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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. [1]
• You can no longer create an account with a colon ':' in it. If you already have one, it still works. [2]
• The toolbar in VisualEditor now looks different. It is easier to see the icons. [3]
• You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [4] [5]
• UploadWizard now shows better matches when you add a category to your file. [6]
• A test about VisualEditor will start on the English Wikipedia on Thursday. [7]

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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15:38, 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. [8]
• Some Labs tools had issues last week. [9] [10]

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. [11]

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16:30, 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. [12]
• Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [13]
• Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [14] [15]

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. [16]

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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15:46, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Photo requests

I have an idea. Do you do take photographs of buildings, signs, etc. in the New York City area? WhisperToMe (talk) 02:17, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: ALL the time. And I upload to flickr with 3.0 cc licensing. Do you need images of something specific? BrillLyle (talk) 02:20, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I do have some specific requests at Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/United_States (see New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut). Are suburban areas more convenient, or are inner city areas more convenient? I can give you a specific list if you would like :) WhisperToMe (talk) 06:46, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: That link didn't work.... I am on a very restricted budget so I could take pictures but only in New York City. And I can't really afford to travel a lot, even on the subway and bus, right now. But if it's in the areas where I work and live I'm happy to help. Also, the local WikimediaNYC chapter often does a yearly photo scavenger hunt. You might want to contact @Pharos: and ask him when the next one is if there's a long list. Best, BrillLyle (talk) 14:26, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Oops! I meant Commons:Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/United_States. Yes, I have some photo requests in Manhattan (and if you do other boroughs some there too!) These are requests specifically from me:

• La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi - 12 East 96th Street, New York, NY 10128
• Main building of the École Internationale de New York, 111 East 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010
• Preschool of the École Internationale de New York, 206 5th Avenue, New York, NY
• Lyceum Kennedy International School - Manhattan Campus: 225 East 43rd Street New York, NY 10017 and 815 Second Avenue 2nd Floor New York, NY 10017
• American Airlines - Midtown Manhattan Travel Center - 360 Lexington Avenue - New York, NY 10017 Map (I don't know if it's still open - there's a possibility it may have closed!)

WhisperToMe (talk) 21:31, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: Ah those are mostly on the east side and I'm more typically on the west side. If you aren't in a huge hurry I might be able to work on getting nice pictures eventually, but I don't want to promise you and then not deliver. BrillLyle (talk) 02:15, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Don't worry... I'm not in a hurry at all :) - I'll see if there's anything I want on the west side, and if I find anything I'll add it to the list. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:22, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Sounds good! Let me know.... Thanks again! :-) BrillLyle (talk) 02:24, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

I found some ideas:

• Public School 11
• Shuang Wen School
• Yung Wing School
• Public School 130 Hernando De Soto

WhisperToMe (talk) 17:43, 4 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). [17] [18]
• If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [19]
• When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to apply your change before closing the tool. [20]
• The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long buttons. [21]

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). [22]

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. [23]

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18:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue V, May 2015 Headlines Arabic region report: World Digital Library, Arab Peninsula Regional Group meeting Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Catalan areas report: ORCID France report: GLAM, all over the place! Germany report: Make a (GLAM) change! Italy report: Wikimedia Italia still works with BEIC Library and bibliographic data Macedonia report: Wikiexpedition on bicycles and visiting one of the most remote areas in Macedonia Netherlands report: Birds and Expeditions Poland report: The Józef Burszta Digital Archives donation Spain report: Edit-a-thons about Contemporary artists and St. James's Way Sweden report: Slow GLAM-month in Sweden UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki Working Group USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities; Wikimania & Wikidata Wikidata report: SPARQL and arbitrary access are coming Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Your edit to Talk:Ernie Chambers

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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. [24]
• Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about edit filters were removed. [25]

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). [26]

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. [27]
• If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore. [28] [29] [30]

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15:04, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Emanuel AME for DYK?

...This article has hit a quality point where we may want to consider nominating it for DYK in a few days. I have found several items that would make intriguing hooks for the article, most notably the Grover Cleveland donation in 1886. That said, my only concern is that it may be too unstable (given current events) to be nominated yet. This would not be a self-nomination for either of us as User:ParkerHiggins created the article. Any thoughts? Raymie (t • c) 07:48, 18 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. [31] [32]
• You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You need to use another browser. [33]

Problems

• On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [34] [35] [36]
• On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use InstantCommons. [37] [38] [39]
• 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. [40] [41] [42]

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)

July 8: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday July 8, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month will also feature on a review of past and upcoming editathons, including Black Lunch Table Editathon @ MoMA on July 13. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday July 8 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 05:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

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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. [43]
• You can now see graphs in VisualEditor. [44]
• When you read a page on the mobile site, you can now see a link to go to its talk page. [45]
• The code coloring tool has changed. You can now use many more languages. It now also works on mobile. [46] [47] [48]
• You can look at a new site to learn how to reuse data from Wikimedia sites. [49]

Problems

• JavaScript was broken on some wikis due to a code error. VisualEditor and other tools that use JavaScript were broken. [50]

