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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
There is now a standard way to get the target of a redirect page from a Lua module. [1]
Problems
- A new way to handle rollback was introduced. It broke some tools and scripts and was reverted. This will be re-planned after review. [2][3]
- CentralNotice didn't work in some older browsers. This has now been fixed. [4]
Changes this week
- When you edit a file or category page with the visual editor the rest of the page will be shown in its normal place. [5]
- The Translate extension will get an edit summary field. [6]
- A change to the
<charinsert>feature could break some user scripts. Contact Bawolff if the "click to insert special characters" links in the edit window break on your wiki. [7][8] - Elasticsearch will be upgraded on Wikimedia wikis this week. This should not affect you, but if you have problems with the search function this is probably the reason. [9]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 May at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:19, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
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
Changes this week
- The history page can tell you if a page on your watchlist was updated since you last visited it. This now works the same way in Vector as in other skins. The change broke local designs on some wikis. This will be fixed this week. [12]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
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20:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
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
- Wikimedia wikis now use AuthManager. If you have new problems related to logging in or being logged in, report them. [13]
- Visiting Special:Notifications doesn't automatically mark notifications as read anymore. You can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually. Notifications are displayed by groups of 50 on Special:Notifications and you can find former notifications by using navigation arrows. [14][15][16][17]
Changes this week
- You can filter user contributions to hide minor edits. [18]
- It will be easier to edit galleries with the visual editor. [19]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
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18:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Notifications were not always marked as read when you followed a link from an email notification. This will now happen. [20]
Changes this week
- The list of other languages an article is available in will be shorter on small Wikipedias and non-Wikipedia projects. This is to make it easier to find the most relevant languages for each user. You will still be able to see the other languages. [21][22]
- Alerts (the red badge) will not be automatically marked as read when you open the Notifications popup. [23]
- When you get several thanks you can see them as one notification. This is instead of one notification for each thanks. [24]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is develop Markdown support strategy for MediaWiki. The meeting will be on 22 June at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Missing text on your user page
Hi, I noticed an unfinished sentence on your user page: "Mdann52 bot (talk · contribs); my bot account (see
" – what are we supposed to see? ;) nyuszika7h (talk) 15:59, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
- Nyuszika7H fixed - thanks! Mdann52 (talk) 16:46, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
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 ORES service has now moved to a new location. This should make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service is now available as a beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [25]
- The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [26]
- A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added: Category:Pages with math errors. [27]
Problems
- The Wikimedia Etherpad crashed on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [28][29]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
- The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be more clear. [30]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 June at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests we scare away newcomers who want to help. [31]
- An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements, annotations, and meta-data separation. [32]
- The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore and mark as read individually. [33][34][35]
- From 29 June git.wikimedia.org (running Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of requests should be correctly redirected. [36]
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [37]
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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
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
- A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [38]
Changes this week
- The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [39]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
Theodor Bastard Reverted due to copyvio and promospam
Hello Mdann52!
Could you hear me please?
I am the official representative of Theodor Bastard band - booking & PR manager.
Revision 712384732 by 176.99.71.180 is outdate and represent more than 10 year old history!
Today I have just updated the content of this page to the contemporary state.
I did it on the direct authority of the band founder.
Why do You consider copyright violation?!
And why do you mark it as a spam?
Regards
Aokoroko (talk) 18:23, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Aokoroko (talk • contribs) 18:08, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Aokoroko: Please take a look at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. – nyuszika7h (talk) 18:13, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Theodor Bastard possible copyvio image
Hello dear Mdann52!
How can it be copyvio image if it was taken from From Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Theodor_Bastard ?
Could You please see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theodor.jpg?
If this photo is placed here than it is free, isn't it?
It was uploaded on November 17 2010 - six years ago!!!
And, all that time it was been used by Russian page https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Bastard
"This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported" since November 17 2010 !!!
Best regards!
Aokoroko (talk) 21:24, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
भाड़ में जा साले कुत्ते
भाड़ में जा साले कुत्ते — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.242.174.181 (talk) 10:34, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
TNA Gut Check mistake
I edited the section about Evan Markopoulos because it said he was successful, although he was not successful in it, which is why I changed it. Not quite sure why you changed it because it was constructive, as I fixed an error in it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.10.224.126 (talk) 20:19, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Mdann52. I am forming a WP:CRIC task force for cricket in Bangladesh. Would you please to be interested in joining? Thank you. Regards, Naz | talk | contribs 14:53, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
please can you help me to revome the deletion add on the page I created which is Mayestron (singer).
Hello I am Pelo I need yous guys to help me to remove the deletion add on the page I created on Wikipedia the page is called Mayestron (singer). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peloluhabanya (talk • contribs) 12:38, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Pelo! The article has been deleted, as Mayestron does not meet our guidelines for inclusion on the site (see the music guidelines and the general notability guidelines for more information). Apologies, Mdann52 (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
AN notice
This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Tavix (talk) 21:00, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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
- A new image scaler fixed a number of bugs for showing SVG files. Some new problems turned up. [40][41][42]
- Notifications are grouped by types. They are now counted by number of notifications and not by unread groups. That change may increase the number of notifications displayed. The earlier way of counting was often incorrect. Unread notifications will also be displayed first. [43][44][45]
- Special:Notifications now has a maximum width for the notifications list on desktop computers. This allows long titles and descriptions to be cut properly. Notifications are now also better parsed. [46][47][48]
Problems
- On 5 July Wikimedia Commons had problems and could not be edited for 20 minutes. For a short while after that the recent changes log and some gadgets were not working properly. It affected administrative actions on other projects too. [49]
- Users who have multiple unread notifications can mark them as read by visiting Special:Notifications page on their wiki.
