzilla and Wikimedia Labs were broken for about 20 minutes due to network problems. IRC channels with recent changes (irc.wikimedia.org) were broken for about two hours. [124]

Future software changes

Orange bar with new messages

• If you have removed JavaScript in your web browser, you will soon be able to see the orange bar saying that you have new messages. If you have changed how the bar looks with a gadget, you may need to change the gadget again. [125] [126]
• You will soon be able to add a given Flickr user to a blacklist so that their files can't be uploaded using UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons and other wikis. [127]
• You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [128]
• You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [129] [130]

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10:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-05

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

Recent software changes

• Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video. [131]
• The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [132]
• The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [133]
• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems

• On January 21, Universal Language Selector was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [134]
• For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

• You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [135]

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09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-06

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar).
• Global AbuseFilter rules are now active on all small wikis. [136] [137]
• The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [138] [139]
• You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [140]
• There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [141]
• Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [142]
• All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [143]

VisualEditor news

• You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [144]

Future software changes

• Edits and files hidden with the Oversight tool will be moved to the RevisionDelete system. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [145] [146] [147]
• For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (:ko:v, :v:ko, etc.). [148]
• It will soon be possible to use the GettingStarted tool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on Translatewiki.net. [149]
• You will soon be able to include the Special:Contributions page into other pages. [150]
• You will be able to see where a file is used inside MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [151] [152]
• It will soon be possible to send MassMessage messages using the API. [153]
• You will soon see audio statistics on the Special:TimedMediaHandler page. [154]

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08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-07

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 13 (calendar).
• The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed. [155] [156] [157] [158] [159]
• You are now notified when someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian, Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese). [160]

VisualEditor news

• You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [161] [162]
• The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [163] [164] [165]

Problems

• On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [166]
• On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total due to a problem with the Math extension.

Future software changes

• Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message library will be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or modules, please check to make sure that things will not break. [167] [168]
• You will soon be able to use GettingStarted on 23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing possible tasks and giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia on February 7th. [169]
• You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [170] [171]
• The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [172]
• Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [173] [174]
• It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [175]
• You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [176]
• You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [177] [178]
• If you have questions about Universal Language Selector, you can join an IRC meeting on February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode. [179]
• Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [180]
• bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at the latest. [181]
• The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [182]

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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-08

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 20 (calendar).
• You can now use the list of active users again. [183] [184]
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [185]
• You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [186]
• You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [187]

Problems

• On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [188]
• On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [189]
• On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page loading due to database problems.
• There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13 and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache server problem.
• On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was due to problems with cache servers.

VisualEditor news

• The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or redirect page. [190]
• You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [191]
• Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [192]
• You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [193] [194] [195]

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08:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-09

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
• The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [196] [197]
• The Universal Language Selector was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how).

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [198] [199] [200]
• You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [201] [202]
• You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [203] [204]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use the <categorytree> tag again. [205]
• You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage tool in all talk namespaces. [206] [207]
• Notifications will soon work in all namespaces. [208][209][210]

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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-10

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
• When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [211]
• You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [212] [213]
• You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [214]
• The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [215]

VisualEditor news

• You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [216] [217] [218]
• If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [219]
• Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [220]
• VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [221] [222] [223]

Future software changes

• The new tool for viewing media files will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [224] [225]
• You will soon be able to make user contributions show only page creations. [226] [227]
• Article Feedback Tool will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [228] [229]
• Wikis using the new search tool will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [230]

Problems

• For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [231]

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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-11

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [232] [233]

VisualEditor news

• It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [234] [235]
• It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [236]
• VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [237]
• We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [238]
• You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [239] [240] [241]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to use a Beta option to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. [242]
• CirrusSearch will soon automatically index newly imported pages. [243] [244]
• It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript. [245]
• An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [246]

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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-12

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf18) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 13. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 20 (calendar).
• You can now view smaller versions of PNG images bigger than 20 megapixels. [247]
• You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all small wikis. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [248] [249]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for February 2014. [250]

VisualEditor news

• Searching for template parameters in now case-insensitive. [251] [252]
• Required template parameters now have an asterisk (*) next to their edit boxes. [253]
• Several template dialogs are now smaller, and their insert buttons have changed wording. [254]

