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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 software changes
You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1]
You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [2]
You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [3]
You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [4]
VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [5]
The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [6]
Future changes
The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [7][8]
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 software changes
The Technical Operations team is now using Phabricator to track their tasks. The Operations team manages the Wikimedia servers. In the future you will be able to see the tasks that are not private. [11]
Software changes this week
There will be no software changes this week and next week. This is because of the end-of-year holidays. The next update of MediaWiki will be on January 6. [12]
Future changes
The system that displays citations will change in the future. The new system will not change the style of citations. [13]
A new design for VisualEditor will come in January. You can try it now on test wikis. [14]
Hi Meno25, same thing happened again on the Arab Haitian assessment. Whatever you are using to do so, keeps reverting the project from Haiti back to the Caribbean. If you can double check what went wrong, that would be fantastic. Cheers. Savvyjack23 (talk) 22:07, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
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Software changes
There are no technical changes this week.
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@Bgwhite: The last two seem to be notable to me. I am not sure about the first. To be sure, I recommend to contact a Jordanian user such as @Tarawneh: who is a former checkuser, bureaucrat and admin on arwiki. --Meno25 (talk) 08:53, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
@Tarawneh: Thank you both. Could one of you leave a message on their talk page. Mention such things as not leaving one's signature in articles, not reverting people trying to fix their referencing, not copying, etc. Coming from Arabic/Jordanian editors would be better. Bgwhite (talk) 21:37, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
From behalf of bureaucrats of Russian Wikipedia I want to notify you, that we are discussing removal of bot flag from your bot in local ru.wikipedia: link. We nominated for removal all bots that were inactive for the latest year: if you have any future plans for bot running or want to keep this flag for some other reasons, please, tell us: discussion. You can also contact me directly via my user talk - ru:User talk:Rubin16.
If you have no objections or we won't receive any response for a week, we will remove bot flag. Thanks a lot for your previous contributions! rubin16 (talk) 10:28, 10 January 2015 (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 software changes
Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [15]
You can now use the {{!}}magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [16]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a ☀ (Sun) character. This is now fixed. [17]
The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [18]
The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [19][20][21]
The thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [22]
Future changes
You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier. [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.
Recent changes
You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[24][25]
Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.
Problems
All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [26]
Software changes this week
There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [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 software changes
You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [28]
This week
There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [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.
Problems
There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed. [32]
Software changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [33]
You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator. [34][35]
Hi Meno25. I saw your rating of the Hugh E. Conway article I uploaded yesterday. Can you tell me what I need to add (or change) to get it up to a level? I thought it was a pretty comprehensive article, covering everything notable about the guy with good sources. I even tracked down hard-copy military documents to ensure all the facts were covered with solid sources. Would appreciate it if you’d take another look at the article and give me some feedback. Thanks!--Orygun (talk) 02:34, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