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. [51]
• 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. [52]
• If you are an admin or have other special rights, you now need a strong password. [53]
• Bot and JavaScript coders: The old continuation mode of the API for action=query doesn't work any more. [54]

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. [55]

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15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

RE Marva Collins

OK. Do her justice. Quis separabit? 21:16, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

@Rms125a@hotmail.com: Thx much.... Appreciate your kindness. If you see copyediting that needs to be done, please feel free. The article is a bit of a quotefarm at this point, which I know is non-ideal. I have at least 12 citations for her and haven't really dug around that much, so I'm hopeful the article can be much improved. Thanks again! - BrillLyle (talk) 21:43, 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. [56]

Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [57]

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. [58] [59]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [60]

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)

WikiWednesday - Links for Pratt SILS editathons

Hi, sorry we had to duck out before the end of the meeting tonight. I wanted to let you know that I added links to the event pages for the editathons we've hosted at Pratt SILS over the past year, as well as a link to the blog post we mentioned in the discussion on the etherpad for tonight's meeting. I'd be happy to help make these events more visible to the Wikipedia community in the future. Anarchyshake (talk) 02:15, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

@Anarchyshake: - Hey there, thanks so much for the note. It was so nice to meet you two! This is great! I will add the info to the WikiWednesday event page. Please definitely reach out if there's anything I can do to be of assistance! -- BrillLyle (talk) 14:17, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Here are some links (some of which I'm sure you're familiar with) to some of the Wiki resources that might be helpful with the work you are doing with Pratt SILS going forward:

• Wikipedia:GLAM/US
• Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism
• Ada Initiative in honor of Ada Lovelace
• Wikipedia:Education program
  • Wikipedia:Education resources
• Wikipedia:Training
• Wikidata -- This project has made Authority control -- as well as other page elements -- into a huge database: It's very cool!

Societal Trends and Archives Outreach: Constructing Roadmaps for Program Growth and Sustainability

This was the talk I was going on about. Both the slides and the video are available as links on this blog post: http://16thstreet.tumblr.com/post/13168380159/v-chapman-smith-speaks-at-the-centers-inaugural - kosboot (talk) 03:29, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

@Kosboot: Ooh, this is great! Thanks so much. I will watch the video and look at the presentation....

Here's the Category:GLAM external link templates that collocates the external link templates, most of which were built at Wikipedia editathons, like the Art + Feminism @ MoMA, Women Of Jazz, etc. BrillLyle (talk) 14:42, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VI, June 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Czech Republic report: Memorandum of Cooperation between the National Heritage Institute and the Wikimedia Czech Republic Finland report: Capturing public art with drones France report: Surfing on GLAMs' agenda Germany report: Open GLAM - How to create true participation Italy report: From Italian Parliament to libraries and Company Museums. And a Training Day too! Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence Netherlands report: Historical images of Dutch water works Sweden report: Maritime Sweden UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: Wikidata for Mappers Special story: Europeana 1914-1918 Open Access report: Wikipedia is an amplifier of open access; 20,000 media files uploaded from PubMed Central Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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DYK for Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Gatoclass (talk) 23:47, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

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. [61]

Problems

• There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [62]
• There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [63]

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. [64]

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15:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 12

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

• New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
• Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
• Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
• American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

Read the full newsletter

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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. [65]

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. [66]

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03:06, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Sunday August 2: WikNYC Picnic

Sunday August 2, 1-7pm: WikNYC Picnic

You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck. Sunday August 2 WikNYC Picnic (RSVP) (also on meetup.com) 1pm–7pm - come by any time! @ Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance (Prospect Park West and 15th St), immediately on the lawn to your left as you walk through the lovely lotus columns. Subway: ​ to 15th Street – Prospect Park (IND Culver Line) We hope to see you there! --Pharos (talk) 03:31, 24 July 2015 (UTC) (Bonus event: WikiWednesday Salon @ Babycastles - Wednedsay, August 19)

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Ingrid Sischy

I changed the edit as she was based in the US, and thus mm/dd/yyyy format is OK. Yours, Quis separabit? 04:08, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

I never use the mm/dd/yyyy format -- it's slower because the default is dd mm yyyy. I also don't get why this is something you would do when it's obvious I'm trying to add full citations and clean up this page. I think we've talked about this before. Are you planning on spending a few hours adding content and cites to this page? If you are I will back off but this woman's work meant a lot to me so I would really like to try and work on her entry. With the date formats that are fastest for me. BrillLyle (talk) 04:11, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

@Rms125a@hotmail.com: Apparently you feel free to just go in and delete content and not play nice. Do you even have a connection to this subject? I'm really upset. I had hoped to work on this entry but you are deleting things as I am in process. It's just not cool. BrillLyle (talk) 04:14, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

@Rms125a@hotmail.com: How bout you let me know when you're done so maybe another editor can work on the page?!? BrillLyle (talk) 04:18, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Dear @BrillLyle: I made those edits before communicating with you after I saw that somehow Sischy's birthday had changed from March 2, 1952 to March 3, 1942 -- that threw up a red flag. Secondly, you haven't heard of WP:BOLD or WP:BRD?? Thirdly, I am done. Happy editing but please try to keep the facts straight. Yours, Quis separabit? 04:23, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