Future software changes

• You will soon see an error message if you try to log-in or register with an invalid or taken username. [255]
• You can now test first version of a tool that includes OpenStreetMap maps inside the UploadWizard. Comments are welcome. [256]
• You will soon be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature. [257]

Problems

• VisualEditor was slow to load on March 13 because of an API issue. [258]

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07:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-13

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf19) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 27 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now double-click or press the ↲ Enter key on an image or template to change its settings. [259] [260]
• Pages that don't exist will now show as red links in the edit mode. [261]
• You will no longer be able to try to use VisualEditor on pages translated using the Translate extension, and you will see a warning if you try to edit pages marked for translation. [262]
• You will now see a full warning, including the most recent log entry, when you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor. [263]

Future software changes

• Typography Refresh will be enabled for test wiki and MediaWiki.org users who use the Vector skin on March 27. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3. If you don't use Vector as your skin, you will not be affected.
• You will be able to use the Hovercards tool as a beta feature on all wikis from March 26.
• You will soon be able to include the Whatlinkshere special page in other pages. [264] [265]

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18:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-14

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf20) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and all Wikipedia wikis on April 3 (calendar).
• Typography Refresh was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 27. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin. For users on non-Wikipedia wikis, it will be enabled on April 1, and for Wikipedia users on April 3.
• CirrusSearch, the new search tool, was enabled as a beta feature on over 30 new wikis on March 27. [266] [267]

VisualEditor news

• Blocked users now see the same messages in VisualEditor as in the wikitext editor. [268] [269]
• The search box for re-using a reference in VisualEditor is now cleared after each use. [270]
• New links on sub-pages no longer point to the wrong location in VisualEditor. [271]
• VisualEditor's media dialog no longer breaks when opening some types of images. [272]

Future software changes

• You will not be able to use the Wikitech wiki for a short period around 16:00 UTC on April 1 due to a server change. [273]
• CirrusSearch will become the main search engine for all non-Wikipedia wikis except Commons, Meta and Incubator on April 2.
• You will soon be able to use a new special page listing duplicate files. [274]
• Deleting a version of a file or a version of its description page will soon be shown differently in the logs. [275]

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09:20, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-15

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (calendar).
• Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the Vector skin.
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2. [276]

Future software changes

• A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the tracking categories on a wiki. [277] [278]
• All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8. [279]
• The Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages. [280] [281]
• You will soon be able to download files directly from MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool. [282]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. Comments are welcome.
• You can help check that users can read CAPTCHAs in your language. [283]

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08:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-16

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

We are looking for contributors to help write new issues every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [284] [285] [286]
• Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [287] [288]

VisualEditor news

• You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click. [289]
• The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
• The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen. [290] [291]

Future software changes

• The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [292] [293]
• Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [294]
• You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [295] [296] [297] [298]
• Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [299]
• You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [300] [301]
• The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [302] [303]
• An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [304]

Problems

• Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should change your password as an extra precaution. [305]

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07:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-17

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

Tech News updates

• You can now subscribe to an Atom or RSS feed to read Tech News in your news aggregator. The newsletter will now also show on the English Planet Wikimedia every Monday. [306]
• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18. [307] [308]
• Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly. [309] [310] [311] [312]
• The page view statistics site developed by Henrik (stats.grok.se) should now work faster. [313]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014. [314]

VisualEditor news

• If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly. [315] [316]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages. [317] [318]
• You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your preferences. [319] [320] [321]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April 24. Feedback is welcome. [322]
• Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background. [323] [324]
• The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The edit review preferences will be moved to the recent changes tab, and the preference for the WikiLove tool will be moved to the editing tab. [325] [326] [327] [328]
• You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates. [329] [330]
• You will soon be able to use CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit. [331] [332]
• It is now proposed to replace Bugzilla, Gerrit and other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test Phabricator and add your opinion on MediaWiki.org. [333]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [334]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
• There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again. [335]

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08:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-18

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
• You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [336]

VisualEditor news

• You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [337]
• VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [338]
• VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [339]
• The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [340]
• CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [341] [342]
• You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [343]

Problems

• For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [344] [345]
• On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [346] [347]

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07:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014

Today's motto...

→ I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

Nominate one today!

Motto of the Day (WP:MOTD) is in a state of emergency and really needs your help! There are not enough editors who are reviewing or nominating mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review, and this probably means that you will notice a red link or “This space for rent” as our mottos for the next weeks and months.