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 July. It will be on all wikis from 14 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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15:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
User:Mdann52 Satyananda Saraswati
User:Mdann52 I just checked Satyananda Saraswati article, I read this article back in April of 2016, and today I thought I was reading another article because it changed, in fact, I'm mainly talking about the child sexual abuse case in Australia, so I checked when was it edited and by whom, you proficiently did a job in that article, between June 6th and June 7th of 2016 you deleted over 4,500 characters from said article including wiping out the whole section of the sexual abuse and not adding one single character. Are you trying to clean Paramahansa Satyananda's name and legacy? I will write myself a whole article about it if I have to, I will upload it as many times as I have to if you try to delete it as you recently did with that article, information should be accesible to everyone, not only what we like, our version, our beliefs, the evidence is there in the Royal Commission. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.149.176.236 (talk) 22:42, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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| ... you were recipient no. 915 of Precious, a prize of QAI! |
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:24, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
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
- Due to the rollback, new sorting of Notifications on the Fly-Out Menus has been deployed with a delay. [50]
- Due to the rollback, the daily special patch deployment process has been changed. [51]
- In notifications, "Messages" are now called "Notices". [52]
Problems
- On July 12 all wikis were rolled back to MediaWiki 1.28.0-wmf.8 due to a problem in the log-in system. [53][54]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).
- Special:Log now has a help link. [55]
- The RevisionSlider can be tested on the beta cluster. From 22 July, it will be available as a beta feature at: German Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "Devise plan for a cross-wiki watchlist back-end". The meeting will be on 20 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join. [56]
Future changes
- User scripts and bots can no longer use http:// to edit wiki pages. [57][58]
- Gerrit is going to be updated. Developers are invited to test it. [59]
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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
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List
Hello, while I was browsing Wikipedia, I happened to find my username on a specific list that was added by one of your bots. I did not understand what this list was for, but I kind of grew alarmed and suspicious that I was being targeted so I went ahead and removed my name from the list because I thought it was some sort of targeting list. I apologize if I had removed it in error, but I was only trying to consider my own personal safety. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.--Loyalmoonie (talk) 16:38, 7 August 2016 (UTC)Chris
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Last week Tech News announced you will get a notification when you mention yourself the same way as if someone else had mentioned you. This caused some problems and will happen later instead. [60]
- Creating and editing links to sections on other pages on the wiki now works again in the visual editor. [61]
- For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. This will be fixed soon. [62][63]
Changes this week
- The login session when you choose "Keep me logged in" will now last a year. Previously it was 30 days. This will happen on August 16. [64]
- Some abuse filters will have to be updated during the week. This is because a bug will be fixed. [65]
- In compact language links, two new kinds of languages will be shown in the shorter language list: Languages that are used in the article's text, and languages where the article has a badge like "featured article" or "good article". [66][67]
- The visual editor will be available by default for logged-out editors on Wikipedias that use the Arabic script. It is already default for logged-in editors. [68]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 17. It will be on all wikis from August 18 (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on August 16 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Starting the week of August 22 there will be three software deployment windows. They will be at 13:00, 18:00, and 23:00 UTC. This is to have more times when software of the wikis can be updated and make it easier for developers in different parts of the world. [69]
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19:37, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
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 ORES review tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [70]
- The
normandccnormfunctions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [71] - The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here. This happened on August 5. [72]
Problems
- Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [73]
- When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [74]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki. [75][76]
- How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype. [77]
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21:18, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
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
- Wikimedia mobile sites now don't load images if the user doesn't see them. This is to save mobile data and make the pages load faster. [78]
- When you edit a table with the visual editor, pressing
Tabin the last cell of a row will take you to the first cell in the next row. PressingShiftandTabin the first cell of a row will take you to the last cell in the previous row. [79]
Changes this week
- The name of the "Save page" button will change. The button will say "Publish page" when you create a new page. It will say "Publish changes" when you change an existing page. [80][81]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 30 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: image and oldimage tables". The meeting will be on 31 August at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
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
- Word-level diffs now work in longer paragraphs. [82]
- Interactive maps now have a frame by default. This is to make them look like other multimedia objects. This affects all Wikivoyages, the Catalan, Hebrew, Macedonian Wikipedias and Meta. [83]
- When you preview the MediaWiki:Captcha-ip-whitelist page it will show a validation output of the listed IP addresses instead of the list of addresses only. This can help you to identify if your whitelist rules will work or not. [84]
Changes this week
- You will be able to use
<maplink>on all Wikipedias. It creates a link to a full screen map. [85][86] - Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. [87][88]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 September at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The CheckUser extension could work differently in the future. There is a Request for Comments to figure out how. [89]
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17:12, 5 September 2016 (UTC)