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I've been moving Checkwiki from toolserver to WMB labs. Information is located here. Could you take a look and report and bugs you find. Any suggestions, ideas for new bug reports, current bug reports that should be removed or anything else you can think of are needed. The arwiki daily update died when the database died, again. Hopefully it will tomorrow. Bgwhite (talk) 06:12, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
arwiki still hasn't reported anything, which means there is a problem somewhere. I've been on another part of checkwiki for the past few days. I'll look at why it isn't running today. Bgwhite (talk) 17:42, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes; not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1. [1]
Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24. [2]
The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon. [4]
It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon. [5]
The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now. [6]
Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. [7], [8], [9]
Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438). [10]
A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29. [11]
A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24. [12]
no indication of WP:notability. Only one independent source and that is not significant coverage. Google searches not finding anything more - just lots of download sites.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SpeedFan until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. noq (talk) 19:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
checkwiki question
The latest dump report for arwiki is available. I noticed that error #3 has a HUGE amount of errors. On enwiki, the options for a reference list tag are {{Reflist}} and <references />. What are the options on arwiki? Bgwhite (talk) 17:05, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22. [19]
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29. [20]
You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468) [23]
Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713) [24]
Problems fixed
There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
Maintenance reports provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077) [25]
The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
You can now edit references that are added inside a <references> block. (51741)
You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the button for the <s> tag), lower text ( for <sub>), upper text ( for <sup>), underlined text ( for <u>), computer code ( for <code> and <tt>), math text ( for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs ( for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ( for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [26]
Future
Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [27]
Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [28]
Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta. [29]
Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [30]
The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned. [31]
@Apanuggpak: Meno didn't remove the category from the article, as it is still there. There were two of these categories listed in the article and Meno removed the duplicate. Bgwhite (talk) 22:04, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices. [32]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
You can now create and edit references inside media captions. [40]
You now need to press the "delete" key twice to delete a template, reference or image; the first time, they only become selected, to avoid accidental deletion of infoboxes and similar content. [41]
When you resize images, you will now still see them, and their size will also be seen in the center. [42][43]
MediaWiki 1.22wmf22 was added to test wikis on October 17. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 21 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 24 (calendar).
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface text on translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [46]
On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [47]
Problems
On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *.wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [48]
Future
MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendar).
In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [49]
You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.