Please take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/'Specials. Any help would be appreciated! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-19

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar).
• The Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences on MediaWiki.org. [348]
• It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor tool. [349]

VisualEditor news

• External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [350]
• The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [351]
• You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [352]
• There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [353][354]
• Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [355] [356]
• You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [357] [358]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8. Feedback is welcome. [359]
• You can help translate about 100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
• If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [360] [361]

Problems

• For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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07:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-20

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [362]
• Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [363]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [364] [365]
• You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [366] [367] [368] [369]
• You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [370] [371]
• The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [372]
• The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [373] [374] [375]
• MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [376]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead. [377]

Problems

• There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [378] [379]

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06:00, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-21

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
• The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [380] [381] [382]
• MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [383] [384]
• VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [385] [386]
• You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [387] [388]
• VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [389] [390]
• VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [391] [392]
• VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [393]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [394] [395]

Future software changes

• User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [396] [397]

Problems

• For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [398]

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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-22

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
• MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.

VisualEditor news

• VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [399] [400] [401] [402]
• A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [403] [404]
• VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [405] [406]
• It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [407]
• VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [408]

Future software changes

• Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [409]
• It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [410] [411]
• Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [412] [413] [414]
• You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [415] [416]

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08:29, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-23

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [417]

VisualEditor news

• Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [418]
• The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [419] [420]
• VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [421]
• There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [422]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
• You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [423] [424]
• The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [425] [426]
• You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [427] [428]

Problems

• For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [429]

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08:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-24

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
• You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [430] [431]

VisualEditor news

• You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [432] [433]
• The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [434] [435] [436]
• You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [437] [438]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [439]
• You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [440]
• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [441] [442]
• You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [443] [444]
• Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [445] [446] [447]
• You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [448] [449]
• Hovercards will no longer flicker. [450]

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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-25

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

Reminder

• You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

VisualEditor news

• You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [451]
• When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [452] [453]
• You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [454] [455] [456] [457]
• The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [458] [459] [460]

Future software changes

• Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [461]
• You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [462]
• You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [463] [464]
• It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [465] [466]
• Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [467]
• The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [468]
• An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
• You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [469]

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07:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-26

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [470] [471]
• When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [472] [473]
• You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [474] [475]
• You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [476] [477]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [478] [479]
• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [480]
• CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [481]
• You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [482] [483]
• An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [484]

Problems

• On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
• Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [485]

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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-27

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

• Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [486] [487]
• A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [488] [489]
• VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [490] [491] [492] [493]
• Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [494] [495]

Future software changes

• You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [496] [497]
• Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
• CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [498]
• All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [499] [500]
• Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [501]
• You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [502] [503]
• You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [504]

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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-28

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

Tech News updates

• We are looking for contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 3. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 8, and to all Wikipedias on July 10 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was enabled on July 1 as the primary search method on 36 new wikis, including the Norwegian (no), Portuguese (pt) and Ukrainian (uk) Wikipedias. [505]
• It is now possible to create Atom or RSS feeds for Word of the Day, Word of the Week and similar entries on Wiktionary wikis. [506] [507]
• You can now use a graphical interface to edit TemplateData information on the English (en), French (fr) and Italian (it) Wikipedias. [508] [509]

VisualEditor news

• Saving an edit with VisualEditor will now be much faster. [510] [511]
• You can now add a caption when you add a file to a page with VisualEditor. You can also change the file to a different one and keep the existing caption. [512] [513] [514]
• When you switch to the Edit source tab, you are now asked to keep your changes. You no longer need to find the option in the menus. [515] [516] [517]
• The reference tool that adds empty <ref></ref> tags is now at the bottom of the Cite menu, below references that use templates like {{Cite web}}. [518]
• Context menus will no longer be shown over items that you can edit directly, for example formulæ. [519] [520] [521]

Future software changes

• Starting on July 9, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. The feature was first scheduled for July 1, but was delayed due to bugs.
• A plan to enable CirrusSearch as the primary search method on the 11 largest Wikimedia wikis has now been prepared. [522]
• If you use references on a page, you will soon always see them at the bottom of the page, even if you forget to add the <references /> tag (or a template). [523] [524]
• Black-and-white XCF images will soon display correctly. [525] [526]
• Description pages of SVG files will soon always show download links for multiple resolutions (example). The links were previously shown only for SVG files in large original resolutions. [527] [528]

Problems

• Between July 2-3, there were problems with loading pages on multiple wikis due to a configuration issue. [529] [530]
• For a few hours on July 1, there were problems with uploading new files on Wikimedia Commons due to a configuration error. [531] [532]

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07:07, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-29

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
• It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [533] [534]
• You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
• You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.

