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July 2012

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Good work

Nice to see you active here too. Keep up the good work. --Meno25 (talk) 06:16, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment

Hello, thank you for visiting and leaving the comment on the new "Naganori Ito" page I created. Everybody is welcome and please feel free to correct or add the sources which I don't know.Prince Skyline S54B 04:19, 17 July 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prince Skyline S54B (talk • contribs)

Glass Steagall disambig category removal?

Just wondering why you thought removing the FDIC category was a good cleanup. I'm not really against it -- disambig pages sometimes should have the categories of the pages they disambiguate, sometimes not. But just wondering about the rationale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_(disambiguation)&diff=565046735&oldid=564961270

Dovid (talk) 20:07, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Article requests on the Arabic Wikipedia

Hi! Do you do article requests on the Arabic Wikipedia? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:45, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

It means I propose starting an article about a subject in Arabic that does not yet exist in Arabic, and someone writes a short stub about the article. That way topics that may be of interest to an Arabic speaking audience are filled in. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:01, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

You are welcome :) - Here is a list of possibilities:

If you want more, please let me know WhisperToMe (talk) 19:21, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for starting these articles ! WhisperToMe (talk) 06:00, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

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Sand equivalent test

Hello Zaher kadour,

This is just a courtesy visit to inform you that I took the liberty to slightly expand your above article, add section, cite references and wikilinks. I hope you'd like my effort. I'd appreciate your say on this. Best regards, (MrNiceGuy1113 (talk) 12:17, 3 September 2013 (UTC))

Additional requests

Hi, Zaher! Do you mind starting Arabic language stubs in the following?

Hamtramck has a large Yemeni population, and so its schools have many people who speak Arabic. The other city, Troy, may have some Arabic speakers because there is an Arabic document from the school district. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 03:46, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Bleeding (roads)

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New features

VisualEditor news

  • You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [2]
  • 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. [3]
  • When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [4] [5]

Future

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09:16, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

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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. [8]

VisualEditor news

  • On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [9]

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. [10]

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. [11]
  • 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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09:45, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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New features

  • The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [12]

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. [13]

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. [14]
  • 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. [15]

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10:36, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

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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. [16]

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. [17]

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. [18]
  • 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). [19]
  • The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [20]
  • The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [21]
  • 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}}. [22]
  • In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [23]

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13:08, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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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. [24]

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. [25]
  • 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. [26]

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08:52, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

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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. [27]
  • 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. [28]

Problems

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. [29]

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06:49, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

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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. [30]
  • JavaScript code used on Wikimedia sites is now saved locally on your computer to load faster. [31]

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. [32]
  • You can now open VisualEditor by adding ?veaction=edit to the page URL, regardless of your user preferences. [33]
  • Many bugs have been fixed, and VisualEditor should also look faster, for example when you save a page. [34]

Problems

  • Due to issues, the new search tool ("CirrusSearch") was recently removed from wikis where it was enabled, then added again. [35]

Future

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08:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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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

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". [39]
  • 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". [40]

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. [41]
  • The log-in system for external tools ("OAuth") was broken on wikis that tested the new search tool. It was fixed last week. [42] [43]
  • Because of a bug, this newsletter is delivered to users using the new MediaWiki message delivery, and to community pages using the old EdwardsBot. [44]

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) [45]
  • GLAMToolset, a tool to help GLAM groups (like museums) upload many pictures to Commons, will be added to Commons on December 17. [46]
  • 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. [47] [48]

Other

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08:24, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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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. [50]
  • 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. [51] [52]
  • You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified login. [53]
  • 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. [54]
  • You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [55] [56]
  • 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. [57] [58]
  • 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. [59]
  • You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. [60]
  • Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page for users without an account. [61]

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. [62] [63]
  • New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. [64] [65].
  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden. [66] [67]
  • You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplates tool. [68] [69]

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08:22, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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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). [70] [71]
  • With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [72]

VisualEditor news

  • Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5 <figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [73]
  • You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.

