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150		Perth Agreement (talk)	Wikify
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Tech News: 2017-31

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 show the error Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject. This problem happens on pages with a Lua module that uses Wikidata. The developers are working on fixing the problem. You can fix a page by opening it for editing and then saving without changing anything. [1]
• Wikidata and German Wikipedia could not be edited for an hour on 28 July. You can read why and how we could avoid it in the future in the incident report.

Changes later this week

• Some wikis already have the larger and brighter OOjs UI edit page buttons. All remaining wikis except Commons will have these from 1 August. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).

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 1 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The default font in the edit window will soon change for some users. Instead of using the browser default it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [3]

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21:45, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

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30		Catholic Memorial School (talk)	Expand
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195		Family estrangement (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
608		Wog (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
38		Off-hook (talk)	Merge
26		Civil Contingencies Secretariat (talk)	Merge
852		Spanish profanity (talk)	Merge
23		Offensive weapon (talk)	Wikify
138		Agnatic seniority (talk)	Wikify
810		Next Eleven (talk)	Wikify
8		IBM Application Performance Management (talk)	Orphan
9		Operator Toll Dialing (talk)	Orphan
3		Jai Chandiram (talk)	Orphan
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017

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Tech News: 2017-32

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 now see which Wikipedia language versions are read in a specific country. This tool is called Wikipedia Views Visualized. [4]
• The Architecture Committee is now the Wikimedia Technical Committee. You can read the charter. [5]

Problems

• You can get an email when a page on your watchlist was edited. You can choose not to get emails for minor edits. There is a bug that means that you then don't get an email when someone does a normal edit after a minor edit. The developers are working on fixing this. Until it has been fixed you can activate "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" at the bottom of "User profile" in your preferences if you want to. [6]
• The thanks button sometimes didn't work for mobile users. This was because of a new bug and has now been fixed. [7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 August. It will be on all wikis from 10 August (calendar).

Future changes

• Editors and readers who still use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP will not be able to use Wikipedia. Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP can't connect securely to the wikis. When we allow them to do so it means that we get less security for everyone else. If you use Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP you can install Firefox 52 ESR instead. Around 0.1% of the traffic to the Wikimedia wikis comes from Internet Explorer 8 on Windows XP. [8]
• Links to sections on Wikipedia don't work well in languages that don't use the Latin script. The URL in the address bar in your browser shows Latin characters like .D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 instead of the section heading in the wiki's language. Links to sections in non-Latin scripts will be in the script of that wiki in the future. This will happen in the next few months. [9][10]
• Wiki pages printed by the web browser "Print" function will have an updated style. This new style will be similar to the when you download a page as PDF. It will be better at showing tables, infoboxes and headings. [11][12]

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163		Betacam (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
614		Major League Baseball All-Star Game (talk)	Merge
87		Pointer (user interface) (talk)	Merge
151		Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2016 (talk)	Merge
297		Freddie Starr (talk)	Wikify
171		MIRC (talk)	Wikify
34		Media in Birmingham (talk)	Wikify
4		Chandra Pant (talk)	Orphan
2		Safar (2016 film) (talk)	Orphan
15		Attangudi (talk)	Orphan
46		Niruta Singh (talk)	Stub
16		Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (talk)	Stub
20		Winter Fuel Payment (talk)	Stub
14		The President (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2017-33

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Recent changes

• Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [13]

Problems

• The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [14][15]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).

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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

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42		Phonebloks (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
77		Devocalization (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
259		Dedicated hosting service (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
75		Village development committee (Nepal) (talk)	Merge
43		Dutch barge (talk)	Merge
145		First World problem (talk)	Merge
24		Arugankulam (talk)	Wikify
587		Korean profanity (talk)	Wikify
1,757		Sinister (film) (talk)	Wikify
3		Rameshwor Karki (talk)	Orphan
3		Wisehost (talk)	Orphan
4		Gladys Parentelli (talk)	Orphan
3		Truck Driver (1994 film) (talk)	Stub
4		Tisander (talk)	Stub
1,062		Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers (talk)	Stub
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11		TPC at The Woodlands (talk)	Stub
2		Rajeshwor Devkota (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2017-34

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 now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [16][17]
• Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [18]
• If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [19]
• The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.

Changes later this week

• Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [20]
• The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [21]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (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 23 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
• 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 22 August at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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18:01, 21 August 2017 (UTC)