VisualEditor news

• The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [535] [536]
• The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [537] [538] [539]
• References will now be shown in the default font size again. [540]

Future software changes

• CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [541]
• The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [542] [543]
• It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [544]
• Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}} to hide it. [545] [546]
• Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [547] [548]
• Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [549] [550]
• Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [551]

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07:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-30

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
• CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [552] [553] [554]
• The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [555]
• Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [556] [557]
• A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [558]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [559]
• All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [560]
• You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [561]
• Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [562] [563] [564] [565] [566] [567]

Future software changes

• It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [568]
• You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [569]
• An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [570]
• A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.

Problems

• Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [571]

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07:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-31

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
• You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.

VisualEditor news

• You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [572] [573]
• The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [574]
• If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [575] [576]
• You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [577] [578]

Future software changes

• You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [579] [580]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [581]
• It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [582] [583]

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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-32

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

Tech News updates

• Tech News will be presented at the Wikimania 2014 conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [584]
• You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [585] [586] [587]
• You can now download an update to the archive of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [588]
• New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [589] [590]

VisualEditor news

• You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit with VisualEditor. [591] [592]
• VisualEditor will no longer change underscores to spaces in category sort keys. [593]
• Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn and snowman symbols were fixed last week. [594] [595] [596] [597]
• Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [598] [599] [600] [601]

Future software changes

• You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [602] [603]
• All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators before August 31. [604]
• Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [605]

Problems

• Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [606]
• Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [607]

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07:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-33

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

Recent software changes

• Due to the Wikimania 2014 conference, there were no MediaWiki changes this week. The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16) will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (calendar). [608]
• Bureaucrats on all Wikivoyage wikis are no longer able to merge two accounts into one. [609]

VisualEditor news

• Tablet users visiting the mobile version of non-Wikipedia wikis will be able to use VisualEditor starting on August 12. The feature will also be enabled on all Wikipedias on August 14. [610]

Future software changes

• Internet Explorer 6 users will soon see a JavaScript-free version of Wikimedia wikis; JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work on that browser. If you use Internet Explorer 6, make sure to update to a newer browser! [611] [612] [613]
• If you visit a special page that requires you to be logged-in, you will soon be automatically redirected to the log-in page instead of seeing a warning. [614] [615]
• You will now always see recent changes to the source language text when editing a translation with the Translate extension. [616] [617]
• An IRC meeting to discuss VisualEditor will take place on August 14 at 09:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [618]

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07:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-34

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

Recent software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf17) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 21 (calendar).
• There is a new protection level called superprotection. At the moment, only some Wikimedia Foundation employees have access to it. Administrators can't edit "superprotected" pages. [619] [620] [621]
• You can now create empty pages directly. A message asks you to confirm that you want to create an empty page. [622] [623]
• You can search for Wikimedia tools using a new list of tools. [624]
• You can watch the first videos from Wikimania 2014. Some of them are about technical topics. More videos will come later.

Wikidata

• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for inter language links on Wikinews. [625]
• After August 19, you can use Wikidata for badges like "good" or "featured" articles. Next week, you will be able to show the badges in the article sidebar on Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. [626]

Problems

• There was an issue with ProofreadPage and WikiEditor on Wikisource wikis. It is now fixed. [627] [628]

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07:17, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-35

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

VisualEditor news

• There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [629]
• You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [630]
• If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [631] [632] [633]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
• After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [634]

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-36

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

Recent software changes

• You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [635] [636]
• You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword in your search. [637] [638]
• A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [639] [640]
• If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [641]

VisualEditor news

• You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [642]
• We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [643] [644] [645]
• VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [646]
• We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [647]
• You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [648]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
• There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [649]
• You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [650]
• You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
• You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [651]

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-37

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

VisualEditor news

• From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [652] [653] [654]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
• You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [655]
• You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [656]