@Rms125a@hotmail.com: That edit was a typo, pure and simple. I was trying to fix it as you were deleting placeholder text and changing edits. I don't get deleting content especially as this was obviously me trying to start editing the page and making it better. Also, don't need a patronizing list of Wikipedia rules and a mandate from another editor to get the facts straight. I mean really, how is this civil behavior what you've done? BrillLyle (talk) 04:33, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

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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. [67]
• You cannot use the compact user bar any more. [68]
• You can change your options to see bigger images. [69]
• You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [70]
• You can now edit pages linked in "what links here" more easily. [71]

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. [72]

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. [73]

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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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. [74]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [75] [76] [77] [78]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [79]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [80]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [81]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [82]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [83]

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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15:51, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Capitalization of “Humans”

Hello BrillLyle, I’ve tried to explain Wikipedia’s stance on this matter. I hope it’ll help clarify its purpose and make it seem more acceptable to you. Palpalpalpal (talk) 18:29, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

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. [84]
• The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times. [85]
• 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. [86]
• You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers. [87]
• It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script. [88]
• JavaScript authors:
  • You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix. [89] [90]
  • You can no longer use document.write on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix. [91] [92]
• The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added. [93]

Problems

• More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed. [94]
• Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed. [95]
• Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed. [96]

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. [97]
• You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes. [98]

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. [99]

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14:58, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VII, July 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina France report: A GLAMourous summer Germany report: Fancy new apps based on GLAMorous data Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments at Toscana Foto Festival and two new GLAM projects Netherlands report: Radio broadcasts; historic atlases; GLAMetrics Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth, municipalities and concerts Sweden report: Hedemora; Mapillary UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: GLAM in Philadelphia Special story: Share what you know about Photo Events Open Access report: Wikimania: Citations and video Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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August 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday August 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. We also hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday August 19 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 15:58, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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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. [100] [101] [102]
• 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. [103]

Problems

• Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated. [104] [105]
• On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [106]

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. [107]

Meetings

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16:17, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

May be of interest

My main computer is down (thanks to upgrading to Windows 10) so I've not had much chance to look online. Experimental filmmakers are an interest so I was looking at the WP page for Mary Ellen Bute. Immediately I found two WP lacunae: Cecile Starr (who I knew a little, who was a critic, author as well as distributor for lesser known experimental films - NYPL is going to have a celebration in honor of her on Oct. 1) and the Women's Independent Film Exchange. Go for it! - kosboot (talk) 14:34, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-35

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Recent changes

• Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [108]

Problems

• There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [109]

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

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13:02, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-36

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Recent changes

• VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [110][111]
• The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [112]
• VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [113]
• Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [114]

Changes this week

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

Meetings

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Future changes

• The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [115]

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21:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-37

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Recent changes

• You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [116]
• A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [117]
• You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [118]

Problems

• There was a problem with Tool Labs due to kernel issues. This has been fixed. [119]
• The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [120][121]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar).
• The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [122]
• The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page. [123][124]

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 September 8 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC). The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [125]
• Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [126][127]

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17:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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September 16: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday September 16, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our evening "WikiWednesday" salon and knowledge-sharing workshop by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This month, we will also host a Newcomer's Wiki Workshop for those getting started on the encyclopedia project! We hope for the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming editathons, and other outreach activities. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery! Wednesday September 16 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com). 7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles, 137 West 14th Street Featuring a keynote talk this month to be determined! We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 15:11, 10 September 2015 (UTC) Bonus events, RSVP now for our latest upcoming editathons: September 20 - Afrocrowd Wikipedia editathon @ Queens Library October 3 - WikiArte Latin America editathon @ MoMA October 15 - Women in Architecture editathon @ Guggenheim

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This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Two edit-a-thons France report: August in Brittany Germany report: Sharing is Caring Mexico report: Pilot program to make freely licensed animation clips Spain report: Museum of African Art "Jiménez-Arellano Alonso"; Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain Sweden report: Odd submarines, new strategy and an old contest UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2015-38

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

Recent changes

• You can now use the Wikidata query service. [128]
• Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [129]
• Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [130][131]

Problems

• There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [132]
• The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [133]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (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 September 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [134]
• The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [135]

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16:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-39

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

Recent changes

• There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service. You can give feedback here. [136][137]
• Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong. [138][139][140][141]
• More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article. [142]
• The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users. [143]

Problems

• Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate expired for most of Tuesday 15 September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security during this time. [144]
• Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week. [145][146]
• UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked uploads. This has now been fixed. [147]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar).
• The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms. [148]
• You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it. [149]
• Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [150]

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 22 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September 23 at 17:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well. Call for participation and travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.

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18:29, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

One week left in IEG open call: see comments on your proposal talk page

Hello BrillLyle! I just left a notification on your talk page on Meta and thought I'd ping you here, too, to make sure you see it. You have done a lot of work on your proposal and are welcome to submit it for this round, but I've moved it back to "draft" because there has been no activity in the current round. There are additional comments on Meta. Best regards, --Mjohnson (WMF) (talk) 19:26, 22 September 2015 (UTC)