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24   Hyperjacking (talk) Merge
34   Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack (talk) Merge
51   Sleeping Sun (talk) Wikify
27   Highest Hopes: The Best of Nightwish (talk) Wikify
4   Norman A. Beck (talk) Wikify
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2   Hugo Villa (talk) Orphan
6   Aziz Bagh (talk) Orphan
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32   George S. Mickelson Trail (talk) Stub
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Tech News: 2018-37

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Recent changes

  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [1]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [2]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [3]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [4]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [5]
  • When you move a page the title still shows the old page name. The developers are working on fixing this. [6]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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Meetings

  •   You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 11 Septmber at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-38

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Recent changes

  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [7]
  •   MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [8]

Problems

  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [9]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [10]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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25   WDAZ-TV (talk) Add sources
5   Nahant, South Dakota (talk) Add sources
3,888   Arizona (talk) Add sources
44   While Your Lips Are Still Red (talk) Add sources
17   Riverton, Illinois (talk) Add sources
7   Guinea Grass (talk) Add sources
387   Beautiful Girls (film) (talk) Cleanup
108   Perfluorinated compound (talk) Cleanup
26   St. Paul Academy and Summit School (talk) Cleanup
67   She Creature (talk) Expand
36   Bad Urach (talk) Expand
91   Imaginaerum (film) (talk) Expand
8   Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts (talk) Unencyclopaedic
196   Gunfire locator (talk) Unencyclopaedic
33   Weasel program (talk) Unencyclopaedic
787   Vehicle registration plates of Europe (talk) Merge
84   Vehicle registration plates of New Zealand (talk) Merge
19   Miskito Coast Creole (talk) Merge
62   Bedrock City (South Dakota) (talk) Wikify
10   End of Innocence (Nightwish) (talk) Wikify
89   Early life and career of Thomas Jefferson (talk) Wikify
5   New Life Academy of Woodbury (Minnesota) (talk) Orphan
3   Advisors Sentiment (talk) Orphan
3   Attitudinal analytics (talk) Orphan
4   Big Trails, Wyoming (talk) Stub
3   Dogie Butte (talk) Stub
8   Whiskey Mountain (talk) Stub
5   Border Junction, Wyoming (talk) Stub
2   Deers Ears Butte (talk) Stub
3   Turtle Butte (talk) Stub

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Tech News: 2018-39

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Changes later this week

  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [11]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

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15:23, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

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Tech News: 2018-40

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

Recent changes

  • Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [12][13]

Problems

  • New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [14][15]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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1,606   Yazidis (talk) Add sources
8   David Chadwick (writer) (talk) Add sources
26   Canton, South Dakota (talk) Add sources
77   Little Bighorn River (talk) Add sources
91   Nineveh Governorate (talk) Add sources
45   Women in the United States judiciary (talk) Cleanup
5   Caldwell Academy (talk) Cleanup
340   Food desert (talk) Cleanup
321   ABM Industries (talk) Expand
7   St. Johann (Reutlingen) (talk) Expand
6   Sonnenbühl (talk) Expand
14   American Refugee Committee (talk) Unencyclopaedic
14   Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,052   Milwaukee Bucks (talk) Unencyclopaedic
198   United States Public Health Service (talk) Merge
30   Short interspersed nuclear element (talk) Merge
149   English for academic purposes (talk) Merge
42   Twin Cities hip hop (talk) Wikify
49   Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (talk) Wikify
19   Elmer Austin Benson (talk) Wikify
3   Albany Health and Human Services Corporation (talk) Orphan
1   Aleksandr Sayenko (talk) Orphan
5   A. (Abraham) William Hajjar (talk) Orphan
3   Castle Rock Butte (talk) Stub
22   Joseph Schlitz (talk) Stub
3   South Dakota Highway 40 (talk) Stub
11   Valentin Blatz (talk) Stub
9   Calhoun Square (talk) Stub
3   Grindstone Butte (talk) Stub