Problems

• There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-38

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 software changes

• You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS class. [657] [658]
• There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [659] [660] [661]
• New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [662]

Problems

• There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [663]

VisualEditor news

• If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [664]
• The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [665] [666]
• You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [667]

Future software changes

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
• These changes are coming with the new version:
  • If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [668] [669] [670]

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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-39

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 software changes

• You can test a new Beta Feature called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs if you see them. [671]

Problems

• There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages.
• Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
• There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [672] [673]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar).
• If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[674] [675]
• In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [676] [677]
• The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [678]
• The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [679]
• There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [680] [681]
• In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [682]

Future site changes

• You can see a plan for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour will be done via video on September 24. [683]

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09:05, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-40

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 software changes

• On Commons, you can now see what files are most used across all wikis. You can also see the same list for deleted or uncreated files. [684] [685]
• There are now many more translations for language names. [686]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf1) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 30, and on all Wikipedias on October 2 (calendar).
• Errors from Scribunto (Lua) are now shown on the page. Before, you had to click on "Script error" to see them. [687] [688]
• You can add an "autovalue" for a field in TemplateData. When users add the template to a page, the value will be added automatically. An example is when a clean-up template shows the date it was added. [689]
• If you change a user preference but don't save it, it now asks if you want to save it. [690] [691]
• The PDF export tool has changed. The new one has better language support but it doesn't offer ZIM and EPUB formats. [692]

Future changes

• You can watch a video showing Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. You can also read more about the move from Bugzilla.
• JavaScript authors: Many old methods will be removed soon. Please check your scripts and gadgets and replace the old methods by the new ones if needed. [693]

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09:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-41

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

• You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [694] [695]
• Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [696] [697]
• You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [698]
• A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [699]
• The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [700]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
• If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [701] [702]
• We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [703]
• On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [704] [705]
• You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [706]
• 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [707]

Future changes

• You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [708]
• More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image. [709] [710]

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06:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-42

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 software changes

• You can now log into Phabricator, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account and add your Bugzilla email address. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [711] [712]
• You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list or asking Elitre (WMF).

Problems

• 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [713]
• Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [714]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar).
• 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [715]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC). [716]
• There is a proposal to organize file pages better. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [717]
• You can join a meeting about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC). [718]

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08:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.

Recent changes

• You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "⧼mw math mathml⧽".
• You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [719] [720]

File information cleanup

• You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
• See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
• You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
• The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [721]

Problems

• Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [722]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
• 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [723]
• If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [724] [725]

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13:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-44

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

Problems

• There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [726]
• There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [727]
• There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [728]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [729]
• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
• VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [730] [731] [732]
• VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [733]
• VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [734]
• The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [735]

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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-52

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

Recent software changes

• The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [736]

Software changes this week

• There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [737]

Future changes

• The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [738]
• A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [739]

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16:52, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-01

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

Software changes

• There are no technical changes this week.

Feedback about Tech News in 2014

• 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 2014? What kind of information was too late? Please tell us at m:Talk:Tech/News. You can write in your language. Thank you!

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16:52, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-03

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 software changes

• Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [740]
• You can now use the {{!}} magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [741]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
• A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [742]
• The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [743]
• The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [744] [745] [746]
• The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [747]

Future changes

• You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [748]

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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-04

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

• You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[749] [750]
• Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems

• All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [751]

Software changes this week

• There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [752]

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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-05

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

Recent software changes

• You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [753]

This week

• There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [754]

Future changes

• You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [755]
• The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [756]

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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-06

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

Problems

• There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [757]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
• The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [758]
• You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [759] [760]

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16:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-07

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 software changes

• You can now use {{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }} to transclude a section with its title. [761]

Problems

• MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [762]
• UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [763]
• All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [764]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
• You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [765] [766] [767]
• You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [768] [769]
• It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [770]
• You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes

• Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [771]
• In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [772]

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16:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-08

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
• On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [773] [774] [775]
• You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [776]
• In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [777]
• The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​ [778]

Meetings

• The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [779]
• You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [780]
• You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [781]

Future changes

• You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.

