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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
Problems
- Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [3]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).- You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [4]
Meetings
Future changes
- Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [5]
Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.
Corrections
- Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.
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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
22:13, 4 April 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 visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [8][9]
- Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [10][11]
- ORES is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API. [12]
- The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [13]
Problems
- There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [14]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).
- The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [15]
Meetings
Future changes
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [16]
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20:44, 11 April 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 filter Special:Log in more detail. You can filter different imports and new users. [17][18]
- You can use Telnet to read Wikimedia wikis. [19]
- MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB. [20]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [21]
- There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data center test.
Meetings
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20:40, 18 April 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
- Wikimedia tested a new data center last week. This meant that the wikis could be read but not edited for 45 minutes on April 19 and for 20 minutes on April 21. [22]
- When the data center was tested, new edits were not shown in the recent changes log for 20 minutes. They are in the logs now. You can read more about how to find the edits.
- Unread notifications were sometimes counted incorrectly. This has now been fixed. [23]
Changes this week
- Wikimedia Commons will have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Commons. This will happen on April 26. [24]
- It will be easier to choose if you want to watch files you have uploaded with the upload wizard. [25]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 27. It will be on all wikis from April 28 (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 April 26 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The "Save page" button when you edit will be called "Publish" instead. This is to help new editors understand what it does. It already works like this on some wikis. [26]
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21:02, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
20:09, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello admin and user of Rater.js :-). I got a complain that I was changing WP Haiti to WP Caribbean. (See User_talk:Christian75#Assessments). So I would like to ask you to remove WP Haiti from aliases in WP Caribbean in User:Kephir/gadgets/rater/project-list.js. Christian75 (talk) 17:35, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- I thought it was better to ask at User talk:Kephir/gadgets/rater.js. Christian75 (talk) 18:50, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Christian75: Hi.
removed diff Thank you for your message. --Meno25 (talk) 04:32, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks :-) Christian75 (talk) 12:37, 5 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
- Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3. [31]
- You can use Wikipedia GapFinder to find missing articles between languages. [32]
- Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [33][34]
- You can use keyboard shortcuts to open the visual editor (meta+V) or the wikitext editor (meta+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [35]
- Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore. [36]
- The UploadsLink extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [37]
- Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved. [38]
- Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org. [39]
Problems
- MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue. [40]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (calendar).
Meetings
Future changes
- Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the developers if the change will cause problems. [41]
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23:22, 9 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
- Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [42]
Problems
- Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [43]
Changes this week
- Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [44]
- Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [45]
- A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [46]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).
Meetings
Future changes
- Using self-closing tags like
<div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [47]
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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