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Tech News: 2018-41

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

Recent changes

Problems

  • There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-42

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

Problems

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [18]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [19]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [20]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [21]
  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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522   Rapid City, South Dakota (talk) Add sources
8   Keystone Wye (talk) Add sources
261   St. Olaf College (talk) Add sources
239   Target Field (talk) Cleanup
155   Construction of Mount Rushmore (talk) Cleanup
162   Chung Ju-yung (talk) Cleanup
6   Mystic Miner Ski Resort (talk) Expand
869   Afghan Girl (talk) Expand
12   Münsingen, Germany (talk) Expand
213   United States Senate elections, 1986 (talk) Unencyclopaedic
14   Rim Drive (talk) Unencyclopaedic
131   Brewers–Cubs rivalry (talk) Unencyclopaedic
209   Assyrian homeland (talk) Merge
394   Mathematics education (talk) Merge
2   Tanner, Scott County, Missouri (talk) Merge
10   Deep Silent Complete (talk) Wikify
1,016   Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2018 (talk) Wikify
4   Joseph Walter Mountin (talk) Wikify
4   Meridian Entertainment Group (talk) Orphan
20   Doug Danger (talk) Orphan
3   Medicare Physician Group Practice (PGP) Demonstration (talk) Orphan
4   Carlile Junction, Wyoming (talk) Stub
5   Eagle Butte (Ziebach County, South Dakota) (talk) Stub
6   Banner, Wyoming (talk) Stub
32   Sylvan Lake (South Dakota) (talk) Stub
9   Edward Lippincott Tilton (talk) Stub
5   Bear Mountain (South Dakota) (talk) Stub

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Tech News: 2018-43

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Changes later this week

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

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 30

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  The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

  • Library Card translation
  • Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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The Signpost: 28 October 2018

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Tech News: 2018-44

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

Recent changes

  • You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
  •   The wikis now have a content security policy report. This means that you might get a warning in your javascript console when you load external resources in your user scripts. For security reasons it is recommended that you don't do this. It might not be possible to load external resources in your scripts in the future. [22]

Problems

  • Your watchlist can show which changes you have already seen. This did not work for a few days. It has been fixed. [23]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 October. It will be on all wikis from 1 November (calendar).
  • The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer available. It will be removed from Special:Preferences. It has not been the standard editor for a long time. It was replaced by the 2010 wikitext editor. [24][25]

Meetings

  •     You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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20:08, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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180   Crystal Lake, Illinois (talk) Add sources
81   Martha Bullock (talk) Add sources
10   Black Hills Playhouse (talk) Add sources
537   Black Hills (talk) Add sources
1,259   Zimmermann Telegram (talk) Add sources
25   Washington High School (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) (talk) Cleanup
12   Thomas G. Dietterich (talk) Cleanup
10   Caledonia High School (talk) Cleanup
2   Reutlingen Hauptbahnhof (talk) Expand
16   Pfullingen (talk) Expand
118   Thrivent Financial (talk) Expand
1,360   Sioux Falls, South Dakota (talk) Unencyclopaedic
23   Forum (alternative dispute resolution) (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,719   Brutalist architecture (talk) Unencyclopaedic
66   Petit Jean State Park (talk) Merge
1,710   Honeywell (talk) Merge
3   Housing in Wales (talk) Merge
17   Sacrament of Wilderness (talk) Wikify
4   Schloss Waldenbuch (talk) Wikify
87   Japan–North Korea relations (talk) Wikify
4   Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) South Dakota (talk) Orphan
10   Sonia Jain (talk) Orphan
42   Beacon Roofing Supply (talk) Orphan
6   Römerstein (talk) Stub
12   Natividad Medical Center (talk) Stub
3   Sanator, South Dakota (talk) Stub
2   Black Horse Butte (talk) Stub
13   Terry Peak (talk) Stub
3   James M. Wahl (talk) Stub

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Tech News: 2018-45

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

Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
  • When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [27]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

Recent changes

  • Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [28]

Problems

  • You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [29][30][31]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

  • You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [32]

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19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-47

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

Recent changes

  • You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
  •   There is an A/B test for sameAs data. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [33]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [34]
  • The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [35]

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-48

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

Recent changes

  • On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use / to create a new page: /wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [36]

Changes later this week

  • The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [37]
  • Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [38]
  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).

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Future changes

  •   The mw.util.jsMessage() function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warning Use of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated in the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code contains mw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to use mw.notify instead. [39]

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  • Admins will not be able to unblock themselves if they are blocked by someone other than themselves. This is because it can cause damage if someone else takes over an admin account and other admins can't block them. If this is a problem for your community you can report it on Phabricator. You can also ask questions on Meta. There is a discussion on Phabricator about how to solve this if two admins fight with each other on a small wiki. [40]
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