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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-09

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 software changes

• All new accounts are now global. [782]
• Your Meta user page is now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report problems if you see any. You can ask a bot to delete your old user pages. [783] [784] [785]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
• It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger. [786]
• It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [787]
• Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [788]
• Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [789]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
• Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [790]

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16:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-10

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 software changes

• A Lua function to use Wikidata has changed. You need to update the pages that use it. [791]
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Uzbek and Minangkabau. You need to enable it in your Beta options.
• You can now hide banners if you don't have an account. [792] [793]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 4 (calendar).
• You can use the Content Translation tool on Wikipedia in Punjabi and Kyrgyz. You can ask for the tool in other languages.
• Editing the fake blank line in VisualEditor is now simpler. This change also fixed a few bugs. [794] [795] [796] [797]
• The TemplateData editor now warns you if a related page already has TemplateData. [798]
• The TemplateData table now tells you if a template doesn't take any parameters. [799]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 4 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join technical meetings in France and Mexico this year. You will be able to ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [800]

Future changes

• You will be able to get a direct link for a section of a page. [801]

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-11

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

Recent changes

• You can now create books on almost all wikis. It doesn't work yet on wikis using the language converter. [802] [803]
• VisualEditor had problems with categories in Safari. It sometimes moved or removed the categories. The issue is now fixed. [804] [805] [806]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 11 (calendar).
• In VisualEditor the "Edit ^beta" button is now called "Edit" on the English Wikipedia. [807] [808]
• The feedback tool in VisualEditor now looks like the other tools. It also asks for information about your browser to help fix bugs. [809] [810]
• You now see the VisualEditor toolbar even if the rest of the page is still loading. [811] [812]
• You now see more information when you edit a link, a reference or other items in VisualEditor. You also see a clearer edit button in those tools. [813] [814]
• If you use the ContentTranslation tool you now see red links in the list of articles in other languages. The link is red if the article doesn't exist in the language of your options or of your browser. You can translate the article by clicking on the red link.

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France in May. You can ask for help if you can't pay yourself. [815]

Future changes

• You can get help to become a developer. You can learn more on the Google Summer of Code and Outreachy pages. [816]
• You will soon be able to read technical reports in Phabricator. [817]

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15:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-12

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 servers that resize images are using new software. You should report new problems that you notice with images. [818]
• You can now see lists of bugs about Commons, Wikisource and Wiktionary. [819]
• It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit the list of characters for your wiki. [820] [821]

Problems

• Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 18 (calendar).
• A puzzle piece icon () now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [822] [823]
• You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in TemplateData. [824] [825]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The list of bad user names on your wiki will no longer work. The global list will replace it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [826] [827]
• You can comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [828]
• The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You can see the rules to rename accounts. [829]

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15:15, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-13

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 this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from March 25 (calendar).
• The text of a reference is now more visible when you click on it. It has a blue background. Many wikis already have the blue color. Those wikis can now remove it from their CSS page. [830]
• VisualEditor is now much faster. For many users it is now at least as fast as the wikitext editor. [831] [832] [833]
• When you add a list of references in VisualEditor, you now see it right away. You can still change its group by editing it. [834]

Meetings

• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on March 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Talk pages using "LiquidThreads" on mediawiki.org will soon use the new system. [835]

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15:10, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-14

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

• You can now hide site banners even if you don't have an account. [836]
• You can now add citations more easily with VisualEditor on the French and Italian Wikipedia. The tool adds the information when you add some types of links. In the future you will be able to add this tool to your wiki. [837] [838] [839]
• All sites should now be faster if you have a recent browser. [840]
• You could see a serious bug when editing some templates with VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [841]
• VisualEditor could break when you edited an image. The issue was fixed quickly. [842]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since March 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 31. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 1 (calendar).
• VisualEditor is now the main editing tool on 53 more Wikipedias. [843]
• You can now edit the mobile site of all wikis without an account. [844]
• You can test a new tool on the beta mobile site on the English Wikipedia. With the new tool, you can create lists of articles. [845]
• You can now see that VisualEditor is opening even if you're not looking at the top of the page. [846]
• VisualEditor doesn't leave empty titles with just nowiki tags any more. [847] [848] [849] [850]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. The meeting will be on IRC on March 31 at 16:00 (UTC). [851]
• You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 1 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:18, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-15

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

• You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [852]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [853] [854]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [855]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [856]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [857]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [858] [859] [860] [861]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [862]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [863] [864]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [865]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [866]