Problems

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. [75] [76]
  • It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [77] [78]
  • It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [79] [80]

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08:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

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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. [81]

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. [82]
  • Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features options. [83]
  • 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. [84] [85] [86]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [87] [88]
  • You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pages. [89] [90]
  • You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translate tool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [91] [92]
  • 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. [93] [94]
  • Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewer will load faster. [95] [96]

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08:35, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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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. [97]

VisualEditor news

  • VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on January 13. [98]
  • You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and __NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu. [99] [100] [101]

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. [102] [103]
  • For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes

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09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

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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

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. [114]
  • You can now see a help page about keyboard shortcuts in the page menu. [115]
  • When you change categories, you will now see them when you save the page. [116]
  • When you edit templates, you will now see the parameters in the right order. The ones that you must add have a star (*). [117] [118]
  • The page will now be saved faster, thanks to a new way of coding the text that sends 40% less text to the servers. [119]
  • Your wiki can ask to test a new tool to edit TemplateData. [120]

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. [121]
  • 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. [122]
  • 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. [123]

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. [124] [125]
  • 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. [126]
  • You will see a warning when you try to delete a page included in at least one other page. [127]
  • You will so longer see disambiguation pages in Special:LonelyPages. [128] [129]

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10:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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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. [130]
  • 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. [131]
  • The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [132]
  • 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

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. [134]

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09:47, 27 January 2014 (UTC)


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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. [135] [136]
  • The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styles. [137] [138]
  • You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [139]
  • There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [140]
  • Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [141]
  • All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution favicons. [142]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [143]

Future software changes

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08:30, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

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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. [154] [155] [156] [157] [158]
  • 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). [159]

VisualEditor news

  • You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set their size, in the media tool. [160] [161]
  • The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed. [162] [163] [164]

Problems

  • On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a traffic balancing issue. [165]
  • 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. [166] [167]
  • 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. [168]
  • You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search tool (CirrusSearch). [169] [170]
  • The WikiLove tool was redesigned and should also load faster. [171]
  • Edits made with WikiLove or after a GettingStarted suggestion will be tagged. [172] [173]
  • It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in your preferences. [174]
  • You will soon be able to use the revision deletion feature via the API. [175]
  • You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices using a Beta Feature option. [176] [177]
  • 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. [178]
  • Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code 2014. You can propose ideas. [179]
  • 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. [180]
  • The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still work. [181]

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09:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 12 February 2014

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. [182] [183]
  • The new search tool (CirrusSearch) now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several namespaces. [184]
  • You can now directly link to files viewed with MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [185]
  • You can read the summary of the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014. [186]

Problems

  • On February 9, Wikimedia Labs was broken for about 2 hours due to an XFS file system problem. [187]
  • On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20 minutes due to a server logging issue. [188]
  • 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. [189]
  • You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless) with VisualEditor. [190]
  • Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from paragraphs you are editing. [191]
  • You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with VisualEditor. [192] [193] [194]
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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

VisualEditor news

  • You will soon be able to add and edit __STATICREDIRECT__, __[NO]INDEX__ and __[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__ in the page settings menu. [197] [198] [199]
  • You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [200] [201]
  • You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [202] [203]

Future software changes

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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Zaher kadour, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: Click here to contest this speedy deletion which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. WOWॐIndian Talk 17:42, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined - I do not see why this user page was thought promotional. JohnCD (talk) 18:11, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of مستخدم:ZkBot

You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles. See the Article Wizard.

Thank you.

A tag has been placed on مستخدم:ZkBot, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an acceptable page. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item G11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this page is not blatant advertising, . Clicking that button will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. You are welcome to edit the page to fix this problem, but please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. As well as removing promotional phrasing, it helps to add factual encyclopaedic information to the page, and add citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the page will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. WOWॐIndian Talk 17:48, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (deletion!! for what, I create my bot page only) --Zaher talk 17:51, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

I have deleted that page not for promotion but because, though you intended to make a user page, you put the word "user" in Arabic. The English Wikipedia does not recognize that, so the page became an article in the main encyclopedia. I see that the correct user page at User:ZkBot already exists.
Are you familiar with Wikipedia:Bot policy, and do you understand that you need approval from the Wikipedia:Bot Approvals Group before running a bot on the English Wikipedia? JohnCD (talk) 18:07, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
JohnCD create مستخدم:ZkBot page was a mistake from me and when I realized that, I create the true page and I went to ask for speedy deletion the wrong page, but another user has preceded me. Yes, I know the Wikipedia:Bot policy, but now I do not intend to run my bot here, maybe in the future. Thank you --Zaher talk 18:45, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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