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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.
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (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 4 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
Tidy will be replaced. Instead the HTML 5 parsing algorithm will be used to clean up bad HTML in wikitext. This would cause problems on a number of wikis. They need to be fixed first. [1]
<slippymap>will not work on Wikivoyage after 24 October. You should use<mapframe>instead. If you need help to fix this before 24 October you should ask for it as soon as possible. [2]
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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Stupidier?
[change source]I'm curious why you declined the QD on Stupidier? I do realize that you changed it to a redirect, and I would understand that choice if the article title was Stupider or Stupidest (both real words), but "stupidier" (with the second letter i in it) is simply a misspelling, and not a very likely one either. Your thoughts? Etamni | ✉ | ✓ 08:28, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- I didn't notice that misspelling 😱 ...have gone ahead to delete it per QD R3. Chenzw Talk 09:59, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
block
[change source]thank you for blocking that person. --Norvo007 (talk) 03:38, 6 October 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
- You can show Special:RecentChanges on a page by using
{{Special:RecentChanges}}. You can now use tag filters by using{{Special:RecentChanges/tagfilter=tagname}}. [3] - The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [4]
- Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them easier to see for readers and editors with reduced eyesight. [5]
Changes this week
- Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
<!-- You write hidden HTML comments like this. -->[6] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (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 11 October at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week is CREDITS files. The meeting will be on 12 October at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like
http://-{zh-cn:foo.com; zh-hk:bar.com; zh-tw:baz.com}-must be replaced. You will have to write-{zh-cn: http://foo.com ; zh-hk: http://bar.com ; zh-tw:http://baz.com }-instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian. [7]
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20:29, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 October 2016
[change source]
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Vladimir Holan
[change source]I jumped into Internet and found some sources (books, scholarly papers and Internet sites). They are in different languages, English, German, Czech and Polish. Please check, if it is enough for removing the template. Thanks in advance. (Anagram16 (talk) 11:43, 15 October 2016 (UTC))
- They look okay to me, so I have removed the tag. Next time, do feel free to remove the tag by yourself if you think you have solved the problem. Chenzw Talk 02:20, 16 October 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
- There is a new newsletter from the Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation. It will have more details about for example Flow and notifications. You can read the first issue.
Problems
- Some users got a warning about Wikipedia's security certificate last week. This was because of a problem GlobalSign had. This has now been fixed. Only a small number of users got the warning. [8]
- Editors couldn't edit semi-protected pages in the Wikipedia app for Android. This has now been fixed in the beta version. [9]
Changes this week
- There will be no new MediaWiki version this week. [10]
Future changes
- The Editing Department are working on a new wikitext editor. It will have tools that are in the visual editor but not in the wikitext editor today. You can read more about this. This is an early plan and things can change. The old wikitext editor will still exist.
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16:42, 17 October 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.
Problems
- The abuse filters had a problem and caught too many edits. This has now been fixed. [11]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from October 26. It will be on all wikis from October 27 (calendar).
- The "Search" text in the search box will show the name of the project. For example, on Wikipedia it will say "Search Wikipedia". [12]
- About a dozen wikis now have numerical sorting in categories. If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories you can ask for it. [13]
- Some wikis that want numerical sorting in categories can also ask to use UCA to sort categories. The biggest difference is that characters with diacritics will be sorted together. For example, for most languages Ä will be sorted with A instead of at the end of the alphabet. This is not true for languages that have Ä as a character in their alphabet. Wikis that already use UCA are listed on Meta. Languages that can use UCA are listed on MediaWiki.org. You can test it.
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17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
Permission
[change source]Hi Chenzw, can you see my 700 all edits and juged if they are insuffisant to become a rollbacker Apipo1907 (talk) 14:34, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- As Djsasso mentioned on WP:AN, you should create a new request on WP:RFP. Chenzw Talk 14:37, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
MilkyWay-Andromeda
[change source]I'm sorry about the bad translations on Milky Way-Andromeda collision--MASTER MATES (tell me) (talk) 07:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- Being sorry about it is one thing. I hope you will do something about this situation. It is obvious that you either are not good enough in English, and/or didn't read what you wrote at all (example: "The collision between the Dairy Road and Andrómeda"). You can contribute to Wikipedia in other ways, and I urge you to consider doing that instead. Chenzw Talk 07:34, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Protection on User:AgentSuperGuy
[change source]Did you mean to protect the talk page instead of the user page? The talk page seems to be the one that has been vandalized. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:00, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- Nope, that protection was intentional. This editor has a tendency to anonymously disrupt the userpages of his own socks (such as on User:GTX1975). That said, the talk page looks like it may deserve protection too, if he comes back again with disruptive intent. Chenzw Talk 18:13, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- OK, understood. :) --Auntof6 (talk) 21:38, 29 October 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
- Now you can include Commons video films with subtitles in your wiki language. Before you could see translated videos on file page at Commons only. [14]
- Search now has an updated preference tab to configure the search completion suggester. [15]
- The visual editor is now available on all wikis using only one language script. [16]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 1st. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 2nd. It will be on all wikis from November 3rd (calendar).
- Now you can use autocomplete for page names in "Preview page with this template" field when editing templates. [17]
- Special:NewPages can now be filtered by page size. [18]
Future changes
- New MediaWiki deployments will be now based on MediaWiki 1.29. [19]
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Collaboration Guideline is available for community review. Any feedback welcome, in any language.
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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)