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15:42, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-16

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 read the latest news about VisualEditor.
• You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [867]
• The list of bad user names on your wiki no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules for bad user names on Meta. [868] [869]

Problems

• Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [870] [871]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar).
• Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [872] [873]
• All users can now test link previews ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [874]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:40, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-17

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

• There was sometimes a problem when saving a page in VisualEditor. It is now fixed on all wikis. [875]
• VisualEditor sometimes showed empty warnings for wikis using Flagged Revisions. This is now fixed on all wikis. [876]
• You can get the new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. With it you can share facts with your friends. [877]
• If you write JavaScript, you should stop using importScript and importStylesheet. [878]

Problems

• There was a problem with Labs on Monday. [879]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 21. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 22 (calendar).
• Developers are renaming 1.5 million accounts. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [880] [881] [882]
• If your wiki has the auto-fill tool for citations, you can now use it when you edit a reference. [883]
• You can now give examples for template options in TemplateData. [884]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will soon be able to add and remove tags on edits. [885] [886]

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15:30, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-18

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

• All accounts are now unique and work on all wikis. [887] [888]
• You can read a report from experts who tested the security of MediaWiki. [889]
• There was a problem between VisualEditor and an antivirus software. It is now fixed. [890]
• You can help test VisualEditor to see if it works in your language. [891]

Problems

• Some Labs tools had problems due to a software bug. [892]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 29 (calendar).
• It is now clearer that you can delete several rows and columns when you edit tables in VisualEditor. [893]
• You now see more information when you search for a template in VisualEditor. [894]
• You can now cancel when you add citations on desktop, or edit links on mobile, in VisualEditor. [895]
• You can now see the list of other formats for videos only after they're ready. [896]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 29 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:11, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

Tech News: 2015-19

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

• You can now chat with other users in Phabricator. [897]
• There was a rare problem with VisualEditor. The text of another wiki could be added to your edit. The issue is now fixed. [898] [899]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 6 (calendar).
• It is now easier to add a link in VisualEditor. You can see an image and a description about the page. [900]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on May 5 at 14:30 (UTC). [901]
• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 6 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join an event in France on May 22−25. You need to sign up before May 8. [902]

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15:14, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-20

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

• You can now make charts and maps on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [903] [904] [905]
• You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [906]
• The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [907] [908]

Problems

• There was a problem that caused slow editing. [909]
• Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [910]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar).
• You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [911] [912]
• You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [913]
• When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [914]
• When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [915]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:47, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-21

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

• You can watch a video about the new graph tool.

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 13. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 20 (calendar).
• References are now always in the right order. Also, the reference list now only shows references used on the page. [916]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [917]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [918]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [919] [920]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [921]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [922]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 21 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a technical meeting in France this week.

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15:24, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-22

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

• VisualEditor was broken for 30 minutes on Tuesday. The problem was due to a tool it uses. [923]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [924] [925]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 20. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 27 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 28 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can add your ideas of new tools to help active users like you. [926]

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16:21, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23

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

Problems

• Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [927]
• Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [928]
• Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [929] [930]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [931]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:39, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-24

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 11 (calendar). [932] [933]
• If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [934]
• When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [935]
• The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [936]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 9 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June 10 at 14:30 (UTC). [937]

Future changes

• If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [938]

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16:29, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-25

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

• Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation tool. [939]
• Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [940]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19 at 16:00 (UTC). [941]

Future changes

• Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas about it. [942]
• If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [943] [944] [945]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-26

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

• Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS. This includes the English, Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only HTTPS for all users. [946] [947]
• You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [948]

Problems

• On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [949] [950] [951]
• On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [952] [953] [954]
• Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [955] [956] [957]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-27

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

• Long lines in code blocks now look better. [958]
• You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [959]
• When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [960]
• The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [961] [962] [963]
• You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [964]

Problems

• JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [965]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from June 30. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 1. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 2 (calendar).
• You can now use a tool in VisualEditor to add and edit code in color. [966]
• When you edit a sentence in the Translate tool, it can show you older translations. They help you save time if they look alike. The older translations should now work better. If you see problems, you should report them. [967]
• If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [968]
• Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [969]

Meetings

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

Future

• When you create a new account, it will also create one on Meta-Wiki and mediawiki.org. [970]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-28

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

• On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [971]

Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [972]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 (calendar).
• The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [973] [974]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [975]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Central university college logo.png)

Thanks for uploading File:Central university college logo.png. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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You may delete it as the University has a new logo.--Natsubee (talk) 19:12, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2014-45

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 software changes

• The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [976]
• You can no longer use the insource: keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [977] [978]

Problems

• There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [979]
• Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [980] [981] [982]
• HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
• Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the <indicator> tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [983] [984]
• VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [985]
• The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [986] [987] [988] [989] [990]
• After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [991] [992] [993]

Future changes

• The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [994]

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Tech News: 2014-46

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 software changes

• You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [995] [996]
• The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [997]

File information cleanup

• Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
• You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
• You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [998]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
• You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [999] [1,000]
• The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [1,001]
• The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [1,002]

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Tech News: 2014-47

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

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
• The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [1,003]

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator

• The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
• You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
• You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
• Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
• You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC. [1,004]

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18:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Tech News: 2014-48

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

• The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator. [1,005]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the colspan or rowspan option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17. [1,006]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
• You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options. [1,007]
• VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved. [1,008]
• You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window. [1,009]
• VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages. [1,010] [1,011]

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Tech News: 2014-50

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 software changes

• All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [1,012]
• You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC). Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [1,013]

Problems

• There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [1,014]

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar). [1,015]
• You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [1,016]
• It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [1,017] [1,018]
• The new version of OOjs UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [1,019] [1,020] [1,021]
• (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see a list of scripts to fix. [1,022] [1,023]

Future changes

• Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [1,024]

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Tech News: 2014-51

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

Recent software changes

• You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1,025]
• You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [1,026]
• You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.

Software changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [1,027]
• You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [1,028]
• VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [1,029]
• The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [1,030]

Future changes

• The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [1,031] [1,032]
• You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [1,033] [1,034]

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Tech News: 2015-29

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

• You can now see a list of pages with errors in code coloring. [1,035]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [1,036]
• There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [1,037]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

• You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [1,038]

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Tech News: 2015-30

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

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 22. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 23 (calendar).
• You now see more warnings in the image viewer. They tell you to be careful when using the image, for example if it shows a person. [1,039]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• Soon you won't be able to use MathJax to display math. [1,040]

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Tech News: 2015-31

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

• You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [1,041]
• You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [1,042]
• You can change your options to see bigger images. [1,043]
• You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [1,044]
• You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [1,045]

Problems

• There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change.
• There was a problem with the abuse filter page on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [1,046]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar).
• JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [1,047]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:05, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hello. I am new here. Perhaps you could tell me some tips? Thanks. --YatzSliversword (talk) 23:34, 26 April 2011 (UTC) Thanks! Another question, how do you upload images? Thanks, --YatzSliversword (talk) 23:49, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

I have put some links on your talk page. Also the Upload file link under 'Toolbox' in the left margin of the page is where you upload images. Make sure you are clear on the copyright status before doing so however else the image would be deleted.--Natsubee (talk) 23:56, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

I just figured out where the new messages alert comes up. :P Thank you for your awesome help. :) --YatzSliversword (talk) 00:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

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Kindly delete this article [1,048] on Ewe Wikipedia. Also what are the requirements to become an administrator on Ewe Wikipedia. Thanks --Enock4seth (talk) 17:42, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Deletion done. Also I have supported your admin proposal on the Ewe Wikipedia.Natsubee (talk) 13:14, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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My edits on Incubator

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Tech News: 2015-32

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

• The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
  • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [1,049]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [1,050] [1,051] [1,052] [1,053]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [1,054]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [1,055]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [1,056]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [1,057]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [1,058]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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Tech News: 2015-33

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

• MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page. [1,059]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [1,060]
• You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later. [1,061]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [1,062]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [1,063]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [1,064] [1,065]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [1,066] [1,067]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [1,068]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [1,069]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [1,070]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [1,071]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
• UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon. [1,072]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [1,073]

Meetings

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

Future changes

• Some things in the watchlist will get a new look. [1,074]

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14:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-34

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

• Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [1,075] [1,076] [1,077]
• Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems. [1,078]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [1,079] [1,080]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [1,081]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (calendar).
• You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category. [1,082]

Meetings

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

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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

• Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [1,083]

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [1,084]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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